That One Idea by WaterBridge Ventures and WeWork Labs chronicles early-stage founder journeys. In each episode, we bring out the founder moments and journeys that led to starting up. We highlight the humans behind the founders, as they blitz through the 0 to 1 stage and transition their ideas into scale-worthy businesses.
That One Idea
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That One Idea by WaterBridge Ventures and WeWork Labs chronicles early-stage founder journeys. In each episode, we bring out the founder moments and journeys that led to starting up. We highlight the humans behind the founders, as they blitz through the 0 to 1 stage and transition their ideas into scale-worthy businesses.
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March 7, 2022
Yellow Metal | Rahul Boggaram and Nikhil Boggaram
<p>Anjali Sosale of Waterbridge Ventures chats with Rahul Boggaram and Nikhil Boggaram of Yellow Metal. Yellow Metal is an asset-backed credit company that disburses gold loans in less than 30 minutes in the privacy of your home. Focused on rural India, Yellow Metal seeks to provide low-cost loans to small farmers and business owners who are otherwise not part of the formal credit eco-system. <br> <br> We dive deep into Rahul and Nikhils's journeys and the series of experiences and events that led to them to building Yellow Metal.</p> <p>(1:09) Upbringing and early years<br> (3:14) Why gold loans for rural india?<br> (5:04) Rahul's journey after leaving home at 16<br> (7:10) 0 to 1 at Flipkart, Treebo, Groww and Myntra<br> (9:51) How has consumer app design changed in the last 10 years?<br> (11:36) UPI as the game-changer for rural India<br> (12:41) How did Rahul and Nikhil's paths converge during the pandemic in 2020?<br> (15:41) Early challenges in transitioning from a corporate job to a startup?<br> (17:15) The role of empathy in the goal loan business<br> (18:44) The story behind the name "Yellow Metal"<br> (20:22) Yellow Metal's customer service ethos since day zero<br> (22:43) Company culture at Yellow Metal<br> (24:37) How to hire people when solving for rural India?<br> (26:07) Parents' view on starting up<br> (27:43) A day in the life of an early-stage startup founder<br> (28:32) Transparency in gold loans pricing<br> (30:46) Building a tech platform for rural India<br> (33:12) 2022 and beyond</p>
February 28, 2022
Downtown Club | Jaydip Biniwale and Abhishek Doshi
<p>Anjali Sosale of Waterbridge Ventures chats with Jaydip Biniwale and Abhishek Doshi of Downtown Club. Downtown Club is an e-commerce platform for discovery of D2C brands. The Downtown app enables users to browse new brands and products every day through a personalized virtual shopping experience.<br> <br> They dive deep into Abhishek and Jaydip's journeys and the series of experiences and events that led to them to building Downtown Club.</p> <p>Sections:</p> <p>(1:11) Born and raised <br> (5:58) Rejecting IIT and dropping out of Purdue<br> (8:33) The first startup bug<br> (12:29) The CEPT experience and finding each other<br> (20:13) Flirting with entrepreneurship<br> (23:11) The decision to finally start up<br> (28:11) Pandemics, plans and pivots<br> (31:39) 3 steps to epiphany<br> (35:04) The story behind the name "Downtown"<br> (37:02) From idea to initialization - Downtown’s early days<br> (40:05) Building Downtown’s MVP<br> (48:29) Conscious culture building<br> (50:53) Abhishek’s & Jaydip’s sleepless nights<br> (52:44) A day at Downtown<br> (54:52) Downtown - then vs now</p>
February 21, 2022
CuriousJr | Amit Shekhar, Janishar Ali and Mridul Sahu
<p>Nilesh Balakrishnan of Waterbridge Ventures chats with Amit Shekhar, Janishar Ali and Mridul Sahu - the founders of CuriousJr. CuriousJr is a mobile-first, vernacular-based coding platform that helps kids learn the fundamentals tenets of coding. Powered by strong product innovation, the CuriousJr app democratizes coding for students who might not have access to a desktop by focusing on the mobile phone user interface and using a combination of gamified and experiential learning to make coding fun. They dive deep into their founder journeys and the series of experiences and events that led to them building CuriousJr</p> <p>Sections -</p> <p>(1:27) - Early years<br> (5:01) - The IIT Connection(s)<br> (12:01) - How early struggles moulded the founding team<br> (16:33) - The journey from civil engineering to coding<br> (19:20) - MindOrks & building a 2M+ Android developer community<br> (22:45) - The birth of Curious Jr.<br> (28:27) - The intersection of mobile tech and vernacular education<br> (29:36) - Putting together the dream team<br> (35:37) - Skills vs counter-skills<br> (37:09) - Story behind the name “CuriousJr”<br> (38:48) - Entrepreneurship Ups and Downs<br> (41:15) - The Covid19 push to education<br> (42:37) - From MindOrks to CuriousJr - building products for children<br> (46:44) - Culture & learning at CuriousJr<br> (58:32) - Why is Curious r “That One Idea”?<br> (1:01:07) - Conviction around the market for learning code<br> (1:03:06) - Mridul’s experience with OYO<br> (1:04:58) - Experiential learning via Curious Jr<br> (1:06:57) - Entrepreneurship isn’t as romantic as it sounds<br> (1:08:03) - When did you want to be a founder?</p>
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