A Bit of Gamble

A Bit of Gamble
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In this podcast, Namit and Vartika interview tech founders around the world to uncover the realities of fundraising to investing in startups.

Episodes

  1. Marc Pavlopoulos, US-Canada workforce operations expert, helps relocate US H1Bs to Canada!

    12/24/2021

    Marc Pavlopoulos, US-Canada workforce operations expert, helps relocate US H1Bs to Canada!

    Marc Pavlopoulos, founder of Syndesus and Path to Canada. Over the years, Marc has helped foreign born technical workers who cannot stay in the US (for immigration reasons) get a job and work authorization to work in Canada. His long term bet is north of the border, Canada, where immigration is a lot more progressive. In this episode, Marc shares about his journey, and why he's excited about the opportunity that's unfolding in Canada.

    25 min
  2. Dennis Mortensen, the happy entrepreneur, 26 years - 5 startups, 4 successful exits, nifty list of ideas to play the game of life.

    12/10/2021

    Dennis Mortensen, the happy entrepreneur, 26 years - 5 startups, 4 successful exits, nifty list of ideas to play the game of life.

    Dennis Mortensen, Founder of x.ai (acquired by: Bizzabo, May 2021). He’s a pioneer and expert in the analytics, optimization and big data space and has successfully done a number of company exits. Dennis loves to play the game, fix the problem with extreme focus and one startup at a time! In this episode, we speak about how to validate startup ideas, building the early team, how exits happen and new emerging themes that excites Dennis.

    38 min

  3. Season 1, Episode 4 Trailer

    Trailer: Dennis Mortensen, the happy entrepreneur, 26 years - 5 startups, 4 successful exits, nifty list of ideas to play the game of life.

    Dennis Mortensen, Founder of x.ai (acquired by: Bizzabo, May 2021). He’s a pioneer and expert in the analytics, optimization and big data space and has successfully done a number of company exits. Dennis loves to play the game, fix the problem with extreme focus and one startup at a time! In this episode, we speak about how to validate startup ideas, building the early team, how exits happen and new emerging themes that excites Dennis.

    2 min

  4. 11/26/2021

    Ritu Soni, pseudo mallu, now building emotions analytics, post a successful strategic exit.

    Ritu Soni Srivastava has an illustrious career spanning across sectors - from being a Radio jockey to a brand marketer with Airtel. She previously founded Obino in 2012 and did a successful exit to RoundGlass. In this podcast, she speaks about setting micro goals, not having mimetic desires of big exit outcomes, and being an accidental investor who looks for people who make things happen! Oh! and she does not compromise with sleep or exercise :)

    49 min

  5. 11/14/2021

    Dhruvil Sanghvi, from a startup competition at Carnegie Mellon to raising $39Mn and Investing now!

    Dhruvil Sanghvi, co-founder and CEO of LogiNext, promises founders to not call them after investing money, but founders can call him anytime! In this episode, he talks about his journey, post-Carnegie Mellon University and returning to India to start LogiNext, the fastest growing field workforce optimization SaaS enterprise. Dhruvil talks about his own journey of raising money, his investment interests and what matters to him when investing.

    25 min

  6. Season 1, Episode 3 Trailer

    Trailer: Ritu Soni, pseudo mallu, now building emotion analytics, post a successful strategic exit.

    Ritu Soni Srivastava, founder and CEO of Lightbulb.AI, has an illustrious career spanning across sectors. From being a Radio jockey to a brand marketer with Airtel. She previously founded, Obino in 2012 and did a successful exit to RoundGlass. In this podcast, she speaks about setting micro goals, not having mimetic desires of big exit outcomes, and being an accidental investor who looks for people who make things happen!  Oh! and she does not compromise with sleep or exercise :)

    1 min

  7. 10/31/2021

    Ashish Tulsian, from bootstrapping to not quite raising to now Investing

    Ashish Tulsian, founder and CEO of POSist likes to be known as the 2am friend of a founder! In this episode, he talks about his journey of scaling POSist, a cloud-based restaurant technology platform. Ashish talks about his own journey of raising money, his investment interests and what matters to him when investing.

    41 min
  8. Trailer: Dhruvil Sanghvi, from a startup competition at Carnegie Mellon to raising $39Mn and Investing now!

    Season 1, Episode 2 Trailer

    Trailer: Dhruvil Sanghvi, from a startup competition at Carnegie Mellon to raising $39Mn and Investing now!

    Dhruvil Sanghvi, co-founder and CEO of LogiNext, promises founders to not call them after investing money, but founders can call him anytime! In this episode, he talks about his journey, post-Carnegie Mellon University and returning to India to start LogiNext, the fastest growing field workforce optimization SaaS enterprise. Dhruvil talks about his own journey of raising money, his investment interests and what matters to him when investing.

    1 min

  9. Season 1, Episode 1 Trailer

    Trailer: Ashish Tulsian, from bootstrapping to not quite raising to now Investing

    Ashish Tulsian, founder and CEO of POSist likes to be known as the 2am friend of a founder! In this episode, he talks about his journey of scaling POSist, a cloud-based restaurant technology platform. Ashish talks about his own journey of raising money, his investment interests and what matters to him when investing.

    23 sec

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In this podcast, Namit and Vartika interview tech founders around the world to uncover the realities of fundraising to investing in startups.

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    A Bit of Gamble
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  • Episodes
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