242: Building India's most viral sneaker brand | Utkarsh Gupta | Unstarted
What do you do when the resume is perfect but the work isn't yours yet?
Utkarsh Gupta grew up in the Dainik Jagran family in Kanpur, a thirty-person joint family, a media legacy, and a grandfather who once left an entire newspaper page blank during the Emergency and went to jail for it.
By thirty-two, Utkarsh had built his own answer: Comet, the Indian sneaker brand that put a mango shoe and a rubber-ducky shoe into the world before it ever touched a marketplace.
In this episode, Avnish Bajaj and Utkarsh sit with the questions most founders never say out loud:
Was the MBA real, or was I…
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