Ani Sanyal

Co-Founder & CEO, Kolkata Chai Co. · 1 appearance on the record.

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Ani Sanyal is the co-founder of Kolkata Chai Co., an NYC-born food and beverage brand modernizing authentic Indian chai and street food. He previously co-founded the independent hip-hop label Green Street Records, delivered a TEDx talk, and ran the growth marketing agency Green Room Creative.

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Sanyal: Agencies will always have an advantage over in-house marketing teams
“I think at the end of the day, the ability to creatively approach problems that the agencies have, I think will always be an advantage to in-house teams, and at least that's what we've seen so far.”
Ani Sanyal Feb 5, 2018 ▶ 16:22 926 How Teen Launched $250k Record Label, Then Kidney Failure, Now $1.5m Agency
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Sanyal: Green Room Creative exceeds $1.5M revenue, up 2x year-over-year
“We are north of 1.5 million dollars this year, which is you know, which is a big jump from last year. Nathan Latka: What was last year total? Ani Sanyal: it was about half of that. Nathan Latka: Okay. Ani Sanyal: A little bit less than half.”
Ani Sanyal Feb 5, 2018 ▶ 15:56 926 How Teen Launched $250k Record Label, Then Kidney Failure, Now $1.5m Agency
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Sanyal: A single client represents over 20% of Green Room's revenue
“Nathan Latka: Is there any individual of your current customers that makes up more than 20% of your revenue? Ani Sanyal: Yes.”
Ani Sanyal Feb 5, 2018 ▶ 16:40 926 How Teen Launched $250k Record Label, Then Kidney Failure, Now $1.5m Agency
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Sanyal: Green Street made a few thousand monthly on iTunes in high school
“In high school we were making probably a couple thousand dollars a month.”
Ani Sanyal Feb 5, 2018 ▶ 2:25 926 How Teen Launched $250k Record Label, Then Kidney Failure, Now $1.5m Agency
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Sanyal: Marlboro paid Green Street around $5k per song for licensing
“Per song, we were getting around 5000 at that time.”
Ani Sanyal Feb 5, 2018 ▶ 4:22 926 How Teen Launched $250k Record Label, Then Kidney Failure, Now $1.5m Agency
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Sanyal: Green Street Records did roughly $250k top-line revenue annually
“Under that, I would say probably around between two 50 ish.”
Ani Sanyal Feb 5, 2018 ▶ 6:13 926 How Teen Launched $250k Record Label, Then Kidney Failure, Now $1.5m Agency
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Ani Sanyal: Received life-saving kidney transplant from his father
“I was extremely blessed to receive a kidney transplant. From my father which is, you know, something that is really deep on a whole bunch of different levels, but, you know, I was incredibly lucky and blessed to have that, and to basically resume a healthy lif…”
Ani Sanyal Feb 5, 2018 ▶ 10:24 926 How Teen Launched $250k Record Label, Then Kidney Failure, Now $1.5m Agency

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EpisodeDateSpeaking time
926 How Teen Launched $250k Record Label, Then Kidney Failure, Now $1.5m Agency Feb 5, 2018 12m
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