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The people upstream.

The Upstream Life is a listening lab: long-form conversations with the founders, operators and investors building India's harder companies. This is who makes it.

From the editor

The story under the company.

We make long-form conversations with the founders, operators and investors building India's harder companies: robotics and silicon, credit and insurance, supply chains and studios. We go upstream of the headline, to how the thing was actually built.

Every episode ships with a listening lab: a sixty-second brief, the ideas worth carrying into your own work, and the lines worth keeping. The flagship dives add the numbers drawn as charts and the hour mapped chapter by chapter.

Nothing here is rushed. Episodes run an hour or more because the interesting part is usually the part that takes a while to get to.

The premise
“A ringside view of the stories that spark a new thought, a new journey — and bring forth a transformation.”
Vishal Krishna · founder & editor
Masthead

Who makes it.

Vishal Krishna
Vishal Krishna
Founder & Editor
Pavan Sharma
Pavan Sharma
Co-founder & Advisor
Bhavadeep Reddy
Bhavadeep Reddy
Advisor
Also on the masthead
Lochan SR
Lochan SR
Head of Community
Shreyas Mishra
Shreyas Mishra
Technology Advisor
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