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Z47 Moments
Zero to Infinity, by Z47, is a podcast series dedicated to the founders, startups, and all within the ecosystem through candid conversations on what we think it really takes to survive in this wild startup world. In a world where we are endlessly engulfed with information in all its forms and sizes, this is our attempt to create, curate, and bring to you the insights and reflections that we have had the luxury of having learned the hard way through all the years spent in truly understanding…
Episodes
Z47 Moments270: Company that changed health tech in India | Practo | Shashank N.D
Shashank N.D. dropped out of college to build Practo, back when dropping out just meant you couldn’t get a job. No business family. Both parents in government…
Z47 Moments269: Using AI to Fix US Healthcare - From 14 Days to 5 Minutes | Ajay, Coral Health
Ajay grew up in Bangalore chasing free pizza at hackathons, trained as a machine-learning researcher, and never planned to start a company until his brother’s…
Z47 Moments268: Ineligible Why 800 people a day ask to meet an AI receptionist, Sarah | Confido Health
Chetan Reddy, founder of Confido, joins the Intelligent Indians podcast to explain how AI is leapfrogging one of the least digitized industries on earth: US…
Z47 Moments267: 10 minute food delivery was impossible, until Swish came | Aniket Shah | Unstarted
Aniket Shah quit his job with no startup idea, gave himself 18 months, and ended up building Swish one of India’s fastest-growing 10-minute food delivery…
Z47 Moments266: 3 failed startups, 1 IIT degree, and a broken Pulsar | OTO Capital | Sumit Chhazed
Sumit Chhazed has started four companies. The first three didn't work. Solar heating, where he was too young to win government tenders. An edtech platform…
Z47 Moments265: From a Small Town in Assam to India's First AI IPO | Srikanth Velamakanni, Fractal
Srikanth Velamakanni built an AI company before most people knew the A in AI. In 2000, long before ChatGPT, he and five co-founders started Fractal Analytics…
Z47 Moments264: From a village to building a profitable business in 3 months | Amit Lakhotoia | Founder, Park+
Amit Lakhotia moved from a village in Churu, Rajasthan to Delhi at 10, speaking Marwari and barely any Hindi. Twenty people shared three rooms. His father…
Z47 Moments263: Building a ₹100 Crore hair care brand in 2 years | Nikita Khanna, Moxie
Nikita Khanna spent fifteen years straightening her hair before she realised the problem wasn't her hair. It was that nobody had built products for it. She was…
Z47 Moments262: He Saved ₹50 Lakh in College - Then Sold His Startup at 25 | Aman Goel, Grey Labs AI
Aman Goel, founder of Greylabs.ai, joins Avnish on Unstarted for one of the most relatable founder journeys yet — a middle-class kid from Kanpur who was…
Z47 Moments261: Why PhonePe bet on UPI when everyone chose wallets | Sameer Nigam | Unstarted
Sameer Nigam, founder and CEO of PhonePe, joins Unstarted for a candid conversation on building a company that now serves over 700 million users. From a…
Z47 Moments260: Shiprocket's Saahil Goel on their IPO, PMF & Building AI for Bharat | Unstarted
Saahil Goel, co-founder and CEO of Shiprocket, joins us for a candid deep-dive into how a self-taught coder from Delhi built the logistics and enablement…
Z47 Moments259: How two founders sold to a billion-dollar company with no factory | Wootz Work | Unstarted
Our first-ever episode with co-founders. Karan and Himanshu of WootzWork join Avnish to talk about building a hardware and manufacturing exports company out of…
Z47 Moments258: Started with ₹8 Lakhs and built a Billion Dollar Company | Abhishek Bansal, Shadowfax
What happens if you fail with everyone's money? Abhishek Bansal never let himself ask and he thinks that's the only reason Shadowfax exists. He's the first…
Z47 Moments257: India's biggest deep-tech exit that nobody knew of | Ravi Annavajjhala | Nxp
Most people assume serious AI silicon can only be built by a giant, in the cloud, burning hundreds of millions of dollars. Ravi Annavajhala did the opposite…
Z47 Moments256: How the Ex-Unacademy COO built an edtech solving India's healthcare skills gap | Vivek Sinha
How much money is enough to make starting up safe? Vivek Sinha thought he knew: ₹50 lakh in the bank. The day he hit it, he quit. Vivek is the founder of…
Z47 Moments255: From PhD to 26 FDA Clearances: Building AI in Healthcare | Prashant Warrier
What do you do when you've built the technology first and the first customer who tries it tells you it's not working at all? Prashant Warrier is the first PhD…
Z47 Moments254: Secrets of building The Whole Truth | Shashank Mehta, Founder and CEO | Unstarted
He built a ₹100 crore brand from scratch in two years. His company rated him 2 on 5. So the question stopped being am I good at this? and became am I even the…
Z47 Moments253: The Harvard Grad who quit her job to build a deodorant for women | CEO, Laani | Unstarted
Nirja Bhatt looks intimidating on paper: Columbia, Harvard Business School, strategy consulting. But she calls herself "a duck in water” i.e you never see…
