Pritish Sanyal 25/01/2021 Pritish Sanyal 25/01/2021 Episode 23: Omid Scheybani- Scaling Growth Stage Ventures. Omid is of Iranian origin who was born and bought up in Germany. He kicked-off his career with Google in Dublin, then moved to Google US and was responsible for Google’s LATAM cloud business, landed up heading international expansion for the Chinese bike-sharing unicorn platform Ofo and now he is with Robinhood, Fintech unicorn in the US. Omid's vast experience across different international markets allows him to draw comparisons between regions in ways few can. Read More Pritish Sanyal 10/01/2021 Pritish Sanyal 10/01/2021 Episode 22: Deborah Quazzo- Investing in Exceptional EdTech Entrepreneurs Deborah is the Managing Partner of GSV Ventures and the Co-founder of ASU Summit, the incredible Deborah Quazzo. Coursera, Course Hero, Guild Education are among a few Edtech unicorn outliers that GSV has invested in over the years and Bill Gates, Barack Obama, George Bush are among the few superstars whom she has hosted over the 11 years of the summit. Read More Pritish Sanyal 19/12/2020 Pritish Sanyal 19/12/2020 Episode 21: Aviral Bhatnagar- Building & Scaling “A Junior VC” Community; Democratise Start-up Conversations Aviral Bhatnagar is the founder of “A Junior VC” Community and he is A Junior VC at Venture Highway. Aviral is a graduate of IIT Bombay and IIM Ahmedabad. Aviral’s startup essays and his views about the Indian Venture ecosystem have led to the creation of the 20,000-member strong “A Junior VC” Community and earned him 170,000+ follower on LinkedIn. Read More Pritish Sanyal 06/12/2020 Pritish Sanyal 06/12/2020 Episode 20: Sanjay Mehta- Being a Founder Friendly Inves Sanjay is the Founder & Partner at 100X.VC and Mehta Ventures Family Office. Sanjay has invested in 150+ Start-ups across sectors with a 86% internal rate of return. in his words “Most startups will fail, so you can say everything sucks and be right most of the time. Although you never lose money with that strategy, you never make any either. “. In this conversation, he shares his learning from investing in Start-ups, the ethos of 100X.VC and ISAFE, his advice for new angel investors & VC on brand building and mentorship, and his “So What” strategy while evaluating a business idea. Read More Pritish Sanyal 21/11/2020 Pritish Sanyal 21/11/2020 Episode 19: Abhinav Jain- Democratizing Entrepreneurship in Bharat Abhinav is the founder CEO of Shop101 & Dash101. A graduate of IIT Kanpur and IIM Ahmedabad. Abhinav in this conversations talks about his Entrepreneurial journey from Bain & Company to Shop101, Building for Bharat, How to create a reseller ecosystem and How Shop101 has been able to generate a positive contribution margin as the business has grown. Read More Pritish Sanyal 26/10/2020 Pritish Sanyal 26/10/2020 Episode 18: Devaiah Bopanna- The New Age Story Teller I was introduced to Devaiah Bopanna and his work through an article about his recent nationally acclaimed CRED IPL Ad series that he co-wrote with his ex-AIB colleagues. The series is a bold attempt by CRED, the Celebrities and the Script-Writer using celebrities to poke fun at advertisers’ obsession with celebrity endorsements.”.He talks about his career from engineering to creative writing, his AIB journey, distribution by OTT platforms and his process of creative thinking and scriptwriting. Read More Pritish Sanyal 11/10/2020 Pritish Sanyal 11/10/2020 Episode 17: Matthew Lee- Building a career in Venture Capital & Next Wave of Consumers- Gen Alpha Matt talks about his venture capital journey in the last four years. Why he and his partners, musical.ly / TikTok alums, are optimist about the B2C space and Gen Alpha. He also shares his views about the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the opportunity these foundations provide for VCs. Read More Pritish Sanyal 27/09/2020 Pritish Sanyal 27/09/2020 Episode 16: Frank Lantz- Game Design: Brilliance & Fallacy of Chess, Go, Poker and the Future of Online Gaming Frank Lantz, Director at the NYU Game Center and Owner of Everybody House Games, talks about game design, the brilliance of gameas such as Chess, Go and Poker and how entertainment companies such as Netflix see Epic Games and sleep as their primary competitor. Read