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3 days ago

😜🔥SISINDRI ON RAW TALKSSSS | Akhil Akkineni Opens Up About Failure, Comebacks & Family Life | RAW TALKS WITH VK | TELUGU PODCAST

Akhil Akkineni sits down with RAW Talks with VK for a conversation marked by rare candour and quiet introspection, from the success of Lenin to the setbacks of Agent, he opens up about failure, resilience, method acting, family, relationships, cricket, and the evolving landscape of Telugu cinema. In this episode, we discuss:- Akhil Akkineni's journey through success, failure, and life after Agent movie- The making of Lenin, method acting, and his approach to performance- Growing up as Nagarjuna's son and carrying the Akkineni family legacy- Untold stories about ANR, Nagarjuna, and three generations of Akkineni in Telugu cinema- Cricket, discipline, mental strength, and handling public scrutiny- Marriage, relationships, family values, and staying grounded in the film industry- Telugu cinema's changing audience expectations and modern storytelling- Injuries, personal growth, fan culture, and dealing with social media trolling- Annapurna Studios, AI in filmmaking, and the future of TollywoodIf this conversation moved you, consider liking, sharing, and subscribing to RAW Talks with VK, for more unfiltered conversations with the personalities shaping Tollywood, business, sports, and beyond. And we'd love to know: what was the one moment that stayed with you? Drop it in the comments below.

1 day ago

#426 How Obsession Built Christopher Nolan

Obsession is the engine of Nolan’s career. This episode examines Christopher Nolan’s life, working methods, and philosophy through The Nolan Variations by Tom Shone. Made possible by: Ramp: ⁠⁠⁠https://ramp.com⁠⁠⁠ Applovin: ⁠⁠⁠https://www.applovin.com⁠ Vanta: ⁠⁠⁠https://vanta.com/founders⁠ ⁠Add your email here⁠ and I will send you my top 10 quotes from every episode: https://davidsenra.substack.com

22 hr ago

Fireside Ventures' Kanwaljit Singh on the decade at Hindustan Lever that gave him consumer, raising half the fund he could have, and keeping a coach in his sixties

1 · Summary Part 2 of 2. Part 1 laid out the bet: a fund built only for Indian consumer brands, back when the idea sounded absurd, and the anti-power-law machine Kanwal Singh built to make it work. This half is the person. The near-decade at Hindustan Lever that gave him his love of consumer, the Intel years, and the Paper Boat conviction that taught him to back the founder over the idea. Then the man himself: parents who came to India as refugees from Pakistan, a father who kept collecting degrees while feeding the family, the coach he started seeing in his sixties and what separates coaching from therapy, and how he reads a founder by meeting their family. He turned down twice the money he could have raised. He rates his life a 10. 2 · Chapters 0:00 Part 2 intro 1:22 The Hindustan Lever decade that started it all 2:25 Intel Inside, and bringing the inside out 4:22 The Paper Boat conviction: backing the founder 6:38 What he adds as Fireside's "CEO," and value of good 17:53 Capping the fund: turning down 2x the money 20:24 Hiring: read the person, meet the family 27:01 Refugees, and a father who never stopped studying 30:39 Three words, and a 100%-locked calendar 33:30 Motivating through the down days 34:51 The coach, and coaching vs therapy 43:40 How he learns, and consumer vs tech founders 51:27 Rating his life a 10, and success redefined 52:47 Cotswolds, golf, and the empty nest refilled3 · Pull-quotes [17:56] "I could have raised 2x of this. Genuinely, we could have raised 2x of this." [23:55] "You cannot build to sell. You build for sustenance, you build for good." [27:04] "Both my parents were refugees from Pakistan." [51:34] "A 10." (asked how happy he is with his life) 4 · Frameworks & mental models Founder assessment through the family: read a founder by their story and support system, often over a meal with their spouse, on the belief that no one survives a decade-long build without one. Build for sustenance, not to sell: the best businesses are bought, not sold; you build for the long run and treat a sale as a business decision along the way. Value of good ("do good to do well"): founder first, planet first, one Fireside, with goodness as the foundation of doing well. Coaching vs therapy: therapy addresses a medical issue; coaching is vulnerability and honesty in a business context, and only works once you have the self-awareness to accept there's a problem. This episode was produced by Rohin Dharmakumar and mixed and mastered by Rajiv CN.Write to us at fp@the-ken.com with your feedback, suggestions, and guests you would want to see on First Principles.If you enjoyed this episode, please help us spread the word by sharing and gifting it to your friends and family.

