ACLR8 Founder Academy

Financial Inclusion for 100cr Indians with Ankit Agrawal, Founder & CEO, InsuranceDekho 🇮🇳🚀

Insurance Dekho is one of the fastest growing insurance companies in India solving for “Bima, Bharosa, Berozgari, Bimari,” 💯

Some of things we discussed were:

• ✅ How it is important to not celebrate fund raise and really focus on your business, team and providing long term value to your customer. 💯
• ✅ How to build products that reach millions of households and solve real problems. ❤️
• ✅ Systems, processes & people training required to setup organisations that last a 100 years and churn out amazing leaders. 🚀
• ✅ Importance of being on-ground and focus on execution! Not be a “social media founder”. 💪
• ✅ Hiring folks who have the right attitude to learn and persistence to keep executing, rather than just looking at work experience, college or skill set. 🔥
• ✅ Exciting opportunities in fintech and financial services for young Indian founders in the next few years. 🚀

Thank you Ankit for your time and sharing your learnings of building one of the most disruptive companies in India. 👏 You have inspired lacs of founders to dream big and never give up. ❤️

Content Timeline: -----------------

• ⁠00:00⁠ - Intro
• ⁠02:17⁠ - Time-management while running such a large business and ruthless prioritisation.
• ⁠04:14⁠ - Fintech opportunity in India over the next decade.
• ⁠07:02⁠ - Why is Insurance such a massive opportunity in India.
• ⁠10:30⁠ - How do young founders identify large opportunities in Fintech.
• ⁠13:10⁠ - Importance of not celebrating fund raising but focussing on execution.
• ⁠15:04⁠ - Right idea, right time, right team.
• ⁠16:52⁠ - Importance of personal experience in building a successful business.
• ⁠17:52⁠ - How did Ankit identify the initial business model of ⁠@InsuranceDekho⁠
• ⁠19:40⁠ - Importance of founders being on-ground to solve a problem.
• ⁠21:15⁠ - Insurance Dekho growth strategy in the next few years.
• ⁠24:36⁠ - Running a gig economy company at scale.
• ⁠28:57⁠ - An insurance advisor is a family doctor for your savings.
• ⁠30:00⁠ - Solving for trust and information asymmetry at scale.
• ⁠33:00⁠ - How does a founder hire their initial team?
• ⁠36:25⁠ - Don't hire social media founders.
• ⁠40:25⁠ - How is ⁠@InsuranceDekho⁠ becoming a house of founders.
• ⁠43:17⁠ - Building institutions like ⁠@icicibank⁠ICICI, HUL and HDFC.
• ⁠45:20⁠ - India is a land of opportunities.
• ⁠47:10⁠ - Ankit on collaborating with ACLR8 to build the best early stage program for founders in India!
• ⁠50:30⁠ - Importance of building profitably while having a growth mindset.
• ⁠52:39⁠ - (Partner Testimonial) Whatsapp commerce in the country with Business on Bot.
• ⁠53:40⁠ - Ending statements.

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