More Pritish Sanyal 15/09/2020 Pritish Sanyal 15/09/2020 Episode 15: Ayush Jaiswal- Building Pesto Tech “Absolutely, nothing is impossible” Ayush Jaiswal, founder Pesto Tech, who is on a mission to give everyone equal access to opportunity, talks about how his personal background of coming from a 2 tier city and early professional hustle helped him find purpose, value time and build a business with impact Read More Pritish Sanyal 31/08/2020 Pritish Sanyal 31/08/2020 Episode 14: Victor Lang- Scaling Gini to 60 Countries with 3,000 Banks in 4 years Victor Lang, Co-Founder and COO of Gini shares how within 4 years of Gini’s existence they have been able to build a network of 3000 banks in 60 countries with a small team based in HK through afflictions and partnerships and consumer adoption through word of mouth marketing.Victor also shares his insights on businesses he built previously and how he managed a successful exit after going insolvent 3 times. Read More Pritish Sanyal 23/08/2020 Pritish Sanyal 23/08/2020 Episode 13: Vikram Chandra- Decoding a Writer’s Mind My next guest on The One Percent Project is the world-renowned author, professor and tech entrepreneur Vikram Chandra. His first book Red Earth and Pouring Rain, published in 1995 was received with outstanding critical acclaim. It won the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best First Book and the David Higham Prize for Fiction. In 2006, he published Sacred Games, which won the Hutch Crossword Award for English Fiction and a Salon Book Award. In 2016, Sacred Games was chosen by Netflix to be their first original series from India. Vikram has been teaching creative writing for 25+ years first at George Washington University and now at UC Berkley. He is the co-founder and CEO of Granthika Co., a revolutionary software startup that is re-inventing writing and reading for the digital age. I enjoyed speaking to Vikram about his early life, his work and his entrepreneurial journey. Read More Pritish Sanyal 15/08/2020 Pritish Sanyal 15/08/2020 Episode 12: India on the 74th Independence Day On the momentous occasion of India’s 74th independence day, I have with me a very special guest on The One Percent Project, Mr Jayant Sinha, Member of Indian Parliament and former Minister of state of finance & civil aviation government of India. Mr Sinha is alumni of some of the most prestigious universities across the world, the Indian Institute of Technology, the University of Pennsylvania and Harvard Business School. He had a remarkable corporate career prior to joining politics, from heading the global IT practise at McKinsey to impact investing at Courage Capital and Omidyar Network. Read More Pritish Sanyal 03/08/2020 Pritish Sanyal 03/08/2020 Episode 11: Utsav Somani - Building AngelList India Utsav Somani, AngelList India Head, talks about his early career, his mentor and AngelList co-founder Naval Ravikant, the evolution of the Indian start-up investment space, building AngelList India and his view on COVID and its impact. Read More Pritish Sanyal 27/07/2020 Pritish Sanyal 27/07/2020 Episode 10: Prasun Choudhary - Building OYO Japan Praun Choudhary, Operating Partner OYO Hotels Japan, talks about the uniqueness and the way of doing business in Japan. The challenges of setting up OYO in Japan and the learnings. How COVID has impacted the hospitality industry and post-COVID scenario. Ritesh Agarwal's leadership style through the pandemic. Read More Pritish Sanyal 19/07/2020 Pritish Sanyal 19/07/2020 Episode 9: Sachin Tipnis- Higher Education: Building and Scaling Asia’s Leading Master Program Sachin Tipnis, Senior Executive Director, The University of Hong Kong talks about his career, his father's influence in his career. How got he built the MBA program, what he looks for in candidates and the influence of COVID and MOOC on the Higher Education industry. Read More Pritish Sanyal 12/07/2020 Pritish Sanyal 12/07/2020 Episode 8: David Collet- Media’s new frontier: EpicGames,Netflix, Snapchat in Asia David Collect, media expert with more than 20 years of experience working with CNN, PERFORM, Opta Sports across Asia and Europe. Defines media in the 21st century, the new frontier in the media industry, the evolution of gaming, SnapChat in Asia and eSports and it’s future