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First Principles

by The Ken

First Principles is a weekly interview podcast comprising authentic, candid, and insightful conversations between some of India’s most accomplished founders and business leaders, and Rohin Dharmakumar, The Ken’s CEO & co-founder. From personal philosophies, mental models and decision making framewor...

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Insights from recent episode analysis

Audience Interest

Estimated Reach: 303K to 810K

Listeners across platforms

Podcast Focus

Categories: business · entrepreneurship

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Publishing Consistency

Frequency: ~3-4 / Week

50+ episodes since 2023

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Insights are generated by CastFox AI using publicly available data, episode content, and proprietary models.

Most discussed topics

entrepreneurship

personal growth

leadership

product development

business growth

business strategy

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Medium Confidence

Total monthly reach

303K to 810K

Estimated from 2 chart positions in 2 markets.

By chart position

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IN · Entrepreneurship
#4
300K to 800K
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HK · Entrepreneurship
#75
3K to 10K

Per-Episode Audience
Est. listeners per new episode within ~30 days
152K to 405K
🎙 ~2x weekly·60 episodes·Last published 1mo ago
Monthly Reach
Unique listeners across all episodes (30 days)
303K to 810K
🇮🇳99%🇭🇰1%
Active Followers
Loyal subscribers who consistently listen
91K to 243K

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On the show

From 16 eps

Hosts

Rohin

4 eps

Rohin Dharmakumar

3 eps

The Ken

1 ep

Recent guests

11 across last 16 eps

Ankit Nagori

2 eps

Utham Gowda

2 eps

Kalpana Morparia

2 eps

Rohit Chennamaneni

2 eps

Saahil Goel

2 eps

Riyaaz Amlani

2 eps

Lal Chand Bisu

1 ep

Vidit Aatrey

1 ep

Sahil Barua

1 ep

Kuku Lal Chand Bisu

1 ep

Kanwal Singh

1 ep

Recent episodes

Fireside Ventures' Kanwal Singh on the consumer-brands bet nobody believed in, why "for a 5x, nobody will call you legendary," and on refusing the one-100x-outlier game

Jul 20, 2026

1h 01m 40s

Part 2: Saahil Goel of Shiprocket on wanting a paisa of every Indian transaction outside the marketplaces, who doesn't survive at Shiprocket, and still playing Pink Floyd on a Fender

Jul 13, 2026

1h 01m 55s

Part 1: Saahil Goel of Shiprocket on rebuilding the same company three times, the $4 million he was told to take or leave and why in India you sell outcomes, not software

Jul 7, 2026

1h 05m 21s

Part 2: Impresario's Riyaaz Amlani on digital landlords, doers & divas, and why delivery will never eat dine-in

Jun 22, 2026

1h 03m 31s

Part 1: Impresario's Riyaaz Amlani on Mocha, "Handmade," four near-deaths and 25 years of building places to be

