Unlocking Unicorn Secrets, Kushal Lodha
Unlocking Unicorn Secrets, Kushal Lodha
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Unlocking Unicorn Secrets
Behind the Scenes of India's Billion-Dollar Start-ups

Author: Kushal Lodha, Ishan Sharma

Narrator: Ishan Sharma

Unabridged: 5 hr 46 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 03/26/2024


Synopsis

In 2022, India, second only to the US, produced more unicorns than any other country in the world. Although ours is a vibrant ecosystem that encourages young minds to take the entrepreneurial plunge, the road ahead is full of pitfalls.Unlocking Unicorn Secrets captures the entrepreneurial journeys of some of India's new-age founders and looks at the challenges they faced and how they overcame them. It covers themes such as developing an idea, building out the minimum viable product (MVP), finding a co-founder, setting up the founding team, raising funds and scaling the business, among others. Through primary research and a series of interviews conducted with the founders of these billion-dollar companies, the authors weave a narrative that is both accessible and informative.The book is a manifestation of the authors' passion for inculcating the entrepreneurial mindset in our nation's youth, which they do masterfully, by illustrating the success stories of India's top unicorns.

About The Author

Kushal Lodha is the founder of KAGR, an ed-tech platform in finance upskilling. He is a qualified CA (with All-India ranks across all levels). He is a part-time creator with over 500k+ followers on social media cumulatively. He was awarded the LinkedIn's Top Voice for 2022.Ishan Sharma is the co-founder of MarkitUp, a content agency and is a content creator with over 1.5 Mn+ followers across social media. He has delivered speeches at colleges like IIT Jodhpur, among others.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Shubhneet on February 03, 2024

Incredible insights unfolded in this book featuring the perspectives of 20 distinct Indian Unicorns. The remarkable journeys and lessons drawn from them are not only commendable but deeply grounded. I appreciate how Kushal and Ishan skillfully encapsulate the entrepreneurs' insights, transforming it......more

Goodreads review by Charan on February 03, 2024

Why should you read this book? Let's say you meet Nitin or Nikhil from Zerodha while traveling on a flight. At the max, you can come up with some general questions on how they became successful or how they battled out the fears and rejections but after a certain point, you will need to think hard to......more

Goodreads review by Krutarth on June 05, 2024

Quick read. Good short stories which are mostly constructed from 1 or 2 interviews with a prepared set of questionnaires. You can definitely get an overview of the background story of the startup but don't focus much on the HOW details.......more