1947 Rise
Our purpose is to help startups go mainstream in 🇮🇳! 1947 Rise Podcast is helping in accelerating the speed of reverse brain drain We do this by interviewing India-born, overseas-trained who have moved back to India and built massive tech companies themselves and/or helped enable the tech ecosystem 1947 Operators Podcast is helping in increasing the number of operator-angels in the startup ecosystem. We do this by unpacking the investing journey of the best operator-angels in India.
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127: Zero Network to Top VC: How Shruti Gandhi Became Silicon Valley's top Solo GP | 1947 Rise
Shruti Gandhi is the Founder and Managing Partner of Array Ventures, which backs early-stage B2B, deep-tech, and AI/ML startups. She has invested in 60+ companies with notable exits to Apple, PayPal, and ServiceNow, manages ~$150M across three funds, and also teaches at Columbia while serving on the San Francisco Emplo
126: From a Parking Lot Pitch to Investing in ~7 Billion-Dollar Startups | Ashu Garg Story | 1947 Rise
Ashu Garg is a General Partner at Foundation Capital, where he leads early-stage investments in AI, enterprise software, and data infrastructure. Over his career, he has invested early in one decacorn (Databricks) and six unicorns (Cohesity, Eightfold, Amperity, Turing, Anyscale, and Alation) … so far. Before venture,
125: He Left Google to Join a 3-Person Startup Glean… Worth $7B Today | Deedy Das Story | 1947 Rise
Debarghya “Deedy” Das is a technologist and investor, currently a Principal at Menlo Ventures where he leads early-stage investments in AI, infrastructure, and enterprise software, including the $100 million Anthology Fund with Anthropic. A founding engineer and product leader at Glean, he helped scale the company to a
124: He Helped Build YouTube, Google Search & Google AI – Satyajeet Salgar (Google Legend) | 1947 Rise
Satyajeet Salgar is Director of Product and UX at Google AI, where he leads teams building transformative products at the intersection of technology and media. With over a decade at Google, he has shaped products across Search, YouTube, Payments, and Ads—serving as the founding PM for YouTube Live and Games on Google+.
123: Built Google Maps. Took Uber Public. Now Building Microsoft Teams – Manik Gupta’s Journey
Manik Gupta is Corporate Vice President at Microsoft, leading product for Microsoft Teams, used by over 320 million monthly users. He sits on the Board of Directors at CarGurus and was previously Chief Product Officer at Uber, where he drove product strategy as the platform scaled to 100M+ users across 700+ cities. Bef
122: Why Gujaratis Are Born Entrepreneurs | AI & the Future of Logistics with Dhruvil of LogiNext
Dhruvil Sanghvi is the Co-founder and CEO of LogiNext, a prominent transportation automation platform optimizing logistics operations for enterprises globally. Since its inception in 2014, LogiNext has experienced significant growth, serving over 200 enterprise clients across more than 50 countries. Under Sanghvi's lea