Best Siddhartha Ahluwalia Podcasts (2025)

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The Story of Silicon Valley Legend & Google Founding Stakeholder with Asha Jadeja Motwani 30:56

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“When I saw Google change the destiny of the planet, I could not imagine doing anything else but working with brilliant entrepreneurs.” -Asha Jadeja Motwani and her husband, Rajeev Motwani, the Silicon Valley legend of technical startups, are together the founding stakeholders of Google. In the late 1990s, they came to the United States as most Ind…

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How to Build a Startup in 2025? With 1/5th Cost, 1/5th Team | Shikhil Sharma, Astra Security 57:33

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Cybercrime is predicted to drain the world of $10.5 trillion annually by 2025, making it one of the greatest threats to modern business. Shikhil Sharma, co-founder & CEO of Astra Security, is building one of today’s most trusted pentesting platforms. Just last year, Astra uncovered over 2 million vulnerabilities across customer systems, preventing …

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Stories from India’s heartland that tell a different story than GDP headlines | Subroto Bagchi, Mindtree 1:02:19

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“Push something a millimetre in the private sector, you make an inch of progress. In the public sector, it’s a mile of progress.” Subroto Bagchi started his career as a clerk in the Odisha government in 1976, leaving postgraduate studies. Today, eight years after serving at the rank of cabinet minister in the same government, he has certainly chang…

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How Startups Can Survive GPT7 & Win Against Model Providers | Ashu Garg,Foundation Capital | Investor Databricks,Turing,Cohesity 50:53

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Ashu Garg has backed companies like Databricks, Turing, Cohesity, Jasper, and Eightfold.ai as General Partner at Foundation Capital. Over the years, he’s seen multiple waves of innovation but in his words, nothing in the last 45 years comes close to the transformation AI is bringing right now. Ashu discusses how the next wave of AI products will be…

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If Big AI Goes Everywhere, What’s Left for B2B SaaS? | 25 Years, 4 Startups, 3 Eras of SaaS w/ Sreedhar Peddineni & Kiran Darisi 1:25:12

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A full founder’s arc: starting small, building global SaaS companies from Hyderabad, taking one to IPO, another to a billion-dollar exit, and then choosing to begin again (and again). Kiran Darisi began at Zoho, founding team member of Freshworks at 25, and stayed twelve years till the company went public. Today he is building Atomicwork, reinventi…

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8 Years Without Funding to $100M Raise & Now A Category Leader | Shivku Ganesan ,Exotel 1:01:22

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A 14-year journey from bootstrap to scale. Exotel’s story is one of India’s most remarkable SaaS journeys. Shivakumar Ganesan, started Exotel in 2011, bootstrapping it from the ground up. In 2012, he raised a seed round of ₹2.5 crore, but for the next eight years, the company grew without any external funding. Then came COVID and revenue went from …

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7 Myths About Selling B2B SaaS In India Explained By Public Listed Company Unicommerce | ft. Kapil Makhija 1:20:00

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The software that powers 25% of India’s e-commerce transactions, processes a billion orders each year, and in 2025 alone fulfilled 20 million quick-commerce orders: Unicommerce sits at the core of India’s digital retail ecosystem. It is one of the few SaaS companies from India to go public, doing so after nearly a decade of steady growth without fr…

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This is How GEOPOLITICS Really Works | Rajiv Sikri, Ex-IFS Officer on Power, Trade & War 1:09:10

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The 21st century has shattered old assumptions about diplomacy. Relationships between nations are no longer guided by ideology or morality, but driven by pragmatism and national interest. This week, former diplomat Rajiv Sikri who served 36 years in the Indian Foreign Service, offers a deep dive into how global power dynamics are shifting. We discu…

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From 70% Imports to 65% Made in India, India Now Sells Defense Tech to 85+ Countries | Ashok Atluri, Zen Technologies 54:22

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Ashok Atluri founded Zen Technologies in 1993, bootstrapping from Hyderabad at a time when India was importing 70% of its defence equipment and private players contributed just 5% of procurements. It took Zen five years to win its first contract from the Indian Army in 1998. Today, the company builds simulators and anti-drone systems, and has grown…

