1947 Rise

Shiva Singh Sangwan•podcasters.spotify.com

Our purpose is to help startups go mainstream in 🇮🇳! 1947 Rise Podcast is helping in accelerating the speed of reverse brain drain We do this by interviewing India-born, overseas-trained who have moved back to India and built massive tech companies themselves and/or helped enable the tech ecosystem 1947 Operators Podcast is helping in increasing the number of operator-angels in the startup ecosystem. We do this by unpacking the investing journey of the best operator-angels in India.

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3: Raghav Chandra (Urban Company)

Raghav Chandra is the Co-Founder & CTO of Urban Company. Urban Company is the largest home services platform in India and UAE, with recent expansion to Australia and Singapore. SHOW NOTES The journey from growing up in India to moving to the US and then moving back to India (1:00) His thought process for making the move back to India (7:00) How did Buggi and later Urban Company come about (12.30) Times, when he thought this could be it at Urban Company (19:20) Skills that he picked up from h...

Jul 12, 2021•37 min

2: Mukund Kulashekaran (Urban Company)

Mukund Kulashekaran is currently the SVP at Urban Company (valued at $2.1b). Previously he was the CBO at Zomato, which is looking to go public soon and is currently valued at $5.4b. SHOW NOTES Journey from growing up in India to moving to the US and then moving back to India (1:00) His thought process for making the move back to India (2:25) How did Zomato and later Urban Company come about (3:50) Times when he thought this could be it at Zomato / Urban Company (8:30) Favorite stories at Zomato...

Jun 27, 2021•35 min

1: Abhinav Sinha (OYO)

Abhinav Sinha is currently the global COO & CPO at OYO. He launched and built OYO in SEA, UK, US and other foreign geographies. Headquartered in Gurgaon, OYO is the fastest-growing and second-largest hotel chain in the world. OYO is spread across 800 cities in 80 countries. Most recently it was valued at $10 billion. SHOW NOTES Journey from growing up in India to moving to the US and then moving back to India (1:06) His thought process for making the move back to India (4:59) How did OYO com...

Jun 12, 2021•47 min

1947 Rise Introduction

It’s a podcast that helps India-born, US-trained Indians get integrated into the Indian tech ecosystem and inspires them to move back to India to build massive tech companies and/or help enable the tech ecosystem. We do this by interviewing India-born, US-trained Indians who have moved back to India and built massive tech companies themselves and/or helped enable the tech ecosystem.

Jun 07, 2021•39 sec•Season 1Ep. 1

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