10 Jul

#424 Peter Thiel on How to Build a Creative Monopoly

What I learned from reading Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future by Peter Thiel and Blake Masters (for the 3rd or 4th time) Made possible by: Ramp: ⁠https://ramp.com⁠ Applovin: ⁠https://www.applovin.com/⁠ Vanta: ⁠https://vanta.com/founders

17 Jul

‼️🔥 MANA CHARITRAAA... EXPLAINED BY AN ARCHAEOLOGIST | Ft. Dr. Emani Sivanagi Reddy garu | Raw Talks With VK | Telugu Podcast

What if the stories hidden in our monuments, temples, and excavations could change the way we understand history? In this episode, we sit down with Dr. Emani Sivanagi Reddy, renowned archaeologist and heritage conservationist, to explore some of India's most fascinating historical mysteries and architectural achievements. We discuss: The untold story of the Hussain Sagar Buddha statue, including its sculptor, its transportation, an accidental fall, and its final installation. How ancient Indian temples were built with remarkable precision, without modern machinery. The science behind temple architecture, Vastu, and the role of the Sthapathi. The Kedarnath floods, and the tension between faith and historical evidence in relocating temples. Roman gold coins and other notable archaeological discoveries. Why museums and heritage preservation matter today. The debates surrounding the Mahabharata and Ram Mandir, and how to interpret history through evidence. Why future generations should question, learn, and stay connected to their roots. If you value history, culture, and ancient India, this conversation is for you. Watch till the end, and share your biggest takeaway in the comments.

14 hr ago

Killer marketing secrets that always work (ft. Ogilvy Adman, Rory Sutherland)

$1M Attention Guide: 15+ ways to get eyeballs on what you're building https://clickhubspot.com/tkwc Episode 845: Sam Parr ( https://x.com/theSamParr ) and Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) talk to marketing legend Rory Sutherland ( https://x.com/rorysutherland ). — Show Notes: (0:00) Intro (1:44) Horsepower (12:15) Reverse benchmarking (17:38) Pay attention to what irritates you (21:47) Ogilvy secrets (27:28) Marketing hacks used by Apple, UBER, McDonald's (36:35) direct response marketing 101 (1:08:50) Recommended reading — Links: • Alchemy - https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01F1HOAWA • Illusion of Choice - https://www.amazon.com/dp/0857199749 • Nassim Taleb books - https://www.amazon.com/stores/Nassim-Nicholas-Taleb/author/B000APVZ7W • Ogilvy on Advertising - https://www.amazon.com/dp/039472903X • Writing That Works - https://www.amazon.com/dp/0060956437 • When More Is Not Better - https://www.amazon.com/dp/1647820065 • Scientific Advertising - https://a.co/d/0ixEJA1B • The Choice Factory - https://a.co/d/0ixa769O — Check Out Sam's Stuff: • Hampton (joinhampton.com): My community for founders. Average member does $25m/year. Many of the guests are members. Get after it...apply: http://joinhampton.com/mfm — Check Out Shaan's Stuff: • Shaan's weekly email - https://www.shaanpuri.com • Visit https://www.somewhere.com/mfm to hire worldwide talent like Shaan and get $500 off for being an MFM listener. Hire developers, assistants, marketing pros, sales teams and more for 80% less than US equivalents. • Mercury - Shaan uses Mercury across all of his companies. you can too: http://mercury.com/ Mercury is a fintech company, not an FDIC-insured bank. Banking services provided by Choice Financial Group, Column, N.A., Members FDIC • I run all my newsletters on Beehiiv and you should too + we're giving away $10k to our favorite newsletter, check it out: beehiiv.com/mfm-challenge My First Million is a HubSpot Original Podcast // Brought to you by HubSpot Media // Production by Arie Desormeaux // Editing by Ezra Bakker Trupiano /

