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Best of 3500 Minutes from Top Founders & Investors in 2025
- ▶ 3:57 unnamed speaker It's like when Bhavish came started Ola, right?
Ola, Flipkart & Swiggy use This $800 Million Software to Send Notifications | Raviteja, MoEngage
- ▶ 0:00 Siddhartha Ahluwalia Domino's, Airtel, Flipkart, O-Line, Swiggy.
- ▶ 29:14 Raviteja Dodda Um, I mean, Ola, for example, like, uh, had an internal solution until 2019, um, and we moved them from internal solution to MoEngage in 2019 and it's, it's been six years.
Sanjeev Sanyal On Why India Has No Big 4, Regulating AI & Ending Population Control
- ▶ 49:02 Sanjeev Sanyal So, uh, there are far more taxi drivers in this country today after Uber and Ola, et cetera, then they used to be in the Kalipili age.
Why Stripe Paid $150M For A Young Indian Startup | Saurya Prakash Sinha, Recko
- ▶ 18:53 Saurya Prakash Sinha Uh, there was once, I think, when, uh, Ola was using it for their peaks, uh, if I remember, if I remember right, uh, but nobody uses, you know, those machines.
What's Happening To VC In India w/ All In Capital, Peer Capital & Upekkha
- ▶ 50:16 Karthik Prabhakar And, uh, that was a very interesting conversation that we had when we went and said, we want to evaluate.
10 Unicorns, 5 IPOs, 26 Acquisitions – India’s OG VC, Avnish Bajaj On Why Only Founders Matter
- ▶ 17:34 Avnish Bajaj Same in Razorpay, payments, financial services, five-star, consumer, Ola.
- ▶ 27:46 Avnish Bajaj So Ola was clear. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 55:30 Avnish Bajaj With the Swiggies and the Zomatos and the Olas and of course, Ola Electric in a different, uh, domain.
- ▶ 1:01:21 Avnish Bajaj Just Bhavish given all that he has gone through his, uh, Ola pretty much shut down during COVID.
- ▶ 1:03:56 Siddhartha Ahluwalia I would say Razorpay, Off Business, Ola, Ola, Trekrutrim, all our contenders to be ten billion dollar companies.
- ▶ 1:12:54 Avnish Bajaj So Ola, we didn't believe in the market.
Digi Yatra, AQI, UDAN Scheme, And India's Net Zero Goals | Jayant Sinha | The Neon Show Podcast
- ▶ 55:14 Siddhartha Ahluwalia Like, for example, Blue Smart is, is going to grow to be, let's say, the next Uber or Ola of India, right, in scale, which can be four or five billion dollars, which is not very attractive to the largest global VCs, right?
75 Minutes Of Pure Business Insights From The Man Behind BigBasket, BlueStone & HomeLane
- ▶ 25:38 K. Ganesh Uber Ola, for example, you cannot do without a Google map.
- ▶ 37:22 Siddhartha Ahluwalia Second time entrepreneur who sold his previous company taxi for sure to Ola tried it.
Former SOFTBANK CFO: My Honest Experience Working With Masayoshi Son | Alok Sama | The Neon Show
- ▶ 43:04 Siddhartha Ahluwalia Because even at your role at SoftBank, you've seen Massa being passionate about Indian entrepreneur and backing them ferociously beat Ritesh from Oyo Bhavish from Ola, right?
Flipkart’s Success Secrets, VC Power Law, And IPO Market : RTP Global Partner, Nishit Garg
- ▶ 10:35 Nishit Garg It took, uh, uh, then there were others, uh, you know, Ola was there at that point of time, but Ola was also Ola was 3 times in the scene
Real Money Gaming Business Explained By Zupee Founder Dilsher Malhi | Neon Show
- ▶ 12:31 Dilsher Malhi Painkillers are like, you know, Ola, Amazon, Swiggy.
