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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…
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Inside Everpure's GCC Playbook | Ajeya Motaganahalli on Culture & Ownership (opens the original)
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Most 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 panels to who gets stock.Ajeya Motaganahalli spent 25 years inside enterprise storage across EMC, NetApp and Honeywell before founding Pure Storage's India R&D centre in January 2022. That centre, now roughly 743 people inside a company valued near 39 billion dollars, was built on a d
Why Your ESOPs Feel Fake | Pravin Agarwala, BetterPlace CEO (opens the original)
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ESOPs feel like worthless paper to most Indian startup employees, and this CEO says they are right, until an ESOP buyback changes it overnight.Pravin Agarwala runs BetterPlace, a full-stack frontline workforce management platform the company says touches over 30 million workers across India, Indonesia and Malaysia. He spent 18 years at SAP, rising to head its global cloud ERP product, before quitting in 2014 to build it.In this conversation powered by Hissa Fund with host Satish Mugulavalli, he
The BrightCHAMPS Talent Playbook | Ravi Bhushan (opens the original)
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Most startups hand equity to job titles, not to the people who actually build the company. This BrightCHAMPS conversation powered by Hissa Fund flips that logic, rewriting startup ESOP strategy by putting 400 frontline teachers on the cap table and scrapping the rules most founders never question.A former Housing.com CTO who was homeschooled by his grandfather from grade three, Ravi Bhushan brings a rare first-principles lens to team building, having grown BrightCHAMPS from a single coding class
Scripbox CEO Atul Shinghal on Hiring, Culture and the Honest Truth About ESOP (opens the original)
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Most founders quietly dip into their own savings when a loyal employee needs cash, because equity locked on paper has no clean way to become money. The founder behind one of India's largest digital wealth management platforms gets refreshingly honest about ESOPs, culture, and why most startup wealth never actually arrives.Atul Shinghal is one of the rare Indian founders to build two companies at the same time, a B2C wealth platform and a B2B data business, before his investors forced him to choo
IDfy Founder Ashok Hariharan on Building Teams That Don't Leave (opens the original)
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Most 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 vesting, and running a buyback that two-thirds of his team declined to take.A semiconductor engineer who once built high-speed network and graphics processors, Ashok Hariharan chose the least glamorous corner of Indian software, background verification, and turned it into IDfy, a pr
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