The Svagat Show

Working as a Indian Product Manager in Berlin | Gokul Sridhar - Head of Product Wolt/DoorDash

In this conversation, Rishabh Kaul interviews Gokul Nath Sridhar, the Head of Product at Wolt, about his experience moving from India to Berlin and the tech ecosystem in Germany. In Today’s Episode with Gokul Nath Sridhar We Discuss: 1. Europe's best kept immigration secret: The EU Blue Card Who is eligible? What makes the EU Blue card so powerful? How quickly and easily can you get permanent residency? What happens when you move to another EU country? 2. A framework for immigrants to evaluate Berlin as their next move How did Gokul decide upon Berlin, and how did he make the move? For especially immigrants from high growth emerging markets, what's the right time to move to Germany? What skills are companies looking for? 3. The Berlin tech ecosystem and the German consumer What kinds of companies exist in the German tech and startup ecosystem? How is the German consumer unique? How does one build products for them? 4. Compensation in tech in Germany What's the equity vs cash split and how's is it different from rest of the world? What's taxation like in Germany? What are the government facilities like? 5. Living in Germany What's German work culture like? What's the political climate like? This is a power packed episode for anyone considering a move to Germany

Selling to a CIO & Enterprise Sales | Sandeep Sakharkar CIO GXO, FootLocker, XPO

Sandeep Sakharkar is a seasoned CIO and IT Leader having worked at GXO Logistics, XPO, Footlocker, J&J. As part of his job, Sandeep has been responsible for allocating hundreds of millions in software budgets. In this discussion we discuss how startups can sell to the CIO org as they navigate the enterprise selling process. Sandeep is based in London. In Today’s Episode with Sandeep We Discuss: 1. What's the Enterprise Sales process? When does the CIO or CIO org get involved? How to get in touch with them? What considerations should a startup keep in mind when selling into the enterprise? How to compete, especially when you don't have feature parity with incumbents 2. How to price your products for the enterprise? How do large enterprise do price discovery? How does budget allocation take place? How is the current thinking in terms of budgets for AI powered solutions? 3. How to shorten sales cycles when selling to the enterprise? How to make POCs successful? The role of Infosec 4. How to get a CIO's attention? How to get them as potential advisors This is a power packed episode for anyone considering selling to the CIO orgs in large enterprises

Should Indians move to Europe? | Kartik Varma - Techstars, Proptiger

Kartik Varma is a 2x- exited founder who built Proptiger, India's largest online real estate marketplace working and moved to the UK over a decade back. He's a graduate of London School of Economics and Harvard Business School. We discuss: The changes in Europe over the years, including the growth of the Indian diaspora and the rise of Indian leaders in European companies. The differences between India and Europe in terms of innovation and category creation and each countries strengths The need for STEM talent in Europe and the potential for India to fill that gap. The opportunities and challenges of talent migration from India to Europe. Europe needing Policy changes and PR efforts to attract international talent to Europe. The unique opportunities available in Europe and the need for a long-term perspective when considering a move.

Expanding AI Infra beyond Nvidia | Nikhil Sonti - Felafax, Meta

Nikhil Sonti is the Co-founder of Felafax (YC S24), where they are building an open-source AI platform for non-NVIDIA GPUs. Prior to Felafax Nikhil was an engineer at Meta, Microsoft & Akamai working on distributed systems. He's building Felafax with his twin brother Nitin Sonti - who's done ML at Google/Youtube. We discuss the ecosystem of non Nvidia GPUs like AWS Trainium and Google's TPUs and how they offer cost performance but need better developer tooling. We also discuss how this ecosystem can help unlock use-cases like using larger models for fine tuning smaller models, cost performance and Felafax's open source approach and more

Network Effects, Building Consumer Tech Startups | Sameer Singh - SpeedInvest

Sameer Singh and Rishabh discuss network effects, and consumer tech startups in Europe. Sameer is a Venture Partner at SpeedInvest, and an angel who's part of the Atomico Angel Program. He is a thought leader in the network effects space and writes about it at Breadcrumb.vc as well as runs a course on it on Reforge.