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From $4.5M for 49% to $700M In The Bank at IPO: Sanjeev & Yashish On 17 Years Of Policybazaar 52:35

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From idea to IPO and beyond. What does it take to back a company for nearly two decades? There are no written rules to navigate one of the most important relationships in a startup. One between a founder and an investor. This episode is an inside look at how one of India’s longest founder-investor relationships was built and tested, between Yashish…

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Deep Dive on All In Capital Ft. Kushal Bhagia(Founding Partner of All In Capital) 23:08

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Excited to share this episode Featuring Kushal Bhagia of All In Capital During my conversation with Kushal we get into - All In Capital - Founder Archetypes and more topics Hope you enjoy this episode! Guest Kushal Bhagia's Handles Kushal's X: https://x.com/kushalbhagia Kushal's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kushalbhagia Other links: All In…

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Sanjeev Sanyal on Why India has No Big 4, Regulating AI & Ending Population Control 1:00:27

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The global strategy consulting market stands at $39.5 billion, with Asia commanding $9.1 billion. India contributes just $1.09 billion. This is despite having the talent; Indians run global back-offices for McKinsey, BCG, Bain, Deloitte, and other consultancies. Yet, India continues to outsource strategy to the Big 4. Sanjeev Sanyal, PM Modi’s Econ…

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Investor in Tesla Ft. Tim Draper(Founder and Managing Partner of Draper Associates) 26:08

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Stoked to say We had Tim Draper on Business Podcast by Roohi recently For one of the biggest and most interesting episodes till date During my conversation with Tim we got into - India - His background and more topics Hope you enjoy this episode! Guest Tim Drapers Handles⤵︎ Tim Draper X: https://x.com/TimDraper Tim Draper LinkedIn: https://www.link…

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Growth, Migration and FDI: The Real Kerala Story with Minister P. Rajeev 53:29

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This episode is not just about Kerala; it is about how a state with limited land, strict environmental regulations, and a long history of outmigration is approaching investment and growth. Kerala is a small, densely populated state with limited land to spare, not the typical site for industrial expansion. Yet it’s taking a distinct approach to buil…

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What Startups Can Learn from a $1.7B Co. Chief Information Officer | Karthik Chakkarapani, Zuora 1:04:49

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AI is changing how companies build and scale. But most pitch decks haven’t caught up. Karthik Chakkarapani, CIO of Zuora, has heard plenty of startup pitches but only a few stand out. He shares why most pitches fall flat, how to fix them, and how to present both the founder and the company in a way that drives real interest. We unpack what should g…

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Building ArthAlpha Ft. Rohit Beri(Co Founder) 24:28

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In this episode I chat with Rohit Beri of ArthAlpha - ArthAlpha recently raised 2M In this conversation with Rohit we get into: 1) Co Founder Fit 2) ArthAlpha and more Guest Rohit Beri's Handles⤵︎ LinkedIn: ⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/rohit-beri/⁠ Host Roohi Kazi’s Handles ⤵︎ LinkedIn: ⁠⁠ ⁠⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/roohi-kazi-53174113b/⁠⁠⁠⁠ Ins…

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How To Build A Successful Startup In India ft Paras Chopra (Sold Wingify For $200 Million) 1:09:14

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Three failed startups. One of India’s biggest B2B exits. Then returning 75% of investor money in the next venture. An entrepreneur who’s lived that arc is bound to have insights for anyone building or thinking of building. Paras Chopra, founder of Wingify (sold for $200 million), Nintee, and now Lossfunk, joins us this week. We discuss the small de…

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How NVIDIA, Meta & Dropbox Taught Me to Build Great Products | Vasanth, Founder-Featurely 1:10:07

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50% of products and features built are never used. To build the right product, every founder must answer two questions: Are you solving a real problem? And are you solving it the right way? Technology has rarely been democratic, it’s often elitist. So at times, it ends up solving made-up problems that don’t really exist. Yet, some companies have bu…

