Community, E-commerce & Starting Over | Episode 98

Community, E-commerce & Starting Over | Episode 98

One founder built India's largest PM community from a single meetup. The other sold his startup to Pine Labs for Rs 88 Cr and immediately started a new company in New York with the same co-founders. Suhas Motwani (The Product Folks) on building a 30,000-member community entirely on patience, why product managers make great community builders, and what internal product work teaches you that no startup ever will. Ishan Rakshit (Shopflo, Sortment) on raising from Tiger Global at seed, building checkout infrastructure for 1,000 D2C brands, selling to Pine Labs, and why he started over the moment it closed.

Stocks, Spatial World & Warehousing | Episode 96

On today’s episode of The Offline Network, we have: 1/ Vedant Gupte (Trackk) is reimagining how Gen Z invests — AI-powered stock discovery, one of India's youngest registered brokers, backed by Lightspeed and Info Edge. 2/ Vinay Agastya (Ctruh) is building the infrastructure layer of the spatial internet — browser-native 3D experiences for any brand, no app downloads needed. Shark Tank India S5 alum, $4.5 Mn raised. 3/ Ajay Rao (Emiza) has spent a decade building warehousing and fulfillment for Indian SMBs — 27 warehouses, 14 cities, $24 Mn raised.

EdTech, EdFinance & SaaS | Episode 95

This week on The Offline Network, Utsav and Dhruv sit down with three founders building very different parts of the India opportunity — one who built a generational education brand, one who is fixing how Indian families pay for education, and one who bootstrapped three global SaaS products without raising a rupee of VC. 1/ Ankit Dudhwewala built CallHippo without a technical background and without raising VC — three SaaS products, $20 Mn+ combined revenue, all bootstrapped. 2/ Eela Dubey built EduFund — now helping 250,000+ Indian families plan and finance their children's education. 3/ Aakash Chaudhry co-built Aakash Institute into one of India's largest test prep networks — 300+ centres. Now building again with Sparkl: One-on-one live tutoring.

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