Decoding the behaviour of Bharat & building with Emergent | Episode 88

India’s Biggest Profit Ever, A $500M Solar Bet & Why Your Feed Is Fake | Episode 94 ft. Linkrunner

This week’s news:  * Reliance just posted India’s highest-ever annual profit at ₹95,754 crore - and the Jio IPO is on the horizon.  * India opened its 5th-gen AMCA fighter programme to private industry for the first time - Tata, L&T, and Bharat Forge in the race.  * The government approved ₹33,660 crore to build 100 industrial parks to go after India’s 1.8% global export share.  * Lane Brown’s Vulture piece exposed the machine behind tech launch virality - 65,000 bots, 50,000 daily videos, all manufactured.  * We get into why VCs need to build owned media now that capital is abundant. * And the Will Smith eating spaghetti video is back - this time, AI can actually do it. Our guests are Darshil Rathod and Shreyans Sancheti, co-founders of Linkrunner — AI-powered Mobile Measurement Partner. They built the attribution tool they wished existed when they were running BlueLearn, going head-to-head with AppsFlyer and Branch with a product designed ground-up for Indian consumer apps.

Streaming Grassroots Sport & Human AI | Episode 93

A platform making grassroots sport visible. An AI companion speaking India's languages. Plus — SpaceX's S-1, India's electricity milestone, and Karpathy joining Anthropic. 1/ Sidhhant Agarwal Founder of SportVot — the platform digitising grassroots sport in India and globally. 3.5 lakh matches digitised, 30 sports, 20,000+ kabaddi athlete profiles. Raised Rs 32.7 Cr. Now in APAC, MENA, and Europe. 2/ Rohan Chaudhary Founder & CEO of Rumik AI — building Ira, an emotionally intelligent AI companion for India. 35M+ messages in 4 months; 1M+ installs, 40-min average sessions, $6.5M raised. News: * SpaceX files S-1 — $1.75T valuation, Starlink at $11.4B revenue, 10.3M subscribers * India hits 260.5 GW peak demand; 50% non-fossil power capacity achieved 5 years early * Andrej Karpathy joins Anthropic's pretraining team — OpenAI co-founder, ex-Tesla AI lead

India's first certified organic dairy company | Episode 92

Today on the show: Shashi Kumar (Akshayakalpa Organic) — built India's first certified organic dairy company from a farm on the outskirts of Bengaluru, survived six shutdown scares, and scaled to Rs 395 Cr News we cover * Tata & ASML sign $11B deal to build India's first commercial chip fab in Dholera

Quenzy, Affogato AI & India's Economy | Episode 90

Two founders building what's next — while India's economy hits a turning point. Anushka Sharma (Quenzy) — bootstrapped a prebiotic soda brand that sold out in 2 hours, ex-Google and Amazon  Nakul Kelkar (Affogato AI) — built an AI video agent with 1.5M users, backed by YC News: * India's rupee under pressure as gold imports widen the trade deficit * Zepto gets SEBI nod for $1.2B IPO — quick commerce goes public * Rapido raised $240M in fresh primary funding led by Prosus, valuing at $3B post‑money * Google's Android Show: Gemini Intelligence, Googlebooks & Android 17

Autonomous Construction Robots | Stream 90

This episode dives into an infrastructure bet — autonomous industrial robotics. Manesh Jain breaks down how Flo Mobility is deploying autonomous robots across construction sites, airports, and industrial environments — and what it takes to make robotics work reliably in chaotic real-world settings.