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HOW They're Competing With ADOBE! ft. Satej Sirur, Founder @Rocketiumapp
- ▶ 39:34 Satej Sirur Very early stages of RocketM, I was spending time in Visual Studio writing code.
- ▶ 39:50 Satej Sirur Uh, you know, within Excel, for example, which was, you know, whether it was fundraising or looking at sales numbers or CRMs for, for that matter, uh, that sort of thing.
The Joys of COMPOUNDING with Gautam Baid!
- ▶ 15:11 Gautam Baid And at the same time, I had a habit of making notes in a word document.
Avlesh Singh on BUILDING WebEngage, 100 Cr Revenue Company & Being Resilient in the Last 10 Years!
- ▶ 26:42 Avlesh Singh I'm not sure if the, if the audience would be familiar, all these large software providers, Adobe's, Salesforce, Oracle, IBM's, except for Microsoft, everybody's in play.
Sabeer Bhatia on building Hotmail, acquisition from Microsoft and the journey ahead
- ▶ 1:59 Siddhartha Ahluwalia Today I have with me Sabir Bhatia, founder of Hotmail, which was acquired by Microsoft for five hundred million.
- ▶ 5:57 Sabeer Bhatia There was specific clients, uh, that like outlook, um, and Eudora in those days, uh, Netscape had its own navigator client.
- ▶ 7:00 Siddhartha Ahluwalia Uh, and in your case, when Microsoft and Bill Gates were in front of you, how were you able to hold your nerve and
- ▶ 23:05 Siddhartha Ahluwalia They can take one bet and coming back to the question of, you know, timing and being in the right market, but companies like Apple, Microsoft, Google, Facebook, you know, they can take multiple bets.
The rise of crypto with 1.5 cr+ Indian investors ft. Ashish Singhal, Founder, Coinswitch
- ▶ 25:23 Ashish Singhal Uh, people around the world are building use cases, uh, building new companies on blockchain, which serves a greater purpose, uh, to tomorrow's Google, Facebook, Microsoft, we believe would originate, uh, on blockchain, right?
@HealthifyMe founder on Funding, Growth, Healthcare in India ft. Tushar Vashisht
- ▶ 14:49 Tushar Vashisht So I built the first version sitting in Kerala in the farmer's hut on the Excel, my co-founder literally typing away calorie values.
Hasura Founder on Building For Developers ft. Tanmai Gopal
- ▶ 8:32 Tanmai Gopal And, um, uh, and then, you know, uh, I, I did my master's project with some research work in computer vision and machine learning, uh, did a brief stint with Microsoft research, did a bunch of research projects myself, uh, while I was…
Inside the mind of Pravin Agarwala, Co-Founder, BetterPlace | 100x Entrepreneur Podcast
- ▶ 11:09 Pravin Agarwala You have to transfer into an Excel. 2 times in the scene
Inside the mind of Abhishek Goyal, Co-Founder, Tracxn | 100x Entrepreneur Podcast | Top Podcast Ep
- ▶ 1:58 Siddhartha Ahluwalia Earlier it used to be only actual sheets and, uh, manual processes.
Inside the mind of Jumbotail Founders, Ashish Jhina & Karthik Venkateswaran | 100x Entrepreneur
- ▶ 33:41 unnamed speaker Uh, you know, not everything can be, can be modeled out on an Excel sheet. 2 times in the scene
Inside the mind of Harpreet Singh Grover, Co-Founder, CoCubes, & Author, Let’s Build a Company
- ▶ 9:26 Harpreet Singh Grover But I also remember the, you know, the day this actually, you know, I remember the day it changed and the day it changed was when we cracked a Microsoft as a client, you know, and everybody was participating in that deal. 2 times in the scene
Jon Sakoda, Founder, Decibel Partners on importance of having a coach for early-stage founders
- ▶ 16:36 Jon Sakoda And we think through what does it take to actually get a company that starts with a PowerPoint and an idea and get it to be a public company.
Inside the mind of Aloke Bajpai, Co-Founder & CEO, ixigo
- ▶ 41:08 Aloke Bajpai Uh, you know, thinking outside the box and therefore, you know, you know, running an Excel sheet or doing some data crunching from a big data system would, would never have thrown up those insights.
Rahul Chowdhri, Stellaris Ventures on surge of Direct to Consumer brands in India
- ▶ 0:53 Siddhartha Ahluwalia Also, before starting his journey into venture capital, Rahul has stints in product management and consulting roles at Microsoft, Market, RX, ITU Technologies, and BCG. 3 times in the scene
Ashmeet Sidana, Engineering Capital on Technical insights and building a fund for Engineers
- ▶ 32:45 Ashmeet Sidana Remember, when you, when we are investing, especially when I am investing, I am talking about one or two people with a PowerPoint idea.
