Indian startup building, without the polish.
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Z47 Moments is a founder-facing interview series built around the messy middle of building companies in India. Episodes move from childhood ambition and shutdowns to product-market fit, AI agents, consumer moats, marketplace discipline, and global expansion.
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About Z47 Moments
Z47 Moments is a founder and investor conversation series about how ambitious companies are actually built in India. It favors long answers, sharp frameworks, and the uncomfortable parts of the journey. The strongest episodes are not simple success stories. They return to the moments when a founder nearly broke, shut something down, faced rejection, lost confidence, or had to choose a drastic move over incremental optimization. Unstarted episodes focus on the early and emotional architecture of company-building: obsession, validation, regret minimization, product-market fit, retention, and the courage to start before certainty arrives. Intelligent Indians brings AI into the frame through founders, investors, and technologists thinking about agents, labor replacement, India’s engineering base, and why productized intelligence changes the startup landscape. Zero to Infinity stretches the scope from software into operating businesses such as seafood supply chains, cross-border brands, M&A, and profitable global growth. The show is especially strong when it turns abstract startup language into concrete operating tests. Product-market fit becomes a question of user disappointment and usage intensity. Marketing becomes fuel after a fire already exists. Marketplace reform becomes a change in seller incentives, P&L, and customer experience. Ambition becomes something personal, shaped by class, reputation, family pressure, validation, or the need to prove that a bigger future is possible. The register is candid and sometimes intense, but the editorial center is practical. Guests talk about what they believed, what failed, what changed, and what they would watch for next time. Z47 Moments suits founders, operators, investors, and startup-curious listeners who want India-specific company-building conversations with both strategic detail and emotional texture.
Made for: For founders, operators, investors, and startup-minded listeners interested in Indian company-building, AI, consumer products, marketplaces, fintech, and global expansion. It is best for people who like tactical founder lessons with personal context attached.
What sets it apart: The show pairs venture-scale strategy with unusually candid founder psychology, moving from retention curves and GTM to shame, obsession, regret, and resilience. Its India-centered lens gives familiar startup concepts a more specific operating context.
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A shrimp reaches New York, and you get the EBITDA before anyone turns it into founder mythology.
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- founders pushed past origin stories into retention, unit economics, and painful restarts
- Indian company-building lessons spanning packaged food, e-commerce, and seafood acquisitions
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Episodes
- 1
Founder Archetypes: The First Time Founder's Edge | Avnish Bajaj | Chandrasekhar Venugopal
·28m - 2
AI won't take your job, here's why | Intelligent Indians Ep 3
·36m - 3
Raising $7 Million for your AI startup | Utkrishta Kumar | Unstarted Ep 5
·29m - 4
He shut down his first company and built a bigger one | Anil Goteti, Scapia | Unstarted Ep 5
·34m - 5
He built a $1.5B seafood empire from India that nobody knows about | Utham Gowda -Captain Fresh
·55m - 6
The truth about about starting up in your 20s | Foxtale founder
·33m - 7
What Aman Gupta Won't Say on Shark Tank | Aman Gupta | Avnish Bajaj | UnStarted Ep3
·45m - 8
What if my startup fails? | Ahana Gautam, Open Secret | UnStarted Ep2
·33m - 9
Do you need work experience BEFORE starting up? | Revant Bhate, Mosaic Wellness | UnStarted Ep 1
·39m - 10
This company is building the IKEA of India
·36m - 11
Why VCs regret not investing in Acceldata - From IIT to Silicon Valley
·41m - 12
How this IIT Alum is scaling India's ₹10,000 Cr AI Initiative | Intelligent Indians #AI
·30m - 13
Where will $12 Billion VC capital go in 2026? | India’s Top Investors Explain
·45m - 14
Trends in Term Sheets: What Founders Need to Know
·1h 9m - 15
India’s Secret Advantage in AI: The FDE Revolution
·45m - 16
How MoEngage Is Powering Global Customer Engagement | Zero to Infinity
·1h 17m - 17
The Startup That Can Build Anything
·35m - 18
