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Founder Thesis
Hosted by ThePodium.in · business · EN
About this Podcast:
Dickens said, it was the best of the times, it was the worst of the times. The words have never been truer. Best because there’s never been a better time to be an entrepreneur. Worst because the clutter is mind-numbing. Founder Thesis breaks through the noise to bring you stories of success & failure, grit & struggle, bouquets & brickbats from some of the most brilliant entrepreneurs in India.
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What is Founder Thesis about?
Dickens said, it was the best of the times, it was the worst of the times. The words have never been truer. Best because there’s never been a better time to be an entrepreneur. Worst because the clutter is mind-numbing.
Who hosts Founder Thesis?
Founder Thesis is hosted by ThePodium.in. The show has published 460 episodes to date.
What has Founder Thesis covered recently?
Recent episodes include "How to Govern AI Agents at Scale | Ezhilarasan Natarajan, CoreStack" (22 October 2026, 125 minutes), "Cage-Free vs Caged Eggs: What Hens Go Through | Jayasimha Nuggehalli, Global Food Partners" (15 October 2026, 73 minutes), and "How Venture Capitalists Pick Startups | Rajeev Mantri, Navam Capital" (12 October 2026, 82 minutes).
How often does Founder Thesis publish?
Founder Thesis publishes roughly weekly, with episodes averaging 80 minutes across 460 episodes.
How hard is it to get booked on Founder Thesis?
Booking probability for Founder Thesis is 38%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Founder Thesis requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Founder Thesis's contact route on record: verified email.
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ThePodium.in hosts Founder Thesis, a business podcast with 460 episodes published.
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Founder Thesis
Cage-Free vs Caged Eggs: What Hens Go Through | Jayasimha Nuggehalli, Global Food Partners
Oct 15, 20261h 13mIndia's animal welfare laws look world-class on paper, yet a Bangalore court once tried to auction a rescued bear as "perishable goods." Jayasimha Nuggehalli, co-founder & COO of Global Food Partners, explains why he...
Oct 12, 20261h 22mMost people assume venture capital is a numbers game won by spraying cheques at fifty startups and bragging about the two that worked. Rajeev Mantri runs Navam Capital on the opposite principle, and in this conversation...
Oct 7, 20261h 30mWhat if the biggest bottleneck in AI antibody discovery was never AlphaFold's problem to solve at all? Dr. Aridni Shah of Immunito AI sat down with host Akshay Datt to explain how her team builds antibodies from a...
Sep 28, 20261h 4mShirts are 2x the market. Pants are 200x less crowded. Dhruv Toshniwal bet on the category everyone treats as an afterthought, and built The Pant Project into a ₹120 Cr run-rate D2C brand. Dhruv grew up around a...
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Sep 21, 202650 minTwo companies can start the same size, and only one of them grows up. Manish Sabharwal lost his first venture to a drag along right, then spent 25 years building TeamLease toward a single stated ambition, to be India's...
Sep 17, 20261h 35mIndia supplies a fifth of the world's medicines and invents almost none of them. Venkat Nelabhotla spent three decades inside that industry before co-founding Vyome, and here he explains where drug discovery in India...
Sep 11, 20261h 25mEggoz is India's largest branded egg company, built on a market where over 95% of eggs sold in the country are still loose, unpackaged, and unbranded. Its founder, Abhishek Negi, got here after his first startup, a cab...
Sep 7, 20261h 9mAn electric intercity bus costs ₹1.5 crore, which is exactly why almost nobody in India was financing them. Manav Bansal left a $2.5 billion investment mandate to build Drivn, and his answer to commercial EV leasing...
Sep 3, 202620 minSeven hundred AI agents were handed a task that could not be solved, and instead of failing they found a hole in a shared package manager and started talking to each other. The OpenAI agents hack ended with a swarm...
Aug 31, 20261h 37mEvery startup in India is suddenly a deep tech startup, and Manu Iyer thinks that is exactly the problem. The co-founder and managing partner of Bluehill.VC breaks down his frontier tech investment thesis, why his...
Aug 22, 20261h 29mMost Indian founders flip to Delaware to reach American capital. This AI mental health startup went the other way, staying incorporated in India and then acquiring two US healthcare companies that accepted Indian equity...
Aug 13, 20261h 20mIndia's gaming market crossed $14 billion this year - and it happened right after the real money gaming ban wiped out $2 billion of it overnight. Salone Sehgal, Co-Founder and Managing Partner at Lumikai, has been...
Aug 5, 20261h 24mMost people assume a gaming company gets built by a gamer. Anurag Choudhary does not play video games, and he has built one of the only mobile game publishing operations in India that funds titles locally and scales...
Jul 29, 20261h 12mMost people still think gaming is entertainment, not an industry bigger than movies and music combined. This conversation is a rare look at building a gaming studio in India that reaches 200 million players, told by the...
Jul 22, 20261h 4mMost founders spend to acquire customers, but Kazam built an EV charging business where customers pay upfront and the cost of acquisition turns positive. Akshay Shekhar breaks down the India EV charging infrastructure...
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Ajay Jain (SilverX) on How To Pitch A VC
Jul 14, 202659 minMost founders open their VC pitch with a billion-dollar TAM slide. Ajay Jain, co-founder of Silverneedle Ventures, refuses to look at it, and the bottom-up question he asks instead is the real test that decides who gets...
Jul 6, 20261h 19mMost service businesses are adding people to grow. One Hyderabad founder did the opposite and cut his team from 1,000 to 600 with zero drop in revenue, a live case study in AI and the future of work. Sridhar...
Jun 29, 20261h 18mBuilding a supply chain across 400 fish harbors before spending a single rupee on marketing sounds like madness, until you realise it is exactly how FreshToHome became India's largest India D2C food startup in the fresh...
Jun 22, 20262h 16mMost founders chase venture capital like oxygen, but the man who pulled off India's first major dot-com exit built a bootstrapped SaaS company to over $100M in revenue without a single growth round. He also argues that...
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