Billion-Dollar Founder: Why Success In India Is So Hard | Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw | FO537 Raj Shamani
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(00:00) - Intro
(02:37) - Childhood, Family Values & Father's Life Lesson on Merit
(07:41) - Rejected by Breweries for Being a Woman
(12:29) - Gender Bias in Funding & Starting Biocon Against All Odds
(27:08) - The Art of Pitching: Telling Your Story Right
(29:57) - From Enzymes to Pharma: Cracking Statins
(31:15) - The Insulin Breakthrough That Disrupted Global Pricing
(34:18) - Entering Cancer Biosimilars After Losing a Friend
(40:29) - Why Being First (Not Just Best) Matters
(43:52) - Building Affordable CAR-T Cancer Therapy (Immuneel)
(45:46) - The GLP-1 Weight-Loss Drug Debate
(53:13) - How Pharma Pricing & Margins Actually Work
(58:20) - A Near-Financial Crisis: The Loan Default Scare
(1:03:45) - How Can People Who Have Self-Doubt Build Confidence?
(1:07:13) - Why India Undervalues Innovation vs. the US
(1:13:51) - The AI Pathology Startup India Let Slip Away
(1:20:50) - Proving Global Pharma Giants Wrong
(1:26:43) - Bengaluru's Infrastructure & Civic Problems
(1:30:14) - India's Civic Sense Crisis
(1:35:44) - Why India Is Losing FDI to Vietnam & Indonesia
(1:38:03) - Has She Ever Felt Humiliated?
(1:41:58) - The Harshest Truth: Gender Bias in India
(1:50:51) - Big Pharma Ethics & COVID Vaccine Inequality
(1:55:52) - Choosing Her Successor: Niece Claire Mazumdar
(1:58:54) - The Power of Authentic Networking & Friendships
(2:02:47) - Separating Her Identity From Biocon
(2:04:52) - One Advice No One Should Follow
(2:06:03) - Outro
In today's episode, we sit down with Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw, Executive Chairperson of Biocon Limited, to talk about rejection, risk, and how she built India's biggest biotech company from a garage.
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Figuring Out Podcast is a Candid Conversations University where Raj Shamani brings raw conversations with the Top 1% in India.