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Employee ownership in India usually means tech startups, but what happens when the workforce is 20,000 village artisans? N.K. Chaudhary, founder of Jaipur Rugs, shares how he built that workforce without middlemen and...
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Built To Share
Hosted by Satish Mugulavalli · business · EN
About this Podcast:
A podcast about the people decisions that make or break startups. Hosted by Satish Mugulavalli, each episode features candid conversations with founders who've scaled companies in India's startup ecosystem.We're not talking about generic advice, we're exploring the hard choices founders make when building teams - the trade-offs, the mistakes, and what actually worked. How do you convince someone to leave stability for your startup? What do you do when a key hire wants more equity?Tune in for conversation with real builders who don't just create value but also share it!
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What is Built To Share about?
A podcast about the people decisions that make or break startups. Hosted by Satish Mugulavalli, each episode features candid conversations with founders who've scaled companies in India's startup ecosystem. We're not talking about generic advice, we're exploring the hard choices founders make when building teams - the trade-offs, the mistakes, and what actually worked.
Who hosts Built To Share?
Built To Share is hosted by Satish Mugulavalli. The show has published 17 episodes to date.
What has Built To Share covered recently?
Recent episodes include "Jaipur Rugs Founder NK Chaudhary on Hiring, Culture and Ownership" (19 October 2026, 44 minutes), "Inside Everpure's GCC Playbook | Ajeya Motaganahalli on Culture & Ownership" (9 September 2026, 62 minutes), and "Why Your ESOPs Feel Fake | Pravin Agarwala, BetterPlace CEO" (30 July 2026, 58 minutes).
How often does Built To Share publish?
Built To Share publishes roughly every two weeks, with episodes averaging 57 minutes across 17 episodes.
How hard is it to get booked on Built To Share?
Booking probability for Built To Share is 30%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Built To Share requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Built To Share's contact route on record: verified email.
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The strongest fits for Built To Share are Business & Management Consulting. Built To Share has a business audience.
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Satish Mugulavalli hosts Built To Share, a business podcast with 17 episodes published.
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Sep 9, 20261h 2mMost global companies open an India centre to spend less. This one opened to hire the most expensive engineers in the market first, and the India GCC strategy behind that decision reshaped everything from interview...
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Jul 9, 20261h 6mMost founders guard their equity like a fortress. This conversation unpacks the startup ESOP strategy in India that made Ashok Hariharan do the opposite at IDfy, carving out a 14.5% employee pool, refusing backloaded...
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Vishal Bali (AHH) on Retention, ESOPs and Culture
Jun 29, 202646 minS0<p>Your most valuable people may be the ones the law won't let you give equity to. Vishal Bali, who built Asia Healthcare Holdings across roughly 75 cities, breaks down the ESOP alternatives he uses to hand real...
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How ideaForge's Ankit Mehta created wealth via ESOPs
Jun 11, 202653 minS0<p>Most founders are told to bring in an outside CFO and a credentialed leadership layer before they list. ideaForge did the opposite and pulled off a deep tech IPO India rarely sees, taking the company public in under...
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Wonderchef Founder Ravi Saxena on Building Teams
May 28, 20261h 10mS0<p>Most consumer founders raise tens of millions before they crack profitability. Wonderchef's Ravi Saxena scaled to ₹420 crore as a bootstrapped consumer brand in India, with under $50 million raised across 16 years...
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Ujjwal Jain (Ex PhonePe) on India's ESOP Problem
May 6, 20261h 5mS0<p>Sixty employees, zero venture capital, two acquisitions, and every single person paid out in cash: Ujjwal Jain's bootstrapped path to PhonePe is the startup ESOP strategy and exit story most Indian founders assume is...
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Why Two Cofounders Fail: Visham Sikand's Odd Number Rule
Apr 29, 20261h 7mS0<p>Most startup acquisitions lose 30 to 50 percent of the team within a year. Serial founder Visham Sikand walks through the Indian startup cofounder equity, ESOP clauses, and deal structure that kept his entire...
Apr 8, 202657 minS0<p>Nakul Kumar is the Co-founder of Cashify, the company that made refurbished iPhones mainstream in India and quietly built one of the most operationally complex businesses in the country. Before Cashify, Nakul ran a...
Mar 4, 20261h 5mS0<p>Edul Patel is the Co-founder and CEO of Mudrex, a Y Combinator-backed crypto exchange and stablecoin payments platform that has raised over $22 million from investors including Nexus Venture Partners, Tribe Capital...
Feb 18, 20261h 17mS0<p>In this episode powered by Hissa Fund, we feature Anurag Jain who co-founded CarDekho in 2007 from Jaipur - not Bangalore - and bootstrapped it to profitability for seven years before raising a single rupee. Today...
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How Ashish Goyal Built Fibe into a Profitable Fintech
Feb 4, 202649 minS0<p>In this episode powered by Hissa Fund, Ashish Goyal takes us inside Fibe's 10-year journey from EarlySalary to a digital lending unicorn that has disbursed over ₹20,000 crore across 9 million loans. Unlike most...
Dec 10, 20251h 5mS1<p>In this inaugural episode powered by Hissa Fund, we uncover the brutal realities of hiring AI researchers, fighting Meta's offers, and turning 11 years of "paper wealth" into cash.Vinay Kumar, Founder of Arya.ai...
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