EP 12| Why 90% of Membership Programs Fail (And How to Build One That Doesn't) | Interstellar ft. Anuj Rathi
Membership and loyalty programs are one of the most powerful growth levers in consumer businesses, yet 90-95% of them fail. Most companies treat them as a feature bolted on top of the product. The one...
11 Juni 44min
Ep. 11 | Can AI Fix the Broken Travel Industry | Ft. Deep Kalra (MakeMyTrip), Aloke Bajpai (ixigo) & Hari Ganapathy (PickYourTrail)
Travel is one of the earliest internet categories in India, yet it still feels unfinished. Millions of people book flights in seconds… but still walk into hotels to book a room. Planning a single trip...
25 Mars 1h 15min
EP. 9 | How Swiggy Is Building for India’s New Consumer | Interstellar ft. Rohit Kapoor
As the world around him changed, Rohit Kapoor chose to reinvent himself. Curiosity led him into the startup world — from reimagining Indian hospitality at OYO to now powering India’s food story at Swi...
25 Nov 202551min
EP 8 | Building & Scaling Fashion Brands in India | Interstellar ft. Nandita Sinha, Myntra
Enamoured by Bangalore’s startup ecosystem, Nandita Sinha launched her own e-commerce venture in 2012. The learnings from that journey took her to Flipkart, where she rose through the ranks, leading m...
29 Sep 202559min
EP. 7 | The Next Big Bets in Quick Commerce: Deep Dive on Fashion, Baby & Kids, Beauty | Interstellar ft. Mayank Jain
Why is this a Quick Commerce category and not e-commerce or offline-first?What’s the right to exist for a vertical player - why won’t horizontal platforms win here?Does this category demand a unique b...
22 Aug 202545min
Ep. 6 | How I Built Flipkart's Mobile Business from Scratch | Interstellar ft. Smrithi Ravichandran
Switching from a coveted FMCG job to an industry that was barely taking shape was one of the riskiest career moves in 2011. But Smrithi Ravichandran took a leap of faith into ecommerce when most were ...
1 Aug 202555min
Ep. 5 | How OYO Scaled from India to the World | Interstellar with Abhinav Sinha
With an IIT KGP degree, an MBA from Harvard, and a comfortable consulting job at BCG New York, Abhinav Sinha had every reason to stay back in the US. However, in 2014, he packed his bags and returned ...
4 Juli 202550min
