Gopal Srinivasan
Gopal Srinivasan really needs no introduction. Member of the TVS Family, one of South India’s largest business families, Gopal is a serial entrepreneur with as many as 9 companies to his credit ranging from Harita Seating to TVS Electronics. Here Gopal talks about the realization of his long cherished dream, the launch of the TVS Shriram Growth Fund, a growth fund focusing on consumer consumption. As he puts it, “Entrepreneurs are the freedom fighters of the economy and they need support!
Siddarth Duderia – Earn Karma
EarnKarma as the name suggests is a start-up which provides individuals with an opportunity to ‘Earn Karma’.What it does is provides individuals with an opportunity to register themselves to volunteer for NGO’s and socially motivated organizations alike.
Marketing Head of SKC Sravan Raghunathan talks about SKC’s growth plans moving forward.SKC is one of South India’s largest retail chains with a turnover of approximately 1000 crore
The Astropreneur
They say that the key to success is being surrounded by people who are more knowledgeable than you. Well, if that maxim holds good, I’m sure there will be no one happier than this man on my show this week.
‘Knowledgable’ did someone say, what about being surrounded by 120 of India’s leading astrologers – headed by none other than Mr.Bejan Daruwalla. Hemang Arun Pandeet – Founder and CEO of Ganesha Speaks – here talks about his journey in creating India’s no.1 Astrology Portal, Brand and Company.
Yup, he also talks about the unique challenges in heading a workforce with 80% of them being astrologers. Why is astrology so succesful in India – cause as he puts it everyone needs consultancy – more so India’s never had a culture of going to a psychiatrist which is a billion dollar industry in the U.S.
Here it is:
Interview with P.S Saminathan – Pyramid Saimira
Interviewing Saminathan – Managing Director of Pyramid Saimira was a truly surreal experience. After making us wait for about an hour, he walked in and was ready to shoot in exactly 24 seconds.
Like the speed of growth of his company, here he talks about Pyramid Saimira’s phenomenal growth, its forays into multiple sectors including Theatres, Movie Production, Food and Gaming. One of the highlights of the interview is when he talks about the upcoming release of the Rajnikanth starrer Kuselan.
Check it out
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Interview with Girish Ramdas – Galatta.com
Bumped into Girish Ramdas at the Kodaikanal Golf Course of all places, where he modestly told me that he ran Galatta.com. Galatta for the uninitiated is one of South India’s leading film web-sites. Girish here takes me through the rise of Galatta, how it started, it’s foray into print and its plans moving forward.
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Interview with Kal Raman – Globalscholar.com
They are few more inspiring stories than that of Kal Raman. Born and brought up in a Mannarkovi in the Thirunaveli district of Tamil Nadu, Kal had an extremely modest upbring where his mother raised the entire family on a pension of less than Rs.500 per month.
Kal went to the Anna University in Chennai, took up his first job with TCS and has an inspiring career since which has seen him work with the likes of Walmart, Amazon and most recently with Drugstore.com, where he was the CEO.
Here Kal talks about his most recent venture – Globalscholar.com – an online education site which recently got funded a whopping 27 Million dollars. I spent a good 4 hours with him where we discussed everything from Cricket to Rajnikanth to Entrepreneurship, the man is an inspiration – Period. Watch this
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Interview with Ananth – Atyourprice.in
Atyourprice.in is a ‘flip’ play in the Indian Travel Sector. While the entire online Travel sector is being squeezed with non-existent commissions due to changing tax structures and increasing prices due to fuel prices, Ananth at Atyourprice has seemingly created a model which can succeed independently.
As he tells us, over 30% of inventory on any Airline goes unsold through the year. It is this inventory which he is trying to fill, as he says, from an Airlines view filling the seat with someone is better than it going vacant. With his online auction model, he is in the business of putting ‘Bumbs on seats.”.
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Boy Genius – Ashwin Ramesh
Ashwin Ramesh is no ordinary 18 year old, at the age of 17 he started his own company, one which deals with Search Marketing. In over a year of operation, Ashwin has moved his operation to over 5 countries and revenues of over USD 10,000 per month.
Here he speaks of how he began, his early challenges and his plans moving forward
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Interview with Satish Babu – Univercell
Satish Babu is the definition passionate Entrepreneur. Beginning his career as part of the Euerka Forbes sales force, in his own words he learnt the ropes through blood and sweat. Seeing the potential in the mobile sector, he launched Univercell which has now scaled to over 100 retail outlets across India.
I had the pleasure of meeting him in his store, in the middle of the shop-floor on an extremely hectic busy Wednesday evening where he took me through his inspiring story, how he motivates his sales team and the mobile explosion which the country has seen.
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The I-phone interview with Rohit Agarwal – Tech Tribe
Rohit Agarwal is an extremely well known individual in the Tech-space in India. Founder of Techtribe, I caught up with him at Proto.in in a memorable interview where he showed all of us a demo of his brand new I-phone. Techtribe for those of you who aren’t aware is a leading career networking portal in the country.
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Proto.in – Opening Interview
Just before Proto.in 2007 – Aug. edition began, we had an interview with the core organizers of the event. Vijay Anand – Founder of Proto.in, Ravi Narayanan – Founder of Mentor Partners and Ravi Shankar from IIT Madras.
Here they talk about the evolution of Proto.in, how it all began and plans moving forward.
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Madhav Das -Southside Magazine – Formerly Magnasound
Madhav Das is one interesting story – formerly the CEO of Magnasound, he had to shutdown Magnasound after the company went bust about a decade ago. He recently launched Southside – A Kollywood magazine which has had a good response so far.
In this freewheeling interview, he talks about his career with Magnasound, the digital music industry which practically killed it, his work with A.R Rehman and the starting of Southside
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Abhishek Dingra – Mr. Pronto
One of the first interviews on Business Bytes, we meet Abhishek Dingra in his office Mr.Pronto in Spencers Plaza, Mount Road. Abhishek, as he would like to call himself is a ‘Glorified cobbler’, who is making a living out of repairing bags and shoes.
Having completed his MBA in Manila, this was one of his MBA projects, one which he has pursued to the full. In this interview, Abhishek speaks about his story, the store’s growth to 4 branches in Chennai and also gives us a demo of a shoe repair in progress. Must watch – check it out.
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Interview with Nandhagopal – Mohan Meakin Breweries
In my first interview on Business Bytes, I profile Mr. Nandhagopal of Mohan Meakin Breweries. Mr. Nanhagopal is group chairman of Mohan Meakin Breweries which is best known for its brewing of the every popular ‘Golden Eagle Beer’.
Here, he speaks of his journey with Mohan Meakin, the success of ‘Golden Eagle’ Beer and Mohan Meakin’s other multiple businesses.
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