Failure is the greatest Shifu. On this podcast, we dive into conversation with founders, VC's, and innovators to learn about their success through their failures.
MindGravity: Simpl CEO, Nitya Sharma On Starting a Buy Now Pay Later Startup In India And The Opportunity Landscape.
Nitya Sharma (https://www.linkedin.com/in/nityasharma1/), CEO, and Co-Founder of Simpl (https://getsimpl.com/). Simpl is a technology company that offers Pay-later solutions in India. Simpl has revolutionized online checkout in India by creating a market-leading Pay-Later platform, empowering e-commerce merchants to offer their consumers 1-click checkout, a line of credit at POS, and full buyer protection.
Before starting Simpl, Nitya worked on Wall Street for more than 10 years, where he structured, traded, and risk-managed structured credit portfolios at Bear Stearns and Goldman Sachs (https://www.goldmansachs.com/our-firm/index.html). Before that, he was a co-founding portfolio manager at JNF Financial, a distressed credit hedge fund from 2010–2014. Nitya initially moved back to India with the objective of starting an emerging-markets focused hedge-fund. However, he experienced the shortcomings of the Indian payments and credit stack first-hand when his credit card application was declined. This experience prompted him to dig deeper into the Indian payments landscape and subsequently led to the founding of Simpl.
In this episode, Nitya shares:
His educational background and journey as an entrepreneur
Views on the fintech landscape in India and his thesis behind Simple’s
Differences between banking infrastructure in India and theUS
The impact of the COVID-19 crisis on Simpl
The importance of building the right team
Leaning from the mistakes and what he wished he did differently
Reach out to our guest, Nitya on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/nityasharma1/?originalSubdomain=in), or email him directly at nitya@getsimpl.com
You can follow or reach out to me, your host Rohan Handa on Linkedin (https://www.linkedin.com/in/rohanhanda/), or email me at mindgravity2020@gmail.com.
25 Sept 2020
MindGravity: Upshift CEO, Ezra Goldman On The Importance Of Conviction And Going All In
Ezra Goldman (https://www.linkedin.com/in/ezrajgoldman) is the founder and CEO of Upshift (https://republic.co/upshift) that offers fractional car leasing service for low mileage drivers. Ezra cofounded a dockless bike-share in 1999 and helped design a shared folding electric scooter at the MIT Media Lab with Piaggio in 2006 while doing his Master's in City Planning. He's consulted on innovation for HP and was managing director of a tech startup in Copenhagen, where he also was a Ph.D. candidate studying why Danish people ride bicycles. Upshift has received almost $2M in equity, debt, and project financing from the likes of Urban Us (https://urban.us/), URBAN-X accelerator by BMW/MINI (https://www.urban-x.com/), an AngelList syndicate led by Sundeep Ahuja (https://angel.co/sundeep/syndicate), co-founder of NerdWallet, and over 2,300 angels on Republic.
On this episode we talk about:
Ezra's journey as prior to launching his startup
What launched him into the world of a startup?
What Upshift is trying to solve? And what it takes to build a startup?
His conviction in the idea, and why he went all in?
Who the right target customers are, and how to identify them?
How COVID has impacted his business? And how it impacted his personal life?
Reach out to our guest, Ezra on Linkedin (https://www.linkedin.com/in/ezrajgoldman), or email him directly on ezra@upshiftcars.com
You can follow or reach out to me, your host Rohan Handa on Linkedin (https://www.linkedin.com/in/rohanhanda/), or email me at mindgravity2020@gmail.com.
18 Sept 2020
MindGravity: Stride.ai CEO, Vijay Nadadur On His Journey From India to the US, And His Startup Journey And Learnings
Vijay Nadadur (https://www.linkedin.com/in/vijaykant-nadadur-2769b2b) is the founder and CEO of Stride.ai (https://stride.ai/). Stride's AI platform enables development, deployment, and adoption of enterprise-grade, smart applications. We leverage cutting edge AI and Natural Language Understanding to build and deliver solutions, keeping in mind the pain points of a financial services organization. When these AI-powered applications are deployed, enterprises can better understand risk, manage regulation, meet compliance, and automate mundane tasks more effectively than ever before. Our solutions are flexible, available both on our Private Cloud as well as On-Premise.
On this episode, we talk to Vijay about:
His journey from India to the US
What are the challenges around building a startup?
When do you know there's a product-market fit?
What are the ingredients of building the right startup?
Reach out to our guest, Vijay on Linkedin (https://www.linkedin.com/in/vijaykant-nadadur-2769b2b), Twitter (https://twitter.com/vjkant?lang=en), or email him directly on vrn@stride.ai
You can follow or reach out to me, your host Rohan Handa on Linkedin (https://www.linkedin.com/in/rohanhanda/), or email me at mindgravity2020@gmail.com.
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