Karan Kishorepuria on Entrepreneurship, Investing, and Social Impact: Lessons from a Young Indian Leader

28/02/2024 1h 24min

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In this episode, we have a special guest: Karan Kishorepuria, a 25-year-old entrepreneur, angel investor, and public speaker from Kolkata, India. Karan is the executive director of Regaal Resources, a leading agro-processing company in Eastern India, and the founder of NUImpact, the first impact investing fund at the undergraduate level in America. He is also an active partner at SVP India, a pan-India philanthropic organization, and a TEDx speaker who has given 75+ talks around the world. Karan shares his journey of becoming a young change-maker who is shaping India’s future, his insights on entrepreneurship, investing, and social impact, and his advice for aspiring leaders who want to make a difference in the world. Tune in to this inspiring and informative conversation with Karan Kishorepuria.

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Chapters
00:00 Who is Karan Kishorepuria
4:28 Why is Akhil afraid?
8:17 Impact of schooling on success
13:36 The multiple Indias, defined
22:06 Entrepreneurship revolution in India must happen today
28:45 How do we get people to use the leverage in their pocket?
33:29 Overstatement of competition
37:30 Getting started to get started
42:10 What do I know that is not true?
47:55 Vishrut's experience with The Bhagwad Gita
49:53 Akhil's Contrarian world view
53:03 Asking better questions in changing times
57:01 Everything is a podcast!!
1:04:00 How is Karan managing to do a bajillion things
1:10:15 Shoulders of Giants (feat. Naval Ravikant)
1:15:25 Why are you doing what you are doing?
1:20:27 Last guest's question time!

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