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Best of 2022 Ep3: Neha Singh and Abhishek Goyal on dream of building the Bloomberg of private markets
In this episode, we go back to a conversation with Neha Singh and Abhishek Goyal, co-founders of Tracxn Technologies, from July 2022, when they were preparing to take their company public. The company was listed on the stock exchanges in Mumbai in October. In this conversation, Neha and Abhishek spoke about how they teamed up, why they decided to start Tracxn, back in 2013, and their plans ahead. The aspiration is to make Tracxn synonymous with private markets intelligence, just as Bloomberg is with public markets
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Best of 2022 Ep2: Manish Dabkara on how he built EKI, India's first listed carbon credits company
In this episode, we go back to a conversation from March 2022, with Manish Dabkara, CMD and CEO of EKI Energy Services, India's only listed carbon credits company. EKI Energy, a BSE SME listed company shot to a billion dollars in market value within nine months of going public in April 2021. The company's market value has not been spared by this year's downturn in the global economy. In this conversation, Dabkara spoke about what EKI did, how he came to start the company and the opportunities ahead
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Best of 2022 Ep1: Francisco D'Souza on the vision for IP-led tech services companies at RECOGNIZE
In this episode, we go back to a conversation with Francisco D'Souza, co-founder and former CEO of Cognizant Technology Solutions, from February this year. In 2020, after more than 25 years at Cognizant, Francisco stepped back from the IT services giant he helped found and build. Since then he's been working on his next innings, as co-founder and managing partner at RECOGNIZE, a $1.3 billion private equity firm in the US that focuses on intellectual-property-led tech services ventures delivering business outcomes
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Avinash Godkhindi at Zaggle on why expense management SaaS will soon be big in India
In this episode, Avinash Godkhindi, CEO and MD at Zaggle, a fintech SaaS company, talks about why expense management solutions will see strong demand in India soon. He also talks about how, over the last 10 years, keeping Zaggle focused on enterprise customers has paid off. The company has grown from offering employee benefits all the way to vendor management, with customers including some of the biggest Indian and foreign names in operating in India. Plans include some fund raising and acquisitions
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Gold vs Equity: Which is a better hedge against global recession?
The International Monetary Fund has warned that colliding pressures from inflation, war-driven energy and food crises and higher interest rates are pushing the world to the brink of recession. The fund red-flagged the rising risk of contagion and spillovers of stress between markets. Does this add glitter to gold in comparison to equities? Which can provide better returns in times of such economic uncertainty? Two acclaimed domain experts, Somasundaram PR, CEO-India, World Gold Council, and Mihir Vora, senior director and CIO, Max Life Insurance, have a discerning and different take to offer
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Bharani Subramaniam at Thoughtworks on what CEOs and young techies should know about tech
In this episode, Bharani Subramaniam, a head of technology in India at Thoughtworks, a well-known software and consulting company that has a strong presence in India, talks about being a lifelong techie. Heading into the year ahead, he also talks about what businesses should know about getting better returns on cloud investments, what CEOs should know about the shifting sands of cyber security, and what young and aspiring techies should learn—beyond coding—to work effectively because software is most often a team effort
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Sashank Rishyasringa and Gaurav Hinduja at axio on the credit fintech opportunity ahead
In this episode, Sashank Rishyasringa and Gaurav Hinduja, co-founders of axio, a well-known fintech venture in the lending space, talk about how they found their niche with what they call checkout finance. With some six million consumers using their product and adding hundreds of thousands more every month, they also talk about the opportunity ahead to build on top of the checkout finance product, which they've developed into a strong business in partnership with some of the biggest ecommerce players and go deeper into small-town India
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Brian Stafford at Diligent on tech for the modern board's complex challenges, and plans in India
In this episode, Brian Stafford, CEO of Diligent Corp., talks about how the modern corporate board's mandate has become much more complex and different from the traditional mandate of helping the chief executive to maximise shareholder value. Board members, often outlast CEOs and must take a longer-term view of their companies' futures, he says. Technology, such as the software offered by Diligent, can be useful. Stafford also talks about developing more of that software out of the company's growing office in Bengaluru
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Mahindra Group's Rucha Nanavati and Karthik Rajaram at Freshworks on modern employee experience
In this episode, Rucha Nanavati, chief information officer at Mahindra Group, and Karthik Rajaram, VP and country head for India and ASEAN at Freshworks, talk about the modern CIO as a business stakeholder, with technology playing a more critical role even in traditional brick and mortar businesses. They also talk about deploying FreshService, the IT service management product from Freshworks, at Mahindra Group as part of the Indian conglomerate's ongoing initiative to raise the bar for its own employee experience
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Razorpay's Shashank Kumar and Murali Brahmadesam on aspiration of global recognition for product excellence
In this episode, Razorpay's co-founder and MD Shashank Kumar and CTO and Head of Engineering Murali Brahmadesam, talk about what they are doing to preserve the Bengaluru fintech company's engineering-first culture as it grows bigger. With a 1,000-person engineering team, Shashank talks about how it was time to find a CTO who would help the company in its next phase of growth and give him the space to focus on product development and strategy. The aspiration is to see Razorpay named among the globally recognised names for product engineering
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India's 100 Richest: India's billionaires in numbers
Forbes India's annual India's 100 Richest billionaires list is out. In the podcast, Rucha Sharma shares some fascinating numbers that emerged after analysing the data about the net worths of Indian billionaires. Tune in to know more about the youngest and oldest billionaires, the debutantes, returnees, and dropouts, and also the must-read stories from the issue