Wisdom, shared as Stories, told by Founders

We spoke to Pravin Budhauliya of Degree 212 Consultancy Services Pvt Ltd, about how personal philosophy matters when it comes to wealth management, and in building long term working relationships. Pravin founded Degree 212 Consultancy Services Pvt Ltd in April 2012 to provide the ‘one last push that matters’ when it comes to wealth management. Wanting to provide more to his customers, and to escape the ‘revenue generation’ race that plagues the corporate sector, Pravin set out to create a company where the focus is squarely on building customer relationships, and not on selling a product. Breaking even within just two months since its inception, Degree 212 has grown from strength to strength.

Aditya from Greendeck talks about learning constantly and striking the right conversation to get your pitch across the line. Aditya started TrueMD, a digital pharmacy and HealthOS, an open healthcare dataset platform in 2016 with his partners Aayush Jain, Yashvardhan Srivastava, and Aayush Agarwal. After being acquired by a pharma company in 2017, he helped co-found Greendeck, a price optimisation and competitor monitoring platform for retailers, where he is currently the Chief Operating Officer.

We spoke to Dr. Renuka Karandikar of BioPrime, about her team’s work on plant responses, and on narrowing down the “Yield gap”. After completing her doctoral research in plant biology, Dr. Renuka co-founded BioPrime with her batchmates from the Savitribai Phule Pune University. At BioPrime, Dr. Renuka and her team develop biological solutions for farmers, to enable the full potential of their seeds and crops. Having to work with modern-day research and on optimising it for the grassroots level has helped Dr. Renuka formulate innovative solutions that facilitate change which a farmer can visualise.

We had a candid chat with Abhay Rangan, founder of Goodmylk about being a vegan activist and how that led to founding a venture to solve a problem. In his journey so far, Abhay has had to play many roles, starting from being a delivery boy for Goodmylk’s products to collecting awards as a Founder.

Vipin Joe talks about his experience as a product designer, and on maintaining the balance between his creative vision and the realities of manufacturing the actual product in his shop. Despite not having a single module on furniture in his product design education, Vipin now has a product design practice that also partly deals with furniture. With a firm opinion that the design and making of a product should happen under the same roof, Chackoshop is a testament to Vipin’s beliefs.