Jun 15, 2026

1h 04m 18s

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Episodes

monthly

Avg length

1h 04m 04s

49m 59s – 1h 38m 36s

Range

Aug 2022 – Mar 2026

Topics

entrepreneurship, personal growth +55

Guests

Saahil Goel +10 · last 16 eps

16 of 16

Date	Episode	Topics	Guests	Brands	Places	Keywords	Sponsor	Length
7/20/26	Fireside Ventures' Kanwal Singh on the consumer-brands bet nobody believed in, why "for a 5x, nobody will call you legendary," and on refusing the one-100x-outlier game✨	venture capitalconsumer brands+3	Kanwal Singh	Fireside Ventures	IndiaIndia 1+2	venture capitalconsumer brands+5	—	1h 01m 40s
7/13/26	Part 2: Saahil Goel of Shiprocket on wanting a paisa of every Indian transaction outside the marketplaces, who doesn't survive at Shiprocket, and still playing Pink Floyd on a Fender✨	entrepreneurshipbusiness strategy+4	Saahil Goel	FenderShiprocket+2	—	Shiprocketentrepreneurship+5	—	1h 01m 55s
7/7/26	Part 1: Saahil Goel of Shiprocket on rebuilding the same company three times, the $4 million he was told to take or leave and why in India you sell outcomes, not software✨	entrepreneurshipbusiness growth+4	Saahil Goel	ShiprocketKartRocket+1	India	ShiprocketKartRocket+6	—	1h 05m 21s
6/22/26	Part 2: Impresario's Riyaaz Amlani on digital landlords, doers & divas, and why delivery will never eat dine-in✨	restaurant industrydelivery vs dine-in+4	Riyaaz Amlani	ZomatoSwiggy+3	—	restaurantdelivery+7	—	1h 03m 31s
6/15/26	Part 1: Impresario's Riyaaz Amlani on Mocha, "Handmade," four near-deaths and 25 years of building places to be✨	restaurant industryentrepreneurship+3	Riyaaz Amlani	MochaSocial	BombayIndia	restaurant groupbusiness challenges+7	—	1h 04m 18s
5/4/26	Part 2: Kuku’s Lal Chand Bisu on the Bathoth-to-Bandra arc, learning from iterations not books, and why nos beat yeses✨	theatrical filmstartup ecosystem+3	Kuku Lal Chand Bisu	Indian Institute of ZombiesIIT Jodhpur	BandraShekhawati	theatrical filmstartup ecosystem+3	—	1h 15m 29s
4/27/26	Part 1: Kuku's Lal Chand Bisu on killing three products, ditching the free tier and charging Bharat ₹399 a year✨	entrepreneurshipaudio content+3	Lal Chand Bisu	KukuKuku FM+1	Bharat	Kuku FMLal Chand Bisu+6	—	1h 04m 02s
3/30/26	Part 2: Curefoods' Ankit Nagori on why Indians only eat healthy Monday to Thursday, focusing on brand over scale, and what drives him now✨	healthy foodbranding+3	Ankit Nagori	CurefoodsUnilever	—	Curefoodshealthy eating+6	—	1h 03m 16s
3/23/26	Part 1: Curefoods' Ankit Nagori on cold emailing his way into Flipkart, designing for talent density, and surviving a pandemic on 2 crores a month✨	entrepreneurshipbusiness growth+4	Ankit Nagori	CurefoodsFlipkart+1	—	Ankit NagoriCurefoods+7	—	53m 36s
3/2/26	Part 2: Captain Fresh's Utham Gowda on seafood as the world's last unorganised trillion-dollar industry, why undervaluation is a founder's superpower and his “reverse career path”✨	seafood industryentrepreneurship+4	Utham Gowda	Captain FreshBlackfish	MysoreIndiranagar	seafoodentrepreneur+5	—	58m 05s
2/23/26	Part 1: Captain Fresh's Utham Gowda on seafood as the world's last unorganised trillion-dollar industry, why undervaluation is a founder's superpower and his “reverse career path”✨	seafood industryentrepreneurship+4	Utham Gowda	Captain FreshBlackfish	MysoreIndiranagar	seafoodentrepreneur+6	—	1h 06m 24s
2/9/26	Part 2: Kalpana Morparia on the culture of dissent, the 90-day NYSE race, and why ambition requires self-redundancy✨	bankingleadership+3	Kalpana Morparia	ICICIJPMorgan	Ferrari racetrack	ICICIbanking+5	—	57m 05s
2/2/26	Part 1: Kalpana Morparia on the culture of dissent, the 90-day NYSE race, and why ambition requires self-redundancy✨	bankingleadership+3	Kalpana Morparia	ICICIJPMorgan+1	—	ICICIKalpana Morparia+6	—	1h 00m 10s
1/19/26	Part 2: Darwinbox’s Rohit Chennamaneni on leading without a CEO, the ‘show don’t tell’ product mindset, and why resilience beats intelligence✨	leadershipstartup culture+4	Rohit Chennamaneni	DarwinboxFirst Principles+1	—	CEO-less structureHR software+3	—	1h 01m 40s
1/12/26	Part 1: Darwinbox’s Rohit Chennamaneni on leading without a CEO, the ‘show don’t tell’ product mindset, and why resilience beats intelligence✨	leadershipstartup culture+4	Rohit Chennamaneni	DarwinboxFirst Principles+1	—	CEOstartup+5	—	49m 59s
12/29/25	First Principles, second look: The 2025 wrap✨	2025 recapCEO interviews+3	Vidit AatreySahil Barua	MeeshoDelhivery+1	—	First Principles2025 wrap+5	—	1h 38m 36s