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This is an amazing success story of Nihar Ranjan Nayak who a few years back was a field sales Executive in OLX.

In 2019, he decided to invest 40lacs in a less know homegrown burger franchise - Biggies Burger 🍔

Today he is the CEO of the same brand. I couldn't resist but talk to him about this amazing growth journey.

Watch the inspiring conversation here - https://www.youtube.com/@InsiderOpinionofficial/videos

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Watch this unique growth story of an OLX sales executive who invested 40lacs in a Biggies Burger Franchise in 2019.

Within 4 years he became the brand head of Biggies handling entire country operations.

Watch the conversation here - https://www.youtube.com/@InsiderOpinionofficial/videos

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Food Entrepreneurs have a critical question to answer. Should they chose to be away from Swiggy Zomato and other food delivery apps?

These days there are three layers of revenue loss for restaurants on being on these portals:

1. Pay revenue share upto more than 65% on every order for being on these portals.

2. Pay for advertising to be on the top 20 for specific areas.

3. Compete with Swiggy & Zompato's homegrown food brands on their portal.

Where is advantage here?

Why are food entrepenerus still listing themselves on these portals?

I sat with the CEO of Biggies Burger to understand this and his answers were quite surprising. Watch the full conversation here: https://www.youtube.com/@InsiderOpinionofficial/videos

- The real math of food delivery — you pay ₹100, restaurant gets ₹65. Then they pay again just to be visible on the app

- Why cloud kitchens alone cannot survive — no physical store means negative EBITDA. Offline makes online profitable, not the other way around
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Roshan Raj is 25 years old. IIT Madras. Co-Founder of Blurgs AI.

At 22, he walked into rooms full of retired Naval officers and defense bureaucrats and pitched them an AI system to protect India's coastline.

Three years later he walked into the Ministry of Defence and walked out with a procurement order from BEL — for the Indian Navy.

I had a detailed conversation with him about his crazy success at such a young age. watch the conversation here: https://www.youtube.com/@InsiderOpinionofficial/videos

But the moment from this episode that I haven't been able to stop thinking about has nothing to do with the Navy contract.

It is this —

When I asked him — "Your parents must have been very happy when you received an award from the Defence Minister of India?"

Roshan smiled and said his parents are government employees from a small town in Odisha. They still don't fully understand what a startup is. They still tell him — yaar, job kar le.

It was a fun podcast. If you are stuck with an idea and need a final push to startup, watch this: https://www.youtube.com/@InsiderOpinionofficial/videos

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Met a founder in Bengaluru who was just a kid when the 26/11 Mumbai Terror attacks happened — but at 22-year of age he built an AI product that makes sure that we do not have another Ajmal Kasab on Indian soil.

Hope everybody remembers November 26, 2008. Ten men hijacked a fishing boat & entered Mumbai. Not one alarm. Not a single flag was raised.

..and Indians witnessed one of the darkest days of their History. 26/11 Mumbai Terror Attacks. 164 innocent lives lost.

The question that haunted India's defense establishment then was this — Why couldn't we track them at sea?

But this a 22-year-old kid from a small town in Odisha who graduated from IIT Chennai in 2020 solved this problem.

Three years after graduation he was walking in the Defense Secretariat in New Delhi to receive a procurement order from BEL for his AI startup.

His startup now helps the Indian Navy & Coast Guard to track dark ships in Indian waters.

It cross-references:

- radar,
- satellite imagery,
- signal intelligence,
- electronic warfare data

— and eight other independent sources simultaneously to track down ships that want to hide for illegal & lethal reasons.

Watch the full conversation here - https://www.youtube.com/@InsiderOpinionofficial/videos

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Cricket almost ruined a kid's life..
At least, that's what his parents believed.

Prince Thomas was so obsessed with cricket that his parents had to make some tough decisions — ban him from cricket, send him to a hostel, force him to study.

The logic was simple: if he stays at home, he will choose cricket over everything else.

And cricket, back then, was not a career. It was a distraction.

He studied. Got into advertising. Built a stable career. Secure future. Ticked every box.

But the cricket obsession? It never left.

Years later, he surprised everyone. He left his corporate career and started a company
— making bats for gully cricket. Bats for the unbranded, the unorganized, deeply loved version of this great game.
🔺 Bestseller on Amazon
🔺 Bestseller on Flipkart
🔺 Real traction. Real revenue.

Then COVID hit.
Overnight, gully cricket stopped. Streets went empty. And everything unravelled — fast.

🔺 Orders that had already been dispatched never reached customers ❌
🔺 Inventory that had been manufactured sat in warehouse ❌
🔺 Ten months. Zero revenue ❌

A business that had just found its feet — completely destroyed.

But in that stillness, one question emerged.
— "If people can't go out to play cricket — can cricket come to them?"

That one question changed everything.
Two years of R&D followed. It wasn't easy.
🔺Prototypes that failed
🔺Studios that said its impossible
🔺Nights where no one was sure a product would ever see the light of day

Moments where they questioned everything — the idea, the money, the decision to walk away from stable careers.

But they kept going.

A product was born. MetaShot — a smart bat that lets you play real cricket from your living room, with friends anywhere in the world, on your phone or TV screen.
🔺Sold out in 7 days.
🔺 Raised investment on Shark Tank India Season 4.
🔺 Now live in India, USA and UAE.

And that kid — the one who was sent away to a hostel because his parents feared cricket would ruin his life — is today bringing cricket to every home in India.

This is the story of Prince Thomas, on Insider Opinion Podcast.

🔺Trailer drops tomorrow.

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