Nansi Asks Siddhartha About Neon Fund 3, VC Career And Future Life Updates I Neon Show
- ▶ 24:22 Siddhartha (Siddharth) Uh, early on was a great product, and they were building an AI-first product that was helping, uh, large enterprises like MakeMyTrip, uh, Ola, uh, reduce employee churn, right, and improve, improve the culture index in an organization, uh,…
Darkest Indian SCAMS - Jamtara, Aadhaar Data, And Dark Web Secrets I Rahul Sasi I The Neon Show
- ▶ 26:21 Rahul Sasi So they'll go to Twitter or any of the social media pages and say, this is the customer care number of OLA. 7 times in the scene
Building YogaBar to a 500 Cr and selling it to ITC ft Founder Suhasini S
- ▶ 6:37 Suhasini Sampath So the Ola of today, my dad used to do it.
Understanding Indian consumers & breaking down jewellery brands w/ GIVA Founder Ishendra Agarwal
- ▶ 55:09 Ishendra Agarwal Aap uberhola se, transportation mein, sab hai, apka itna paisa kharch ho jayega.
Early Investor of Ola, Urban Company & Mamaearth Shares Startup Success Secrets | Neon Show
- ▶ 0:15 Siddhartha Ahluwalia I believe Ola, Urban Company, and Mamarta talked three of your investments.
- ▶ 12:36 unnamed speaker If you have to recall, like, I believe Ola, Urban Company, and Mamart are some of the top three of your investments, right? 3 times in the scene
Startup Investing ft. India's One of TOP SaaS Entrepreneurs & Investors Shripati Acharya of Prime VP
- ▶ 0:19 Shripati Acharya The two hundred million acquisition by Ola.
- ▶ 15:22 Shripati Acharya Uh, and of course it became, uh, the, uh, uh, two hundred million acquisition by Ola.
From TaxiForSure to Koo: The Entrepreneurial Journey of Aprameya Radhakrishna
- ▶ 17:30 Aprameya Radhakrishna Which means, you know, it wasn't by design, but there was Uber and Ola who were both being aggressive. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 30:29 Aprameya Radhakrishna At the same time, Ola and Uber were aggressive.
Manish Mundra on Life-Changing Investing Habits and Pursuing Dreams in the most unconventional way
- ▶ 49:02 Manish Mundra As like what Uber or Ola has done in terms of taxi, I think this whole thing can do in terms of cinema viewing and creating an audience of value, massive value.
Shark Tank India Behind The Scenes With Flatheads Founder - Ganesh Balakrishnan
- ▶ 13:58 Ganesh Balakrishnan And hence it is not like only two players like Amazon and Flipkart or an Uber and Ola will stay at the end of the game, right?
Building A Society Mantainance App For 4M+ Homes Ft Vijay Arisetty, Founder, MyGate
- ▶ 19:35 Vijay Arisetty Just imagine early morning when people are going, people are going to offices, just imagine the number of Ubers and Ulas and, you know, this office pickup,
How Open Became The 100th Unicorn - The Story of Asia's First Neo Bank ft. Anish Achuthan
- ▶ 40:54 Anish Achuthan Third, I would say Dina, who was my co-founder here, is from a very humble background, from a tier two, uh, town, and growing up in the last, first 10 years in the EY and other companies, and then working with companies like Taxi, for…
Exotel’s Shivku on Failed Funding Round to Building $60 Mn ARR Saas Startup
- ▶ 0:06 Shivakumar Ganesan and then Ankit Bhatti from Ola called up 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:18 Shivakumar Ganesan and then Ankit Bhatti from Ola called up 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:18 Shivakumar Ganesan So we were really supporting Flipkart and Ola, Uber and Swiggy and Zomato and all of these guys.
