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Episode 34: David Fallarme-The New Age Markete

David Fallarme is Marketing Director for On Deck. Prior to On Deck David was the head of marketing for Hubspot Asia. He has led the product and content marketing initiatives for Electronic Arts, App Annie and ReferralCandy. He also runs the APAC Marketers Roundtable, one of the most active communities of marketers in APAC.

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Episode 33: Amit Garg- Investing in the future of Artificial Intelligence

Amit is the Managing Partner and Co-Founder of Tau Ventures, an AI-focused seed fund. He kicked off his career at Google and then went to work with Norwest Venture Partners and Samsung NEXT- Samsung's investment arm. He has also co-founded HealthIQ, which is valued at USD 450M. He did his bachelor's and masters from Stanford and MBA from Harvard Business School.

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Episode 32: Miten Sampat- How to build and scale tech ventures?

Miten is an engineer, inventor, investor and operator.He kicked off his career in Silicon Valley, then headed strategy for Times Internet, India’s largest digital products company with 600 million monthly users and is now building CRED, one of India’s fastest growing payments apps. He is also a graduate of Virginia Tech.

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Episode 29: Tarun Davda- Building Matrix Partners India

Tarun Davda is the Managing Director of Matrix Partners, India. Prior to joining Matrix Partners India, Tarun was the Co-founder, India CEO and Board Member at StepOut.com, a venture-backed startup. StepOut became India’s #1 online dating site with over 5 Million users. Before that, Tarun established BigRock.com (incubated by the Directi group) - India’s #1 provider of domain name registration and other web services. Tarun started his career at Infosys as an IT consultant. He has an MBA from the Indian School of Business (ISB), Hyderabad and an Engineer from VJTI, Bombay.

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Episode 28: Mahi de Silva- Building consumer-focused businesses

Mahi de Silva is a serial entrepreneur. His company AdMarvel was acquired by Opera, and within the first month of acquisition, AdMarvel 10Xed Opera’s browser monetization. With his latest entrepreneurial stint, Amplify.ai recently merged with Triller.

Mahi is a University of Kansas and Stanford graduate and was a part of the core startup team at VeriSign. He eventually became the company’s VP (Engineering) and, later, GM of its Wireless Services.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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