Got charged by the FBI, Came Back Stronger, Built 2 Unicorns 🦄 | Sandeep Aggarwal | Droom, Shopclues

In this raw, unfiltered, and brutally honest conversation, I sit down with Sandeep Aggarwal, the founder of ShopClues and Droom... two of India’s earliest unicorns.

He opens up about everything:
– Life before entrepreneurship
– His Wall Street days
– How he built billion-dollar companies from scratch
– Getting arrested for insider trading
– His time in jail
– The comeback story no one talks about
– And his deep, unfiltered take on the Indian startup ecosystem

If you’re a founder, a dreamer, or someone who’s just curious about what really goes behind the scenes of building empires... this is the longest and most intense podcast episode on this channel.

Timestamps:
00:00 Teaser
02:03 Introduction
03:33 Journey
16:04 Moving Abroad
22:09 Internship Story
25:03 Starting a Full-time Job
42:47 Leaving Wall Street and starting ShopClues
01:09:19 Resigning from ShopClues
01:17:24 Idea of Droom
01:28:53 Raising Investments
01:52:12 Advices, AI and Trends
01:57:59 Biggest Startup Investment
02:17:40 Comeback Story
02:24:00 Quick Questions
About:

I'm Akash Gupta, Co-founder & CEO at Zypp.app, India's leading EV-as-a-service brand with thousands of EVs delivering happiness throughout the day and most important impacting the lives of thousands of delivery partners.

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