BIGBIZ with Bharat Sethi

Dive into Ashutosh Agrawal's mind as he talks about his investment thesis, fundraising for startups, opportunities in a post Covid-19 world, his angel investment portfolio and his love for new age brands. Ashutosh Agarwal has spent a decade in various roles in private equity and management consulting. Currently as the Director at 3i Group - a PE Fund. he is managing assets worth $500 Mn in the infrastructure sector in India. He is also an active angel investor and a graduate of IIT-D & IIM-A This episode is relevant for all those budding entrepreneurs, founders, startup employees and young college graduates out there. *** I am Bharat Sethi and I have embarked on a journey to bring my conversations and business mentoring sessions, with people I admire, to you all through this podcast. I am a serial entrepreneur having built 2 successful businesses in the past - PosterGully (exited in Aug 2016) & iDecorama (exited in Feb 2018). I started my first online business when I was 16, back in 2016. In 2018, I started my most recent venture - Rage Coffee - that focuses on creating digitally native vertical brands in large untapped markets in the FMCG sector with a vision to create a INR 500 Cr ARR company by 2025. The company closed its last round of funding led by Refex Capital, an early stage VC firm, in Jan 2020, with participation from Keiretsu Forum Angels, and a clutch of other prominent investors. I have been published in Huffington Post, Entrepreneur, TNW, Quartz, Business Insider including many other business magazines. You can reach out to me at bharat@ragecoffee.com or connect with me on LinkedIn: https://in.linkedin.com/in/sethibharat [https://in.linkedin.com/in/sethibharat]

Dive into Ankit Mehrotra's mind as he candidly talks about his decade long entrepreneurship journey at Dineout, how restaurants will have to cope up in a post Covid-19 world and a lot more. In this episode, he throws light on his early days at Dineout, evolution of food tech, his fondest memories & some not-so fond memories while building the company. Ankit is the CEO & Co-Founder at Dineout - one of India's first food tech players. A formidable entrepreneur, who has built an extremely well positioned brand in the complex and heavily funded food tech space. Dineout has evolved from being a restaurant table reservation platform back in 2011 to currently serving more than 100 Million diners. This episode is relevant for all those budding entrepreneurs, founders, startup employees and young college graduates out there. *** I am Bharat Sethi and I have embarked on a journey to bring my conversations and business mentoring sessions, with people I admire, to you all through this podcast. I am a serial entrepreneur having built 2 successful businesses in the past - PosterGully (exited in Aug 2016) & iDecorama (exited in Feb 2018). I started my first online business when I was 16, back in 2016. In 2018, I started my most recent venture - Rage Coffee - that focuses on creating digitally native vertical brands in large untapped markets in the FMCG sector with a vision to create a INR 500 Cr ARR company by 2025. The company closed its last round of funding led by Refex Capital, an early stage VC firm, in Jan 2020, with participation from Keiretsu Forum Angels, and a clutch of other prominent investors. I have been published in Huffington Post, Entrepreneur, TNW, Quartz, Business Insider including many other business magazines. You can reach out to me at bharat@ragecoffee.com or connect with me on LinkedIn: https://in.linkedin.com/in/sethibharat [https://in.linkedin.com/in/sethibharat]

Dive into Harminder Sahni's mind to unravel the future of retail, e-commerce, new age brands, cloud kitchens, sustainability, opportunities in FMCG and a lot more. In this episode, Harminder Sahni - the guru of retail in India, talks about the evolution of e-commerce in India, entry of JioMart in the online grocery segment, challenges for multi-brand retail and the transformation of offline in future. He throws light on some immediate opportunities in new age brands, DTC companies and FMCG sector right now. He also talks about his passion for angel investing with some very valuable pointers for budding entrepreneurs. Harminder Sahni has decades of experience in consulting some of the worlds most innovative companies on their India strategy. He is the former Managing Director of Technopak Advisors and his own consulting company - Wazir Advisors recently completed 10 years in business This episode is relevant for all those budding entrepreneurs, founders, startup employees and young college graduates out there. *** I am Bharat Sethi and I have embarked on a journey to bring my conversations and business mentoring sessions, with people I admire, to you all through this podcast. I am a serial entrepreneur having built 2 successful businesses in the past - PosterGully (exited in Aug 2016) & iDecorama (exited in Feb 2018). I started my first online business when I was 16, back in 2016. In 2018, I started my most recent venture - Rage Coffee - that focuses on creating digitally native vertical brands in large untapped markets in the FMCG sector with a vision to create a INR 500 Cr ARR company by 2025. The company closed its last round of funding led by Refex Capital, an early stage VC firm, in Jan 2020, with participation from Keiretsu Forum Angels, and a clutch of other prominent investors. I have been published in Huffington Post, Entrepreneur, TNW, Quartz, Business Insider including many other business magazines. You can reach out to me at bharat@ragecoffee.com or connect with me on LinkedIn: https://in.linkedin.com/in/sethibharat [https://in.linkedin.com/in/sethibharat]

Dive into Uday Sodhi's mind to unravel the future of media, digitisation of services, crisis management and a lot more in a post Covid-19 world. In this episode, he talks about how businesses will transform digitally. He throws light on some immediate opportunities in digital media and entertainment right now. He also talks about his passion for angel investing with some very valuable pointers for budding entrepreneurs. Uday has led businesses in industries that have seen seen rapid digital transformation like media, e-commerce, shopping, recruitment, OTT video streaming, entertainment. He has held senior leadership roles at Sony Pictures Network, HeadHonchos (an ABC Consultants venture), Rediff.com (A NASDAQ listed Company), Balaji Telefilms, Net4India. He is currently the Founder of Kurate Digital Consulting. This episode is relevant for all those budding entrepreneurs, founders, startup employees and young college graduates out there. *** I am Bharat Sethi and I have embarked on a journey to bring my conversations and business mentoring sessions, with people I admire, to you all through this podcast. I am a serial entrepreneur having built 2 successful businesses in the past - PosterGully (exited in Aug 2016) & iDecorama (exited in Feb 2018). I started my first online business when I was 16, back in 2016. In 2018, I started my most recent venture - Rage Coffee - that focuses on creating digitally native vertical brands in large untapped markets in the FMCG sector with a vision to create a INR 500 Cr ARR company by 2025. The company closed its last round of funding led by Refex Capital, an early stage VC firm, in Jan 2020, with participation from Keiretsu Forum Angels, and a clutch of other prominent investors. I have been published in Huffington Post, Entrepreneur, TNW, Quartz, Business Insider including many other business magazines. You can reach out to me at bharat@ragecoffee.com or connect with me on LinkedIn: https://in.linkedin.com/in/sethibharat [https://in.linkedin.com/in/sethibharat]