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Hosted by Arjun Thomas · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 10 episodes
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Building Real is about how things actually get built—companies, restaurants, labs, careers, and side projects—without the highlight reel gloss. Each episode is a real, unscripted conversation with someone in the middle of building: founders, operators, educators, scientists, restaurateurs, investors, and people quietly doing important work. We talk through the doubts, trade‑offs, and decisions that never make it into funding announcements or LinkedIn posts. You’ll hear how guests find problems worth working on, test ideas, hire (or don’t), manage money and time, and deal with failure, burnout, and luck along the way. If you’re building something yourself—or thinking about it—you’ll get practical insight into product, markets, teams, and personal resilience, told through specific stories rather than generic advice. No scripts, no manufactured drama, no “five hacks”; just the process of how it actually happens, one builder at a time.
Arjun Thomas hosts Building Real, a business show with 10 episodes published.
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What if the cheapest — and one of the most polluting — building materials on earth could be replaced by a brick made entirely from the plastic and rubble we throw away? Kunjpreet Arora grew up in Udaipur, the "Lake City
India is one of the biggest motorcycle markets on earth — so why is booking a Himalayan ride still done over Instagram DMs and "DM for price"? Karthik Srinivasan is a designer who rediscovered motorcycling later in life,
What does it take to build a national team that beats the best in the world -- with no government funding, no salary, and players who have never seen a football? India had never fielded a blind football team that could t
Startup education | social impact | founder incentives | Founders For Change | entrepreneurship beyond exits | next-gen founders Supriya Panchangam has spent a decade in rooms full of young people and arrived at one unco
AI and creativity | children's books | illustration | human vs AI | creative career | author story | taste as competitive advantage Vinayak Varma is an author and illustrator who has spent years building a creative caree
Non-toxic home | formaldehyde in textiles | sustainable home furnishings | The Yellow Dwelling | consumer health | India startup Nanda Kumar discovered that most home textiles — sheets, curtains, pillows — contain formal
Mental health startup | Southeast Asia | social impact | tech career pivot | Chengal Centre | founder story Barry Ooi was an economist turned data analytics entrepreneur, comfortable in the corporate and tech world — unt
Food business | Airbnb experience | Mad Onion Slicer | India startup | deportation | culinary entrepreneurship | founder comeback story Dhruv Shanker got deported from the United States. His startup had folded. His visa
Deep tech | sewage treatment | infrastructure startup | India | EcoSTP | founder story What do you do when your apartment's sewage treatment plant overflows and you discover it's just a fake tank dumping raw waste into a
Vic Levitin
Diptera.ai
1 appearance on this show
Kunjpreet Arora
Angirus
1 appearance on this show
Karthik Srinivasan
Everything Motorcycling
1 appearance on this show
Sunil Mathew
SRVC (Sunil's NGO for the visually challenged)
1 appearance on this show
Supriya Panchangam
Founders For Change
1 appearance on this show
Nanda Kumar
The Yellow Dwelling
1 appearance on this show
Barry Ooi
Chengal Centre
1 appearance on this show
Dhruv Shanker
Mad Onion Slicer
1 appearance on this show
Tharun Kumar
EcoSTP
1 appearance on this show
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