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The Neon Show
Hi, I am your host Siddhartha! I have been an entrepreneur from 2012-2017 building two products AddoDoc and Babygogo. After selling my company to SHEROES, I and my partner Nansi decided to start up again. But we felt unequipped in our skillset in 2018 to build a large company. We had known 0-1 journey from our startups but lacked the experience of building 1-10 journeys.
Hence was born the Neon Show (Earlier 100x Entrepreneur) to learn from founders and investors, the mindset to scale yourself and your company. This quest still keeps us excited even after 5 years and doing 200+ episodes.
We welcome you to our journey to understand what goes behind building a super successful company. Every episode is done with a very selfish motive, that I and Nansi should come out as a better entrepreneur and professional after absorbing the learnings.
Episodes
314 episodes
15 Years Of Investing Lessons In 75 Minutes With Prime Ventures and Stellaris Partners | Neon Show
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 th...
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Episode 315
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Why Traditional Playbooks Are Failing & What Really Works In SAAS? | WizCommerce, Pienomial & Merlin
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 playbook...
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Episode 314
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Why Stripe Paid $150M For a Young Indian Startup | Saurya Prakash Sinha | Recko
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 Prakas...
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Episode 313
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Zomato: $500B Consumer Tech Bet, Tesla's $30T Future & Why India must lead Nuclear Energy|Deepak Garg
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 Riv...
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Episode 312
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What's Happening to VC in India w/ All In Capital, Peer Capital & Upekkha
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....
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Episode 311
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3 Tech Founders on Whether AI Will Replace Your Job ft Rahul, Ananda and Vishwa
“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).&...
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Episode 310
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How to Hire, Train & Retain Talent to Build a Great Company | Vijay Rayapati | Khadim Batti
In this episode, we sit down with two exceptional founders. One who is going after the biggest category, and one who created a new category and became its leading player.Vijay Rayapati (Co-founder, Atomicwork) and Khadim Batti (Co-founde...
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Episode 309
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$1Billion CRM from India competing with Salesforce | Nilesh Patel, LeadSquared
CRM is a category often equated with its market leader, Salesforce.Hence, companies and investors question the viability of building a business in this space.Nilesh Patel, founder of Leadsquared, who built a Unicorn in CRM, joins ...
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Episode 308
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Can Neysa be India's AI Cloud alternative to AWS, Azure & Google Cloud? | Sharad Sanghi
Meet Sharad Sanghi who built India’s first data center, he spent 25 years building Netmagic, India’s largest data center company. He came to India in 1995, worked at VSNL as the country was discovering the internet, and built a company focused ...
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Episode 307
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How Accel Deploys $650M in India & Manages $5B in Growth + Late Stage | Prayank Swaroop
In this episode of The Neon Show, we bring you into the room with someone who’s spent over a decade backing India’s most ambitious companies.We're joined by Prayank Swaroop, Partner at Accel. With over 14 years in venture capital, Prayan...
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Episode 306
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Lightspeed’s $500M bet on India with 1/3rd in AI Companies | Dev Khare
Is it time for investors to move beyond the valley when analyzing India?Dev Khare, Partner at Lightspeed agrees. He shares with us an interesting view on two funding models:The Silicon valley model begins with r...
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Episode 305
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10 Unicorns, 5 IPOs, 26 Acquisitions – India’s OG VC, Avnish Bajaj On Why Only Founders Matter
In this episode, Avnish Bajaj, Founding Partner at Z47 (formerly Matrix Partners India), shares what it takes to build one of India's most competitive VC firms and land the best startup deals.With over 20 years of experience, Avnish has ...
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Episode 304
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Sharad Sharma On India’s Digital Playbook, UPI’s Rise & AI’s Future
In this episode of The Neon Show, we have Sharad Sharma, founder of iSPIRT, the technology think tank behind India Stack, Health Stack, and other digital public goods. If you want to understand where India’s digital space is headed,...
