54: Pratyush Rai, Founder of Foyer - On choosing the problem to solve for and pivoting

Published: Feb. 26, 2022, 6:09 p.m.

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Pratyush is the founder of Foyer, a startup focused on building tools to simplify meetings . He is an alumni of IIT Kanpur and was an associate at BCG. In this episode, we speak about unique customers, choosing the problem to solve and when to stop businesses. 

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SPONSORS

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BridgeUp: DM Prashant on Twitter to raise $100,000+ in non-dilutive capital

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CONNECT

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Follow Pratyush: Twitter / LinkedIn

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OUTLINE

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(00:32) Foyer\'s Origin Story

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(11:48) Building unique customers

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(14:21) Learnings from BCG

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(17:45) Choosing the problem to solve

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(29:36) Uptick in Fashion sense

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(36:12) Closing down fashion idea

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(44:58) Pivoting to org tools

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(50:18) Jira and organizational tools

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(01:00:17) Mighty Browser

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(01:06:10) Interesting things on Twitter

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(01:10:09) Theranos Trial

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