Z47 Moments252: How Country Delight grew its revenue to ₹200 Cr a month | Chakradhar Gade | Unstarted
Chakradhar Gade had the résumé everyone's supposed to want: engineering, CFA, a hedge fund, and felt like he'd lost himself inside it. So he walked away to…
Z47 Moments251: Running two profitable unicorns in India | Asish Mohapatra, OfBusiness | Unstarted
Are entrepreneurs born or made? Asish Mohapatra is certain it's the second and he'll tell you plainly he's good at maybe 3 of the 10 things a founder needs…
Z47 Moments250: What sports taught the Head of Spotify India about building a business | Unstarted
Can you be a founder without ever founding anything? Amarjeet Batra has spent 25 years building other people's companies, first Baazee, eBay, OLX, and now…
Z47 Moments249: PhonePe CTO on how they are using AI at scale | Rahul Chari | Intelligent Indians
What does it actually take to build AI for 70 crore users? Vikram sits down with Rahul Chowdhury - co-founder and CTO of PhonePeto talk about how India's most…
Z47 Moments248: Got Rejected from 100 banks and then built a $7.5 Billion company | Razorpay Story | Harshil Mathur
Harshil Mathur started Razorpay after quitting the highest-paying job on his campus, a role his whole family had just celebrated, because he walked in on day…
Z47 Moments247: 23 years old and raised $45M in series B to build Pronto | Anjali Sardana | Unstarted
Anjali Sardana grew up in northern Virginia, studied biology at Georgetown, worked at Bain Capital — and then, without telling her parents, flew to India and…
Z47 Moments246: He built India's #1 Data Centre and is now building its AI backbone | Sharad Sanghi, CEO - Neysa
India's GPU footprint is on track to grow 40x by 2030, from ~50,000 today to a couple of million. That number is bigger than any public forecast. Sharad Sanghi…
Z47 Moments245: Building a brand that is used by 20% of India's D2C Market | Chirag Taneja, CEO - GoKwik | Unstarted
Chirag Taneja built GoKwik into 1 in 5 D2C checkouts in India. But the path there was a series of bets that didn't work, jobs that didn't last, and one moment…
Z47 Moments244: Built a ₹1000 Cr brand with ₹5 lakh | The Souled Store Story | Unstarted
Most founders can't tell you the moment they decided to build. Vedang Patel can. He was 23, a finance analyst with IIM seats in hand, and he looked at the…
Z47 Moments243: Why Indian AI founders are not building in India | The Reality of Indian AI
India's AI moment is louder than its rank. 100M+ ChatGPT users. #2 globally in usage. Still 76th in the world on per capita penetration. So what's actually…
Z47 Moments242: 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…
Z47 Moments241: How 3 IIT engineers built one of India's biggest beauty brands | Manish Taneja | Unstarted
Do you need an original idea to start a company? Do you need to be a consumer of your category? Do you need the "right" co-founders? Manish Taneja was none of…
Z47 Moments240: The man who sold his company to Jio for Rs. 700 Cr | Aakrit Vaish | Unstarted
What do you do with the regret of being right too early? Aakrit Vaish started Haptik in 2013: an AI chatbot company nine years before ChatGPT. By 2016 he knew…
Z47 Moments239: How Rebel Foods Built the World's First Cloud Kitchen Empire | Jaydeep Barman | Unstarted
What happens when you spend 13 years building something, and for most of those years, the people around you think it's not going to work out? Jaydeep Barman…
Z47 Moments238: Raised $12.5M to eliminate US healthcare's biggest problem | Coral AI
What does it take to fix the most broken system in America — from the outside? Ajay and Aniket, co-founders of Coral AI, had zero healthcare experience when…
Z47 Moments237: Built a $70M company because he wasn't invited to birthday parties
Sanket Shah started thinking about business at 17. His first idea was putting ads on Mumbai's auto-rickshaws. The government said no. He went to Mantralaya…
Z47 Moments236: 150 rejections, a government ban and starting over | The Dream11 story | Unstarted Ep 7
Harsh Jain built Dream11 from a family business detour and a love of fantasy football into a company that sponsored every IPL team, sent athletes to the…
Z47 Moments235: AI won't take your job, here's why | Intelligent Indians Ep 3
OpenClaw went from zero to more GitHub stars than React, a library that took a decade to build that following, in 60 days. One graph, vertical, like nothing…
Z47 Moments234: Raising $7 Million for your AI startup | Utkrishta Kumar | Unstarted Ep 5
Most people know what they want. The problem is they keep waiting for certainty that never comes. Oolka founder, Utkrishta Kumar built India's first…
Z47 Moments233: He shut down his first company and built a bigger one | Anil Goteti, Scapia | Unstarted Ep 5
What does it actually take to go from employee to founder — after 8 years inside one of India's greatest startups? In Episode 5 of Unstarted, Avnish Bajaj sits…
Z47 Moments232: He built a $1.5B seafood empire from India that nobody knows about | Utham Gowda -Captain Fresh
Most people have never heard of Captain Fresh. In 2020, Utham Gowda walked into Z47's office with one belief: take a shrimp from Chennai to New York, and it's…