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Episode 303
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Zerodha’s Move Into A ₹68 Lakh Cr Industry | Vishal Jain On Expanding India’s 8% Investor Base
In this episode, we have Vishal Jain, CEO of Zerodha Fund House, who brings over two decades of experience in building ETFs and passive investment products.From launching India’s first-ever ETF with Benchmark AMC in 2001 to now leading t...
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Episode 302
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Investor And Policymaker Jayant Sinha On Indian Economy And India’s Net Zero Goals
A seasoned investor who ran India's Finance Ministry.This week on The Neon Show, we welcome Jayant Sinha—Investor, Policy Maker, and former Minister of Finance & Civil Aviation.Mr. Sinha shares how the government builds innova...
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Episode 301
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1:18:57
2X SaaS Founder: How To Sell Global Tech Products From India | Sharath Narayana
In this episode, Sharath shares his journey of building two successful AI-driven enterprise solutions.Sharath Keshava Narayana, founder of Sanas and Observe shares his market-product fit approach of winning enterprise clients in the US-...
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Episode 300
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How We Closed Our Biggest Fund ($300M) | Alok & Ritesh | Stellaris Venture Partners
Venture Capitalists on Venture CapitalIn this episode we have Alok Goyal and Ritesh Banglani, Partners at Stellaris Venture Partners, one of India’s top VC firms. We go into details on running a VC firm in India. We discuss...
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Episode 299
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1:29:11
75 Minutes Of Pure Business Insights From The Man Behind BigBasket, BlueStone & HomeLane
Ganesh Krishnan is the man behind some of India’s most iconic startups, including BigBasket, Bluestone, Homelane, and TutorVista—India’s first ed-tech startup before ed-tech was even a category.Ganesh explains how he thinks about busine...
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Episode 298
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Nvidia’s Success, Chip Race, India’s Semiconductor Mission, & Hardware Vs Software with Raja Manickam
In this episode, we take a deep dive into the fascinating history of semiconductors, their evolution over the years, the rise of old giants and new disruptors, and explore why India has yet to produce a leader in one of the most important techn...
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Episode 297
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How India’s Leadership is Shaping the Future with R. Balasubramaniam, Capacity Building Commission
India’s leadership story is a fascinating journey full of lessons for anyone looking to make an impact.In just two years, opening up the space economy has led to over 100 new startups in aerospace, sparking innovation and fueling the dr...
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Episode 296
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Celebrating Ratan Tata’s Contribution To India’s Success Story with Harish Bhat Ex-Brand Custodian, Tata Group
Harish Bhat, ex-Brand Custodian of the Tata Group, joins us to share unique moments from the extraordinary life of Ratan Tata. From creating India’s first indigenous car, Tata Indica, to his on-ground response during the 26/11 Taj ...
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Episode 295
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Facebook India's First Employee: "How I Built A $1B Business" | Kirthiga Reddy
In 2010, Facebook opened its first office in India, four years after it went online.They needed someone bold to lead their journey in India which had a major customer base potential.That someone was Kirthiga Reddy.Under ...
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Episode 294
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How Erik Allebest Built $150 Million+ Chess Empire
How a 1,500-Year-Old Game Became an Online SensationIt started as a simple idea in 2005—a hub for chess enthusiasts to connect, chat, and share their love for the game.Erik Allebest and Jay Severson, two college buddies with a s...
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Episode 293
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How Trade Wars Reshape Countries and The Future of India-US Relations with Matein Khalid
These farmers lost around $1.72B in a single morning.It was all because of tit-for-tat import taxes.But what really happened and who were these farmers?It all started when Donald Trump walked into the White House in January ...
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Episode 292
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Lessons From 25 Years of Investing with Boris Wertz, Founder and GP, Version One Ventures
In this episode of the NEON Show, Boris Wertz, a renowned venture capitalist and entrepreneur, shares his extensive journey through the tech and investment world over the past 25 years. From founding a company that was acquired by Amazon to bec...
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Episode 291
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