Interview · Asia-Pacific
The Neon Show
with Siddhartha Ahluwalia
Indian founders and investors interviewed by a founder-turned-investor — the most substantial English-language show on the Indian startup ecosystem.
Why an angel should listen
India is one of the largest startup markets in the world and one of the least covered by Western podcasts. This show, previously called 100x Entrepreneur, has built a long archive of interviews with the founders and fund managers actually building there.
The host sold a company before becoming an investor, and the interviews reflect that: the questions are about unit economics, about scaling in a price-sensitive market, and about the specific difficulty of building venture-scale businesses where willingness to pay is low and volumes are enormous. Those constraints produce different companies, and understanding why is essential before investing in the market.
It is also useful for the regulatory picture. Indian rounds interact with foreign-exchange rules and pricing regulations that have no equivalent elsewhere, and the show discusses them as practical obstacles rather than as legal abstractions.
Where to begin
Start with these
- Interviews with fund managers rather than founders, for how Indian venture capital actually operates.
- Any episode on unit economics in a price-sensitive market.
- Anything covering the regulatory and foreign-investment constraints on rounds.