Mundhe Banni Podcast

Only 1 Lakh Engineers Got IT Jobs. What About the Other 7 Lakh? | Kamal Karanth | Ep 35

43K views · 5d ago · 1:52:32

How do you build a talent company in an industry with 23,000 competitors, with no Plan B? Kamal Karanth, co-founder of Xpheno, explains how he picked one niche, global capability centres (GCCs), went deep, and grew Xpheno to nearly ₹480 crore in revenue without institutional funding.

Topics: Childhood days and the connection between Bengaluru and Udupi · Love for movies and the dream of becoming a Bollywood hero · Microbiology background and entry into the sales career · Sales experience and lessons learned from handling rejection · Mafoi and first entrepreneurial experiences · Work experiences in Malaysia and other foreign countries

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From Belagavi to America | Two Cousins Who Built Online Instruments | Mundhe Banni | Ep 34

91K views · 2w ago · 1:30:07

They studied in Kannada medium schools in Belagavi district. Today, these two cousins own a company in America and run India's first CKD smart board factory. This is the Online Instruments story, told by its founders on Mundhe Banni, a Kannada entrepreneurship podcast.

Topics: Highlights & meet the founders · ₹50,000 each, college strikes, and push-button phones · What Online Instruments actually builds inside your office · Leaving a profitable phone business for an industry they didn't know · AV engineering: the career no college teaches · The 2007 fire that burnt 99% of their office

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India's First Water-Soluble Plant Protein, Made in Davanagere | Smitha Devigere | Ep 33

73K views · 1mo ago · 1:36:45

Run your business smarter with Odoo — one platform for sales, accounting, inventory, HR, projects and more. Start with Odoo here Thanks to Odoo for supporting this episode of Mundhe Banni. Why does a country that grows so many pulses import more than 90% of the protein isolates in its protein powders? Smitha Devigere, a former Novozymes scientist from Davanagere, left a stable research career to change that.

Topics: Is the Protein Craze Real or Just Hype? · The School Science Project That Started It All · No Medical Seat, No Placement — Then a Global Research Job · Why She Quit a Comfortable Job · Plant vs Animal Protein: The 100x Difference · No Soy, No Chemicals — Research in Her Own Kitchen

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Why Don't Indian Kids Have a Doll That Looks Like Them? | Suhas Ramegowda, The Good Doll | Ep 32

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"Amma, why don't I look like this doll?" That question from a child at a pop-up stall is the reason India now has Neelah: a brown-skinned, body-positive cloth doll made by tribal women in the Nilgiris. Suhas Ramegowda, co-founder of The Good Doll, left a 15-year corporate career at Shell, Bank of America and Wells Fargo to build it.

Topics: Mysuru middle-class boy to Shell and Bank of America via a ₹6,000 job · Maximalism, minimalism and the inward journey that started in 2015 · Quitting both jobs and moving off-grid to the Nilgiris · Why off-grid life felt empty: the bank-balance difference · Quilts, COVID masks and the want-vs-need lesson · The rag doll the market called "Indian Barbie"

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He Couldn't Raise ₹50,000. Now It's a ₹600 Cr Company | Shashi Kumar, Akshayakalpa | Ep 31

285K views · 2mo ago · 1:54:13

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Topics: Where every cab driver in Bengaluru actually comes from · 27 IT engineers who knew nothing about dairy — how Akshayakalpa began · 11 Feb 2012: 18 litres of milk in a park, then nine brutal years · Our soil is dying: how 185 coconuts a tree became 55 · Nandini kept us alive. So how is Akshayakalpa different? · Technology isn't an app: cows, soil, silage and surviving a drought

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200 Outlets, ₹400 Crore, Zero Investors | Ft. Kishore Rai, Founder of Polar Bear | Episode 30

131K views · 2mo ago · 1:34:24

In this episode of @mundhebanni Kishore Rai traces the full arc — from a village near Mangaluru where a 10-paise ice candy was the whole childhood memory, to nine years inside Unilever's ice cream business, to co-founding Dairy Day, and finally to launching Polar Bear in 2008 with ₹15 lakh and 25 unique flavours.

Topics: Why a Podcast Made Only for Kannadiga Founders · The 10-Paise Ice Candy Generation That Shaped a Brand · Three Jobs in Four Months, Then Nine Years Inside Unilever · The Café Coffee Day Obsession That Became Polar Bear · The Delta 4 Framework That Predicts Which Businesses Win · 2016: "If We Continue Like This, We Will Not Survive"

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(Full Episode in Dharwad Kannada) 60% in PUC. Stanford Still Said Yes, How? | Deepak Shapeti | Ep 29

161K views · 3mo ago · 1:30:53

India designs 20% of the world's semiconductors and owns almost none of them. Deepak Shapeti, co-founder and CEO of IISc-incubated Morphing Machines, is trying to change that with REDEFINE — India's own runtime-reconfigurable AI processor.

Topics: What is a chip, really? From sand to your phone · India has 20% of the world's chip designers — so why are we 30 years behind? · The "Swiss knife" chip: one chip for defence, telecom and AI · 100 research papers, ₹15 lakh: how an IISc lab became a company · "Are you building an Nvidia killer?" · 60% in PUC to Stanford: the childhood habit that changed everything

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What's Happening With OTT & Kannada Cinema | Ft. Daali Dhananjaya & Shashank Soghal | Episode 28

120K views · 3mo ago · 1:50:16

Stop wasting money on 10 different apps! This ONE platform runs your ENTIRE business (and almost nobody's talking about it) Sales, inventory, accounting, HR, CRM, e-commerce — Odoo does it ALL in one place, and it might just be the most underrated business tool on the planet. Companies are quietly switching and cutting their software costs in HALF. Think your business software stack is "fine"? Wait until you see what you've been overpaying for.

Topics: Welcome & the crisis in Kannada cinema · What's broken: theatres, affordability & honest cinema · Content, marketing & too few production houses · The language-consumption problem & why OTT skips Kannada · From actor to producer: Daali Pictures & a producer's job · Shashank & the crowdfunding of Devil Mustafa

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Delivery Boys Earn ₹40,000/Month? The Shocking Truth | Arun Kumar, EV91 Founder | Episode 27

29K views · 4mo ago · 53:21

A delivery boy in India can earn ₹40,000 a month — but takes home only half. EV91 founder Arun Kumar reveals the hidden economics of India's gig economy, and the EV subscription model rebuilding it. From a small room in Mandya to 25 cities, 5,000 riders, and 2,000 vehicles — this is the story of how an auto driver's son became the founder of one of India's fastest-growing gig mobility startups.

Topics: Welcome to Mundhe Banni · Meet the Founder of EV91 · The ₹40,000 Truth Nobody Tells You · The Model That Changed Everything · The Auto Driver's Son From Mandya · The Day He Walked Away From a Salary

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