In this episode, Anuradha Bharat, VP of People Operations at Razorpay, along with Ashish Pathak, Solutions Consultant, talks to us about a fun topic—memes. They discuss how the habit of communicating with memes helped build a culture of candidness among teammares, improved creativity and performance in building products, and finally helped beat burnout in engineering teams. Tune in to this year-end special!

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Season 2 Special: How Razorpay built a meme culture along with building great products

In this episode, Dalia Katan, Founder and CEO of Presently, talks to Aishwarya about the age-old concept of gifting and how she uses tech to reinvent the joy and celebration that gifting brings in. She also shares her strategy around building early-stage startups, about developing curiosity and knowing when to pivot based on market signals, and more. 'Tis the season of building and gifting, so tune in!

S02E20: 'Tis the season of gifting and building startups ft. Dalia Katan

In this episode, Manasi Vora, Founder of Komorebi Collective and VP of Strategy & Ops at Skynet Labs, talks to Aishwarya about her journey into the world of bitcoin and DAOs. She explains why decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs) are increasingly growing up now, and what the future beholds for crypto. Manasi also talks about crypto-based funding and how it could help creators in the verge of web3 adoption. Tune in to understand the basic things you got to know about crypto, DAOs, and web3!

S02E19: Things you need to know about crypto, DAOs, and Web3 ft. Manasi Vora

In this episode, Helen Huang, Co-Founder of Co.Lab, talks to Aishwarya about how everyone can belong in tech. An earth scientist turned Product Manager and now a founder, she shares her early days of working with Zynga, GitHub and Microsoft, and how she picked the thread to start Co.Lab, a collaborator based approach to learning the skills needed to break into tech. Helen also loves talking about tackling uncertainties, so she shares her opinions on co-founder compatibility, things essential to build your first startup, and how to develop your product management expertise. Tune in!

S02E18: You belong in tech ft. Helen Huang

In this episode, Aarti Ramakrishnan, Co-Founder and COO of Crayon Data talks to Padmini about a day in the life of a woman entrepreneur—from building the tech culture ground-up and understanding the market to employee management and running operations seamlessly. Dive in to know about her journey, candid stories on what failed and what worked out, and how to accelerate women-led entrepreneurship in a bigger scale for the upcoming tech generation.

S02E17: Get, set, go—the 101 of women-led entrepreneurship ft. Aarti Ramakrishnan

In this episode, Aishwarya Goel, Co-Founder and CEO of PeakPerformer talks to Aishwarya about grooming India's tech professionals with executive leadership. She goes on to demystify what 1-on-1 mentoring and coaching comprise of, sharing anecdotes from her prior founding and working experiences at leading startups. Having tech as a great catalyst for promoting the power of leadership coaching, it's pretty exciting to see how PeakPerformer aims to make human mind, psychological decisions, irrationalities, and emotions—all measurable. Tune in to the episode!

S02E16: Upskilling India's tech professionals with leadership coaching ft. Aishwarya Goel

<p>In this episode, <a href="https://twitter.com/aishwarya_08">Aishwarya Goel</a>, Co-Founder and CEO of PeakPerformer talks to <a href="https://twitter.com/aishashok14">Aishwarya</a> about grooming India's tech professionals with executive leadership. She goes on to demystify what 1-on-1 mentoring and coaching comprise of, sharing anecdotes from her prior founding and working experiences at leading startups. Having tech as a great catalyst for promoting the power of leadership coaching, it's pretty exciting to see how <a href="https://twitter.com/peakperformer_">PeakPerformer</a> aims to make human mind, psychological decisions, irrationalities, and emotions—all measurable. Tune in to the episode!</p>

In this episode, Chaitra Chidanand, Co-Founder of Salt and (earlier) Simpl, talks to Aishwarya about women, their money decisions, and choices that led to those decisions. Sharing personal anecdotes and experiences, she covers why there's always been a layer of fear and inhibition around investing and discusses how she's using tech as a means to solve for those utilitarian yet essential needs. Tune in!

S02E15: Women, money, and tech ft. Chaitra Chidanand

In this episode, Anubha Maneshwar, Founder of GirlScript Foundation, talks to Aishwarya about the role of tech in the social entrepreneurship space. She discusses how learning to code isn't just enough for career preparedness and goes on to share how GirlScript is making a change in the lives of thousands of rural students in helping them learn coding, leadership skills, and teamwork. She also speaks about her fair share of struggles as a young founder, starting a venture of her own from her last year of college, and puts forward opinions on how tech is playing a crucial role in shaping the nonprofit and education verticals of the future. Tune in!

S02E14: Leading the global tech social entrepreneurship game ft. Anubha Maneshwar

In this episode, Tanvi Raut Dessai, Founder of the news company Filter Coffee, talks to Aishwarya and Srinidy about her story of how she set up the company from its initial side project days. Filter Coffee is transforming the way media is consumed by the audience, and she throws some light on how memes became a superpower to drive business news through Filter Coffee, the journey of getting 10K subscribers for their newsletter, picking and highlighting the right tech trends, using humour as an armour, and dealing with the stress of running a ground-up business. Tune into the episode!

S02E13: News as a meme service ft. Tanvi Raut Dessai

In this episode, Zainab Ghadiyali, Product & Tech Leader, Ex-Facebook and Airbnb, talks to Srinidy about navigating different career paths and transitions within the tech and product space. She touches upon what it means to discover unconventional routes and also discusses her unique success stories as a leader in a gender-biased society. She breaks the silence around imposter syndrome, how it actually does good provided one develops the right mindset, and how to trust in passion and driving oneself towards learning new things. Tune in to hear what it takes to build a curiosity-driven career in the tech world.

S02E12: How to build a curiosity-driven career in the tech world ft. Zainab Ghadiyali

In this episode, Yana Welinder, Co-Founder and CEO of Kraftful talks to Aishwarya about how interaction with the physical world can be made smoother and seamless with the right tech interface. She discusses her eclectic background, of combining law with product management, how building products for software and hardware industries differ, and why she's passionate about helping smart home companies develop better and valued apps for consumers. No more broken systems and myriad apps to control your physical devices—Kraftful is changing the way humans interact with IoT.

S02E11: How do you interact with your physical world? ft. Yana Welinder

In this episode, Katharine Jiang, a former investor and currently the Co-Founder and CEO of WizForm, talks to Aishwarya about the good, great, and ugly things about building a business ground-up. From inspirations to applying the investor mindset, she goes on to candidly share her first-time founding lessons, how she wants to build a community for helping people kickstart their own business, and more. She also gives a clear picture of what's it like to balance the investor hat with the founder mindset, rightly putting forward the best experiences from both. Tune in.

S02E10: The first-time founder lessons ft. Katharine Jiang

In this episode, Ayushi Mishra, Co-Founder & COO of DronaMaps talks to Aishwarya about 3D mapping and geospatial analytics that help helping in covid hotspots detection. She goes on to explain how this AI-based technology works, how it could be helpful for sustainable development of rural and urban cities, and why drones would become a larger part of the future world. She's a Forbes 30 under 30 alum and is one of the 8 women in STEM actively leading the battle against Covid.

S02E09: AI-powered drone maps for Covid hotspots ft. Ayushi Mishra

In this episode, Mansi Verma, an experienced investment specialist from Ventureast, who has a demonstrated history of working in the venture capital and private equity space, talks to Padmini about a variety of topics—why only a very few % of women are funded in the Indian startup ecosystem, the journey of women-led startups, what constitutes the right pitch especially when the product has a women-centric need, how to raise fund when you're starting up for the first time, and more. Tune in!

S02E08: Do women get enough funding? (ft. Mansi Verma)

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