Shantanu Deshpande's guest appearances

Shantanu Deshpande

The Neon Show

Founder Thesis

Jamsters Podcast

Anand Jain

Amit Gupta

Ankit Garg

Sanjeev Aggarwal

Karan Bajaj

Malika Sadani

Karthik Reddy

Vishal Gupta

Rajesh Jain

Chris George

Priya Krishnan

Vamsi Krishna

Abhishek Sinha

Chhavi Sachdev

Deepak Shenoy

OwlTail

Shantanu Deshpande, Co-founder &amp; CEO of Bombay Shaving Company, on this episode of Jamsters Podcast speaks about what it takes to scale from a startup to building an FMCG company. He shares about his learnings from McKinsey that he applies to growing Bombay Shaving Company, his observations on the behaviours of men and women when it comes to buying grooming products, his first set of investors, the 80/20 rule also called the Pareto Principle, importance of networks from top notch educational and work institutions, high quality mentorship, raising capital for a startup, and lots more.   Subscribe to Jamsters Podcast with Hardik Vaidya now on www.eplog.media or your preferred podcast streaming apps to receive updates about the latest episode. You can follow us and leave us feedback on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter @eplogmedia, For advertising/partnerships send you can send us an email at bonjour@eplog.media. If you like this show, please subscribe and leave us a review wherever you get your podcasts, so other people can find us. You can also find us on https://www.eplog.media DISCLAIMER: The views expressed on all the shows produced and distributed by Ep.Log Media are personal to the host and the guest of the shows respectively and with no intention to harm the sentiments of any individual/organization.The said content is not obscene or blasphemous or defamatory of any event and/or person deceased or alive or in contempt of court or breach of contract or breach of privilege, or in violation of any provisions of the statute, nor hurt the sentiments of any religious groups/ person/government/non-government authorities and/or breach or be against any declared public policy of any nation or state.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Shantanu Deshpande, Co-founder &amp; CEO of Bombay Shaving Company, on this episode of Jamsters Podcast speaks about what it takes to scale from a startup to building an FMCG company. He shares about his learnings from McKinsey that he applies to growing Bombay Shaving Company, his observations on the behaviours of men and women when it comes to buying grooming products, his first set of investors, the 80/20 rule also called the Pareto Principle, importance of networks from top notch educational and work institutions, high quality mentorship, raising capital for a startup, and lots more. Subscribe to Jamsters Podcast with Hardik Vaidya now on <a href="https://eplog.media/show/jamsters-podcast" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.eplog.media</a> or your preferred podcast streaming apps to receive updates about the latest episode. You can follow us and leave us feedback on <a href="https://facebook.com/eplogmedia" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Facebook</a>, <a href="https://instagram.com/eplogmedia" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Instagram</a>, and <a href="https://twitter.com/eplogmedia" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Twitter</a> @eplogmedia, For advertising/partnerships send you can send us an email at <a href="mailto:bonjour@eplog.media">bonjour@eplog.media</a>. If you like this show, please subscribe and leave us a review wherever you get your podcasts, so other people can find us. You can also find us on <a href="https://eplog.media/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.eplog.media</a> DISCLAIMER: The views expressed on all the shows produced and distributed by Ep.Log Media are personal to the host and the guest of the shows respectively and with no intention to harm the sentiments of any individual/organization. The said content is not obscene or blasphemous or defamatory of any event and/or person deceased or alive or in contempt of court or breach of contract or breach of privilege, or in violation of any provisions of the statute, nor hurt the sentiments of any religious groups/ person/government/non-government authorities and/or breach or be against any declared public policy of any nation or state.See <a href="https://omnystudio.com/listener" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">omnystudio.com/listener</a> for privacy information.

Ep.17 Demystifying a Founder's Mindset ft. Shantanu Deshpande, Founder & CEO - Bombay Shaving Company

How often do you see an entrepreneur’s last employer putting equity in their idea? Well, this is exactly what happened with the guest of our today’s episode, Shantanu Deshpande, Founder - Bombay Shaving Company.In 2015, when Shantanu decided to dominate the men's grooming space and he was quitting his job at McKinsey, then his peer’s and seniors didn’t just allow him to leave but decided to back him up with an initial Seed funding.Last year when the country went into lockdown, the company’s revenues increased by 3x. One of the interesting driving factors behind this was the women employees at the company. Their perspective was very straightforward: # Problem Statement: During the lockdown, there was a shortage of women's hair removal products and razors. # Opportunity: They were working for a company, which made razors for a living. # Solution: These women employees then decided to coordinate with the product designers, test the product on themselves, put in their inputs, and get their own women’s razor out in the market.With this the Bombay Shaving Company, which earlier had 27% women customers buying their products for the men in their life (i.e. partners, father, brother) as a gifting option, now had 50% orders coming in from women with a major share of them buying women’s hair removal products. During the podcast, Shantanu shares with us what other tailwinds he leveraged during last year’s lockdown, how he believes in enabling his investors to partially exit from the brand from time to time, and how he derives the best value from his large institutional investors. Notes - 01:38 - Growing up in Florida (US) and moving back to India06:50 - Leaving McKinsey &amp; starting Bombay Shaving Company09:18 - “The richest source of information is a conversation with people who are in it all the time.”17:13 - Tailwinds which enabled 3x revenue post-lockdown in Mar’2019:50 - Channel-wise revenue break-up21:47 - Raising initial seed-round from McKinsey23:30 - “My belief was always, that we should never raise money to buy revenues, we should always raise money to build a brand.”26:24 - Core-target metrics since launch30:02 - 3 Crucial things to winning customers early-on33:07 - Enabling exits for early Angel investors39:57 - “Having good organic traffic is a proxy for brand strength.”44:32 - Deriving best value from financial investors

