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 procrastinating?

1. How do you build your own legacy when one's already been handed to you?

2. How do you tell persistence apart from stubbornness when the first launch sells two pairs?

3. When everyone says list on Myntra, why wait two and a half years?

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A masterclass in brand building, told as a confession.