The Orbit Shift Podcast

Jan 19 2021 35 mins 3

Practical insights from founders, investors, and experts to help scale your startup. Powered by Freshworks for Startups.

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S02E02: The man who ‘saved the BBC’ on how to achieve product-market fit, build for customers, hire talent and raise funding
Jan 19 2021 37 mins  
Anthony Rose is a serial disrupter. He first disrupted file sharing with his application Kazaa. He then disrupted streaming with the launch of the BBC iPlayer.And he is now looking to disrupt the legal industry with his legal tech platform SeedLegals....

S02E01: Content, commerce and community: How The Better India found the Holy Grail of Media
Jan 12 2021 44 mins  
Dhimant Parekh founder of The Better India on how he brought together content, commerce, and community through his startup

S01E17: Getting startup hiring right: 6 leaders tell us how
Dec 29 2020 25 mins  
This week we bring you a special episode that's all about hiring for startups. It's the last episode of this year and we've been busy lining up guests for the next season. In the last four months, we've had 16 guests on the show and we asked many of...

S01E16: 42+ million users and counting: Aditya Kothari, Co-Founder of Chingari shares lessons from failures
Dec 22 2020 29 mins  
Aditya Kothari, Co-Founder of Indian video sharing app Chingari talks about how he overcame failures to launch the platform.

S01E15: The Vymo Story: How this startup got to 60+ enterprise customers and 125,000 sales reps
Dec 15 2020 31 mins  
Yamini Bhat, Co-Founder and CEO of Vymo on acquiring 60+ enterprise customers and 125,000 sales reps

S01E14: Offensive and defensive startup plays during Covid with Armando Mann and Elad Gil
Dec 08 2020 29 mins  
Elad Gil and Armando Mann in a fireside chat about offensive and defensive startup plays during the COVID-19 pandemic

S01E13: Peak product management for startups with Ravi Mehta, Ex CPO, Tinder
Dec 01 2020 55 mins  
Ravi Mehta breaks down how to become a peak project manager

S01E12: How to build and scale a modern sales engine with Jose Morales, CRO of Freshworks
Nov 24 2020 33 mins  
Jose Morales, CRO of Freshworks tells you how to build and scale a modern sales engine

S01E11: Robbie Kellman Baxter on how the membership model can help scale startups
Nov 17 2020 39 mins  
Robbie Kellman Baxter decodes the membership model and how startups can use the membership model to scale

S01E10: Slack Co-Founder & CTO Cal Henderson & Freshworks CEO Girish Mathrubootham discuss leadership, failure, side projects and success
Nov 10 2020 23 mins  
Twenty years ago, Cal Henderson was working in London while Stewart Butterfield was making a game called Game Neverending. Henderson, a big fan of the game, broke into the email server to join the internal mailing list of Butterfield’s 4 person company....

S01E09: Rahul Chari, Co-Founder & CTO of PhonePe on how startups can bounce back from Covid-19, avoid growth hack hell, and balance agility and compliance
Nov 03 2020 23 mins  
Co-Founder & CTO of PhonePe on how startups can bounce back from Covid-19, avoid growth hack hell, and balance agility and compliance

S01E08: STS Prasad on hiring early engineers at startups, scaling engineering teams while staying nimble
Oct 27 2020 31 mins  
As the engineering leader at Freshworks, STS Prasad plays an integral role in the development of the Freshworks suite of products. In the latest episode of the podcast, we talk to him about engineering at startups. We covered⚡️How founders should go...

S01E07: Ranjeet Pratap Singh of Pratilipi on being rejected by 70+ seed investors yet staying on mission
Oct 20 2020 31 mins  
Ranjeet Pratap Singh co-founder of Indian language storytelling platform Pratilipi talks about building for the next billion users

S01E06: Gopi Rangan of Sure Ventures: On raising seed capital, pitch decks and early teams
Oct 12 2020 43 mins  
Early stage investor Gopi Rangan of Sure Ventures talks to us about founding teams, raising capital and change agents.

S01E05: Being Unapologetically Ambitious with Shellye Archambeau
Oct 06 2020 36 mins  
Continuing our series of talks from our recently concluded AgainstAllOdds startup summit we have with us, Shellye Archambeau. In this episode, Shellye talks to Preethy Padmanabhan of Freshworks, on her journey to become one of Silicon Valley’s first...

S01E04: Alex Theuma of SaaStock on building startup communities
Sep 29 2020 45 mins  
Alex Theuma of SaaStock on how to build startup communities

S01E03: Virginia Sharma — Startup lessons from JioSaavn, the largest streaming platform for South Asian music and audio entertainment
Sep 25 2020 27 mins  
Startup lessons from Virginia Sharma, Vice President, Brand Solutions at JioSaavn

S01E02: Tyler Sloat decodes the subscription business, the metrics and the levers that matter
Sep 23 2020 48 mins  
Tyler Sloat CFO of Freshworks Inc decodes the subscription economy.

S01E01: Startups outside Silicon Valley are winning big, investor and author Alex Lazarow tells you how
Sep 22 2020 32 mins  
Alex Lazarow, talks about how startups outside Silicon Valley are winning big.

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