Mindset while scaling a billion dollar house of brands | Ananth Narayanan | Mensa Brands

Saksham Mendiratta is In The Haus with Ananth Narayanan, Founder of Mensa Brands.

Mensa Brands started off in the pandemic and claimed a unicorn status within it’s first year, thereby becoming the fastest unicorn in India.
Ananth’s journey with McKinsey, Myntra and Medlife has had some experiential ups & downs. He talks about learnings from each of his stints and what pushes him every single day to build a better entrepreneurial venture.

Saksham & Ananth dive into the mindset it takes to be the Founder & CEO of a venture like Mensa, every single day.

It’s a tonne of experience packed into a crisp 45 minute episode that would make you think harder on every single action you take as a leader.
So sit, back and get your notes read, as you are now ready to enter, In The Haus.

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0:00 Introduction
0:50 Ananth’s Introduction
1:40 What does entrepreneurship mean to you?
12:01 As a founder, what’s your role in the company?
15:00 What inspires you about other businesses?
27:32 What’s the current DTC sentiment in India?
29:55 Why is India set to out-pace US in consumer-tech?
34:37 How should founders pick the right investors?
38:00 What are cultural traits that you look for, in a founding team?
40:36 Given your experience, how do you hire?
43:03 Does culture matter in the businesses that you’re ‘acquiring’?
44:02 Does success ever get to you?
46:25 Why can you keep doing what you are, for the next 10 years?
48:28 Are you a reader or do you listen to podcasts?
50:13 Businesses in the west that you draw inspiration from?
51:08 Do you have mentors in life?

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