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Mukesh Bansal

Founder & CEO, Nurix AI · 1 appearance on the record.

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Mukesh Bansal is an Indian entrepreneur who co-founded fashion e-commerce company Myntra and fitness platform Cult.fit. He also founded generative AI startup Nurix AI and authored the books No Limits and The Start-Up Code.

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3 assertions · 3 opinions · 6 insights · 3 disclosures · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 3 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 3 are resolved. 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 Mukesh 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
Mukesh Bansal: India Has Up To 150 Million Diabetic Or Pre-Diabetic Individuals
“You start with fifty million, for diabetes go up to as many as one hundred fifty million people who are diabetic or pre-diabetic, right?”
Mukesh Bansal Jul 2, 2023 ▶ 1:22:54 Ep #6 | WTF is Health? ft. Nikhil Kamath, Suniel Shetty, Nithin Kamath and Mukesh Bansal · Nikhil Kamath

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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 Mukesh Bansal on measured tape to publish a rate. This says nothing about how they speak.

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

Opinion
Mukesh Bansal: Alcohol Is As Harmful As Smoking
“I believe alcohol is as bad as smoking. It's only a matter of time before, ah, I think science already caught up. There is absolutely no dispute as far as science goes. But the mainstream media and the communication has not caught up. I think it's a matter of …”
Mukesh Bansal Jul 2, 2023 ▶ 23:10 Ep #6 | WTF is Health? ft. Nikhil Kamath, Suniel Shetty, Nithin Kamath and Mukesh Bansal · Nikhil Kamath
Opinion
Mukesh Bansal: Marketing Wine As Healthy Is Absolutely Bogus
“This alcohol, you know, I think has been marketed all too well, especially wine is good for you kind of marketing last 20 years. Absolutely bogus. There's no truth to it whatsoever.”
Mukesh Bansal Jul 2, 2023 ▶ 22:59 Ep #6 | WTF is Health? ft. Nikhil Kamath, Suniel Shetty, Nithin Kamath and Mukesh Bansal · Nikhil Kamath
Insight
Mukesh Bansal: Carbs Should Not Be Avoided And Can Be 40% Of Calories
“I, I'm definitely not a proponent of going out of your way to avoid carbs. You need to control it. Carbs should not be 80% of calories, but can easily be, you know, 30, 40% of calories, and I think they're absolutely fine.”
Mukesh Bansal Jul 2, 2023 ▶ 1:07:28 Ep #6 | WTF is Health? ft. Nikhil Kamath, Suniel Shetty, Nithin Kamath and Mukesh Bansal · Nikhil Kamath
Insight
Mukesh Bansal: Daily Sugar Consumption Is An Evolutionary Mismatch With Human Biology
“Every day, consumption of sugar, I think, is just very unnatural. I think, evolutionary, we are just never used to having so much sugar, and that's, you know, very much out of sync within how our biology works.”
Mukesh Bansal Jul 2, 2023 ▶ 1:29:33 Ep #6 | WTF is Health? ft. Nikhil Kamath, Suniel Shetty, Nithin Kamath and Mukesh Bansal · Nikhil Kamath
Disclosure
Mukesh Bansal Does Not Eat Any Food After 3 PM
“Vegetarian, don't eat after three pm, so I'm good.”
Mukesh Bansal Jul 2, 2023 ▶ 26:50 Ep #6 | WTF is Health? ft. Nikhil Kamath, Suniel Shetty, Nithin Kamath and Mukesh Bansal · Nikhil Kamath
Insight
Mukesh Bansal: Hard Workouts And Flights After Late Drinking Crash Immunity
“The formula is, you go out for dinner, have a few drinks, sleep late, get up early, go to the gym, just, you know, crank it out, run, you know, hard five miles, or do body weight, and then take a flight. Guaranteed in 24 hours you'll be sick. After, like, 10 y…”
Mukesh Bansal Jul 2, 2023 ▶ 27:24 Ep #6 | WTF is Health? ft. Nikhil Kamath, Suniel Shetty, Nithin Kamath and Mukesh Bansal · Nikhil Kamath
Insight
Mukesh Bansal: Building A Great Enduring Business Takes 20 To 40 Years
“I think you want to build a cathedral, you know, it takes, 2030, 40 years, right? So I have probably way more respect for that versus doing something, you know, every five to seven years.”