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WHAT will Decide the Next Superpower? | Raja Manickam | iVP Semiconductor 1:26:29

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Geopolitics is now measured in Nanometers. Anything with a battery or a plug has a semiconductor inside. But these chips aren’t just tech anymore, they’re shaping who becomes the next Superpower. In the 1980s, India was just two years behind the world in semiconductors. Today, we’re 12 generations behind. What went wrong? India’s top semiconductor …

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15 Years Of Investing Lessons In 75 Minutes With Prime Ventures and Stellaris Partners | Neon Show 1:16:22

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There are No Checklists or Frameworks on HOW TO BE A VC? So how do you even know if it’s the right path for you? Unlike most jobs, venture capital comes with an extremely long feedback loop. It can take years before you know whether the bets you made actually worked out. That’s why most seasoned VCs say: only choose this path if you're in it for th…

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Deep Dive on Flourish Ventures India Ft. Harsh Gupta 21:41

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A few months ago I had a chat with Harsh Gupta of Flourish Ventures India about the India story, their India operations, and more Thanks to his PR team for helping to set up this episode Guest Harsh Gupta's Handles⤵︎ X:https://x.com/Harsh_Gupta27 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/harsh-gupta-6176728b/ Host Roohi Kazi’s Handles ⤵︎ LinkedIn: ⁠⁠ ⁠…

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Why Traditional Playbooks Are Failing & What Really Works In SAAS? | WizCommerce, Pienomial & Merlin 1:24:21

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Vertical SaaS customers don’t buy software for 10 months, they buy it for 10 years. That’s the opportunity and the challenge. Switching costs are high, which makes it hard to get in but once you’re in, you’re in. But regular SaaS playbooks don't work here. Forget PLG. Forget design partners. These industries have been burned too many times by bad s…

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Why Stripe Paid $150M For a Young Indian Startup | Saurya Prakash Sinha | Recko 1:02:55

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Recko's acquisition by Stripe is one of India's biggest B2B exits. It's a great headline. But headlines don't tell the full story. They capture one final outcome not the numerous obstacles faced. In this episode, Saurya Prakash Sinha, co-founder of Recko, tells us what really happened behind the scenes. From the early days when no one was buying, n…

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Zomato: $500B Consumer Tech Bet, Tesla's $30T Future & Why India must lead Nuclear Energy|Deepak Garg 51:34

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The dollar will lose its status as the world’s reserve currency & the greatest wealth transfer in history is already underway - warns the founder of one of India’s fastest-growing unicorns! In this episode, Deepak Garg, founder of Rivigo and AnywhereJobs shares why Rivigo's iconic Relay model succeeded, and what ultimately limited it. He predicts Z…

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What's Happening to VC in India w/ All In Capital, Peer Capital & Upekkha 55:15

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Venture capital is much fancied today. Is this job which looks like cutting cheques for products and founders you like, for everyone? As for any work, there are traits you should have and some which won’t help you on the job. We have with us Kushal Bhagia (All In Capital), Karthik Prabhakar (Peer Capital), and Rajan (Upekkha). Three people who inte…

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Deep Dive on Long Journey Ventures Ft. Cyan Banister( Co Founder of Long Journey Ventures) 15:23

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A few months ago I had an amazing opportunity to chat with Cyan Banister: Co Founder of Long Journey Ventures Cyan has backed some incredible companies as an angel and now a VC And in this episode we chat about Long Journey Ventures Investment Thesis Skills to Break into Venture Capital Biggest wins or Anti Portfolio And more There's a bit of backg…

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3 Tech Founders on Whether AI Will Replace Your Job ft Rahul, Ananda and Vishwa 38:28

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“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” In this episode of The Neon Show, Vishwa (Co-founder of ZenDuty) is joined by Rahul Sasi (Co-founder of CloudSEK) and Ananda Krishna (Co-founder of Astra Security). They share how AI feels magical now. And how as founders they are trying to sprinkle this magic everywhere from h…

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Building Businesses Ft. Nick Huber(Sweaty Startup) 20:54