- ▶ 38:26 Ashmeet Sidana People had tried many types of smartphones before, including Microsoft, Blackberry itself, and including Apple itself in previous incantations, and then of course there was Go, etc.
Nikhil Kapur, STRIVE Ventures on different SaaS models in Asia
- ▶ 24:33 Nikhil Kapur I started my career building office for, for mobile, uh, within Microsoft, and, you know, we deployed to over ten million users at that time, and I learned sort of firsthand going from zero to, like, ten million users on, on one platform…
- ▶ 24:33 Nikhil Kapur I started my career building office for, for mobile, uh, within Microsoft, and, you know, we deployed to over ten million users at that time, and I learned sort of firsthand going from zero to, like, ten million users on, on one platform…
- ▶ 51:51 Siddhartha Ahluwalia And then you worked as a, as a dev, as you shared with Microsoft. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 53:10 Nikhil Kapur But then Google acquisition happened, and at that time, I decided, um, you know, I've already been on sort of a large corporate journey, and one of the big reasons I came out from Microsoft was because I realized, like, you know, I'm one…
- ▶ 53:28 Nikhil Kapur Uh, who's coding office, and, you know, even though that's great, like, you know, there are a 100,000 more similar people to me in the company, right, and I'm just one of those 100,000 people, and I realize that, you know, if I really want…
Sajith Pai, Blume Ventures on building personal brands, being open-minded, and unlearning to succeed
- ▶ 57:24 Sajith Pai You worked in a large company, and when I say large company, I'm also saying large tech companies like Amazon, Microsoft.
Somesh Dash, IVP on learnings from the crisis of 2002 & 2008 and investing in resilient companies
- ▶ 45:38 Somesh Dash Um, I think what's more important is, is to not say the aspiration is to sell to Google or Amazon or Microsoft. 3 times in the scene
Inside the mind of Anand Chandrasekaran, on building 5 products with 10m+ users and angel investing
- ▶ 45:41 Anand Chandrasekaran I think one thing that we're all seeing is truly, uh, how critical it is to stay in touch, uh, during these times, and, you know, the number one app in the world is a partner of FiveNine, Zoom, um, which is, uh, you know, seeing over two…
Anup Jain, Orios Venture Partners, on identifying the best founders & investing in Consumer Brands
Episode 53 | Hemant Mohapatra, Partner, Lightspeed India Partners
- ▶ 23:02 unnamed speaker All of these scaled out companies like Google, Microsoft, and many more are, you know, at the helm we have an Indian CEO.
@unacademy founder on Building a 3 Billion Edtech Giant ft. Gaurav Munjal
- ▶ 35:32 Gaurav Munjal You can't measure the expense of the cake that I will send, but you have, you need to realize that at the end of the day, great organizations are not built on Excel sheets.
Episode 52 | Anand Lunia, General Partner, IndiaQuotient
- ▶ 37:59 Anand Lunia That, you know, Indian businesses will not pay, Indian large businesses will only use IBM or Microsoft software, Indian small businesses don't pay, they only pirate.
Episode 49 | Sanjay Swamy, Managing Partner, Prime Ventures
- ▶ 6:37 Sanjay Swamy Engineering, uh, spin out in a joint venture with Microsoft.
100x Entrepreneur | Episode 19 | Kunal Khattar, Founder and Managing Partner of AdvantEdge Founders
- ▶ 40:25 Kunal Khattar So one of the key things that we've, we've sort of incorporated in the fund is, we don't, we, we look at Excel sheets, but we don't manage by Excel sheets. 2 times in the scene
100x Entrepreneur | Episode 9 | Hetal Sonpal, Angel Investor in 20+ Startups
- ▶ 0:47 Hetal Sonpal And, uh, subsequent to that, it's been a very interesting journey working across, uh, large technology corporates, including Microsoft, LinkedIn, and Intel.
100xEntrepreneur | Episode 14 | Karthik Reddy, Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Blume Ventures
- ▶ 18:57 Karthik Reddy I don't think as yet a Cisco or a Microsoft or a, you know, Salesforce is coming to India and buying a business for three billion dollars.
- ▶ 26:50 unnamed speaker They'll come to us and say, man, I've just finished like my, I'm looking at my Excel sheet and I've pitched to 80 people.
100xEntrepreneur | Episode 6 | Girish Shivani, Co-founder and Partner at Yournest Venture Fund
- ▶ 48:18 Girish Shivani You know, we used to have five and a quarter inch floppy drives, you know, and three and a half inches and windows had just been launched. 2 times in the scene
100xEntrepreneur | Episode 23 | Raja Ganapathy, Co-Founder Spring Marketing Capital
- ▶ 4:36 Raja Ganapathy Uh, Vineet, uh, founded, he's ex-Microsoft, he co-founded, um, one of the smartest digital marketing agencies in the country called 22 Feet.
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