The Differentiators

The Differentiators

In our show we talk to people from various backgrounds to understand their journeys which will help us unlock key insights and and ideas that will stimulate our learning and growth

Episodes

  1. 09/20/2020

    Million face shields in 49 days|Richa Shrivastava (Maker's Asylum) |S1|E3| (Startup Journeys)

    Our Differentiator in this episode is Richa Shrivastava who is a Managing Partner at Maker’s Asylum. Maker’s Asylum is a community space focussed on fostering innovation through purpose based learning focussed on the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. She is graduate from Indian School of Business and in her previous stint she worked with Government of Andhra Pradesh to drive IT investments into the state. She has been particularly instrumental in forging strategic partnerships with the likes of Monetary Authority of Singapore, Visa, Thomson Reuters and 30+ such partners for Fintech Valley Vizag (a sustainable ecosystem created to support the flourishing Fintech industry in India) in the short period since the initiative took off as a state level strategy. She has also been responsible for creating the brand proposition for Fintech Valley and has travelled to most of the global fintech hubs to learn and incorporate the best practices in Vizag.  Richa has also worked in the Indian Telecommunications industry. Her role as the Business Intelligence to the Chief Technology Officer at Idea Cellular involved strategic and analytic support to the leadership of the organisation. She was recognised as the Emerging Professional by the Chairman of the Aditya Birla Group for her contribution during the Telecom Spectrum Auctions held by the Government of India in February 2014 & 2015.

    54 min
  2. 09/06/2020

    Easy Finance for all | Hemanth Kumar (Pontis) | S1 |E2 | (Entrepreneur Journeys)

    In this interview we talk to Hemanth Kumar (Entrepreneur and CEO of Pontis (Bridge in Greek)). Pontis (Uber for Cryptofinance) is a DeFi (decentralized finance) solution for centralized cryptocurrency exchanges built by a two-member team based out of Bengaluru. In our conversation with Hemanth, we spoke about his journey as an Entrepreneur and also their utopian vision to bring easy finance to everyone in the world through a completely unconventional approach and how their idea is different from other Entrepreneurial ideas.   They were recently funded by AE Ventures (startup accelerator), an investment company that invests in blockchain startups. Note on DeFi: https://blog.coinbase.com/a-beginners-guide-to-decentralized-finance-defi-574c68ff43c4 Check out Pontis: https://pontis.finance/   AE Ventures: https://aeventures.io   Teams funded by AE Ventures (Starfleet India) : https://medium.com/ae-ventures/starfleet-india-the-3-winning-teams-2addcd6b177e   Anchor: https://anchor.fm/differentiators   Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0EuQ33sFSRPiTFJfUk3QCZ   Google Podcasts: Coming Soon   Apple Podcasts: Coming Soon   Follow Differentiators on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-differentiators   Video recorded on 30th Aug 2020   Please excuse the quality. Recording coincided with the online Chess Olympiad (Internet Outage)   https://www.firstpost.com/sports/online-chess-olympiad-india-russia-declared-joint-winners-after-internet-outage-cloudflare-crash-mar-final-8769661.html   Music credits: https://youtu.be/4IC3kYcaguI  Composer: Alexandros Vlastaras  Composer: Anouk Hendriks  Music Publisher: Featherstone  Music Auto-generated by YouTube.   Powered and Supported by : Protoaccel Solutions

    1h 17m

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In our show we talk to people from various backgrounds to understand their journeys which will help us unlock key insights and and ideas that will stimulate our learning and growth