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Hosted by Arjun Thomas · business · EN
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.
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Building Real is hosted by Arjun Thomas. The show has published 15 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include "A New Parcel Every Week. Then She Found Out What It Cost. | Priyanka Shahra" (20 October 2026, 64 minutes), "A Million Players in the Real World, Across 1,000 Cities. Then He Walked Away. | Claudiu Petria" (6 October 2026, 109 minutes), and "He Built Startups for Corporates. Then He Opened a Coffee Bar That Won Gold | Ivan Chandra Suriady" (22 September 2026, 61 minutes).
Building Real publishes roughly every two weeks, with episodes averaging 79 minutes across 15 episodes.
Booking probability for Building Real is 29%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Building Real requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Building Real's contact route on record: verified email.
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Arjun Thomas hosts Building Real, a business podcast with 15 episodes published.
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Episode #15
What does it cost when a new parcel lands on your doorstep every week? In her early twenties, Priyanka Shahra had an ASOS parcel at her door every week and wore it like a badge of honour. She never stopped to ask how it...
Episode #14
Why would you walk away from something a million people love? Claudiu Petria was born at home in a Romanian village of four houses. At eight, he told his father to choose between school and the goats. His father sold...
Episode #13
Why would someone who builds startups for corporates open a single coffee bar in one of the most crowded markets in Singapore? Ivan Chandra Suriady spent years building ventures inside large companies: market maps...
Episode #11
What if fixing cold chain in one of the most flood-prone, power-starved cities in Southeast Asia didn't take a mega-warehouse and millions in capital — just a modular box the size of a quarter shipping container...
Episode #10
What if the deadliest animal on earth could be fought not with chemicals, but with millions of sterile versions of itself — engineered by AI and released into the wild to breed the population into collapse? Vic Levitin...
Episode #9
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...
Episode #8
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...
Episode #7
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...
Episode #6
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...
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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...
Episode #4
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...
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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 —...
Episode #2
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...
Episode #1
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...
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