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Om Malviya on efforts to popularise the Tezos blockchain in India
Our guest today is Om Malviya, President, of Tezos India, who is working to popularise the Tezos blockchain in this region. In today's conversation, Malviya talks about some of Tezos's unique characteristics, such as how it started with proof-of-stake from the get-go and its self-amending feature. He also spoke of various initiatives to grow the Tezos ecosystem in India
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Shrini Viswanath at Upstox on going from a small proprietary trading outfit to an investment platform for 7 million users
Our guest today is Shrini Viswanath, co-founder at Upstox, one of India's most popular online brokerages. In this conversation, Shrini talks about the long haul of entrepreneurship — taking the company from a proprietary trading outfit to a rapidly growing consumer-facing tech company used by millions of people to invest in the capital markets
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Ofer Bengal, CEO of Redis, on his journey from aerospace to toy design to data management
Our guest today is Israeli serial entrepreneur Ofer Bengal, co-founder and CEO of Redis, a data management company in Silicon Valley. In this conversation, Bengal talks about how Redis has grown to be a popular data management platform for customers around the world to make their software applications go faster. Bengal also has some simple advice for Indian entrepreneurs aspiring to build deep engineering-based companies.
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TranZact's founders on their aspiration to move 15 million SMEs from excel sheets to the cloud
Our guests today are Ritesh Kumar, Sharad Sen Sharma, and Rohan Sen Sharma, co-founders of TranZact, a five-year-old Mumbai startup that has recently raised its series A funding to take its digitalisation platform to more small and medium enterprise customers in India. The next, net-savvy generation of SME entrepreneurs is more willing to try out such solutions than its forebears. Eventually, TranZact's founders aim to build a data sciences based marketplace for millions of SMEs.
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Rajeev Shah at Celona on how 5G could enable a cloud paradigm for the physical world
Our guest today is Rajeev Shah, co-founder and CEO of Celona, a Silicon Valley company specialising in the field of 5G wireless-based private cellular networks for enterprise customers. Rajeev has spent more than 20 years working on wireless communications technologies. With Celona, founded in 2019, he is equipping businesses with their own 5G-based private cellular networks—from industrial warehouses to hospitals. Much of the software for Celona is being developed at the company's centre in Bengaluru
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Best of 2021 Ep. 10: Leonard Langsdorf at Capco on low-code and no-code tools and the rise of the citizen developer
Low-code software development has been around for several years. So has the idea of the 'citizen developer,' a term which the business technology consultancy Gartner is said to have coined. After the Covid-19 pandemic, however, they have become truly relevant. In this conversation, from earlier in December 2021, Leonard Langsdorf, CTO of Digital Innovation Labs at Wipro's Capco, talks about why the time has come for both low-code and no-code, and the rise of the citizen developer
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Best of 2021 Ep. 9: Mark Papermaster at AMD on advances in the semiconductor industry
Mark Papermaster wears multiple hats within AMD, where he is chief technology officer and executive vice president and in the semiconductor industry and forums such as the IEEE. Papermaster is one of the people credited with AMD's turnaround over the last decade—a turnaround for which CEO Lisa Su became a widely acclaimed business leader. In this conversation from November 2021, Papermaster talks about what helped; the future of semiconductors; the company's work in India; and his advice to aspiring engineers
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Best of 2021 Ep. 8: Sanat Rao at Infosys on how digital tech is overhauling banking
As the world prepares for the cloud, technology has become central and strategic to banking—not just an enabler. New financial products, like buy now pay later, as well as new fintech partnerships via open APIs, are becoming all the rage. Traditional banks find themselves seeking a fine balance between not losing out on the opportunity and running up a roster of defaulting consumers. In this conversation from November 2021, Sanat Rao, CEO of Infosys Finacle, unpacks some of these emerging trends
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Best of 2021 Ep. 7: Magnus Ewerbring at Ericsson on the potential for 5G to usher in a new wave of innovation
Ericsson is one of the world's biggest telecom equipment makers, supplying gear to more than half of the world's telecom operators rolling out 5G networks. The Swedish company has had a presence in India since 1904. Today, it has more employees in India than at home—spanning operations and R&D. In this conversation, from October 2021, Magnus Ewerbring, Ericsson's CTO for Asia Pacific, speaks about the innovation that could come out as the world moves to an estimated 3.5 billion 5G connections by 2026
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Best of 2021 Ep. 6: Rajesh Gopinathan on valuing outcomes more and effecting change from within at TCS
Tata Consultancy Services' software engineering prowess is well known. CEO Rajesh Gopinathan, however, is on a mission to get the rank and file of the half-a-million-strong organisation to see themselves from a different perspective. In this conversation, from September 2021, Rajesh, one of the youngest CEOs in the Tata Group, did some impressive plain speaking about what needed to change within TCS and the efforts that were on to orchestrate that change
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Best of 2021 Ep. 5: Shekhar Kirani at Accel on the power of entrepreneurship and what makes for great founders and VCs
Shekhar Kirani couldn't have imagined that a little Chennai outfit called Freshdesk (now Freshworks), started by a couple of nondescript engineers, would go on to deliver Accel's first US IPO from its Indian portfolio—and an Indian-founder-led software products company at that. In this conversation, from September 2021, Kirani talks about standing on the floor of the Nasdaq stock exchange, thinking about the power of entrepreneurship, and what makes for great founders and VC investors