ACLR8 Founder Academy

At ACLR8, our goal is to build the best early stage accelerator program in the world, helping founders from Bharat build large, generational and iconic companies. Founder Academy is our exclusive podcast featuring the top startup founders, investors and operators in the country. Our goal is to help build the best resource for any early stage founder to learn from and connect with the best folks from India's startup ecosystem.

ACLR8 Founder Academy is a business podcast hosted by Karan Jindal, with 15 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Karan Jindal hosts ACLR8 Founder Academy, a business show with 15 episodes published.

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  Episode #15

  Episode 15: Meet the founder of founders! This man invested in 165 startups. Ft. Rajesh Sawhney, Founder, GSF

  Mar 3, 20251h 12mS1

  <p>In this episode of the ACLR8 podcast, we host one of India's most iconic startup investors: Rajesh Sawhney. </p><p><br /></p><p>Rajesh has invested in 165 companies over the last 15 years and sits on the board of many listed companies and unicorns. In today's episode we will try to cover 3 topics:</p>Trends and opportunities for young founders as we become a $10T economyFundraising 101 for early stage foundersThinking long term about company building<p>We hope you enjoy the podcast today and it inspires you to kickstart your journey. Do drop a note in the comments section about...

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  Episode #14

  Episode 14: The Indiamart story! Building a ₹14000 crore listed tech company. Ft. Brijesh Agrawal

  Feb 4, 20251h 2mS1

  <p>🚀 Coming from a small town in India to build an INR 14K crore company.🚀 Being the first Indian B2B marketplace to list publicly.🚀 Building profitably and building the technology backbone for 70M SMB’s in India.This is the IndiaMart story...Had a wonderful chat with Brijesh Agrawal, Co-Founder, IndiaMart on how they are building the technology layer for Bharat enabling millions of MSME’s to become more efficient and scale.. ❤️We talked about:✅ The initial IndiaMart thesis and how it has evolved over the last 25 years.✅ Building the business profitably, being persistent and being customer focussed.✅ Identifying categories where you ca...

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  Episode 13: The Dressfolk Story! Building an Ethnic Wear Brand from India to the World! Ft. Nitin Mehrotra

  Feb 1, 20251h 7mS1

  <p>Shot a super episode with Nitin Mehrotra, Founder & CEO, DressFolk on his journey of building India's most loved ethnic wear brand. We talked about:- Nitin's growing up journey and how his family background inspired him to startup in the fashion space- DressFolk evolution over the last 8 years and finding PMF- Building and scaling a D2C fashion business in India today, profitably- Raising funding from people like Ghazal Alagh and some of India's best angel investors and funds. - Way forward, future of India's handlooms and dreams of going globalDo check it out and let us know how...

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  Episode #12

  Episode 12: How to build a career in content & marketing! Ft. AyushWadhwa, Founder & CEO, Owled Media

  Sep 11, 202445 minS1

  <p>Learn content, marketing & advertising from Ayush Wadhwa ( @AyushWadhwa ) the founder of one of India's best media companies, Owled Media ( @owledmedia9296 ) At just 26, in a short span of time, Ayush has accomplished a lot. He is a creator, runs Owled Media, and has done done advertising campaigns for some very large brands. He is a super active angel investor and recently also started LIT school. His career is an intersection of content, marketing and technology. From this podcast our goal is to help young people understand how can they build a career in content, marketing and advertising. Catch the full epis...

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  Episode #11

  Episode 11: ‪@ixigo‬ 's journey to IPO! 🚀 Building Travel for Bharat. 🇮🇳 Ft. Aloke Bajpai

  Aug 2, 20241 hourS1

  <p>98x oversubscribed! This was the crazy demand for the ixigo stock at their recent IPO. But what many don't know is the 17 year old journey of grit, determination, never giving up in the face of innumerable challenges and always building for Bharat. ⁣</p> <p><br></p> <p>Had the immense pleasure of hosting Aloke Bajpai, Co-Founder & Group Chairman, Ixigo, to the ACLR8 Founder Academy Podcast, hosted by Karan Jindal. Aloke shared his and Rajnish's journey of getting inspired by the movie Swades and coming back to India to start Ixigo.</p> <p><br></p> <p>We talked about:⁣</p> ✅ buildi...

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