The Gardening Approach of Seed Investing ft Bipin Shah, Partner, Titan Capital
- ▶ 33:41 Bipin Shah I, I remember, uh, in fact, Ola, Ola, one of my friends at that time was interning in Ola, and then, uh, in 2011, during college, 4 times in the scene
Capitalmind founder on Financial Independence ft. Deepak Shenoy
- ▶ 15:16 Deepak Shenoy They can just use an Uber or whatever or Ola to travel.
The rise of crypto with 1.5 cr+ Indian investors ft. Ashish Singhal, Founder, Coinswitch
- ▶ 34:01 Ashish Singhal That information, uh, from Bini Venki, uh, themselves on building the likes of Flipkart, Ola, uh, into the country, right?
@firstcheque7252 CEO on Early Stage Investing and investments from founders ft. Kushal Bhagia
- ▶ 3:15 Kushal Bhagia They ended up backing, you know, Ola, Housing, Topper, Fine.
Fampay Founder on Fintech for GenZ and Funding ft. Sambhav Jain | 100x Entrepreneur
- ▶ 11:08 Sambhav Jain So all the kids that we spoke to, they had smartphones, they were using internet, they were already spending on, like, Swiggy, Flipkart, Amazon, Ola, Uber, Netflix, everywhere.
Inside the mind of Harpreet Singh Grover, Co-Founder, CoCubes, & Author, Let’s Build a Company
- ▶ 23:50 Harpreet Singh Grover Uh, after that I spent six months with Ola as an advisor, you know, I've known Bhavish, you know, before actually Ola was conceptualized, uh, and I think that was great learning yet, you know, uh, from, uh, for me definitely. 2 times in the scene
Mitesh Shah from being a CFO at Ola & BookMyShow to start Inflection Point Ventures
- ▶ 10:06 Mitesh Shah and, uh, you know, nostalgic, uh, Ashneer and my friendship goes back to actually days when I was CFO with Ola and Ashneer was, uh, with American Express Bank.
Inside the mind of Kunal Bahl, Co-Founder, Snapdeal & Titan Capital
- ▶ 37:21 Siddhartha Ahluwalia And, you know, just, just, just to mention, you know, a couple of your, like, super breakout companies, for example, we already covered Mamart, the other, which I want to highlight, Ola Urban Clap.
Beerud Sheth on building Elance (nowUpwork) & Gupshup
- ▶ 20:53 Beerud Sheth Companies like Uber and Ola or DoorDash and Swiggy.
- ▶ 39:26 Siddhartha Ahluwalia Uh, between consumers, which messaging enables and from business to consumer, which also messaging enables in various formats and the other trend, which you spotted very early on, you know, uh, the gig economy, like today, uh, tens of…
Shanti Mohan, Founder, LetsVenture on the rise of Angel Investing in India
- ▶ 27:56 Shanti Mohan I know a lot of angel investors who are still angel investors in, you know, Ola, right?
Blume Ventures: Sanjay Nath on Post Covid-19 Scenario for Startups & Building Future of Work
- ▶ 13:14 Sanjay Nath Right from Ola to Uber, correct?
- ▶ 35:08 Siddhartha Ahluwalia For example, uh, metal acquired by Mercer, Minjer cloud acquired by Nutanix, taxi for sure acquired by Ola, now floats acquired by Geo.
Ishaan Mittal on how Sequoia India helps founders build high growth companies
- ▶ 26:12 Ishaan Mittal Well, one way to think of it is, uh, if we were having this conversation exactly 10 years ago, in, um, January of, 20, 2020, 10, uh, Flipkart and Zomato would be extremely young companies, maybe two, three years old, and, uh, Ola and Oyo… 2 times in the scene
Mohit Gulati, ITI Fund on why Hyper-investment is not a sure shot success for startups?
- ▶ 15:30 Mohit Gulati So we're invested in a company called Hubhopper, which is one of the largest podcasting apps in the country, uh, integrated across all Samsung Bixby phones, uh, Alexa devices, Ola Play, anywhere and everywhere.
