Sharad Sharma: Digital Public Infrastructure, credit, OCEN & products | KVKurious Podcast Episode 28

Sharad Sharma is the Cofounder of ‪@iSPIRTFoundation‬ and was previously the CEO of Yahoo India R&D. Sharad has also been angel investing for 15+ years.

In this episode of the KVKurious Podcast, Sharad speaks about his journey from the startup world to running non-profit initiatives. He speaks about the challenges faced by Indian tech/startup ecosystem, ways to navigate around and upcoming opportunities.

Sharad also speaks about business credit vs consumption credit and how lending to businesses can help the economy. He also emphasizes on how India should become a production economy beyond consumption economy.

Sharad also explains how Digital Public Infrastructure is transforming the way world interacts, communicates and consumes, and how it will accelerate the onboarding of lower economic zones into the market economy.

Listen to this conversation between Sharad Sharma and KVK on DPI, emerging tech, the India opportunity and more.

CHAPTERS
00:00:00 Introduction
00:03:04 Pivot to product nation
00:07:28 Foray into angel investing
00:11:19 Indian idea of entrepreneurship
00:15:44 Building an R&D movement
00:20:13 Catalysis culture
00:24:46 Volunteering at iSPIRT
00:27:24 Market and state capacity
00:33:25 Fighting incumbent forces
00:39:51 Playbook for India 2 and 3
00:42:54 Fixing logistics and production economy
00:48:37 Capital availability for big bets
01:00:21 Tale of Tejas Networks
01:02:40 Regulating open networks
01:13:35 Original sin and micropayments
01:15:33 Enabling business credit and OCEN
01:29:54 Organizing credit
01:32:28 Master of one
01:42:28 White models

EPISODE LINKS
Sharad's Twitter:   / sharads  
Sharad's LinkedIn:   / sharadsharma  

PODCAST LINKS
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Host: K V Krishna (aka KVK)
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Editing credits: Abhishek Mishra
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