How often do you see an entrepreneur’s last employer putting equity in their idea?  Well, this is exactly what happened with the guest of our today’s episode, Shantanu Deshpande, Founder - Bombay Shaving Company. In 2015, when Shantanu decided to dominate the men's grooming space and he was quitting his job at McKinsey, then his peer’s and seniors didn’t just allow him to leave but decided to back him up with an initial Seed funding. Last year when the country went into lockdown, the company’s revenues increased by 3x. One of the interesting driving factors behind this was the women employees at the company.  Their perspective was very straightforward:  # Problem Statement: During the lockdown, there was a shortage of women's hair removal products and razors.  # Opportunity: They were working for a company, which made razors for a living.  # Solution: These women employees then decided to coordinate with the product designers, test the product on themselves, put in their inputs, and get their own women’s razor out in the market. With this the Bombay Shaving Company, which earlier had 27% women customers buying their products for the men in their life (i.e. partners, father, brother) as a gifting option, now had 50% orders coming in from women with a major share of them buying women’s hair removal products.  During the podcast, Shantanu shares with us what other tailwinds he leveraged during last year’s lockdown, how he believes in enabling his investors to partially exit from the brand from time to time, and how he derives the best value from his large institutional investors.  Notes - 01:38 - Growing up in Florida (US) and moving back to India06:50 - Leaving McKinsey &amp; starting Bombay Shaving Company09:18 - “The richest source of information is a conversation with people who are in it all the time.”17:13 - Tailwinds which enabled 3x revenue post-lockdown in Mar’2019:50 - Channel-wise revenue break-up21:47 - Raising initial seed-round from McKinsey23:30 - “My belief was always, that we should never raise money to buy revenues, we should always raise money to build a brand.”26:24 - Core-target metrics since launch30:02 - 3 Crucial things to winning customers early-on33:07 - Enabling exits for early Angel investors39:57 - “Having good organic traffic is a proxy for brand strength.”44:32 - Deriving best value from financial investors

Disrupting Indian Grooming ft. Shantanu Deshpande, Founder, Bombay Shaving Company

The male grooming industry has come a long way in the past few years. Gone are the days when looking good was something exclusive to women.In a candid conversation with Akshay Datt, Shantanu Deshpande, Founder, and CEO, Bombay Shaving Company, shares his inspirational journey. He is an alumnus of IIM Lucknow and has worked for McKinsey across various global and domestic projects before setting off his entrepreneurial journey.Shantanu fondly recalls his early days and how a casual conversation with his friend about men’s grooming led to realizing that this large and underserved market needed a brand disruptor. This was his eureka moment which led to the birth of Bombay Shaving Company in 2015.And today, this D2C brand is worth INR 100 crores, with FMCG behemoths like Reckitt Benckiser and Colgate Palmolive as its strategic investors.Tune in to this episode to hear Shantanu speak about how Bombay Shaving Company is challenging the traditional men’s grooming industry with its impeccable product expansion and brand-building strategies.What you must not miss!•	Fundraising journey.•	Secrets to scaling a venture.•	Building a product portfolio.•	Growth during the pandemic.

The male grooming industry has come a long way in the past few years. Gone are the days when looking good was something exclusive to women.In a candid conversation with Akshay Datt, Shantanu Deshpande, Founder, and CEO, Bombay Shaving Company, shares his inspirational journey. He is an alumnus of IIM Lucknow and has worked for McKinsey across various global and domestic projects before setting off his entrepreneurial journey.Shantanu fondly recalls his early days and how a casual conversation with his friend about men’s grooming led to realizing that this large and underserved market needed a brand disruptor. This was his eureka moment which led to the birth of Bombay Shaving Company in 2015.And today, this D2C brand is worth INR 100 crores, with FMCG behemoths like Reckitt Benckiser and Colgate Palmolive as its strategic investors.Tune in to this episode to hear Shantanu speak about how Bombay Shaving Company is challenging the traditional men’s grooming industry with its impeccable product expansion and brand-building strategies.What you must not miss!•	Fundraising journey.•	Secrets to scaling a venture.•	Building a product portfolio.•	Growth during the pandemic.

Grooming his way to success | Shantanu Deshpande @ Bombay Shaving Company