Z47 Moments

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 Emversity, which trains people for the jobs India actually has in healthcare, hospitality, EPC and manufacturing. Homeschooled ...  عرض المزيد

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 and the first scientist on Unstarted. A steel-town kid from Bhilai who went from IIT Delhi to a PhD in AI, he came back to ...  عرض المزيد

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 right kind of person for it?Shashank Mehta is the founder of The Whole Truth, one of the best consumer brands built in In ...  عرض المزيد

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 what’s moving beneath the surface. It took her two years of analysis paralysis, ten abandoned ideas, and learning to normaliz ...  عرض المزيد

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 sell milk.This is the story of how a finance guy who once mapped "the IRR of a cow" learned that the spreadsheet was a lie, ...  عرض المزيد