Flagship deep dive · EP 175

Stay in the room till the numbers move

India has 856 companies above ₹2,000 crore and 13,300 stuck between ₹100 crore and ₹2,000 crore — too small for a $2-3 million McKinsey engagement, too complex for a lone adviser. Sixteen years and 800 companies in, Prequate's Pradyumna Nag and Amogh Giridhar lay out the firm they built for that band: cash for value, equity for outcomes, 30% leaner because of AI — and certain no model reads a room.

With Pradyumna Nag and Amogh Giridhar, Prequate · 79 min

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Enterprise · EP 174

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Nine clips on who to sell to, how the sale actually runs, and what compounds

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From whether to raise at all to the terms you will live under

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Operator bringing AI into a traditional business

9 clips37 min

Frames first, then build or buy, then the deployments that pay for themselves

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Building for the Indian consumer

9 clips38 min

Market maps, the numbers under the first order, and distribution that does not burn

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Writing the outcome cheque

9 clips34 min

Instruments, capital ladders and the numbers a funder should ask for

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Deep-tech founder going zero to one

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Build order, non-dilutive money, hardware GTM and the regulator you did not plan for

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EP 175EnterpriseDeep dive

Stay in the room till the numbers move

Pradyumna Nag and Amogh Giridhar (Prequate)

79 minRead the dive →

EP 174EnterpriseDeep dive

Business Management Simplified

Tejas Goenka (Tally Solutions)

43 minRead the dive →

EP 173ImpactDeep dive

The next ecosystem is a village

Ajay Jain (IIM Calcutta Innovation Park)

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EP 172ImpactDeep dive

The rigour goes inside the timetable

Vivek Varshney (SpeEdLabs)

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EP 171CapitalDeep dive

The tag is worth ten per cent

Pradyumna (Prequate)

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EP 170Deep techDeep dive

The code is ephemeral, the context is the IP

Pradosh, Arvind and Vinay (LatentForce)

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EP 169EnterpriseDeep dive

The store that still doesn't know you

Pavan Panchamukhi (RDEP)

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EP 168ConsumerDeep dive

Gold was only the setting

Meenu Subbiah and Adithi (Meenu Subbiah Diamonds)

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EP 167EnterpriseDeep dive

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