Minakshi Singh

Co-founder & CEO, Sidecar · 1 appearance on the record.

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Alongside partner Yangdup Lama, Minakshi Singh co-founded Cocktails & Dreams Speakeasy in Gurugram and Sidecar in New Delhi. Sidecar became the first Indian venue featured on the World's 50 Best Bars list.

11statements → 7claims → 5claims resolved → 80%fully supported → 4.18/5average certainty → 2/5average debate potential →

4 supported 1 partly supported 0 contradicted 2 not checkable as stated how the 7 claims stand · each chip opens the sources

1 prediction · 6 assertions · 1 opinion · 2 insights · 1 disclosure · every statement was checked. The prediction and assertions are the 7 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 5 are resolved, and 2 name no date, number or outcome precise enough to check. Everything else (opinions, insights, what ifs, disclosures) can never be settled by the record, so it carries no assessment.

The record, in short

What the tape says about how Minakshi argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

Their most notable supported claim

Assertion Supported
Singh: Women are legally barred from bartending in certain Indian states
“Today, to certain states in India, women are not legally allowed to serve also, like even waitressing wise, or be actually making drinks.”
Minakshi Singh Jul 3, 2024 ▶ 6:04 Ep #18 | WTF, Alcohol is a $70B Business in India? | Nikhil Kamath explores Gaps & Opportunities · Nikhil Kamath

Expressed certainty vs assessment result

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75% certainty 5

weighted support: a fully supported claim counts one, a partly supported claim counts half. Each filled bar is clickable and opens exactly those claims; "none yet" means nothing said at that certainty level has resolved yet

How they sound: not measured why? →

We measure speaking style by listening to the audio itself, and a fair number needs at least 2,000 words from one person on tape we have measured. There is too little of Minakshi Singh on measured tape to publish a rate. This says nothing about how they speak.

Everything Minakshi Singh said on WTF is with Nikhil Kamath that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Assertion Supported
Singh: Women are legally barred from bartending in certain Indian states
“Today, to certain states in India, women are not legally allowed to serve also, like even waitressing wise, or be actually making drinks.”
Minakshi Singh Jul 3, 2024 ▶ 6:04 Ep #18 | WTF, Alcohol is a $70B Business in India? | Nikhil Kamath explores Gaps & Opportunities · Nikhil Kamath
Insight
Singh: Liquor brands pay bars 'tie-up money' for cocktail menu priority
“If I'm getting a majority of, say, a tie-up money, it's called a tie-up money, which basically means if I'm working with a Diageo, or a Pernod, or a Bacardi, or even a Radico, I will be then prioritizing their brand over other brands to actually make cocktails…”
Minakshi Singh Jul 3, 2024 ▶ 1:58:12 Ep #18 | WTF, Alcohol is a $70B Business in India? | Nikhil Kamath explores Gaps & Opportunities · Nikhil Kamath
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Singh: India will remain a whiskey market for a long time
“So we're still a whiskey market. Like we will be a whiskey market for a really long time, so.”
Minakshi Singh Jul 3, 2024 ▶ 40:09 Ep #18 | WTF, Alcohol is a $70B Business in India? | Nikhil Kamath explores Gaps & Opportunities · Nikhil Kamath
Insight
Singh: Shelf placement and pouring rights are completely different bar dynamics
“Pouring and putting it on shelf are two different things.”
Minakshi Singh Jul 3, 2024 ▶ 1:58:58 Ep #18 | WTF, Alcohol is a $70B Business in India? | Nikhil Kamath explores Gaps & Opportunities · Nikhil Kamath
Assertion Partly supported
Singh: Women drinking more is driving Indian liquor market growth
“Women are definitely drinking more. There is no doubt about that. Like that is a big plus for us, for the growth also. So because the fact that there are many, many women joining into the drinking occasions, multiple times.”
Minakshi Singh Jul 3, 2024 ▶ 2:00:58 Ep #18 | WTF, Alcohol is a $70B Business in India? | Nikhil Kamath explores Gaps & Opportunities · Nikhil Kamath
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Singh: Influencers acquire consumers far more cheaply than actors for alcohol brands
“So now good thing is, it's a far cheaper way to acquire consumers than actors.”
Minakshi Singh Jul 3, 2024 ▶ 2:32:20 Ep #18 | WTF, Alcohol is a $70B Business in India? | Nikhil Kamath explores Gaps & Opportunities · Nikhil Kamath
Assertion Supported
Singh: Delhi bars must buy premium Indian spirits in 12-bottle cases
“I can't buy a single bottle. I can't buy a single bottle of Rampur. If I buy, I have to buy 12. Which basically means, look at my inventory.”
Minakshi Singh Jul 3, 2024 ▶ 3:02:20 Ep #18 | WTF, Alcohol is a $70B Business in India? | Nikhil Kamath explores Gaps & Opportunities · Nikhil Kamath
Assertion Supported
Singh: Delhi Excise and CSD mandate the lowest national price to register
“Delhi has always wanted the lowest. CSD wants the lowest EDP. So they ask for it. They say, are we the cheapest in India? Only then you can register.”
Minakshi Singh Jul 3, 2024 ▶ 3:04:49 Ep #18 | WTF, Alcohol is a $70B Business in India? | Nikhil Kamath explores Gaps & Opportunities · Nikhil Kamath
Assertion Supported
Singh: Opening a bar in India requires roughly 30 different licenses
“Like, you're f***ing 30 license. Sorry. 30 licences. It's a lot of licences.”
Minakshi Singh Jul 3, 2024 ▶ 3:09:43 Ep #18 | WTF, Alcohol is a $70B Business in India? | Nikhil Kamath explores Gaps & Opportunities · Nikhil Kamath
Disclosure
Minakshi Singh: Sidecar generates 85% of beverage sales from cocktails
“I'm sitting in a very good, 85% cocktails and the rest.”
Minakshi Singh Jul 3, 2024 ▶ 14:26 Ep #18 | WTF, Alcohol is a $70B Business in India? | Nikhil Kamath explores Gaps & Opportunities · Nikhil Kamath
Opinion
Singh: ₹40–55 lakhs is a tiny seed fund for starting in liquor
“For liquor, it's like really tiny.”
Minakshi Singh Jul 3, 2024 ▶ 3:11:47 Ep #18 | WTF, Alcohol is a $70B Business in India? | Nikhil Kamath explores Gaps & Opportunities · Nikhil Kamath

Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
Ep #18 | WTF, Alcohol is a $70B Business in India? | Nikhil Kamath explores Gaps & Opportu Jul 3, 2024 34m
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