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ELI - 549 | Building Medical AI That Says "I Don't Know" | Pranav Reddy (ZenMD)
Ask ChatGPT a medical question and it will almost always agree with you. Pranav Reddy thinks that is exactly what makes general-purpose AI dangerous in a clinic, so he built one that stops and says "I cannot verify this" instead of guessing.Pranav is the Co-Founder and Chief Marketing Officer of ZenMD, an India-focused clinical AI platform he built with his sister Rithika Reddy, the company's Founder and CEO. He spent his career in marketing in the US, from an agency internship to director to running his own shop, drawn the whole time to human behaviour and data. She came from a decade in fintech. The idea arrived on a family trip to India, when a friend who had been told for years in the US that they were lactose intolerant was diagnosed by an Indian doctor, almost instantly, with a worm. Different hemisphere, different symptoms, different training data. ZenMD launched in India in May 2026 with four workflows - ZenScribe for voice-to-clinical documentation, ZenNotes for automated OPD notes, ZenConsult for evidence-based decision support, and ZenScan for medical imaging - and a proprietary hallucination correction layer sitting underneath all of it.A grounded conversation about trust, data privacy, and why the hard part of healthcare AI is not the answer, it is knowing when to refuse to give one.Chapters:00:00 - Introduction00:43 - From marketing to human behaviour01:45 - Leaving the agency to build his own02:07 - The inception of ZenMD with his sister Rithika03:34 - The friend who was not lactose intolerant04:17 - The light bulb: connecting both hemispheres05:00 - Why western-trained AI misses Indian conditions06:34 - Why they built ground-up instead of adapting07:41 - Training the models and validating with doctors09:04 - Multi-layer verification: how the algorithm works09:57 - Why ChatGPT will never tell you that you are wrong10:44 - Selling to doctors when you are not one12:08 - Why a marketer and a fintech builder can do this13:01 - Adoption in a pen-and-paper culture13:38 - Repeat users and earning trust14:22 - Why a doctor's time is the real constraint15:07 - ZenScribe and the burden of OPD notes15:19 - The surprise use case: drug dosage16:04 - The supplement that binds to your morning coffee17:07 - The four workflows explained18:33 - Why they are workflows, not products19:25 - The hallucination problem in healthcare20:17 - How ZenMD refuses to guess21:47 - Live testing at medical colleges22:35 - Healthcare data security in India vs the US24:00 - Building for HIPAA, DPDP and ABDM from day one24:54 - Separating who you are from what you have26:40 - Future plans27:10 - Equalizing medical information globally29:02 - NEET prep and medical students on the platform29:32 - Making ZenMD second nature for clinicians30:26 - Closing thoughts---About ELI Podcast:ELI (Entrepreneur's Live Interviews) brings you inspiring stories from India's startup ecosystem. Real founders, real journeys, real insights.Website: https://eli-podcast.com
25 Aug 2026
ELI - 548 | Water From Thin Air at Rs 2.5 a Litre | Navkaran Singh Bagga (AKVO)
Can you really pull clean drinking water out of thin air? Navkaran Singh Bagga has been doing exactly that for nine years. In this episode he breaks down the technology, the economics, and the uncomfortable truth that most climate tech founders avoid: being green is not enough if you are not also cheap.Navkaran is the Founder & CEO of AKVO Atmospheric Water Systems, the Kolkata-based company behind akvosphere.com. A third-generation Kolkata entrepreneur who studied in the UK and returned in 2007 to the family trade and exports business, he went on to run a hotel and turn around a steel company before going into clean tech in 2016. AKVO builds atmospheric water generators that mimic condensation to extract potable water from humidity in the air, with systems running in 16 countries and roughly 90% of sales coming from outside India. Its Water On Want (WOW) model lets companies skip the capital cost entirely and simply pay per litre.This is a refreshingly blunt conversation. No sob story, no