Saurabh Pandey, co-founder and CEO of EloElo. EloElo is an app that enables live-social experiences through games and entertainment. It is currently among the top 10 Apps on the Google Play Store in India with over 10M downloads.It accommodates 34,000 creators and offers a staggering 400 million minutes of live content. The company has raised $15M from Kalaari Capital, KB Investment, Lumikai, WaterBridge Ventures and Better Capital.

Before Eloelo, he accumulated a decade of experience in various domains such as marketing, product and growth at Flipkart and P&G.

Episode notes:

1. Introduction (2:05)
2. Rationale behind entrepreneurship: Saurabh's motivation for founding EloElo (2:59)
3. Resilience and conviction: Saurabh's renewed pursuit of entrepreneurship following a prior setback (10:25)
4. Early Validation of EloElo (18:03)
5. Standing out in a competitive landscape: EloElo's approach to capturing attention in the content and entertainment industry (26:16)
6. Building alongside ICPs (34:14)
7. The significance of timing in the company's growth trajectory (41:12)
8. Insights gained as a CEO: Key lessons learned by Saurabh (49:18)
9. Saurabh's framework for decision making (59:42)
10. Non-negotiable principles: Saurabh's core values and beliefs (1:10:26)
11. Saurabh's reflections – advice to the younger self (1:16:55)

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