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05 - The First Thing We Build Is the Team - Ankur Joshi - Founder and CEO of Nuclei
51 minutes Posted May 11, 2022 at 12:55 am.
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India GameChanger was excited to have Ankur Joshi, the Founder and CEO of Nuclei join us on the show.  Nuclei is on a mission to inject consumer tech DNA into banks and telecom companies.

Some of the topics Ankur covered:

  • Growing up lower-middle class and understanding education as the way out
  • Moving for his studies at IIT Bombay
  • An introduction to a global mindset
  • Being motivated to outwork his peers
  • Going into investment banking and why
  • The family and community pride of him being a banker
  • The opposition to him leaving his banking job for the world or startups
  • Venture failures and successes
  • Build a business that can be sustained for the long-term
  • How the internet is changing customer experiences and customer values
  • A bank-in-a-box
  • The leverage and power of diversity across the board
  • The importance of being a global company

Other titles we considered for this episode:

  1. One of Our Mistakes Was Thinking Small
  2. I, Alone, Cannot Build a Business
  3. We Suffer Together and we Succeed Together
  4. There Was Simply No Other Choice

This episode was expertly produced by Isabelle Goh.