India’s Role in an AI-First World? | Zero to Infinity
·45m - 19
How Scalekit is Revolutionizing Access Management for Agents | Zero to Infinity
·30m - 20
Disruptor, Digitiser, Enabler: AI’s Role in India's Apps | Consumer Trends Part 2
·26m - 21
What it’s like to work at a young AI startup: Inside GreyLabs AI | Zero to Infinity
·1h 3m - 22
5 Consumer Trends We're Watching Closely | Part 1 | Zero to Infinity
·34m - 23
Meet the Founders of Finnable: ₹3,000 Cr Phygital Lending Powerhouse | Zero to Infinity
·50m - 24
From (Z)omato to (A)ther: India’s Tech IPO Shift Decoded | Avnish Bajaj | Rajinder Balaraman
·48m - 25
Beyond ISRO: India's SpaceTech Startups Are Firing Up
·32m - 26
4 P&L Secrets D2C / Consumer Brand Founders Use to MAXIMIZE Growth
·42m - 27
How B2B Companies Scale to Infinity | Zero to Infinity | Avnish Bajaj | Sudipto Sannigrahi
·37m - 28
The Last Software You Will Ever Shutdown - Meet the founder of WizCommerce
·35m - 29
Jobs, Startups, & Trillions: How AI Will Rewrite the Rules of Everything
·39m - 30
Meet the Founders of Wootz.work: Reimagining Indian Manufacturing for the World | Zero to Infinity
·47m - 31
Consumer Unicorns in the Next Tech-Ade
·31m - 32
The Next Tech-Ade of FinTech
·18m - 33
The next tech-ade in Enterprise and AI
·33m - 34
Why Z47, Why Now: Developed Nation Building | Zero to Infinity
·25m - 35
How redBus CEO Drives Impact with Every Hire
·39m - 36
Founder Archetypes - The First Time Founder Edge Part 2
·37m - 37
150 rejections, a government ban and starting over | The Dream11 story | Unstarted Ep 7
·46m - 38
How Startups Can Supercharge India's Aerospace & Defence Sector
·3m - 39
dd-Matrix CEO Sid Sheth Shares His Blueprint for Chip Success | Seed to Silicon
·42m - 40
SaaS in the Era of AI: How to build an enduring SaaS AI company
·46m - 41
Economic PMF is the ONLY PMF: App Economy 3.0.
·45m - 42
How this founder turned 1000 interviews into a potential Rs.1000 Cr brand?
·36m - 43
How Unsecured Lending Became More Viable in India | Vikram Vaidyanathan | Anish Patil
·20m - 44
The Future of E-commerce is Kwik & Bright! | Chirag Taneja | Avnish Bajaj | Rajat Agarwal
·43m - 45
Meet the Founders of Neysa Networks | Sharad Sanghi | Anindya Das | Avnish Bajaj | Pranay Desai
·40m - 46
Meet the Founder of SiftHub | Manisha Raisinghani | Pranay Desai
·26m - 47
The Park+ Playbook for Early Stage Hires
·25m - 48
Meet the Founders of GreyLabs AI
·45m - 49
The Middle Journey of Fintech
·26m - 50
How to Go Phygital for Growth: Myths vs Reality
·25m - 51
Built for scale - OneCard's company building journey
·40m - 52
Starting, fundraising & PMF: navigating the seed stage journey
·39m - 53
The GenAI Revolution in Fintech
·41m - 54
Murf Unplugged: Winning in GenAI
·46m - 55
Ready, Steady, Zupee! Elevating Gaming in India
·1h 3m - 56
Where to incorporate SaaS Startups: US or India?
·31m - 57
The Founder's Handbook - Internal vs External Funding Rounds
·30m - 58
How Domain Alphas master success?
·21m - 59
How OTO Sold 1,00,000 Two-Wheelers online?
·40m - 60
The Whole Truth about Brand Communities
·48m - 61
The Whole Truth about Company Culture
·42m - 62
0:03 / 23:04 • Introduction How INDMoney's Ashish Kashyap Builds Successful Teams AGAIN & AGAIN | People First with Rupali
·23m - 63
Building the Organisation from Ground 0 with Revant Bhate
·30m - 64
What’s Next for Matrix over the Next Techade
·34m - 65
Investing in Digital India - Trends for 2024
·39m - 66
Leading the B2B frontier: People fueling profitability
·29m - 67
Matrix Moments: Investing in Human Capital; The VC Perspective
·32m - 68
Matrix Moments: Code to Commerce - The Mobile Gaming Evolution
·50m - 69
Matrix Moments: Simplifying employee support with AI - Atomicwork
·1h 25m - 70
Matrix Moments: Maximizing Return on Investment - The Key to Stable Money
·50m - 71
Matrix Moments: Investing in India's B2B Potential
·30m - 72
Matrix Moments: Insights From Second Time SaaS Founders - Part 2
·43m - 73
Insights from second time SaaS founders - Part 1
·30m - 74
Matrix Moments: Gaming Reloaded - What is next?
·35m - 75
Digital Industrialists with Avnish Bajaj and Rajinder Balaraman
·29m - 76
Matrix Moments: India's First Lifestyle App For The Elderly, GenWise
·28m - 77
Matrix Moments: India's First Lifestyle App For The Elderly, GenWise
·28m - 78
Matrix Moments: The AI revolution in Media & Social - Part One
·32m - 79
Matrix Moments: Anil Goteti, Founder of Scapia on building a travel fintech company
·40m - 80
Why now, for the India Semiconductor opportunity? Seed to Silicon part 1
·28m - 81
Unravelling Fintech Infra and Banktech Opportunities
·38m - 82
Cash’ing in on crypto
·24m - 83
Matrix Moments: Indian ConsumerTech - Coming back to life
·31m - 84
Matrix Moments: To IPO or to not IPO?!
