Phalgun Kompalli

2 statements across 1 episodes · 0 bullish · 1 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Aug 27, 2026 by Phalgun Kompalli · across every show →

On the record as a speaker too: Phalgun Kompalli's record, appearances and statements → this page counts the times other people say the name.

Everything said about Phalgun Kompalli, oldest first

Aug 27, 2026
Assertion Partly supported
Kompalli: upGrad mistakenly scaled from 100 to 1,000 employees in one year
“We scaled from zero to a hundred and probably Two years. And we went from a hundred to a thousand in the next year. And because the product was working out, it was all about scaling. And I think in that process, we made a lot of mistakes around hiring. And som…”
Phalgun Kompalli Aug 27, 2026 ▶ 24:08 The AI Moat Everyone is Ignoring | Phalgun Kompalli, Founder UpGrad and Bodhium Labs
Aug 27, 2026 negative
Disclosure
Kompalli: upGrad prematurely expanded into 20 international markets in year one
“We were too ambitious in terms of trying to say, let's scale this across 20 markets, right? While the product was there, while the partnerships were there, I think the local nuance of regulation, of GTM, of all of those things that are important to succeed, we…”
Phalgun Kompalli Aug 27, 2026 ▶ 27:02 The AI Moat Everyone is Ignoring | Phalgun Kompalli, Founder UpGrad and Bodhium Labs
Made with StarZero

Turn any episode into a week of clips.

This entire site, over 300 episodes transcribed, diarized, checked and made playable, runs on the StarZero media pipeline. Drop in your own episode and the podcast clipper finds the moments worth sharing, cuts them, captions them, and reframes them for every feed.