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Podcast: The Desi VC with Akash Bhat
Episode: E143: Dhirendra Mahyavanshi (Co-founder & CEO, Turtlemint)
Description: Dhirendra Mahyavanshi is the Co-Founder of Turtlemint, an online insurance platform backed by Nexus Venture Partners, Peak XV, Jungle Ventures, GGV Capital, Blume Ventures among others. The company is on a mission to makes it easy to understand and buy insurance.
Before founding this company he held leadership positions at Quikr and ICICI Lombard. He holds an MBA degree from The IIM Calcutta.
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Episode Notes:
Introduction (1:20)
Early exposure to entrepreneurship (2:16)
Influence of ICICI and Quikr roles on founding Turtlemint (5:15)
Startups in the 2010s: parallels and differences (8:50)
The inspiration behind starting Turtlemint (12:34)
The...