Ep. 05: Letting Go to Grow - Balancing Between Current Period Demands to Focus on Growth Engines

In the 5th episode of Unleashed Conversations, my conversation with Shivakumar Ganesan, Co-founder and CEO of Exotel, continues and expands to different themes. Along with this, I am also joined by Vaibhav Tewari, CEO of Portea, with over 25 years of experience spanning various sectors, and Raju Venkatraman, a highly successful serial entrepreneur who has made significant contributions to the fields of process outsourcing, information technology, and medical diagnostics.

We delve into a crucial question about how they allocate their time within their organisations. It is true that the health of an organisation can be easily assessed from how the top management spends time, and these gentlemen exemplify this belief. We explored where their time should be invested, balancing between demands of the current period to focus on growth engines, meeting revenue targets, fulfilling customer commitments, and ensuring that adequate growth engines are in place. Tune in to the 5th episode of Unleashed Conversations for all this and more.

Raju Venkatramam, a successful Serial Entrepreneur is the Founder, ex-Chairman and ex-Managing Director of Medall Health Care Pvt. Ltd. Headquartered in Chennai, under his leadership, Medall got visibility and presence in 8 States Pan India and grew to become the 4th largest Diagnostics Services company in less than 7 years touching more than 12 million lives by 2018. This was possible by implementing his vision to provide accessible and affordable healthcare in tier 2 and tier 3 cities especially in the interiors of Tamil Nadu.

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Vaibhav Tewari is the Co-Founder & CEO at Portea Medical (www.portea.com), India’s leading out-of-hospital healthcare company. Portea brings in-home to patients, the full range of preventive care, pre & post natal care, post-operative care, critical care, chronic disease management, palliative care and elder care services. Since its inception, the company has successfully served more than 10L+ patients across 40 cities in India. The company manages ~7L annual patient visits across India and works with top hospitals, Insurance and Pharma companies.

Find Vaibhav on social media

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LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/vaibhavtewari/

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Shivakumar Ganesan, or Shivku as he is affectionately called, is one of India’s leading startup and technology leaders under 40. He helms Exotel, as its Co-Founder and CEO, a company which has ushered one of the most trailblazing customer conversation platform and business-focused virtual telecom operator in the emerging world.

Shivku embarked on his entrepreneurial journey in 2011 when he co-founded Exotel. Under his visionary leadership, the company has experienced remarkable growth, solidifying its position as a key player in the industry. Presently, Exotel’s cloud-based product suite facilitates an astounding 70 million conversations daily for over 7,000 businesses across the globe.

Find Shiv on social media

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LinkedIn: ⁠⁠⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/shivku/⁠

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