Shantanu Deshpande struck a chord in the first episode (https://youtu.be/v7ahaGWNZKs) where he spoke about his growing-up days, joining NIT in Nagpur, cracking IIM Lucknow, and working with the best possible minds at McKinsey. In this part, Shantanu talks in detail about building Bombay Shaving Company, a 1500 crore valuation brand that he built from scratch in less than a decade’s time.
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Shantanu talks about his decision to leave McKinsey and the factors that led him to believe that the grooming industry in India was becoming big.
He put on his consultant’s hat to further understand the requirement of the market and amidst multiple failures, finally found his product market fit.
He talks in detail about his strategy to build a brand, how Bombay Shaving Company started to shape its own identity, and how it differentiates from the competition.
He further answers questions from the audience where he talks about his secret sauce to stay happy, how he believes Gillette won’t be able to topple or copy their offering, why the subscription model in India doesn’t work, and how he builds his team.
There’s a lot for you to learn in this episode and if you are someone who wants to startup, this is a must-watch. Share it with friends and like the video to beat the YouTube algorithm for the video to reach as many people as possible.
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He indeed is a good orator
Can you allow college going students to attend these sessions irrespective of whether he or she is going to a b-school ?
Awesome
It was a great session. Happy to be a part of this conversation and seeing it live in gurugram 🙂
Best enriching and very insightful second episode
Awesome session as always
Konversations are my favourite part of insideiim. Keep making more episodes team. Thanks.
Thank you very much.
great session
Great session.Shantanu's energy is infectious! His qualities like clarity of thought and depth of knowledge is something to imbibe.
One hell of a session
Amazing energy, great insights and so much to learn from !!!
Insideiim is trying really hard to get views on their videos
my fav founder
This session with Shantanu Sir was just wow…the insights he is giving are so concise and full of clarity that anyone who is listening to this session can completely relate and thats why BSC is a success because consumer product should have a clarity in the minds of consumers…and it has….Hoping a big success to Konversations by InsideIIM and BSC….Ankit Sir doing great job
Rockstar Shantanu!
Extra ordinary person…
Sir I want to meet you personally.😊
30 minutes don’t do justice when you have a guest like Shantanu .come on InsideIIM you can do better .
Absolutely love your channel 😍 please please keep going n keep inspiring . 😊 In this world of tp reels n content your channel is survival for the people like me ❤😊🙏
Clown clowning 🤡
Your best episode yet. !
MBA is fraud u low class twad
sir voice of the video is too low