in Asia. Read More Pritish Sanyal 05/07/2020 Pritish Sanyal 05/07/2020 Episode 7: Rai Mahimapat Ray- Transforming the Grassroots- Lessons in Indian Administrati Rai Mahimatpat Ray is the District Magistrate, Collector & Deputy Commissioner of Ranchi, Jharkhand, India, Indian Administrative Service (IAS) - Government of India.Ray talks about the Indian Administrative Services, the progress, the challenges and the opportunities Indians have and how IAS officers like him are working to better the lives and mitigate the challenges an every day Indian faces. We also talk about the COVID situation in Ranchi and measures he has taken to keep the pandemic in control. Read More Pritish Sanyal 27/06/2020 Pritish Sanyal 27/06/2020 Episode 6: Aditi Sharma- Building a Corporate Venture Ecosystem Aditi Sharma, Head of Startup Programs & Investments at Grab Ventures talks about her career, how she and the team have built the corporate venture arm of Grab and how they work with startups and new technology to help them grow and scale in Southeast Asia. Read More Pritish Sanyal 21/06/2020 Pritish Sanyal 21/06/2020 Episode 5: Karthik Prabhakar- Indian Venture Capital and Early Stage Technology Landscape Karthik Prabhakar is the Executive Director and Partner at Chiratae Ventures. It is one of India’s leading early-stage venture capital fund with investments in the likes of Myntra, Lenskart, Bounce, CureFit, Policybazaar, EarlySalary and others. In this conversation, he talks about the Indian venture capital landscape, early-stage tech sector and foreign entrants such as Amazon, TikTok and others. Read More Pritish Sanyal 14/06/2020 Pritish Sanyal 14/06/2020 Episode 4: Rui Ma- Understanding China Tech, ByteDance, TikTok and Much More! Rui Ma, is the Writer & Co-Host of The Tech Buzz China podcast. She is a China Tech expert and ByteDance observer and commentator. She has spent 15 years in Investment Banking, Private Equity and Venture Capital. She shares her observations about the Chinese Tech ecosystem, the growth of the second generation of Tech gainst such as ByteDance, Pingduoduo, Meituan. and much more. Read More Newer Posts Older Posts
Pritish Sanyal 25/01/2021 Pritish Sanyal 25/01/2021 Episode 23: Omid Scheybani- Scaling Growth Stage Ventures. Omid is of Iranian origin who was born and bought up in Germany. He kicked-off his career with Google in Dublin, then moved to Google US and was responsible for Google’s LATAM cloud business, landed up heading international expansion for the Chinese bike-sharing unicorn platform Ofo and now he is with Robinhood, Fintech unicorn in the US. Omid's vast experience across different international markets allows him to draw comparisons between regions in ways few can. Read More
Pritish Sanyal 10/01/2021 Pritish Sanyal 10/01/2021 Episode 22: Deborah Quazzo- Investing in Exceptional EdTech Entrepreneurs Deborah is the Managing Partner of GSV Ventures and the Co-founder of ASU Summit, the incredible Deborah Quazzo. Coursera, Course Hero, Guild Education are among a few Edtech unicorn outliers that GSV has invested in over the years and Bill Gates, Barack Obama, George Bush are among the few superstars whom she has hosted over the 11 years of the summit. Read More
Pritish Sanyal 19/12/2020 Pritish Sanyal 19/12/2020 Episode 21: Aviral Bhatnagar- Building & Scaling “A Junior VC” Community; Democratise Start-up Conversations Aviral Bhatnagar is the founder of “A Junior VC” Community and he is A Junior VC at Venture Highway. Aviral is a graduate of IIT Bombay and IIM Ahmedabad. Aviral’s startup essays and his views about the Indian Venture ecosystem have led to the creation of the 20,000-member strong “A Junior VC” Community and earned him 170,000+ follower on LinkedIn. Read More
Pritish Sanyal 06/12/2020 Pritish Sanyal 06/12/2020 Episode 20: Sanjay Mehta- Being a Founder Friendly Inves Sanjay is the Founder & Partner at 100X.VC and Mehta Ventures Family Office. Sanjay has invested in 150+ Start-ups across sectors with a 86% internal rate of return. in his words “Most startups will fail, so you can say everything sucks and be right most of the time. Although you never lose money with that strategy, you never make any either. “. In this conversation, he shares his learning from investing in Start-ups, the ethos of 100X.VC and ISAFE, his advice for new angel investors & VC on brand building and mentorship, and his “So What” strategy while evaluating a business idea. Read More
