The podcast for founders who haven’t fully started, or have, but aren’t sure.

Hosted by Avnish Bajaj
FOR FOUNDERS, BY FOUNDERS

Chakradhar Gade

Romita Mazumdar

Ahana Gautam

Nikitha Khanna

Ashish Mohapatra

Anil Goteti

Vivek Sinha

Aman Gupta

Revant Bhate
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Sanket Shah started thinking about business at 17. His first idea was putting ads on Mumbai auto-rickshaws. The government said no. He pushed through years of effort, approvals, and meetings, and got four rickshaws approved.
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Harsh Jain built Dream11 from a family business detour and a love of fantasy football into a company that reached 300 million users. Then PROGA happened, and brought the business he'd spent 17 years building to a halt.
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Utkrishta Kumar built India’s first just-in-time fulfilment network at 27, helped scale Meesho through a major pivot, then left before the IPO—not because he had to, but because not starting felt riskier than failing.
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Anil Goteti left McKinsey after one year, carried a US loan back to India, built a startup and shut it down — then found product-market fit with Scapia. Not the highlight reel. The real thing. Every wrong turn counted.
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Romita Mazumdar, founder of Foxtale, wasn’t always building a standout brand—before that, a banking desk that misread her, a VC role where she felt invisible, and a dinner question she couldn’t answer the “right” way.
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Z47 founder,Avnish Bajaj has known Aman for over 20 years - since before boAt, before Shark Tank, before any of it. He knows that's not the truth. That's exactly why he invited him on Unstarted.
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From Bharatpur to HBS and back — Ahana on building India's healthiest snack brand through resilience, a ₹170Cr pivot, and the quiet belief of a mother who refused to set limits.
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From VC skeptic to conviction-led founder — Revant on the 4-year journey everyone around him saw before he did.

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