Ashish Sinha, in conversation with thought leaders from business and product space. Expect candid conversations and notes from him on startups, life and everything in-between.
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I’ve been using Wispr Flow for the last six months and it has become one of those products that quietly slips into your daily workflow. After a shoulder injury from playing tennis, typing for long periods became uncomfortable, so dictation wasn’t just a productivity hack for me—it genuinely made working easier. Ironically, I stopped using it last week. [The show, Rumble with Sinha is co-hosted in…
Everyone is talking about Kunal Shah becoming CEO of WhatsApp. I think they’re looking at the wrong story. The bigger story is that Meta suddenly needs WhatsApp to work. For years, WhatsApp has been one of the most successful products in the world. But it has also been one of Meta’s biggest unfinished businesses. Meta paid $19 billion for WhatsApp more than a decade ago. Yet WhatsApp still…
Most companies building marketplaces struggle with one simple truth: demand and supply need to grow together, but early hacks often go unnoticed or unscalable. Amit, CEO and co-founder of NoBroker, reveals the counterintuitive lessons learned from disrupting the $50 billion real estate industry—lessons that could redefine how you think about scaling any marketplace. From avoiding the trap of…
You have a "God-level" product. Your pricing is perfect. Your UI is beautiful. So why aren't customers buying? In this video, Ashish breaks down the brutal reality of why great SaaS products fail—and it has nothing to do with your features.Most founders make the mistake of trying to change a company's behavior. In SaaS, if your customer doesn't already have an existing workflow for the problem…
Sam Altman frequently warns that most founders fail not because they don't work hard, but because they choose the "enjoyable path" over the "ambitious path." i.e. fake work.They spend 12 hours a day on Slack, tweaking UI colors, and attending networking events—tasks that feel productive but move the needle exactly zero inches.In this video, I break down a simple 2-circle Venn diagram to help you…
90% of consumer AI ideas look sexy but crash hard — most end up in the “tar pit” with zero real traction or revenue uplift. For e.g. that new ‘productivity app’, that ‘event discovery platform’ and an all-time fav, ‘friend finder’ :) In this video, I break down why so many consumer AI startups fail and share a realistic 2×2 framework that separates doomed ideas from winners. X-axis: Existing…
A rerun of my conversation with Shane Parrish of Farnam street. The conversation is a reminder about what matters in one's life - did you focus on the outcome or..your ego? I made a lot of tough decisions this year (thanks to a near death experience) and the mental model of outcome vs. ego kept coming to me - hence this rerun.
How to build successful startups. Watch this 30 mins MBA (well, almost) with K Ganesh - serial entrepreneur and investors behind successful startups like BigBasket, Portea Medical, Bluestone, HomeLane, Freshmenu.In this episode (the last one in the series), Ganesh and Ashish discuss several topics ranging from the next big opportunities in India to traits of a successful Indian company.1. Why…
Akshayakalpa is a weird business (weird in a good way) - it is one of the largest soil management companies in India - but ended up selling milk to create a sustainable business for its stakeholders (primarily farmers). And in the process, created a 400 cr+ (~$50mn) revenue business - accidentally! My next guest in #UnPluggdWithSinha podcast is Shashi Kumar, Cofounder and CEO of Akshayakalpa -…
He is one of the OGs of new age retail businesses. Raised funding - as expected great expansion plans et al. The money didn't hit the bank account (some % did) Almost lost his startup to investors - somehow got it back (had to take a loan) Activated the 'sane' mode - survived, scaled up. Meet my next guest in #UnPluggdWithSinha show - Manish Sharma, cofounder and CEO of Printo, a leading printing…
