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  1. How Do You Build Conviction in an Uncertain Startup Cycle? | Episode 57

    1 DAY AGO

    How Do You Build Conviction in an Uncertain Startup Cycle? | Episode 57

    Today’s episode moves from AI lab instability to early-stage venture conviction to new-age Indian consumer brands. 🗞️ News  • Anthropic’s Head of Safeguards Research quits, warning “the world is in peril,” as multiple senior safety researchers exit in two weeks — raising fresh questions about AI governance stability. • Sarvam AI outperforms Gemini in OCR, doubling down on India-first capability with distinctly Indian branding. 🎙️ Guests 1/ Yash Goyal — Co-founder & CEO, Krvvy Building a D2C innerwear brand in a crowded market: Shark Tank learnings, positioning vs legacy players, unit economics, and what’s next. 2/ Rahul Chowdhri — Partner, Stellaris Venture Partners On leading business-plan stage bets, founder-first investing, anti-portfolio regrets, ecosystem shifts, and what sectors are overhyped vs under-loved today. 3/ Akriti Gupta — Founder & CEO, Loopie Three baby brands in three years: why premium parenting is rising in India, unit economics in a low-repeat category, and how to build trust in high-stakes products. 🎧 Watch, subscribe, and join our WhatsApp community: https://chat.whatsapp.com/BK69EsNWP8BJIaoy3k7EfX?mode=ac_t Follow us: X → https://x.com/OfflineOnAir Instagram → https://www.instagram.com/theofflinenetwork LinkedIn → https://www.linkedin.com/company/offlineonair Website → https://www.theoffline.network

    50 min
  2. Why Is Rebuilding Trust in Food So Hard? | Shashank Mehta (The Whole Truth Foods)

    1 DAY AGO

    Why Is Rebuilding Trust in Food So Hard? | Shashank Mehta (The Whole Truth Foods)

    Today’s episode looks at how culture, trust, and branding collide at scale—from the Super Bowl becoming an AI advertising battleground to building a food brand that bets on honesty over hype. 🗞️ News Super Bowl LX became the “AI Bowl,” with ~$600M in ad revenue, multiple AI ad misfires, and a visible backlash as tech giants fought for cultural mindshare, not just attention. 🎙️ Guest Shashank Mehta — Co-founder & CEO, The Whole Truth Foods on building a clean-label food brand in India, fixing broken protein supply chains, staying honest before profitable, and what “trust” actually costs. 🎧 Watch, subscribe, and join our WhatsApp community: https://chat.whatsapp.com/BK69EsNWP8BJIaoy3k7EfX?mode=ac_t Follow us: X → https://x.com/OfflineOnAir Instagram → https://www.instagram.com/theofflinenetwork LinkedIn → https://www.linkedin.com/company/offlineonair Website → https://www.theoffline.network

    34 min
  3. Why Is Alphabet Spending $180B on AI Infrastructure? | Omnivore & Vivek Sinha

    3 DAYS AGO

    Why Is Alphabet Spending $180B on AI Infrastructure? | Omnivore & Vivek Sinha

    Today’s episode unpacks Alphabet’s record $180B AI CapEx call, India’s new deep tech startup category, and founders building real impact in agritech and applied learning. 🗞️ News Highlights • Alphabet Q4 & CapEx: Alphabet crossed $400B annual revenue and plans $175–185B CapEx in 2026, signaling the largest AI infrastructure bet ever and putting Bangalore at the heart of expansion. • India’s Startup Definition: The government launched a Deep Tech Startup category with 20-year recognition and a ₹300cr turnover cap to better support long-gestation deep tech firms. • Claude vs ChatGPT: OpenAI is exploring ads for ChatGPT while Anthropic’s Claude rejects them — highlighting diverging bets on scale vs premium user experience. 🎙️ Guest Segments Mark Kahn — Managing Partner, Omnivore On why he backed agritech before infrastructure existed, how real agritech companies create value, and what founders get wrong about precision tech, margins, and impact. Vivek Sinha — Founder & CEO, Emversity Why he pivoted from online to on-job learning, how partnerships with corporates and campuses structure outcomes, how placement and internships work, and what Emversity learned from past efforts at scale. 🎧 Watch, subscribe, and join our WhatsApp community: https://chat.whatsapp.com/BK69EsNWP8BJIaoy3k7EfX?mode=ac_t Follow us: X → https://x.com/OfflineOnAir Instagram → https://www.instagram.com/theofflinenetwork LinkedIn → https://www.linkedin.com/company/offlineonair Website → https://www.theoffline.network #TheOfflineNetwork #IndiaTech #Startups #AI #CapEx #Alphabet #DeepTech #Agritech #Education #Omnivore #Emversity

