First Principles
By The Ken
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Episodes: 47
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First Principles is a weekly interview podcast comprising authentic, candid, and insightful conversations between some of India’s most accomplished founders and business leaders, and Rohin Dharmakumar, The Ken’s CEO & co-founder.
From personal philosophies, mental models and decision making frameworks, to reading habits, parenting styles or personal interests, each episode will delve into what makes each of these leaders unique.
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Part 2: Trilegal's Rahul Matthan on the firm, the partnership, and the principles
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Sep 22, 2025 |
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Part 1: Trilegal's Rahul Matthan on the firm, the partnership, and the principles
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Sep 15, 2025 |
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Part 2: Anand Jain of Clevertap on starting with nothing and learning, building and leading as you go along
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Aug 18, 2025 |
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Part 1: Anand Jain of Clevertap on starting with nothing and learning, building and leading as you go along
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Aug 11, 2025 |
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Part 2: Ultraviolette Automotive's Narayan Subramaniam on tinkering, designing and learning by discarding
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Jul 28, 2025 |
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Part 1: Ultraviolette Automotive's Narayan Subramaniam on tinkering, designing and learning by discarding
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Jul 21, 2025 |
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Part 2: Manish Sabharwal of Teamlease on creating great ancestors, India’s development journey and ‘regulatory cholesterol’
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Jul 01, 2025 |
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Part 1: Manish Sabharwal of Teamlease on creating great ancestors, India’s development journey and ‘regulatory cholesterol’
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Jun 24, 2025 |
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Part 2: Sahil Barua on why Delhivery is the antithesis of moving fast and breaking things
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May 19, 2025 |
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Part 1: Sahil Barua on why Delhivery is the antithesis of moving fast and breaking things
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May 12, 2025 |
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Part 2: Vidit Aatrey on building a problem-first mindset into Meesho's culture
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Apr 21, 2025 |
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Part 1: Vidit Aatrey on building a problem-first mindset into Meesho's culture
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Apr 14, 2025 |
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Introducing Two by Two, a new premium business podcast from The Ken
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Jul 18, 2024 |
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The Final Supercut Part 2: Founders 21-41
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Jul 11, 2024 |
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The Final Supercut Part 1: Founders 1-20
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Jul 04, 2024 |
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Last Principles
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Jun 20, 2024 |
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Five women founders speak about leading with empathy, ambition, and not being apologetic and just focusing on building
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Jun 13, 2024 |
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Part 2: Manav Garg sold his business and started TogetherFund with Girish Mathrubootham. Naturally, the $150M fund has a founder-operator bias. What does that mean?
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Jun 06, 2024 |
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Part 2: Alok Mittal—teacher, angel investor, former VC—asserts Indifi is not a disruptive business. He also emphasises organisations should not fall into the trap of founder-worshipping
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May 30, 2024 |
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Part 1: Manav Garg started and ran Eka Software for 20 years before selling it. His #1 advise to founders? Budget 6 months to "manufacture" your co-founders
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May 23, 2024 |
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Part 2: Jaydeep Barman explains how internet restaurant Rebel Foods and luxury good giant LVMH have more in common than one can imagine
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May 09, 2024 |
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Part 1: Alok Mittal of Indifi on why org culture should not be defined but discovered
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May 02, 2024 |
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Part 1: Jaydeep Barman of Rebel Foods on why his business is 'misunderstood'—and why that's a good thing
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Apr 25, 2024 |
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Part 2: Chetan Maini of SUN Mobility on finding his 'true north', again
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Apr 18, 2024 |
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From succeeding in overcrowded markets to creating customer delight, five founders share their secrets
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Apr 11, 2024 |
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Part 2: Harsh Mariwala of Marico on experimenting with learning, fitness and leadership at 72
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Apr 04, 2024 |
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Part 1: Why Chetan Maini of SUN Mobility stopped making EVs when it got cool
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Mar 28, 2024 |
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Part 2: Girish Mathrubootham on Freshworks' trade secrets – and why he opened them up to competitors
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Mar 21, 2024 |
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Part 1: From Parachute to Saffola, Marico's Harsh Mariwala on building and branding India's biggest consumer products
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Mar 14, 2024 |
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Part 1: Girish Mathrubootham of Freshworks on why he doesn't measure 'winning' by numbers
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Mar 07, 2024 |
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Part 2: Why Vaibhav Gupta of Udaan doesn’t identify problems by patterns
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Feb 29, 2024 |
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Five founders on creating trust, patience and careers in their organisations
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Feb 22, 2024 |
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Part 2: Aneesh Reddy of Capillary Tech on how being called a “bully” led him to be a better leader
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Feb 15, 2024 |
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Part 1: How Vaibhav Gupta of Udaan builds, scales and improves execution playbooks
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Feb 08, 2024 |
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Part 2: How Viren Shetty of Narayana Health is building a career free of ‘groundhog days’
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Feb 01, 2024 |
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Part 1: Aneesh Reddy of Capillary Tech on his wins, mistakes and a breakout SaaS model
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Jan 25, 2024 |
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Part 2: Soumya Rajan of Waterfield Advisors on entrepreneurship, liberation and legacy
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Jan 11, 2024 |
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Part 1: Viren Shetty of Narayana Health on becoming ‘worse’ to become better and other ways to fix healthcare in India
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Jan 04, 2024 |
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Part 2: Why Ritesh Agarwal is a 'peacetime CEO' despite OYO's many wars
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Dec 28, 2023 |
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Part 1: Soumya Rajan of Waterfield Advisors on turning a 'sceptical' idea into a resilient business
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Dec 21, 2023 |
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Part 2: Karthik Jayaraman of WayCool looks back on his career, starting up at 40 and building leaders
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Dec 14, 2023 |
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Part 1: Ritesh Agarwal of OYO on building a business on differentiation, communication and resilience
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Dec 07, 2023 |
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Five founders on their childhood, choices and what drove them to start up
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Nov 23, 2023 |
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Part 1: Karthik Jayaraman of WayCool Foods on why disruption isn't always necessary for innovation
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Nov 09, 2023 |
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Five founders on building a unique product and making it last
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Sep 27, 2023 |
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Five CEOs talk about their journeys, struggles, successes, and failures
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Jul 05, 2023 |
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Jun 22, 2023 |