Pritish Sanyal 21/11/2020 Pritish Sanyal 21/11/2020 Episode 19: Abhinav Jain- Democratizing Entrepreneurship in Bharat Abhinav is the founder CEO of Shop101 & Dash101. A graduate of IIT Kanpur and IIM Ahmedabad. Abhinav in this conversations talks about his Entrepreneurial journey from Bain & Company to Shop101, Building for Bharat, How to create a reseller ecosystem and How Shop101 has been able to generate a positive contribution margin as the business has grown. Read More
Pritish Sanyal 26/10/2020 Pritish Sanyal 26/10/2020 Episode 18: Devaiah Bopanna- The New Age Story Teller I was introduced to Devaiah Bopanna and his work through an article about his recent nationally acclaimed CRED IPL Ad series that he co-wrote with his ex-AIB colleagues. The series is a bold attempt by CRED, the Celebrities and the Script-Writer using celebrities to poke fun at advertisers’ obsession with celebrity endorsements.”.He talks about his career from engineering to creative writing, his AIB journey, distribution by OTT platforms and his process of creative thinking and scriptwriting. Read More
Pritish Sanyal 11/10/2020 Pritish Sanyal 11/10/2020 Episode 17: Matthew Lee- Building a career in Venture Capital & Next Wave of Consumers- Gen Alpha Matt talks about his venture capital journey in the last four years. Why he and his partners, musical.ly / TikTok alums, are optimist about the B2C space and Gen Alpha. He also shares his views about the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the opportunity these foundations provide for VCs. Read More
Pritish Sanyal 27/09/2020 Pritish Sanyal 27/09/2020 Episode 16: Frank Lantz- Game Design: Brilliance & Fallacy of Chess, Go, Poker and the Future of Online Gaming Frank Lantz, Director at the NYU Game Center and Owner of Everybody House Games, talks about game design, the brilliance of gameas such as Chess, Go and Poker and how entertainment companies such as Netflix see Epic Games and sleep as their primary competitor. Read More
Pritish Sanyal 15/09/2020 Pritish Sanyal 15/09/2020 Episode 15: Ayush Jaiswal- Building Pesto Tech “Absolutely, nothing is impossible” Ayush Jaiswal, founder Pesto Tech, who is on a mission to give everyone equal access to opportunity, talks about how his personal background of coming from a 2 tier city and early professional hustle helped him find purpose, value time and build a business with impact Read More
Pritish Sanyal 31/08/2020 Pritish Sanyal 31/08/2020 Episode 14: Victor Lang- Scaling Gini to 60 Countries with 3,000 Banks in 4 years Victor Lang, Co-Founder and COO of Gini shares how within 4 years of Gini’s existence they have been able to build a network of 3000 banks in 60 countries with a small team based in HK through afflictions and partnerships and consumer adoption through word of mouth marketing.Victor also shares his insights on businesses he built previously and how he managed a successful exit after going insolvent 3 times. Read More
Pritish Sanyal 23/08/2020 Pritish Sanyal 23/08/2020 Episode 13: Vikram Chandra- Decoding a Writer’s Mind My next guest on The One Percent Project is the world-renowned author, professor and tech entrepreneur Vikram Chandra. His first book Red Earth and Pouring Rain, published in 1995 was received with outstanding critical acclaim. It won the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best First Book and the David Higham Prize for Fiction. In 2006, he published Sacred Games, which won the Hutch Crossword Award for English Fiction and a Salon Book Award. In 2016, Sacred Games was chosen by Netflix to be their first original series from India. Vikram has been teaching creative writing for 25+ years first at George Washington University and now at UC Berkley. He is the co-founder and CEO of Granthika Co., a revolutionary software startup that is re-inventing writing and reading for the digital age. I enjoyed speaking to Vikram about his early life, his work and his entrepreneurial journey. Read More
