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Interstellar takes you behind the scenes with the stellar founders, business builders, and next-gen leaders driving India’s startup ecosystem. Hosted by the Stellaris team, our conversations explore the bold strategies, resilience-building setbacks, and transformative scale that define some of India’s most remarkable businesses. Whether you’re a builder, dreamer, or simply curious, join us as we uncover the insights fueling these journeys.
Hosts:
Update frequency:
every 46 days
Average audio length:
47 minutes
Guest interviews
Video podcast
English
United States
15 episodes
since Feb. 3, 2025
episodic
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In this episode of Interstellar, Rahul Chowdhri sits down with Raghu Reddy and Kailash, co-founders of Lumio discuss their journey of building a premium, innovation-led consumer electronics brand in India.
The conversation covers how they identified an opportunity in the market, why they chose to c…
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Media is democratised now. Every founder has free, credible distribution, but most struggle with the 'how' of it. Chandan Mendiratta, Chief Brand Officer at Zepto and ex- Zomato brand lead, joins Rahul Chowdhri on what actually compounds, and what you're giving up by waiting.
Coming up-
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Membership and loyalty programs are one of the most powerful growth levers in consumer businesses, yet 90-95% of them fail. Most companies treat them as a feature bolted on top of the product. The ones that survive treat them as a strategic operating system built into the core of the business.
In …
Travel is one of the earliest internet categories in India, yet it still feels unfinished. Millions of people book flights in seconds… but still walk into hotels to book a room. Planning a single trip involves dozens of decisions across multiple platforms, spread over weeks.
And despite all the pr…
Experiences are emerging as a new layer of India’s consumer economy. From large global concerts to hyperlocal community events, consumers are increasingly stepping out not just for entertainment, but for identity, belonging, and participation.
This shift is creating entirely new opportunities and c…
As the world around him changed, Rohit Kapoor chose to reinvent himself. Curiosity led him into the startup world — from reimagining Indian hospitality at OYO to now powering India’s food story at Swiggy.
His biggest learning: Hyperlocal logistics is one of the toughest businesses to build.
Under…
Enamoured by Bangalore’s startup ecosystem, Nandita Sinha launched her own e-commerce venture in 2012. The learnings from that journey took her to Flipkart, where she rose through the ranks, leading multiple businesses and driving customer growth.
For the past 4 years, she’s been at the helm of @…
Why is this a Quick Commerce category and not e-commerce or offline-first?
What’s the right to exist for a vertical player - why won’t horizontal platforms win here?
Does this category demand a unique buying experience?
And finally - how do the unit economics scale to a large outcome?
In this epis…
Switching from a coveted FMCG job to an industry that was barely taking shape was one of the riskiest career moves in 2011. But Smrithi Ravichandran took a leap of faith into ecommerce when most were still figuring out what it meant.What drove her? A strong belief that technology would transform ho…
With an IIT KGP degree, an MBA from Harvard, and a comfortable consulting job at BCG New York, Abhinav Sinha had every reason to stay back in the US. However, in 2014, he packed his bags and returned to India with a mission: to be part of something entrepreneurial.
He took a leap of faith and join…
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