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This month's episode features none other than Nick Huber(Sweaty Startup on X) Nick has built an audience and following of over 100 k + on X During the conversation with Nick we chat about 1. A few of the concepts from his new book 2. From Cornell University to Business and other topics Guest Nick Huber's Handles⤵︎ Ideas; https://sweatystartup.com/i…

Siddhartha Ahluwalia Podcasts

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The Neon Show

Siddhartha Ahluwalia

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100x Entrepreneur - Habits & Mindset of Most successful Venture Capitalists and Entrepreneurs

100x Entrepreneur

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Business Podcast by Roohi | VC, Startups

Roohi Kazi

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The Story of Silicon Valley Legend & Google Founding Stakeholder with Asha Jadeja Motwani 30:56

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How to Build a Startup in 2025? With 1/5th Cost, 1/5th Team | Shikhil Sharma, Astra Security 57:33

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Stories from India’s heartland that tell a different story than GDP headlines | Subroto Bagchi, Mindtree 1:02:19

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How Startups Can Survive GPT7 & Win Against Model Providers | Ashu Garg,Foundation Capital | Investor Databricks,Turing,Cohesity 50:53

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If Big AI Goes Everywhere, What’s Left for B2B SaaS? | 25 Years, 4 Startups, 3 Eras of SaaS w/ Sreedhar Peddineni & Kiran Darisi 1:25:12

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8 Years Without Funding to $100M Raise & Now A Category Leader | Shivku Ganesan ,Exotel 1:01:22

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7 Myths About Selling B2B SaaS In India Explained By Public Listed Company Unicommerce | ft. Kapil Makhija 1:20:00

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This is How GEOPOLITICS Really Works | Rajiv Sikri, Ex-IFS Officer on Power, Trade & War 1:09:10

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From 70% Imports to 65% Made in India, India Now Sells Defense Tech to 85+ Countries | Ashok Atluri, Zen Technologies 54:22

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From $4.5M for 49% to $700M In The Bank at IPO: Sanjeev & Yashish On 17 Years Of Policybazaar 52:35

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Deep Dive on All In Capital Ft. Kushal Bhagia(Founding Partner of All In Capital) 23:08

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Sanjeev Sanyal on Why India has No Big 4, Regulating AI & Ending Population Control 1:00:27

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Investor in Tesla Ft. Tim Draper(Founder and Managing Partner of Draper Associates) 26:08

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Growth, Migration and FDI: The Real Kerala Story with Minister P. Rajeev 53:29

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What Startups Can Learn from a $1.7B Co. Chief Information Officer | Karthik Chakkarapani, Zuora 1:04:49

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Building ArthAlpha Ft. Rohit Beri(Co Founder) 24:28

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How To Build A Successful Startup In India ft Paras Chopra (Sold Wingify For $200 Million) 1:09:14

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How NVIDIA, Meta & Dropbox Taught Me to Build Great Products | Vasanth, Founder-Featurely 1:10:07

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WHAT will Decide the Next Superpower? | Raja Manickam | iVP Semiconductor 1:26:29

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15 Years Of Investing Lessons In 75 Minutes With Prime Ventures and Stellaris Partners | Neon Show 1:16:22

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Deep Dive on Flourish Ventures India Ft. Harsh Gupta 21:41

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Why Traditional Playbooks Are Failing & What Really Works In SAAS? | WizCommerce, Pienomial & Merlin 1:24:21

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Why Stripe Paid $150M For a Young Indian Startup | Saurya Prakash Sinha | Recko 1:02:55

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Zomato: $500B Consumer Tech Bet, Tesla's $30T Future & Why India must lead Nuclear Energy|Deepak Garg 51:34

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What's Happening to VC in India w/ All In Capital, Peer Capital & Upekkha 55:15

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Deep Dive on Long Journey Ventures Ft. Cyan Banister( Co Founder of Long Journey Ventures) 15:23

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3 Tech Founders on Whether AI Will Replace Your Job ft Rahul, Ananda and Vishwa 38:28

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Building Businesses Ft. Nick Huber(Sweaty Startup) 20:54