Pritish Sanyal 15/08/2020 Pritish Sanyal 15/08/2020 Episode 12: India on the 74th Independence Day On the momentous occasion of India’s 74th independence day, I have with me a very special guest on The One Percent Project, Mr Jayant Sinha, Member of Indian Parliament and former Minister of state of finance & civil aviation government of India. Mr Sinha is alumni of some of the most prestigious universities across the world, the Indian Institute of Technology, the University of Pennsylvania and Harvard Business School. He had a remarkable corporate career prior to joining politics, from heading the global IT practise at McKinsey to impact investing at Courage Capital and Omidyar Network. Read More
Pritish Sanyal 03/08/2020 Pritish Sanyal 03/08/2020 Episode 11: Utsav Somani - Building AngelList India Utsav Somani, AngelList India Head, talks about his early career, his mentor and AngelList co-founder Naval Ravikant, the evolution of the Indian start-up investment space, building AngelList India and his view on COVID and its impact. Read More
Pritish Sanyal 27/07/2020 Pritish Sanyal 27/07/2020 Episode 10: Prasun Choudhary - Building OYO Japan Praun Choudhary, Operating Partner OYO Hotels Japan, talks about the uniqueness and the way of doing business in Japan. The challenges of setting up OYO in Japan and the learnings. How COVID has impacted the hospitality industry and post-COVID scenario. Ritesh Agarwal's leadership style through the pandemic. Read More
Pritish Sanyal 19/07/2020 Pritish Sanyal 19/07/2020 Episode 9: Sachin Tipnis- Higher Education: Building and Scaling Asia’s Leading Master Program Sachin Tipnis, Senior Executive Director, The University of Hong Kong talks about his career, his father's influence in his career. How got he built the MBA program, what he looks for in candidates and the influence of COVID and MOOC on the Higher Education industry. Read More
Pritish Sanyal 12/07/2020 Pritish Sanyal 12/07/2020 Episode 8: David Collet- Media’s new frontier: EpicGames,Netflix, Snapchat in Asia David Collect, media expert with more than 20 years of experience working with CNN, PERFORM, Opta Sports across Asia and Europe. Defines media in the 21st century, the new frontier in the media industry, the evolution of gaming, SnapChat in Asia and eSports and it’s future in Asia. Read More
Pritish Sanyal 05/07/2020 Pritish Sanyal 05/07/2020 Episode 7: Rai Mahimapat Ray- Transforming the Grassroots- Lessons in Indian Administrati Rai Mahimatpat Ray is the District Magistrate, Collector & Deputy Commissioner of Ranchi, Jharkhand, India, Indian Administrative Service (IAS) - Government of India.Ray talks about the Indian Administrative Services, the progress, the challenges and the opportunities Indians have and how IAS officers like him are working to better the lives and mitigate the challenges an every day Indian faces. We also talk about the COVID situation in Ranchi and measures he has taken to keep the pandemic in control. Read More
Pritish Sanyal 27/06/2020 Pritish Sanyal 27/06/2020 Episode 6: Aditi Sharma- Building a Corporate Venture Ecosystem Aditi Sharma, Head of Startup Programs & Investments at Grab Ventures talks about her career, how she and the team have built the corporate venture arm of Grab and how they work with startups and new technology to help them grow and scale in Southeast Asia. Read More
Pritish Sanyal 21/06/2020 Pritish Sanyal 21/06/2020 Episode 5: Karthik Prabhakar- Indian Venture Capital and Early Stage Technology Landscape Karthik Prabhakar is the Executive Director and Partner at Chiratae Ventures. It is one of India’s leading early-stage venture capital fund with investments in the likes of Myntra, Lenskart, Bounce, CureFit, Policybazaar, EarlySalary and others. In this conversation, he talks about the Indian venture capital landscape, early-stage tech sector and foreign entrants such as Amazon, TikTok and others. Read More
Pritish Sanyal 14/06/2020 Pritish Sanyal 14/06/2020 Episode 4: Rui Ma- Understanding China Tech, ByteDance, TikTok and Much More! Rui Ma, is the Writer & Co-Host of The Tech Buzz China podcast. She is a China Tech expert and ByteDance observer and commentator. She has spent 15 years in Investment Banking, Private Equity and Venture Capital. She shares her observations about the Chinese Tech ecosystem, the growth of the second generation of Tech gainst such as ByteDance, Pingduoduo, Meituan. and much more. Read More