·37m - 85
Demystifying GenAI: A Founder's Primer with Vijay Rayapati
·25m - 86
Infinity Entrepreneurs
·30m - 87
The top 4 B2B verticals founders should invest in
·6m - 88
Environment, Valuations and Starting Up in 2023
·33m - 89
2022 Recap & Forecast 2023
·48m - 90
Jump-starting crypto: road ahead to building applications in web3
·29m - 91
Founder Market Fit
·29m - 92
Institutional Staking in the post merge era
·26m - 93
Building scalable vertical social communities
·57m - 94
Learnings from experienced founders
·8m - 95
Tokens of Wisdom
·37m - 96
Building the organisation of the future
·42m - 97
How to create category defining SaaS companies feat. Rocketlane
·31m - 98
Razorpay’s hypergrowth journey: learning’s & what’s next?
·43m - 99
The past, present and future of Edtech
·56m - 100
How Emversity Is Bridging Higher Education with Real Industry Skills | Zero to Infinity
Emversity bridges the gap between university education and industry skills, providing on-the-job training to improve employability in high-demand sectors.
·45m - 101
Built a $70M company because he wasn't invited to birthday parties
Hidden gemA founder shares how childhood feelings of exclusion and financial lack drove him to build a $70M company, detailing early struggles and emotional lows.
Apr 16, 2026·37m·2 clips - 102
150 rejections, a government ban and starting over | The Dream11 story | Unstarted Ep 7
Harsh Jain describes founding Dream11 after finding no functioning fantasy-cricket product in India, drawing on his experience with Fantasy Premier League and his passion for sports technology.
Apr 9, 2026·46m·3 clips - 103
AI won't take your job, here's why | Intelligent Indians Ep 3
Avi and Avnish discuss why OpenClaw, coding agents, and self-healing software changed their view of enterprise AI adoption within six months.
Apr 7, 2026·36m·2 clips - 104
Raising $7 Million for your AI startup | Utkrishta Kumar | Unstarted Ep 5
Hidden gemOn Unstarted, host Avnish Bajaj interviews Uttakrishna Kumar about leaving Meesho before its IPO to build an AI-led credit and finance companion.
Apr 2, 2026·29m·2 clips - 105
He shut down his first company and built a bigger one | Anil Goteti, Scapia | Unstarted Ep 5
Hidden gemAnil Goteti, founder and CEO of Scapia, describes moving from IIT Madras and Northwestern Kellogg to McKinsey, Flipkart, Proton, and a second startup attempt.
Mar 26, 2026·34m·2 clips - 106
He built a $1.5B seafood empire from India that nobody knows about | Utham Gowda -Captain Fresh
Hidden gemZ47 Moments revisits Uttam Rajan’s claim that moving shrimp from Chennai to New York could be highly profitable, a thesis Sudipto initially doubted in early 2020.
Mar 24, 2026·55m·3 clips - 107
The truth about about starting up in your 20s | Foxtale founder
Hidden gemRomita Mazumdar recounts moving from Ranchi to UCLA, Bank of America, and venture capital before deciding to build a $100 million consumer brand with 20% EBITDA.
Mar 19, 2026·33m·2 clips - 108
What Aman Gupta Won't Say on Shark Tank | Aman Gupta | Avnish Bajaj | UnStarted Ep3
Hidden gemZ47 Moments interviews Aman Gupta, founder of Boat and a Shark Tank India investor, about his path from CA training and corporate jobs to entrepreneurship.
Mar 12, 2026·45m·3 clips - 109
What if my startup fails? | Ahana Gautam, Open Secret | UnStarted Ep2
Hidden gemAhana Gautam, founder of Open Secret, describes moving from Bharatpur to IIT Bombay, Harvard Business School, and the United States before returning to build a healthier packaged-food company in India.
Mar 5, 2026·33m·2 clips - 110
Do you need work experience BEFORE starting up? | Revant Bhate, Mosaic Wellness | UnStarted Ep 1
Feb 26, 2026·39m - 111
This company is building the IKEA of India
Feb 24, 2026·36m - 112
Why VCs regret not investing in Acceldata - From IIT to Silicon Valley
Jan 27, 2026·41m - 113
How this IIT Alum is scaling India's ₹10,000 Cr AI Initiative | Intelligent Indians #AI
Jan 13, 2026·30m - 114
Where will $12 Billion VC capital go in 2026? | India’s Top Investors Explain
Jan 13, 2026·45m - 115
Trends in Term Sheets: What Founders Need to Know
Nov 27, 2025·1h 9m - 116
How Emversity Is Bridging Higher Education with Real Industry Skills | Zero to Infinity
Emversity bridges the gap between university education and industry skills, providing on-the-job training to improve employability in high-demand sectors.
