Rajesh Jain (www.rajeshjain.com) is a legend in the Indian startup ecosystem. He is one of the earliest tech entrepreneurs of the country, one of the original success stories of the dotcom era and beyond (he is the founder of IndiaWorld & Netcore). He is a deep thinker and has wonderful insights on entrepreneurship, bootstrapping, bringing prosperity to the country, dealing with failure et al. Hope you enjoy!

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Timestamps:

• 1:08 Welcome and Intro.
• 3:39 His entrepreneurship journey, starting India's early dotcom company. 
• 10:44 Getting into technology & martech.
• 20:19 (Not) Raising external capital, building 'proficorns'.
• 28:56 Design choices to create bootstrapped companies.
• 36:13 Solving for India. Creating economic prosperity.
• 48:46 Making India 'irreversibly prosperous' using digital tech. 
• 51:23 Rapidfire: Writing every day, thoughts on Web3 and DAO, 
• 57:53 Closing questions. '30 failures and 2 and a half successes'. 

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