IndiSight

#Founders

18 articles

Ravi Kikan: Building Startups on Failure, Frugality, and Fierce Honesty
Corporate Visionaries

Ravi Kikan: Building Startups on Failure, Frugality, and Fierce Honesty

Ravi Kikan argues that startups don’t fail from ambition they fail from unlearned discipline, unpaid validation, and leaders who stop evolving. His philosophy is built on structure before speed, capital as fuel (not oxygen), and the hard truth that real product-market fit is a payment, not applause. Above all, he champions custodial leadership: build systems that grow people, prevent collapse, and let the company endure long after the founder.

IndiSight Editorial·
The Mindset Dividend: How Vaibhav Jain Redefines the Architecture of Financial Understanding
Founders & Innovators

The Mindset Dividend: How Vaibhav Jain Redefines the Architecture of Financial Understanding

Vaibhav Jain argues that while India has democratized access to markets, it has not yet democratized understanding data is abundant, but conviction and discipline are scarce. Through Capital Quill, he reframes finance as behavioral architecture, teaching investors to interpret emotion, build cognitive discipline, and treat awareness as the real edge. His core belief is simple: the next financial revolution will be won not by technology, but by judgment.

IndiSight Editorial·
Beyond Dashboards: Amit Shanker and the Architecture of Always-On Intelligence
Founders & Innovators

Beyond Dashboards: Amit Shanker and the Architecture of Always-On Intelligence

Amit Shanker’s journey exposes a paradox inside modern enterprises: more data hasn’t created better decisions. Through Bloom AI, he is building systems that turn intelligence into decision velocity, making insights flow directly into action. His philosophy blends quiet leadership, deep orchestration, and the belief that the future belongs to organizations that think less like machines and more like living, intelligent networks.

IndiSight Editorial·
Designing for Meaning: How Benditaa Built Purpose into Business Architecture
Founders & Innovators

Designing for Meaning: How Benditaa Built Purpose into Business Architecture

Richa Thakker Desai built Benditaa on a simple but powerful insight: children absorb the messages they wear, and apparel can shape identity through daily reinforcement. She combines legal rigor, financial discipline, and a values-first philosophy to create a brand where meaning not fashion cycles drives design and growth. Her long-term thesis is clear: businesses that build mindset, not just material, become the ones that truly endure.

IndiSight Editorial·
The Paradox of Power: Bhakti Shah on Redesigning Institutions for Fragile and Enduring Worlds
Founders & Innovators

The Paradox of Power: Bhakti Shah on Redesigning Institutions for Fragile and Enduring Worlds

Bhakti Shah moves between two very different worlds, legacy-driven jewelry and reputation-sensitive global education using that contrast to understand how power, trust, and legitimacy actually work. She builds institutions by combining instinct with systems, ownership with emotional discipline, and networks with responsibility. Her core belief is simple: durable leadership is built on trust, not hierarchy and the strongest tables are the ones we build ourselves.

IndiSight Editorial·
Building Where Silence Once Lived: Vaani Chugh and the Architecture of Enduring Entrepreneurship
Founders & Innovators

Building Where Silence Once Lived: Vaani Chugh and the Architecture of Enduring Entrepreneurship

Vaani Chugh built D’chica by turning a taboo space into a movement, designing adolescent essentials with dignity where the market offered only silence. Her strength has been patience, cultural sensitivity, and operational clarity, choosing systems over scenes and trust over hype. In a category where giants hesitated, she won by listening deeply, normalizing uncomfortable conversations, and building a brand families now rely on.

IndiSight Editorial·
Boss Kudi Energy: Riya Gupta on Turning Conviction Into a Global Consumer Brand
Founders & Innovators

Boss Kudi Energy: Riya Gupta on Turning Conviction Into a Global Consumer Brand

Riya Gupta built Upsnac from a kitchen experiment into a lifestyle wellness brand by trusting instinct, staying close to her customers, and designing with real ingredients over hype. She prioritizes survival, intimacy, and disciplined systems over breakneck growth, blending founder-energy fit with sharp operational judgment. Her philosophy is simple: build what you believe in, fix fast, stay honest—and let care compound into scale.

