What happens when a techie starts brewing in his garage and ends up building one of India’s most iconic craft beer brands?

Just as refreshing as Geist’s beer, this episode has Narayan Manepally, CEO & Co-founder of Geist Brewing Co., chatting with Sanjay Swamy. It has all the flavours and ingredients - from sharing his journey as an Intel engineer in the U.S. to innovating and succeeding as a beer entrepreneur.

What you’ll learn:
🍺 How one batch of California Golden Ale changed everything
📜 Why Narayan brewed in Belgium and brought it back to India
📦 The science of building a cold chain for beer
🌳 How Geist Brewing Co. turned adversity into an open-air beer garden
📈 From 0 to 450+ locations without compromising on quality

Timestamps:
00:00 – Introduction

03:27 – Tech at Intel → Garage Brewing

08:09 – First Brew = The Big Idea

10:08 – “Now They Say: We Love Geist!”

12:42 – What Makes a Beer ‘Craft’?

15:00 – Brewing Abroad When India Said No

18:04 – The 600K Month & Scaling B2B

20:33 – COVID Pivot: Sell to Myself

23:47 – Cold Chain & the Science of Fresh Beer

34:03 – Advice for Founders

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What happens when a founder builds and exits four companies, including a multi-million-dollar edtech company, before India even started talking about startups?

In this episode, K. Ganesh (Author & Partner at Growth Story) - the man behind BigBasket, Portea, Bluestone, and more breaks down the hard truths, lucky accidents, and pivots that shaped his journey.

🎙️ Hosted by Sanjay Swamy | Prime Venture Partners
📘 Featuring: Mastering Disruption by K. Ganesh

🧠 What you’ll learn:

How he went from engineer to entrepreneur by accident
The pivots that saved his companies during the dotcom crash
The GrowthStory model vs. traditional venture capital
His take on AI, relevance after 60, and learning to reinvent yourself

👉 Don’t just listen - learn, reflect, and share. This is founder wisdom in its purest form.

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What if your product manager, designer, developer, AND CEO were all AI?

In this game-changing conversation, Xiaoyin Qu, Founder of HeyBoss, joins Pankaj Agarwal (VP @PrimeVP_in) to share how she’s building a startup where software is shipped in minutes, led entirely by AI agents.

Before founding HeyBoss, Xiaoyin was a Product Manager at Facebook and Instagram. Today, she’s scaling her company with support from the OpenAI Startup Fund.

What you’ll learn:
🤖 How HeyBoss evolved from a kids' gaming idea to an AI development agency
👩‍💼 Why Xiaoyin stepped away from day-to-day operations and let “Astra”, their internal AI, lead the team
🧱 The infrastructure behind AI agents that ship full products from a single sentence
📊 Lessons in product design, QA, and customer feedback loops — all powered by AI
🧠 Why “taste,” strategy, and human intuition still matter (and always will)

⏱ Timestamps:
00:00 – Introduction
01:00 – From Stanford MBA dropout to COVID-era startup success
04:30 – Building the first AI-run dev agency
06:40 – Meet Astra: The AI CEO
08:46 – How AI manages product, design, dev & delivery
14:53 – Prioritising quality over speed in an AI world
21:49 – Humans vs. AI: What still needs us?
33:19 – The one human skill AI can’t replace

💡 Key Takeaways:

How to structure teams of AI agents to deliver finished outcomes
Why non-technical founders are a massive unlock for AI-driven products
What the future of work looks like when humans and agents collaborate
Tactical lessons for founders exploring AI-powered SaaS

This is not just a conversation - it’s a first-hand look at where the future is already headed.

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