Mukesh Bansal Jul 2, 2023 ▶ 36:02 Ep #6 | WTF is Health? ft. Nikhil Kamath, Suniel Shetty, Nithin Kamath and Mukesh Bansal · Nikhil Kamath
Insight
Mukesh Bansal: Supplement Users Must Track Blood Markers Regularly
“I think one has to continuously measure yourself. You know, taking supplements and not measuring, you know, and it's quite involved, you know, expensive, you know, you have to, but there are hundreds of blood markers and many other tests because you put someth…”
Mukesh Bansal Jul 2, 2023 ▶ 57:11 Ep #6 | WTF is Health? ft. Nikhil Kamath, Suniel Shetty, Nithin Kamath and Mukesh Bansal · Nikhil Kamath
Opinion
Mukesh Bansal: Vilifying Dietary Fat Caused Harm And Increased Sugar Consumption
“I think fat was, you know, vilified for many decades. And I think that caused a lot of harm, you know, that enabled sugar to become a big part of in people's life.”
Mukesh Bansal Jul 2, 2023 ▶ 1:06:51 Ep #6 | WTF is Health? ft. Nikhil Kamath, Suniel Shetty, Nithin Kamath and Mukesh Bansal · Nikhil Kamath
Insight
Mukesh Bansal: Eating Less, Sleeping More, And Moving Handles 90% Of Health
“I think most of health advice, you know, boils down to this phrase I've used. It is, eat less, sleep more, always move. In whichever format you can do these three things. 80, 90% of your health will be taken care of.”
Mukesh Bansal Jul 2, 2023 ▶ 1:20:13 Ep #6 | WTF is Health? ft. Nikhil Kamath, Suniel Shetty, Nithin Kamath and Mukesh Bansal · Nikhil Kamath
Assertion Partly supported
Mukesh Bansal: India's Gym Penetration Is 0.4% Compared To 20% In US
“We have only five million people in the country who go to gym, who pay for any kind of gym membership out of a country of, you know, 1.4 billion people. It's a .4% penetration. Compared to about 20% in US, 15% in Europe.”
Mukesh Bansal Jul 2, 2023 ▶ 1:21:15 Ep #6 | WTF is Health? ft. Nikhil Kamath, Suniel Shetty, Nithin Kamath and Mukesh Bansal · Nikhil Kamath
Assertion Partly supported
Mukesh Bansal: Myntra Became India's Largest Fashion Retailer Before Flipkart Merger
“I think in three, four years, we were the largest fashion retailer in the country. 20 14 merged with Flipkart.”
Mukesh Bansal Jul 2, 2023 ▶ 3:55 Ep #6 | WTF is Health? ft. Nikhil Kamath, Suniel Shetty, Nithin Kamath and Mukesh Bansal · Nikhil Kamath
Assertion Supported
Mukesh Bansal: India Has Up To 150 Million Diabetic Or Pre-Diabetic Individuals
“You start with fifty million, for diabetes go up to as many as one hundred fifty million people who are diabetic or pre-diabetic, right?”
Mukesh Bansal Jul 2, 2023 ▶ 1:22:54 Ep #6 | WTF is Health? ft. Nikhil Kamath, Suniel Shetty, Nithin Kamath and Mukesh Bansal · Nikhil Kamath
Disclosure
Mukesh Bansal: Overtraining Caused Permanent Tears In My Knee And Shoulder
“I was, you know, at some point, you know, borderline fitness freak, ah, who tried to go to extremes, you know, just push myself to the edge, and as a result, you know, I've accumulated a lot of wear and tear injuries. I have a tear in my left knee, I have a te…”
Mukesh Bansal Jul 2, 2023 ▶ 1:41:26 Ep #6 | WTF is Health? ft. Nikhil Kamath, Suniel Shetty, Nithin Kamath and Mukesh Bansal · Nikhil Kamath
Disclosure
Mukesh Bansal: Quarterly Comprehensive Blood Tests Show Mostly Noisy Biomarker Fluctuations
“I check my blood work every three months religiously. It's like, you know, 20 page report I get. Most of the numbers also don't move. And if they move, they are mostly noisy.”
Mukesh Bansal Jul 2, 2023 ▶ 2:03:28 Ep #6 | WTF is Health? ft. Nikhil Kamath, Suniel Shetty, Nithin Kamath and Mukesh Bansal · Nikhil Kamath

The other half of the tape: Mukesh Bansal's own voice is left out of every number here. Other people bring the name up 3 times in 2 episodes on WTF is with Nikhil Kamath. every mention, with the transcript →

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Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
Ep #6 | WTF is Health? ft. Nikhil Kamath, Suniel Shetty, Nithin Kamath and Mukesh Bansal · Jul 2, 2023 27m
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