Z47 Moments231: The truth about about starting up in your 20s | Foxtale founder
What happens when you spend your whole career chasing external validation and it still isn't enough? Romita Mazumdar is the Founder and CEO of Foxtale, one of…
Z47 Moments230: What Aman Gupta Won't Say on Shark Tank | Aman Gupta | Avnish Bajaj | UnStarted Ep3
Most founders look at Aman Gupta and think: “he's different. I could never build that. Avnish Bajaj has known Aman for over 20 years - since before boAt…
Z47 Moments229: What if my startup fails? | Ahana Gautam, Open Secret | UnStarted Ep2
Ahana grew up in Bharatpur, a small town in India where many believed girls shouldn’t always have the same opportunities. But her mother believed otherwise and…
Z47 Moments228: Do you need work experience BEFORE starting up? | Revant Bhate, Mosaic Wellness | UnStarted Ep 1
Unstarted is a new Z47 series, by founders, for founders. Most people think they need more experience before they start. More operating. More pattern…
Z47 Moments227: This company is building the IKEA of India
Beautiful things shouldn’t cost the world. India exports - $13B in home decor annually, expected to cross - $21B by 2030. Factories everywhere. But almost no…
Z47 Moments226: Why VCs regret not investing in Acceldata - From IIT to Silicon Valley
Enterprise AI doesn’t fail because models are weak. It fails because data pipelines break, permissions drift, costs explode, and governance is treated like an…
Z47 Moments225: How this IIT Alum is scaling India's ₹10,000 Cr AI Initiative | Intelligent Indians #AI
India’s AI moment will be defined by architecture. In our new series Intelligent Indians! we sit down with the builders, policymakers, scientists, and founders…
Z47 Moments224: Where will $12 Billion VC capital go in 2026? | India’s Top Investors Explain
Future Signals is Z47's view on where the next category-defining companies are likely to emerge, and the spaces we’re actively tracking alongside the founders…
Z47 Moments223: Trends in Term Sheets: What Founders Need to Know
Between overprotective term sheets and oversimplified ones lies the real market. On this episode of #ZeroToInfinity, Avnish Bajaj and Tarun Davda, are joined…
Z47 Moments222: How Emversity Is Bridging Higher Education with Real Industry Skills | Zero to Infinity
In this episode of Zero to Infinity, Rajat Agarwal and Chandrasekhar Venugopal sit down with Vivek Sinha, second-time founder and CEO of Emversity, to unpack…
Z47 Moments220: India’s Secret Advantage in AI: The FDE Revolution
70% of enterprise AI projects never reach production. The solution: Forward Deployed Engineers (FDEs). In this episode, Vikram Vaidyanathan and Rocketlane CEO…
Z47 Moments221: How MoEngage Is Powering Global Customer Engagement | Zero to Infinity
From a small apartment in Bengaluru to powering over 2 billion users across 60+ countries, MoEngage is one of India’s most quietly global success stories. This…
Z47 Moments219: The Startup That Can Build Anything
756 of 1,009 rows displayed Submarine parts. Metro casings. Agricultural harvesters. Even bombshell casings for the defence sector. In this episode of the…
Z47 Moments218: India’s Role in an AI-First World? | Zero to Infinity
The US innovates. China industrializes. Can India deploy at scale and claim its right to win in AI? India’s edge has always been its people: engineers, data…
Z47 Moments217: How Scalekit is Revolutionizing Access Management for Agents | Zero to Infinity
In the near future, less than 10% of access will come from humans, the rest will be agents? What happens when your next user isn’t human? In this episode of…
Z47 Moments216: Disruptor, Digitiser, Enabler: AI’s Role in India's Apps | Consumer Trends Part 2
Dive deep into the transformative power of AI in India’s consumer app landscape. In this episode of Zero to Infinity, Avnish Bajaj, Chandrasekhar Venugopal aka…
Z47 Moments215: What it’s like to work at a young AI startup: Inside GreyLabs AI | Zero to Infinity
Most startup journeys are told in hindsight, GreyLabs AI’s told in the middle of figuring things out. In this episode of the #ZeroToInfinity podcast, the…
Z47 Moments214: 5 Consumer Trends We're Watching Closely | Part 1 | Zero to Infinity
We’re not seeing enough entrepreneurship in India, not for lack of talent, but because most founders haven’t yet internalized how quickly India’s consumption…
Z47 Moments213: Meet the Founders of Finnable: ₹3,000 Cr Phygital Lending Powerhouse | Zero to Infinity
India’s largest creditworthy segment remains invisible to the lending ecosystem, not because of a credit problem, but because of a design problem. When every…
Z47 Moments212: From (Z)omato to (A)ther: India’s Tech IPO Shift Decoded | Avnish Bajaj | Rajinder Balaraman
India will see 100 tech IPOs by 2030. While Silicon Valley still waits for $5B+ exits, Indian founders are going public earlier - at $600 million. Why? Because…
Z47 Moments211: Beyond ISRO: India's SpaceTech Startups Are Firing Up
The next 30 global SpaceTech giants will be built and 10 could come from India. But DeepTech is clunky, Series A is brutal & government still writes 70% of the…