Episode 52 | Anand Lunia, General Partner, IndiaQuotient
- ▶ 10:08 Anand Lunia I mean, like, Ola is like hands down much better today, right? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 22:38 Anand Lunia What happens to people like Ola and Uber who thought that all the IT working people are going to use Ola and Uber to commute? 2 times in the scene
Episode 50 | Sameer Brij Verma, Nexus Venture Partners
- ▶ 58:45 Sameer Brij Verma And I can tell you both of them, both these olas and overs of the world are not growing as fast as they could.
Episode 49 | Sanjay Swamy, Managing Partner, Prime Ventures
- ▶ 32:24 Sanjay Swamy Over a period of time, you know, as the market has evolved, and the founder ecosystem has gotten more mature, and people have worked at Flipkart, and Ola, and Paytm, and Freshworks, and the larger players here, second generation…
100x Entrepreneur | Episode 19 | Kunal Khattar, Founder and Managing Partner of AdvantEdge Founders
- ▶ 3:57 Siddhartha Ahluwalia Uber and Ola are already big winners in India.
- ▶ 7:41 Kunal Khattar Uh, Uber or Nola at that time, in spite of being highly subsidized, would also cost somewhere around that price point.
100x Entrepreneur | Episode 15 | Amit Somani, Managing Partner, Prime Venture Partners
- ▶ 12:21 Amit Somani You know, like Ola's and Ubers have digitized our ability to move around town, right?
The most common mistakes founders make ? w/ Sarbvir Singh, Waterbridge Ventures
- ▶ 10:34 Sarbvir Singh Buses are a sixty billion dollar market as opposed to, you know, cars, which Uber or Nola, which is like a ten billion dollar market.
When your competitors raise heavily from VC's | Mayank Khanduja, SAIF Partners
- ▶ 55:32 Mayank Khanduja Like when, ah, when Ola was a early stage startup and all of, like a bunch of investors met them, and I think that was a mistake from our side as well.
50 Unicorns and 19 IPOs, Rajan Anandan from Peak XV on investing in CRED, Meesho, Groww & Mamaearth
- ▶ 9:47 Rajan Anandan You know, if you had asked two years ago, people would have said, look, there's Ola and Uber.
100xEntrepreneur | Episode 7 | Rehan Yar Khan, Managing Partner, Orios Venture Partners
- ▶ 3:39 Rehan Yar Khan Um, uh, of course, Ola, which I think a lot of people know about. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:29 Rehan Yar Khan Very often when we invest in companies, including Ola and Druva, right?
- ▶ 9:41 Rehan Yar Khan Ola employs millions of, has created millions of driver jobs.
- ▶ 11:12 Rehan Yar Khan So I think, I think, um, number of them, Ola played out very well, right? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:04 Rehan Yar Khan So if you look at, for example, Ola, I always tell this story, when he was building it, everybody would probably go to Bavisht and say, hey, your cab was late. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:06 Siddhartha Ahluwalia Ola, FarmEasy.
- ▶ 30:17 Rehan Yar Khan I remember when I was syndicating the Ola round, and I was trying to get other people into it, and nobody wanted to invest.
- ▶ 34:06 Rehan Yar Khan See the reason I, I, I think the reason Ola won in India versus Uber, they never, they were never a copy of Uber. 2 times in the scene
100xEntrepreneur | Episode 14 | Karthik Reddy, Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Blume Ventures
- ▶ 54:02 Karthik Reddy The only time those decisions have been imposed on me is because I've held Ola or Zomata stock or Truecaller stock as a
How did TaxiForSure get acquired for $200 million? | T. N. Hari, Advisor, Fundamentum
- ▶ 3:11 T. N. Hari Taxi for Sure was a very short stint because, uh, within a year of my joining, Taxi for Sure was acquired by Ola.
- ▶ 11:15 T. N. Hari In some ways, I think Ola was one year ahead of us, and that gave them a huge runway. 5 times in the scene