Episode 18: Tightrope to the Moon with Rahul Chandra: The Founder’s Inner Game & Lessons from Arkam Ventures

About this episode

In this episode, Dhruti Shah interviews Rahul Chandra about the challenges and lessons in building startups in India's venture capital landscape.

What does it really take to build—and back—category-defining startups in India’s chaotic, high-stakes ecosystem? In this episode of Resilience with Dhruti Shah, we sit down with Rahul Chandra, Co-founder & Managing Director of Arkam Ventures and one of India’s most respected venture capitalists. Rahul takes us behind the scenes of the founder’s journey, where resilience isn’t optional, conviction must be unshakable, and mastering the switch between a telescope and a microscope is the ulti...

People in this episode

Host: Dhruti Shah

Guest: Rahul Chandra

Topics covered

• venture capital
• startups
• resilience
• entrepreneurship
• founder's journey

Keywords

• venture capital
• startups
• resilience
• entrepreneurship
• Arkam Ventures

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Arkam Ventures

Places: India

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