IndiSight Editorial·
The Long Game: Ujjwal on Systems, Resilience, and Nation-Building Through Capital
Investors & Catalysts

The Long Game: Ujjwal on Systems, Resilience, and Nation-Building Through Capital

Ujjwal Minocha blends lessons from hospitality, alco-bev, poker, and deeptech to build a worldview where resilience outperforms brilliance and systems matter more than stories. As co-founder of Velmenni and investor at I9ovare Capital, he backs founders who can survive variance, design for chaos, and operate with discipline over noise. His core belief is simple: entrepreneurs are nation-builders, and the institutions they create not the recognition they receive are what truly endure.

IndiSight Editorial·
Sandeep Suri: Redesigning Leadership from the Inside Out
Mentors & Coaches

Sandeep Suri: Redesigning Leadership from the Inside Out

Sandeep Suri, a veteran corporate leader turned executive coach and angel investor, redefines leadership not as control or performance theatre, but as deliberately creating psychological safety, trust, and clarity—enabling people to think bravely and grow without fear. Drawing from decades scaling global operations at Fidelity, Dell, and GE, he now helps mid-career professionals escape invisibility by redesigning their trajectory around impact over activity, and coaches senior executives to lead with presence, empathy, and protected energy rather than louder voices or sharper decks. His enduring belief: true legacy is never titles or numbers, it is the quiet behaviors that outlive you, the trust that scales, and the human resonance that continues long after you’ve left the room.

IndiSight Editorial·
Vinita Surana: The Discipline of Becoming
Investors & Catalysts

Vinita Surana: The Discipline of Becoming

Vinita Surana’s journey is a story of earning legitimacy, not inheriting it. She entered her family’s business as the first woman at the table, proved herself by reviving a discarded carbon credit deal, and learned that legacy is raw material to be shaped through persistence and competence. Her leadership blends discipline, humility, and reinvention, professionalizing systems, anchoring decisions in data, and treating energy as a core asset. As an investor and now founder of VinSpace, she operates with conviction, clarity, and a long-term lens, showing how successors, founders, and leaders can turn inherited structures into platforms for authentic, sustainable impact.

IndiSight Editorial·
Beyond Titles, Beyond Heroes: Sachin Kapoor on Building Systems That Lead Themselves
Founders & Innovators

Beyond Titles, Beyond Heroes: Sachin Kapoor on Building Systems That Lead Themselves

Sachin Kapoor’s journey is defined by unlearning, shedding past success to stay relevant in fast-moving ecosystems. From Yahoo and Samsung to LinkedIn and now Trumsy.AI, he has repeatedly rebuilt himself and the systems around him, designing teams that grow through judgment, not dependency. His leadership is grounded in productive distance, clarity over control, and the belief that real impact comes from building environments where smart decisions happen without the leader present. He measures success not by output or titles, but by the systems, habits, and cultural intelligence that endure long after he steps away.

IndiSight Editorial·
Building Without Masks: Jeevika Tyagi's Relentless Pursuit of Honesty
Founders & Innovators

Building Without Masks: Jeevika Tyagi's Relentless Pursuit of Honesty

Jeevika Tyagi walked away from a prestigious global career to build companies grounded in truth rather than theatrics. Through Honestly One and aastey, she has built systems that prioritize transparency, purpose, and emotional resonance over shortcuts or hype. Her leadership blends resilience, discipline, and radical honesty, facing setbacks, public scrutiny, and structural bias without ever masking vulnerability. Her journey shows that authenticity isn’t a tactic but a long-term architecture, and businesses built on it may bend under pressure but rarely break.

IndiSight Editorial·

Stay in the Loop

Get weekly articles and insights on topics you care about delivered to your inbox.

Subscribe to Newsletter