Forbes India Pathbreakers
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Financial audit is very important, but performance audit is more important: Nitin Gadkari
In a wide-ranging conversation—from delay in the completion of the government's mega 'Bharatmala' project to electric vehicles to life lessons—Nitin Gadkari, Union minister of road transport and highways, joins Neha Bothra in the inaugural episode of Forbes India Pathbreakers Season 2. We decode how India can fast-track growth in a challenging global macroeconomic environment. Tune in to find out how Gadkari plans to transform India's highway network and crack the green code for sustainable development
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I wonder why there are only a few businesses like us that are built to generate profits and not raise venture capital: Nithin Kamath
Zerodha's co-founder and CEO on what it takes to build a world-class, credible, and socially responsible business that is focussed on sustainable growth, and why large businesses must be built without continuously raising funds to boost valuations at the cost of profitability
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Forbes India Pathbreakers: ChrysCapital to Ashoka University, how Ashish Dhawan is rewriting India's growth story
Our next guest on Pathbreakers wants to reimagine India's education system. At 43, ChrysCapital's co-founder and leading private equity investor, Ashish Dhawan gave up his successful career as an investment manager and turned philanthropist. "I didn't want to just cut cheques. My philanthropic work or life's work is about building institutions," Dhawan tells Forbes India's Neha Bothra. In 2010, he co-founded Ashoka University and brought on board 170 philanthropists to share his vision of building a world-class interdisciplinary higher educational institution
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Pathbreakers: Here's what ace venture capitalist Vani Kola looks for in startup investments
This week we continue the conversation with Vani Kola in part 2 of the interview. Join in as Forbes India's Neha Bothra talks to the veteran startup investor about the tricky relationship between founders and investors, and the pitfalls as they traverse the complex journey of value creation. We decode valuation and governance concerns, and why despite the current setbacks, the next decade is an exciting time for the startup ecosystem. Watch the interview to find out Kola's investment strategy for early-stage bets in new-age tech companies, and more
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Part 1: Five powerful entrepreneurship lessons from Kalaari Capital's Vani Kola
This week on Pathbreakers, Vani Kola, founder and MD, Kalaari Capital, one of the pioneers of venture capital in India, talks to Forbes India's Neha Bothra about what it takes to be a successful entrepreneur in times of mind-boggling valuations, rapid disruption, and intense competition. Kola reminisces her learnings as an entrepreneur in Silicon Valley, and why she decided to return to India and build one of the first home-bred venture capital firms, solely focussed on investing in early-stage tech start-ups. It was an unconventional bet, but over the past 17 years, Kalaari Capital has c
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Forbes India Pathbreakers: How Naandi Foundation's CEO Manoj Kumar turned Araku Valley's food gatherers into millionaires
This week on Pathbreakers, Forbes India's Neha Bothra meets Manoj Kumar, CEO of Naandi Foundation, to decode how Kumar pioneered the implementation of 'Arakunomics' to create sustainable ecosystems and empower marginalised communities to break the chain of poverty. In this conversation, we explore Araku Valley's powerful metamorphosis from a crime-ridden backward region, cut off from the country, to a globally acclaimed gourmet coffee producer. We talk about development models to address the pain points of the rural economy for equitable and green growth and more
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Swiggy, Zomato's 'disruptive' model is 'destructive' for restaurants: Olive Group's AD Singh
In a free-wheeling conversation, AD Singh, one of the pioneers of standalone restaurants in India, talks about how he survived the three-year jinx in the F&B industry, and how the business has evolved over 33 years. Singh shares strategies for budding entrepreneurs to set up and run successful restaurants. After the Covid-induced setback, Singh says, "Customers are back with a bang". Singh shares Olive Group's expansion plans in the coming months: A new brand in Bangalore, entering the overseas market by next year, and more
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Forbes India Pathbreakers: Adar Poonawalla on vaccines, strategy, and legacy
Adar Poonawalla, CEO of Serum Institute of India, joins us on the next edition of Pathbreakers. In a frank conversation, Poonawalla talks about what it takes to be at the forefront of an unprecedented pandemic and how his company manufactured billions of doses of the Covishield vaccine in record time to help India tide through the crisis and inch back to normalcy. The pandemic is over, but Poonawalla hasn't let go of the learnings. Poonawalla also shares the strategic roadmap for the NBFC business, Poonawalla Vision Fund, and listing plans for different verticals
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"The whole debate about jobless growth is a red herring," says Sanjeev Sanyal, Member, EAC-PM
Our next guest wears many hats. He is one of Asia's leading economists, a historian, a writer, an environmentalist, and an urban theorist. He is Sanjeev Sanyal, Member, EAC-PM, and in a wide-ranging conversation with Forbes India's Neha Bothra he explains why and how complexity theory is the starting point of his intellectual framework. He presents the unconventional "other narrative" in areas relating to India's history, economy, geopolitical ties, and environmental challenges. Watch the full interview for out-of-the-box insights on sustainable growth and development
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Uncertainty also generates opportunities: M&A veteran Manisha Girotra on Pathbreakers
Our next guest on Pathbreakers, Manisha Girotra, CEO of Moelis India, is an ace dealmaker who played a pivotal role in enabling prominent business houses to ink strategic pacts for growth and expansion. In this conversation with Forbes India's Neha Bothra, she talks about her journey as an investment banker, and how the M&A landscape has evolved over the past 30 years. "I always tell my younger colleagues that they are starting their careers at such an exciting time. Ours was a little pond, but they are in an ocean. A turbulent ocean, but an ocean nevertheless," said Girotra
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Jayant Sinha on fiscal roadmap, growth, PLI scheme, and policy reforms
On this special edition of Pathbreakers, We are joined by a statesman who piloted innovative reforms such as the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, National Infrastructure and Investment Fund, Udaan scheme, privatisation of Air India and airports, the Vyaapar Credit Card for MSMEs, and the Digital Competition Bill. In a candid conversation, Jayant Sinha, chairperson of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Finance and former Minister of State for Finance and Civil Aviation, talks about key policy reforms, and what it will take for Budget 2023 to bring the economy back on the high-growth path