Nov 25, 2025·45m - 117
India’s Secret Advantage in AI: The FDE Revolution
Nov 19, 2025·45m - 118
How MoEngage Is Powering Global Customer Engagement | Zero to Infinity
Nov 5, 2025·1h 17m - 119
The Startup That Can Build Anything
Nov 4, 2025·35m - 120
India’s Role in an AI-First World? | Zero to Infinity
Oct 31, 2025·45m - 121
How Scalekit is Revolutionizing Access Management for Agents | Zero to Infinity
Sep 17, 2025·30m - 122
Disruptor, Digitiser, Enabler: AI’s Role in India's Apps | Consumer Trends Part 2
Jul 30, 2025·26m - 123
What it’s like to work at a young AI startup: Inside GreyLabs AI | Zero to Infinity
Jul 17, 2025·1h 3m - 124
5 Consumer Trends We're Watching Closely | Part 1 | Zero to Infinity
Jul 8, 2025·34m - 125
Meet the Founders of Finnable: ₹3,000 Cr Phygital Lending Powerhouse | Zero to Infinity
Jun 27, 2025·50m - 126
From (Z)omato to (A)ther: India’s Tech IPO Shift Decoded | Avnish Bajaj | Rajinder Balaraman
Jun 19, 2025·48m - 127
Beyond ISRO: India's SpaceTech Startups Are Firing Up
May 23, 2025·32m - 128
4 P&L Secrets D2C / Consumer Brand Founders Use to MAXIMIZE Growth
May 9, 2025·42m - 129
How B2B Companies Scale to Infinity | Zero to Infinity | Avnish Bajaj | Sudipto Sannigrahi
Apr 17, 2025·37m - 130
The Last Software You Will Ever Shutdown - Meet the founder of WizCommerce
Apr 7, 2025·35m - 131
Jobs, Startups, & Trillions: How AI Will Rewrite the Rules of Everything
Mar 29, 2025·39m - 132
Meet the Founders of Wootz.work: Reimagining Indian Manufacturing for the World | Zero to Infinity
Mar 13, 2025·47m - 133
Consumer Unicorns in the Next Tech-Ade
Feb 28, 2025·31m - 134
The Next Tech-Ade of FinTech
Feb 24, 2025·18m - 135
The next tech-ade in Enterprise and AI
Feb 14, 2025·33m - 136
Why Z47, Why Now: Developed Nation Building | Zero to Infinity
Feb 8, 2025·25m - 137
How redBus CEO Drives Impact with Every Hire
RedBus CEO discusses the company's scale, growth, and record-breaking ticket sales.
Jan 21, 2025·39m - 138
Founder Archetypes - The First Time Founder Edge Part 2
Jan 10, 2025·37m - 139
Founder Archetypes: The First Time Founder's Edge | Avnish Bajaj | Chandrasekhar Venugopal
Nov 26, 2024·28m - 140
How Startups Can Supercharge India's Aerospace & Defence Sector
Nov 22, 2024·3m - 141
dd-Matrix CEO Sid Sheth Shares His Blueprint for Chip Success | Seed to Silicon
Nov 15, 2024·42m - 142
SaaS in the Era of AI: How to build an enduring SaaS AI company
A discussion on building enduring SaaS AI companies, focusing on what CIOs are buying, creating repeatable revenue, and picking lucrative markets.
Oct 4, 2024·46m - 143
Economic PMF is the ONLY PMF: App Economy 3.0.
Sep 24, 2024·45m - 144
How this founder turned 1000 interviews into a potential Rs.1000 Cr brand?
Ramita, founder of Foxtail, discusses building a fast-growing D2C skincare brand through consumer obsession, analytical thinking, and channel prioritization.
Sep 10, 2024·36m - 145
How Unsecured Lending Became More Viable in India | Vikram Vaidyanathan | Anish Patil
Aug 13, 2024·20m - 146
The Future of E-commerce is Kwik & Bright! | Chirag Taneja | Avnish Bajaj | Rajat Agarwal
Jul 13, 2024·43m - 147
Meet the Founders of Neysa Networks | Sharad Sanghi | Anindya Das | Avnish Bajaj | Pranay Desai
Jul 5, 2024·40m - 148
Meet the Founder of SiftHub | Manisha Raisinghani | Pranay Desai
Jun 27, 2024·26m - 149
The Park+ Playbook for Early Stage Hires
Jun 24, 2024·25m - 150
Meet the Founders of GreyLabs AI
Jun 20, 2024·45m