Blume Podcast

The Blume Podcast is compounding!

Our new season will feature remarkable founders who have dedicated their lives to building generational companies. The focus will be on their tales of courage, anecdotes of resilience, and the stories of compounding. Why are we doing this? Because there is an urgent need to shift the narrative away from the obsession with unicorn valuations and instead highlight the importance of building sustainable and profitable organisations...

In this podcast, Peyush Bansal, founder and CEO of Lenskart, India's largest eyewear company talks to Karthik B. Reddy, co-founder and managing partner of Blume Ventures,  the importance of hiring the right people in building long-lasting businesses, the pathological obsession of founders to solve a particular problem, which is essential in India's small market, and balancing short-term objectives with long-term goals...

In the second episode of the Blume Podcast, host Karthik B. Reddy of Blume Ventures engages in a captivating conversation with Raamdeo Agrawal, Chairman and Co-Founder of Motilal Oswal Financial Services, one of India's leading financial services firms.

Agrawal shares his insights on various topics, including his investment philosophy, the dangers of building a startup for the wrong reasons, and his views on the growth of India...

Would you believe that the founder of the largest online brokerage in the country does not consider himself ambitious? ????

Well, that's exactly what Nithin Kamath of Zerodha says in our upcoming episode of Blume Podcast. ????️

In a conversation with Karthik B. Reddy, Nithin shares his outlook on his decision to bootstrap and explains why Zerodha's scale is due to the trust it has built...

In this episode, Nithin Kamath, founder and CEO of Zerodha sat down with Karthik B. Reddy, Managing Partner at Blume Ventures, to talk about building and scaling an online brokerage firm without any external capital.

In this podcast episode, Dinesh talks to Karthik B. Reddy of Blume Ventures about his journey starting a business in India around the time the internet was first introduced there. He was passionate about doing some business that would be centered around the internet and in India. He waited for the internet to be announced in India, and as soon as the announcement was made on August 15th, 1995, he asked his manager to transfer him back to India.

“The universe is not made of atoms, but it is made of stories” – Maya Angelou Manish Sabharwal, co-founder and vice chairman of @TeamLease Services Limited, one of the largest human resources companies in the world, believes that the success of companies depends largely on who their role models are and the stories they tell. He attributes the success of tech companies in Bengaluru to selecting the right role models like @NandanNilekani and Azim Premji...

In this episode, Manish Sabharwal from TeamLease discusses the origins of the staffing company and the key traits that contributed to its success. He shares his memories of India Life and how it eventually led to the creation of TeamLease. Additionally, he talks about the differences in decision-making between the two companies and the advantages of being a second-time founder.

Manish discusses the key areas that need attention for India's development...

Join us on the Blume Podcast as we sit down with Vinati Saraf Mutreja, the CEO and Managing Director of Vinati Organics. In this episode, we discuss the evolving landscape of the chemical industry, focusing on the changing role of women in traditionally male-dominated fields. Vinati shares insights into the industry's transformation, particularly in corporate roles, and how gender diversity is making its mark...