Product-market fit
How they actually found it, and how they knew when they had it.
Flagship•Scaling up
Founder Thesis
Long-form conversations with the founders behind breakout companies, how they really built, funded, and scaled them.
Hosted by Akshay Datt
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What we talk about
The conversation this show owns
The flagship, and the show the whole Unnati method was proved on. Unscripted 60–90 minute conversations where a serial entrepreneur (not a journalist) gets founders talking honestly about the mechanics: product-market fit, unit economics, the near-death moments, and where AI actually changes the business.
Business deep dive
The model under the story: how the company really makes money.
Unit economics
Margins, burn, and the honest path to profit.
Near-death moments
The times it almost didn’t make it, and what pulled it through.
Sectoral deep dive
The market, the moat, and why now.
Building with AI
How founders are using it for real, past the noise.
Meet the host
Akshay Datt
Founder, Unnati · Host, Founder Thesis
Akshay Datt is a serial entrepreneur who spent two decades building ventures in employability training and hiring before he ever picked up a mic. He got hooked on founder interviews while cycling to work, went looking for a show that went deep into how businesses actually scale, and started Founder Thesis in 2020 when he could not find one.
He has since interviewed around 550 founders, including Sanjeev Bikhchandani, Dinesh Agarwal, Bhavin Turakhia and Amit Jain. He asks the questions a fellow operator asks, because he has run the businesses that did not scale as well as the ones that did, and founders talk to him differently for it.
On the record
Guests who’ve taken the seat
A sample of the rooms this show opens. Full guest list lives on the channel.
Sanjeev BikhchandaniFounder, Info Edge (Naukri.com)
Amit JainCo-founder & CEO, CarDekho
Rajendra S PawarCo-founder & Chairman, NIIT
Manish SabharwalCo-founder & Vice Chairman, TeamLease
Jaydeep BarmanCo-founder & CEO, Rebel Foods
Amit GuptaCo-founder & CEO, Yulu
Amit AgarwalCo-founder & CEO, NoBroker
Shashank KhaitanFilm Director
Dhiraj RajaramFounder & CEO, Mu Sigma
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