Ever wondered why we do certain things? Ever heard something repeated so many times and simply assumed it’s true?
Saka’s Is That So? is a podcast that focuses on challenging conventional norms across a range of industries including entrepreneurship, finance, tech, society and culture, to help us question things we assume as true.
As entertaining as he is informative, Saka packs a curious mix of intellectual curiosity, light-heartedness and humour as the host of Saka’s Is That So. A citizen of the world, Saka leverages his travels, education, and professional network to deconstruct topics in an unbiased fashion to unravel the best ideas and perspectives.
EP 48 Finance, Entrepreneurship and Tech in the Medical Field
In this episode, Saka talks to Dr Mohammed Nuru about the crossovers between finance, tech and entrepreneurship with medicine.
Dr Mohammed is currently an MD candidate at the University of Louisville School of Medicine, conducting research in the fields of Neurosurgery and Neuroscience.
He shares his knowledge within the field of medicine and how tech and finance is integrated within medicine.
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18 Apr 2023
EP 47 LTV Capital, Building Companies & Guiding and Growing Entrepreneurs
In this episode, Saka talks to Farhan Ialji about his experience with LTV capital and the building of startup companies.
Farhan is the Founder of LTV Capital who work with founders, venture capital investors, institutional and private investors globally to find the right partnerships, investments and support to build a thriving venture ecosystem that benefits all.
Previously, he was Director in the Venture Partnerships team at Anthemis, exploring venture tech and fund investments. He is also an entrepreneur in residence at King’s College London and a part-time lecturer at London Business School on managing in digital organisations.
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8 Mar 2023
EP 46 How 4 Friends Started a Venture Firm From Scratch
In this episode, Saka talks to Nihil Mehta about how 4 friends started a VC firm from scratch and about how to scale relationships and networks. They also discussed thematic vs opportunistic investing.
Nihal is a Co-Founder at Eniac Ventures and was an Angel Investor at Uber. Early in his career, he honed his ability to spot top entrepreneurial talent by investing in Admob (acquired by Google), Swiftkey (acquired by Microsoft), Tapad (acquired by Telenor), Tala, and Uber, to name a few. Nihal and his wife are now angel investors and LPs in almost 100 underrepresented founders and fund managers.
Nihal is a co-founder of the non-profit “Project Ahimsa,” providing scholarships to disadvantaged youth in India, where his parents immigrated from in the early 1970s. Nihal also recently co-founded initiatives like Help Main Street to help restaurants survive the pandemic, and The 100k Pledge, a social justice tracker of economic empowerment to Black communities
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