mission-statement theatre, just a capitalist who thinks the market, not the government, decides when a technology is ready.Chapters:00:00 - Introduction00:34 - Kolkata roots, family business and 19 years of ventures01:28 - Why water: the sector everyone ignores02:04 - Discovering atmospheric water generators03:57 - The Big Short, Michael Burry and betting on water04:43 - "I don't have a sob story, I saw a business opportunity"05:14 - Why India is a natural fit for air-to-water05:53 - How the technology actually works07:42 - Why this is an urban solution08:13 - Taking pressure off utilities and cutting water waste08:58 - Contamination, transport and India's attitude to water10:16 - Is the water safe when the air is polluted?11:49 - The commercial case: how affordable is it really?12:49 - Rs 100 for a bottle vs Rs 2.5-5 a litre from air13:49 - Why they discontinued the home product14:24 - Go-to-market: why large corporates buy15:01 - Water On Want: the pay-per-litre model15:28 - Making the ROI make sense to a business16:40 - Why he does not want government subsidies19:10 - Why AKVO is not the solution for data centres20:14 - Future plans: water as a service across 16 countries21:27 - Are developed markets more open to this?22:18 - Enterprises plan for crises, consumers wait23:21 - Advice for climate tech entrepreneurs24:08 - "Green without being economical makes no sense"26:29 - Closing thoughts---About ELI Podcast:ELI (Entrepreneur's Live Interviews) brings you inspiring stories from India's startup ecosystem. Real founders, real journeys, real insights.Website: https://eli-podcast.com
25 Aug 2026
ELI - 547 | 50 Crore Litres Delivered - Now Selling Power, Not Fuel | Sunil Maddala (FuelBuddy)
Sunil Maddala runs India operations for FuelBuddy, the country's largest doorstep fuel delivery company - 180 cities, 10,000 customers a year, and more than 50 crore litres delivered since inception. In this episode he explains why the next chapter isn't fuel at all.He breaks down what actually differentiates FuelBuddy from the oil marketing companies, how the platform serves everyone from a 20-litre order to a customer taking 30 lakh litres a month across 15,000 locations, why 80% of customers never leave, and how the company is repositioning from fuel delivery to "power as a service" - where FuelBuddy owns the generator and you simply pay for the electricity.Sunil is an engineer from Delhi College of Engineering with an MBA from IIM Calcutta, and has spent three decades in corporate roles across India, Europe and Asia - the last 15 of them building new ventures. FuelBuddy was founded in 2016 by Gautam Malhotra and Adnan Kidwai, has raised roughly $24 million across three rounds, and now operates beyond India in the UAE, Nigeria, Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Zambia.Chapters:00:00 - Introduction00:35 - Delhi College of Engineering to IIM Calcutta01:27 - How FuelBuddy Started and Why COVID Nearly Killed It02:15 - The Post-COVID Restart and First Funding02:46 - Second Round: Going Global to Middle East and Africa03:09 - The Numbers: 180 Cities, 50 Crore Litres Delivered04:02 - Why India Only Allows Diesel (and CNG in Nigeria)04:29 - From Fuel Delivery to "Power as a Service"05:02 - Who Actually Buys Doorstep Diesel?05:57 - Powering India's Data Centres and Quick Commerce06:49 - 20 Litres to 20 Lakh Litres: The Range of Orders07:25 - 15,000 Locations and a 99% Uptime SLA08:56 - What Makes FuelBuddy Different from the Oil Companies10:08 - The Tech Stack: 400 Stores, One Dashboard11:15 - Using AI and Video Proof to Kill Fuel Pilferage11:39 - Zepto, 400 Locations and No Minimum Order12:41 - Modular Solutions and Sticky Customers13:24 - Why 80% of Customers Never Leave14:18 - What the Regulator Actually Controls16:16 - Surviving Fuel Shortages and Supply Shocks18:47 - $24 Million Raised: What Excites Investors21:09 - "Why Own the Generator? We'll Own It"22:00 - EVs, Hydrogen and the Future of Fossil Fuel---About ELI Podcast:ELI (Entrepreneur's Live Interviews) brings you inspiring stories from India's startup ecosystem. Real founders, real journeys, real insights.Website: https://eli-podcast.com
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