hippoBrain
Aug 28, 2020
Episode 10 featuring R Ramaraj, Serial Entrepreneur and Mentor
As India celebrates 25 years of the Internet, Ramaraj takes us down memory lane -- how he led Sify to an IPO on Nasdaq at the height of the dotcom boom in 1999 and how Sify built a world-class Internet Internet company with its entrepreneurial energy.
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E37: An Internet for Women with Sairee Chahal, Founder of SHEROES
Is Internet no place for women? What do women want--on the Internet, that is? And how do you build a safe eco-system for women online? And importantly, how do you build a cohesive community and brand around the same that caters to real people and solves real problems? Well, there's one woman who has the answers in this episode of hippoBrain. Listen to Sairee Chahal, founder of SHEROES, talk to Jaimit Doshi and Rajesh Jain about unlocking the power of half of India's population--the ones with the X chromosome. It's a classic example of how to convert your ideas into actions.
Feb 26, 2021
E36: The Cricketing Brain with Jatin Paranjpe, Ex National Selector and CEO & Founder, KheloMore
What does it feel like to be a Cricketer representing India? What does it feel like to be a Cricket selector & administrator? And what does it feel like to be a sports marketeer—working for a large brand like Nike amongst some of the top names in Sports across the world?
Get your answers from the man who discovered Virat Kohli as Jatin Paranjpe, Ex National Selector and CEO & Founder, KheloMore talks to Jaimit Doshi & Rajesh Jain in this episode of hippoBrain.
Here’s the map of the whole conversation
1) Introducing Jatin Paranjpe
2) What does it take to be a modern-day Indian cricketer?
3) Can Cricketing intelligence be learnt?
4) The dynamics between Captain, Coach and Cricketer
5) How IPL has helped get Cricket talent of all kinds
6) Does the lack of Gully Cricket really matter?
7) What it feels like to represent India in international Cricket
8) How an ankle injury ended Jatin Paranjpe’s Cricket career
9) Is an India-Pakistan match stressful to a Cricketer?
10) Getting in Cricket administration
11) The role of a Cricket selector
12) Rise in Cricket talent in smaller Indian cities
13) Experience as a Sports Marketeer
14) Applying lessons from European Sports in India
15) What does KheloMore do?
16) Building the KheloMore platform
17) How Pandemic affected KheloMore
18) The resilience of Jatin Paranjpe
19) Last words
Feb 19, 2021
E35: Your Brand Needs a Story with Rajesh Sahadevan, CEO & Founder, Centre of Gravity Consulting
“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you,” Maya Angelou quoted.
Here’s another quote to build on this: “Listen deeply to the stories of humans and their lives, their stories hold within it every single vector of brand and consumer strategy.”
But don’t forget to first listen to “the caretaker of stories" speak about Brand Strategy and Story-telling in an almost poetic conversation with Jaimit Doshi and Rajesh Jain.
From stories about the colour of emotions and truck drivers to houses with gaudy paints in Kerala, he weaves a convincing story of how COG evolved over the years to focus on human stories and unearth Brand strategies. \
Not one to miss, for sure.