5 days ago

#876: Dr. Andrew Huberman — Peptides, Performance, and Protocols

Andrew Huberman, Ph.D., is a neuroscientist and tenured professor in the Departments of Neurobiology and Ophthalmology at Stanford University School of Medicine, where he runs the Huberman Lab. He is the author of Protocols: An Operating Manual for the Human Body. This episode is brought to you by: ProLon science-backed Fasting Mimicking Diet that helps activate cellular renewal through fasting, while still eating nourishing mealsEight Sleep Pod Cover 5 sleeping solution for dynamic cooling and heatingMomentous high-quality creatine for cognitive and muscular supportHelix Sleep premium mattressesTimestamps: 00:00:00 — Who is Dr. Andrew Huberman? 00:02:03 — Dean Potter, The Dark Wizard, and the physics of raw energy. 00:04:11 — Why competition destroys performance. 00:05:45 — Laird Hamilton, tow-in surfing, and the lure of big waves. 00:06:27 — Training with Dorian Yates. 00:18:29 — The full weekly split that keeps building strength at 50. 00:21:00 — Neck training. 00:25:56 — AssaultBike vs. Airdyne. 00:31:12 — Revisiting MDMA and psychedelics. 00:48:06 — Inducing plasticity is only half the job. 00:53:17 — The one-day protocol that cut my anxiety by 90%. 01:00:27 — Cortisol as the master key. 01:03:26 — Peptides demystified: GLP-1s, growth hormone, and BPC-157. 01:14:44 — The Enhanced Games, the Deca burrito, and the honesty problem. 01:17:56 — Pinealon, epitalon, and the hunt for more REM sleep. 01:25:02 — Why women, not gym bros, are the real peptide market. 01:35:52 — Why "no reported side effects" is a trap. 01:43:48 — Stem cells, cartilage regrowth, and mining the body for medicine. 01:46:37 — AI, wearables, and the race to write to the nervous system. 01:54:12 — The MIT mask that puts you to sleep in six minutes. 01:56:09 — Inside Andrew's new operating manual, Protocols. 02:03:30 — Navigating grief and remapping loss. 02:04:40 — Shut up, suit up, show up. 02:08:03 — Parting thoughts. * For show notes and past guests on The Tim Ferriss Show, please visit tim.blog/podcast. For deals from sponsors of The Tim Ferriss Show, please visit tim.blog/podcast-sponsors Sign up for Tim’s email newsletter (5-Bullet Friday) at tim.blog/friday. For transcripts of episodes, go to tim.blog/transcripts. Discover Tim’s books: tim.blog/books. Follow Tim: Twitter: twitter.com/tferriss Instagram: instagram.com/timferriss YouTube: youtube.com/timferriss Facebook: facebook.com/timferriss LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/timferriss See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

16 Jul

The Crypto Skeptic vs The Coinbase CEO | Brian Armstrong x Nikhil Kamath | People by WTF

I've said it before I'm a crypto critic. I've never bought a Bitcoin, never held a stable coin, never traded a perp. So I sat down with Brian Armstrong, the CEO of Coinbase, the company that stores more crypto than anyone else on the planet and asked him to explain the whole thing from scratch, like I was an idiot. What followed was the most patient walkthrough of this industry I've ever been given: what a blockchain actually is, why proof of stake replaced proof of work, how stable coin issuers make money, and why he believes fractional reserve banking the foundation of every bank you've ever used shouldn't be the foundation of anything. I pushed him on where the yield really comes from, why an intermediary deserves my treasury returns, and whether crypto has quietly become the opposite of everything Satoshi wrote in that white paper. I'm still not buying a Bitcoin. But for the first time, I understand why so many people do. Timestamps: 00:00 Introduction 05:12 Income inequality and making everyone a capitalist 11:15 Inequality's magnitude and AI's concentration problem 17:54 Why AI agents will pay in stablecoins 24:28 The risk and yield economics of stablecoins 31:21 Remittances, a digital rupee and tokenized gold 38:09 Bitcoin and blockchain from first principles 45:25 Mining economics and the Michael Saylor playbook 51:09 How proof of stake secures a network 56:52 Smart contracts and DeFi lending explained 1:01:42 Creating entrepreneurs and India's fear of failure 1:08:16 India's crypto adoption and the leverage wipeout 1:15:56 Banks, stablecoins and the fractional reserve debate 1:22:13 The everything exchange and money as energy 1:27:50 The AI bubble question and open source models 1:34:43 Going to Washington and suing the SEC 1:40:01 The rise of perpetual futures trading 1:45:32 Bitcoin's psychology and fair market data 1:51:35 Base and building the new financial system 1:57:25 Whether Brian would run for president 2:02:14 Sleep, health and advice for obsessive traders 2:08:50 Bitcoin versus gold and remittance opportunities 2:13:34 Agentic commerce, moats and capital formation #nikhilkamath-Co-founder of Zerodha and Gruhas Host of 'WTF is' & 'People By WTF' Podcast Twitter: https://x.com/nikhilkamathcio/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nikhilkamathcio/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nikhilkamathcio?utm_source=share&utm_campaign=share_via&utm_content=profile&utm_medium=ios_appFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/nikhilkamathcio/ Brian Armstrong – CEO of Coinbase LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/barmstrong/X: https://x.com/brian_armstrongInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/brian_armstrong/?hl=en Watch 'WTF is' Podcast on Spotify https://tinyurl.com/4nsm4ezn Watch 'People by WTF' Podcast on Spotify https://tinyurl.com/yme92c59 Watch 'WTF Online' on Spotify https://tinyurl.com/4tjua4th #WTFiswithnikhilkamath #PeopleByWTF #WTFOnline

20 Jul

Fireside Ventures' Kanwal Singh on the consumer-brands bet nobody believed in, why "for a 5x, nobody will call you legendary," and on refusing the one-100x-outlier game