    1h 1m
  4. Why Elon Musk Merged AI, Rockets & the Internet | Episode 54

    4 FEB

    Why Elon Musk Merged AI, Rockets & the Internet | Episode 54

    Today’s episode breaks down one of the most consequential corporate moves of the decade — SpaceX acquiring xAI — and what it signals for AI, compute, and capital at planetary scale. We also look at how venture firms evolve over cycles, why India exits remain hard, and what this means for founders building real businesses on the ground. SpaceX acquires xAI to form a vertically integrated AI–space–internet stack.Starlink now funds AI scale, rockets become data-center infrastructure, and Grok plugs into a 560M-user distribution layer. Combined implied value approaches $1T+. Peak XV sees senior MD exits as partners spin out to start new funds.History suggests Sequoia/Peak XV alumni firms consistently strengthen the ecosystem. Accel India LP data surfaces: early funds delivered historic returns; recent vintages reflect slower exits, markdowns, and a tougher India liquidity cycle. India–US trade deal snapshot: $30B exports still face tariffs, $44B tariff-free; autos and agriculture remain red lines. A grounded look at building a mass-market sustainable brand in India — from formulation and unit economics to surviving quick-commerce chaos, Tier-2/3 loyalty, and why affordability beats premium sustainability in Indian households. 🎧 Watch, subscribe, and join our WhatsApp community: https://chat.whatsapp.com/BK69EsNWP8BJIaoy3k7EfX?mode=ac_t Follow us: X → https://x.com/OfflineOnAir Instagram → https://www.instagram.com/theofflinenetwork LinkedIn → https://www.linkedin.com/company/offlineonair Website → https://www.theoffline.network 📰 News Highlights🎙️ Guest Segment — Mayank Jain (Co-founder, Cleevo)

    53 min
  5. What’s Really Going On With Moltbook | Episode 53

    3 FEB

    What’s Really Going On With Moltbook | Episode 53

    Today’s episode moves between India’s Budget signals, AI systems that feel unsettling, and what it takes to build fast consumer brands. 🗞️ News — Quick Scan Budget 2026 tightens speculation, flips buyback taxes, rewards long-term compute, and makes unproductive vices expensive. 🎙️ Guest Segments Arun Kumar Gandlur & Srijan Shetty A grounded teardown of Moltbook: what’s real vs hype, whether it’s infra or demo, why people project meaning onto AI outputs, how LLM biases form, and the least dramatic but most likely long-term outcome of agent social systems. We also discuss normalization of deviance, failure modes, and whether delegation discomfort is technical or philosophical. Aparna Saxena — Founder & CEO, Antinorm From Shark Tank to ₹1 Cr/month in 6 months with just 5 products. Aparna breaks down brand velocity, Gen-Z teams, the shift from 10-step routines to multifunctional skincare, what’s uniquely Indian about beauty, and what tech-driven personalization can (and can’t) do next. Plus, what the ₹28 Cr seed unlocks over the next year. 🎧 Watch, subscribe, and join our WhatsApp community: https://chat.whatsapp.com/BK69EsNWP8BJIaoy3k7EfX?mode=ac_t  Follow us: X → https://x.com/OfflineOnAir  Instagram → https://www.instagram.com/theofflinenetwork  LinkedIn → https://www.linkedin.com/company/offlineonair  Website → https://www.theoffline.network

