MindGravity.

Rohan Handa

Failure is the greatest Shifu. On this podcast, we dive into conversation with founders, VC's, and innovators to learn about their success through their failures.

  1. MindGravity: Simpl CEO, Nitya Sharma On Starting a Buy Now Pay Later Startup In India And The Opportunity Landscape.

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    MindGravity: Simpl CEO, Nitya Sharma On Starting a Buy Now Pay Later Startup In India And The Opportunity Landscape.

    Nitya Sharma, CEO, and Co-Founder of Simpl. Simpl is a technology company that offers Pay-later solutions in India. Simpl has revolutionized online checkout in India by creating a market-leading Pay-Later platform, empowering e-commerce merchants to offer their consumers 1-click checkout, a line of credit at POS, and full buyer protection. Before starting Simpl, Nitya worked on Wall Street for more than 10 years, where he structured, traded, and risk-managed structured credit portfolios at Bear Stearns and Goldman Sachs. Before that, he was a co-founding portfolio manager at JNF Financial, a distressed credit hedge fund from 2010–2014. Nitya initially moved back to India with the objective of starting an emerging-markets focused hedge-fund. However, he experienced the shortcomings of the Indian payments and credit stack first-hand when his credit card application was declined. This experience prompted him to dig deeper into the Indian payments landscape and subsequently led to the founding of Simpl. In this episode, Nitya shares: His educational background and journey as an entrepreneur Views on the fintech landscape in India and his thesis behind Simple’s Differences between banking infrastructure in India and theUS The impact of the COVID-19 crisis on Simpl The importance of building the right team Leaning from the mistakes and what he wished he did differently Reach out to our guest, Nitya on LinkedIn, or email him directly at nitya@getsimpl.com You can follow or reach out to me, your host Rohan Handa on Linkedin, or email me at mindgravity2020@gmail.com.

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  2. MindGravity: Finding The Right Financial Advise w/ Taylor Matthews (CEO), Farther Finance

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    MindGravity: Finding The Right Financial Advise w/ Taylor Matthews (CEO), Farther Finance

    Taylor Matthews is the Co-Founder and CEO of Farther Finance. He has raised over $1.6 Mn in venture capital from Cota Capital, The Tiffin Group, and other investors and is developing an investment advisory platform created to provide modern technology with trusted advice. The company's platform offers investment advice on allocations of exchange-traded funds based on personalized information that each client provides via the firm's platform, as well as uses a proprietary algorithm to implement model portfolios designed by investment experts with target asset allocations of equity and fixed-income, enabling clients to get access to ETFs that preserve capital and capital growth over long term horizons. based on their financial situation and risk tolerance. Taylor focuses on delivering the best in class financial advice by empowering our advisors with the tools and technology they need to help you achieve your financial goals. Prior to founding Farther, Taylor was part of the leadership at ForUsAll where he helped build the company from $25 million in assets under management to just under $1 billion in two years.  On this episode we talk about: The journey of our founder What was the genesis for Farther Finance? What is currently missing from the fintech ecosystem? What are the challenges and the right ingredients for launching a product/startup? How pandemic impact fintechs? How it forces consumers to rethink their financial decision making? You can reach out to Taylor Matthews: taylor@farther.com You can follow or reach out to me, your host Rohan Handa on Linkedin, or email me at mindgravity2020@gmail.com.

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Failure is the greatest Shifu. On this podcast, we dive into conversation with founders, VC's, and innovators to learn about their success through their failures.