1 · Summary Part 1 of 2. Kanwal Singh is the first venture capitalist to appear on First Principles, and the reason is the bet he made with the fund itself. In 2017, at the peak of the tech boom, he walked away from tech investing to raise a fund only for Indian consumer brands, when almost nobody believed India had a consumer story worth venture capital. His first backers weren't institutions, they were the consumer families who had built India's brands. This half covers the whole bet: what investors actually said when he pitched a consumer-only fund, why he raised in India rather than abroad, the ownership and follow-on design he corrected fund after fund, his claim that most of his companies succeed rather than one outlier, and his working map of India 1, 2 and 3. Part 2 turns to the person behind it. 2 · Chapters 0:00 Cold open and Part 1 intro 3:27 What Fireside is, and why it exists 10:04 How the fund makes money 11:23 The stats: 9 years, 4 funds, 68 investments 12:50 Raising fund one: consumer families, not global institutions 17:14 Two years as a solo angel 25:51 Ownership by design, and the follow-on model 34:05 What "success" means, and the anti-power-law 36:56 The centre of excellence 45:40 The three breaks from the VC default, and India 1/2/3 53:47 Quick commerce is brand-first 57:54 Brand vs performance: Underneat, Truvi3 · Pull-quotes [0:20] "For a 5x, nobody will call you legendary." [34:24] "We can build successful funds, fund after fund... not necessarily depending on those one or two outliers. Good news is we also have the outliers." [40:26] "The answer lies in the question. It is hard." [54:12] "The power of the brand is truly manifest in quick commerce." 4 · Frameworks & mental models Anti-power-law investing: a portfolio where most companies clear "capital plus," not one built to live or die on a single outlier. The three breaks from the VC default: consumer over tech, Indian consumer-family LPs over global institutions, one shared-credit team over lone-hero dealmakers. India 1, 2, 3: his working map of where consumption grows, with India 2 needing products designed for it and India 3 reached through doorstep models. Quick commerce is brand-first: scarce shelf space and a buy-not-browse shopper mean only brands with genuine pull survive. This episode was produced by Rohin Dharmakumar and mixed and mastered by Rajiv CN.Write to us at fp@the-ken.com with your feedback, suggestions, and guests you would want to see on First Principles.If you enjoyed this episode, please help us spread the word by sharing and gifting it to your friends and family.

26 Jun

Abundance vs Scarcity: We Built 20 Brands With 30 Strangers In 90 Days | The Foundery

The street believes struggle makes the founder, so we removed the struggle — twenty-five strangers, a brand and four crores each, ninety days in one house in Alibaug and then sat down to ask the only question that scared us: does a head start make a founder, or unmake one? Nikhil Kamath, Kishore Biyani and Ronnie Screwvala audit the model, the equity split everyone questions, the two philosophies built into this house, and what the three of us will do if twenty brands don't sell. 00:00 Introduction 06:18 Is The Foundery a selfish bet? 12:29 Why building new beats the capitalist high 18:28 How the company-builder model formed 24:47 The new consumer categories driving the bets 30:41 What happens after Day 90 35:13 The equity split everyone questions: 25% vs 75% 43:11 Where the ideas come from, and how the gates work 50:56 Founder–idea fit and the flaws each founder owns 58:05 Why equity beats an endorsement fee 1:05:14 What happens if the brands fail 1:11:08 What actually drives Nikhil 1:17:46 Abundance vs scarcity in one house 1:23:54 Social mobility and India's bubbles 1:28:54 What the founders are unlearning 1:33:09 Twelve months out: what they'd change #NikhilKamath Co-Founder of Zerodha and Gruhas Host of 'WTF is' & 'People By WTF' Twitter: @nikhilkamathcio on XInstagram: @nikhilkamathcio on InstagramLinkedIn: Nikhil Kamath LinkedInFacebook: Nikhil Kamath Facebook The Foundery is a venture builder that forges entrepreneurs into co-founders and builds companies with them from the ground up. Website: The FounderyYoutube: https://www.youtube.com/@UCtJssM5FzLXSWIf5VWUmT2w Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jointhefoundery/?hl=en Kishore Biyani – Founder & CEO of Future Group Ronnie Screwvala – Co-Founder & Chairperson of upGrad, Founder of UTV Group LinkedIn: Ronnie Screwvala LinkedIn Watch 'WTF is' Podcast on Spotify WTF is Podcast on Spotify Watch 'People by WTF' Podcast on Spotify People by WTF Podcast on Spotify Watch 'WTF Online' on Spotify WTF Online on Spotify #WTFiswithnikhilkamath #PeopleByWTF #WTFOnline

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