    51 min
  6. Where Agritech & Voice AI Are Headed | Episode 52

    2 FEB

    Where Agritech & Voice AI Are Headed | Episode 52

    Today’s episode looks at two hard problems India is quietly solving at scale: post-harvest agriculture and voice AI infrastructure. 🗞️ News Economic Survey 2025–26: • GDP growth 6.8–7.2%; potential ~7% • Capex up 89% (₹5.9 → ₹11.2 lakh crore) • Gig workers up 55% in 4 years • India now #3 global research powerhouse • All top 10 fastest-growing cities globally are in India 🎙️ Guest Segments 1/ Prasanna Rao & Anand Chandra — Co-founders, Arya.ag How Arya built India’s only comprehensive post-harvest platform across warehousing, finance, and trading — while staying profitable. We unpack AI in agri-infra, why they chose to be a platform (not a buyer), how they prevent disintermediation, farmer usage patterns, scale metrics, and why most people misunderstand Indian farmers. 2/ Prateek Sachan — Founder, Bolna Inside India’s voice AI infrastructure layer: why “voice” is now a commodity, what Bolna actually sells, full-duplex conversations, code-switching, fraud/liveness detection, and orchestration vs model-wrapper debates. Plus, the YC rejections, the Twilio analogy, and the 130× jump from 1,500 to 200,000 daily calls. 🎧 Watch, subscribe, and join our WhatsApp community: https://chat.whatsapp.com/BK69EsNWP8BJIaoy3k7EfX?mode=ac_t Follow us: X → https://x.com/OfflineOnAir Instagram → https://www.instagram.com/theofflinenetwork LinkedIn → https://www.linkedin.com/company/offlineonair Website → https://www.theoffline.network

    50 min
  7. Why Do the Biggest Moats Form Where No One Wants to Look? | Episode 51

    30 JAN

    Why Do the Biggest Moats Form Where No One Wants to Look? | Episode 51

    News: Shadowfax’s IPO marks consolidation in logistics; Titan Capital clocks another outlier seed return; reverse logistics and express delivery emerge as durable moats. Guests: Abhimanyu Rathi on fixing trust, data, and incentives in carbon markets. Anurag Sheth on excess inventory, liquidation economics, and why returns are the real bottleneck in D2C. Shiv Sharma on building global retail-investor platforms, exiting brokerage, and monetizing community at scale. 🎧 Watch, subscribe, and join our WhatsApp community: https://chat.whatsapp.com/BK69EsNWP8BJIaoy3k7EfX?mode=ac_t

    50 min
  8. 77th Republic day special | EtherealX & EssentiallySports | Episode 50

    28 JAN

    77th Republic day special | EtherealX & EssentiallySports | Episode 50

    Republic Day special — a look at where India is quietly building global advantage, from space access to niche media. 🗞️ Opener & News Signals • Republic Day; Google Doodles highlight ISRO’s space journey • Gold hits an all-time high at ₹1,62,380 per 10g • India’s UPI heads to Japan (NPCI × NTT Data); PhonePe–Google Pay duopoly at ~80% • Emergent raises $70M Series B (SoftBank, Khosla) at ~$300M valuation; ARR doubles to $50M in 45 days • India–EU Free Trade Agreement set to be announced — auto tariffs to fall from 110% → 40% (eventually 10%); Europe’s biggest market opening in decades 🚀 Guest Segments Manu J. Nair — Co-founder & CEO, Ethereal Exploration Guild (EtherealX) Fresh off a $20M round, Manu explains why India needs its own reusable rocket company, how EtherealX uses re-entry heat to power engines, and why global customers have already signed $130M+ in launch contracts. We talk geopolitics, cheaper access to space, Europe’s launch constraints, and why manufacturing medicines and materials in space is the next frontier. 📊 Suryansh Tibarewal — Co-founder & Growth Lead, EssentiallySports How EssentiallySports scaled from 1M to 60M page views in months, why niche media wins, the US-first strategy, revenue and subscriptions, and how content formats and consumption are evolving. We also discuss whether India is ready for large-scale niche sports media next. 🧪 Live Demo Aryan shows a live demo of Clawdbot. 🎧 Watch, subscribe, and join our WhatsApp community: https://chat.whatsapp.com/BK69EsNWP8BJIaoy3k7EfX?mode=ac_t Follow us: X → https://x.com/OfflineOnAir Instagram → https://www.instagram.com/theofflinenetwork LinkedIn → https://www.linkedin.com/company/offlineonair Website → https://www.theoffline.network #TheOfflineNetwork #IndiaTech #Startups #SpaceTech #Media #EtherealX #EssentiallySports #ISRO #UPI #RepublicDay #DeepTech #CreatorEconomy

    54 min
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    The Offline Network
  • Years Active
    2025 - 2026
  • Episodes
    58
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