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You spend a few weekends building a small web app to track garbage piles in your city. You wake up to 250,000 users and your local government quietly using your tool to clean the streets.
Two years ago, Anas lost his full-time UK job. He went back to Upwork — the platform he'd already used to make over $80K while studying — and within months landed an 18-month Swedish contract that generated over $5M in client revenue.
That's what Avi Pilcer actually shipped while most of us were still picking a domain name. He built an autonomous system called System Zero that does the heavy lifting for him.
Here's the thing nobody tells you when you start a business from your laptop in Kolkata: the company setup is the easy part. It's the tax side that'll keep you up at night.
What happens when a Marvel writer loses $500,000 on his first tech deal? In this episode of Ready Set Do, I sit down with Victor—a legally blind, albino filmmaker and founder who is disrupting the AI space.
How do you build a community of 600,000 people who want to be alone? In this episode, we sit down with Amanda Black , the founder of The Female Traveler Network , to reveal how she turned a simple travel blog into a global empire and a safe haven for half a million women.
The leap from farming in India to building humanoids at 1X is not the kind of story people usually tell without sanding off the hard parts. This conversation keeps the rough edges intact and shows what it looks like when ambition is paired with actual follow-through instead of just a good LinkedIn post.
This episode is a goldmine for builders: my guest is VJ Swaminathan, a serial entrepreneur you probably already know from Pathfinders and Authentic Hustle. VJ does something rare on this show — he literally pops the hood on his AI recruiting product, , and walks us through the exact tool stack, architecture decisions, and development trade-offs that got him from idea to demo.
Agentic AI isn’t just hype—it’s the future of how intelligent systems will work. In this episode, we dive deep with Meri, an engineer and educator at the forefront of this next-gen paradigm.
In this episode my guest is Subhabrata Debnath. Subho is a co-founder and CTO at Neuralgarage, whose proprietary solution VisualDub provides state-of-the-art LipSync using AI while maintaining exceptionally high visual fidelity.
Most robot vacuums still feel like they were built by people who have never watched one get stuck under a chair leg. Anshuman talks through what Matic had to rethink, why the obvious fixes were not enough, and what it takes to make hardware that works in the mess people actually live in.
This is a special crossover between the podcast and my YouTube series Build Your Own App , where we spotlight cutting-edge AI tools for everyday creators. Farah and I walk through multiple ways to build a fully customizable personal portfolio site that helps you stand out to recruiters.
Suchit is the founder of Crucible Institute, a business school that is seeking to completely revamp higher business education in India - by optimizing for practical skills needed for digital first businesses (which the world (including india of course) is currently seeing a boom of) instead of outdated theory taught by industry professionals and with a fee structure that's super unique.
Matt Williams built Approachable, an app for finding friends to explore your city with, at a moment when adult loneliness keeps getting worse. He talks about the build process, why he refused to hire US engineers for early-stage development, how he made $18K from a launch party, and what user behavior data taught him about social products in the real world.
Quitting a BCG job to fix broken news apps sounds dramatic until you sit with what actually pushed the decision. This episode is about the part people skip: the frustration, the tradeoffs, and the strange clarity that shows up when you stop pretending the old system is fine.
Is working for the Indian Government boring? The reality of building India's $350 Billion startup ecosystem is fast-paced, high-stakes, and surprisingly accessible.
How To Start An AI-based Company & Community opensphere.ai. This episode follows the first moves, tradeoffs, and lessons that show up before a story looks clean from the outside.
Can you build a startup while you are still on an F-1 visa? Supreeth Reddy, co-founder of Serene AI, talks through the sleep-tech problem he chose, how he found mentors, what it took to raise support, and the legal and practical mess of building as an international student.
Tom is a co-founder at Omnia, which is a one stop-shop for deploying XR content at scale. Another way to think of Omnia is simply the YouTube for XR creators and walks us thru the specific problem Omnia solves, and showcases some stunning use-cases of Omnia that is currently used by realtors in Chicago.
Advitya works on Responsible AI at Microsoft as a Machine Learning Engineer 2. I am extremely stoked to present this incredibly nuanced discussion on the ethics and responsibilities that come with building mass-market generative AI tools.
In this episode my guest is Prateek Behera. Prateek is a co-founder at gradCapital, which provides funding for college students in india whose projects can change the world.
In this episode, my guests are Ritwik and Kartik Khator. The twin brothers Ritwik and Kartik are the founders of Startup Indian , which is a company that offers research, analysis, and financial expertise services to startups and founders.
