Listen "Gaming, E-com & Global Experiences | Salone Sehgal (Lumikai) | Shlok Bhartiya (shoppin’) | Varun Khona (Headout) | Episode 30"
Episode Synopsis
Episode 30 of The Offline Network covers founder playbooks across gaming, social commerce, and global experiences.Today’s news Highlights1/ Major Cloudflare outage slows the internet — a database permission bug caused global slowdowns.2/ Jeff Bezos launches Project Prometheus — $6.2B to build AI for manufacturing and engineering.3/ Google unveils Gemini 3; Antigravity goes live — new multimodal + agentic tools for next-gen dev workflows.4/ Microsoft, Anthropic & NVIDIA join forces — cloud, models, and GPUs combined for enterprise AI deployment.Guest SegmentsSalone Sehgal — Founder & Managing Partner, Lumikai Fund: Backing India’s gaming and interactive media founders with a product, community, and IP lens.Shlok Bhartiya — Founder & CEO, shoppin’: Building social + AI + commerce rails for the next generation of Indian consumers.Varun Khona — Co-founder & CEO, Headout: Taking real-world experiences global from India with a distribution-first city playbook.This episode is made possible by Smartworks, India’s largest managed office platform. 🎧 Watch, subscribe, and join the community for more conversations around this: https://chat.whatsapp.com/BK69EsNWP8BJIaoy3k7EfX?mode=ac_t Follow us for more unfiltered takes:X → https://x.com/OfflineOnAirInstagram → https://www.instagram.com/theofflinenetworkLinkedIn → https://www.linkedin.com/company/offlineonairWebsite → https://www.theoffline.network
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