Rohith Bhat's guest appearances

Rohith Bhat

Outliers

Prime Venture Partners Podcast

The Startup Operator

Manav Garg

Sanjay Anandaram

Tarun Mehta

Prasanna Krishnamoorthy

Ashish Gupta

Ashwini Asokan

Viral B. Shah

Vargab Bakshi

Farid Ahsan

Paras Chopra

Amit Ranjan

Meeta Malhotra

Nischal Shetty

Ananth Narayanan

Nandan Nilekani

OwlTail

Rohith Bhat, Founder &amp; CEO 99Games chats with Amit Somani, Managing Partner Prime Venture Partners.Rohith is a  parallel entrepreneur who started three companies: Robosoft Technologies, Global Delight and 99Games. Robosoft Technologies started in 1996 and had Apple Inc. as the first customer.  Robosoft was acquired by  TechnoPro of Japan in 2021 for $100m+. Rohith is now focussing all of his attention towards growing 99Games profitably towards scale. Listen to the podcast to learn about01:50 - Starting the Entrepreneurial Journey with Apple05:00 - New Opportunities: Metaverse Gaming + NFTs08:00 - Building a Large B2B business from Udupi15:30 - The Game Changer: Democratisation of Distribution21:00 - The Process of Selling Your Startup Successfully29:00 - Monetisation of Gaming BusinessesClick here to read the full transcriptNext, listen to a founder who has built a large global business from a small country. Taavet Hinrikus, the Co-founder of Transferwise and one of the first employees of Skype. In this episode, Taavet talks about the growth of digital technology in Estonia, his time at Skype, growing a team by 200 members in 12 months and the magic formula to attract the right talent to your team. Enjoyed the podcast? Please consider leaving a review on Apple Podcasts and subscribe wherever you are listening to this.Follow Prime Venture Partners:Twitter: https://twitter.com/Primevp_inLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/primevp/ This podcast is for you. Do let us know what you like about the podcast, what you don't like, the guests you'd like to have on the podcast and the topics you'd like us to cover in future episodes. Please share your feedback here: https://primevp.in/podcastfeedback

<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/rohithbhat/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Rohith Bhat</a>, Founder &amp; CEO <a href="https://99games.in/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">99Games</a> chats with <a href="https://twitter.com/amitsomani" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Amit Somani</a>, Managing Partner <a href="https://primevp.in/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Prime Venture Partners</a>. Rohith is a  parallel entrepreneur who started three companies: Robosoft Technologies, Global Delight and 99Games. Robosoft Technologies started in 1996 and had Apple Inc. as the first customer.  Robosoft was acquired by  TechnoPro of Japan in 2021 for $100m+. Rohith is now focussing all of his attention towards growing 99Games profitably towards scale. Listen to the podcast to learn about 01:50 - Starting the Entrepreneurial Journey with Apple 05:00 - New Opportunities: Metaverse Gaming + NFTs 08:00 - Building a Large B2B business from Udupi 15:30 - The Game Changer: Democratisation of Distribution 21:00 - The Process of Selling Your Startup Successfully 29:00 - Monetisation of Gaming Businesses <a href="https://primevp.in/content/podcast/building-large-global-businesses-small-indian-cities-rohith-bhat-founder-ceo-99games/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Click here to read the full transcript</a> <a href="https://primevp.in/content/podcast/daring-dream-big-taavet-hinrikus-co-founder-transferwise/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Next, listen to a founder who has built a large global business from a small country.</a> Taavet Hinrikus, the Co-founder of Transferwise and one of the first employees of Skype. In this episode, Taavet talks about the growth of digital technology in Estonia, his time at Skype, growing a team by 200 members in 12 months and the magic formula to attract the right talent to your team. Enjoyed the podcast? Please consider leaving a review on Apple Podcasts and subscribe wherever you are listening to this. Follow Prime Venture Partners: Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/Primevp_in" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/Primevp_in</a> LinkedIn: <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/company/primevp/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.linkedin.com/company/primevp/</a> This podcast is for you. Do let us know what you like about the podcast, what you don't like, the guests you'd like to have on the podcast and the topics you'd like us to cover in future episodes.  Please share your feedback here: <a href="https://primevp.in/podcastfeedback" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://primevp.in/podcastfeedback</a>

#75 Building Large Global Businesses From Small Indian Cities with Rohith Bhat Founder & CEO 99Games

Rohith Bhat is the founder of Robosoft technologies and is the founder and CEO of 99Games. He built Robosoft Technologies from a tier 2 city in India over 2 decades ago with Apple as their first client and recently got acquired by Technopro of Japan. In this episode he spoke about going from startup to getting acquired, how the process of it, what it is like to build a startup from a second tier city and more in his interview with Roshan Cariappa.  Key Highlights: (00:00) Introduction  (01:35) Highs and Lows of getting acquired (02:14) That Day After Feeling  (04:21) The Process of Acquisition (08:52) Building in a tier 2-3 city like Udupi (13:19) Stories and Anecdotes from the early days of Robosoft (15:42) Building for the Apple Ecosystem (19:38) Working with Japanese clients (21:40) Choosing customers and projects  (23:05) Building customer empathy in your teams (25:06) Building an engineering culture (27:26) Genesis of 99 Games (32:11) Mindset shift required to move from services to products (35:14) Looking into the future of 99 Games (38:04) Optimism for the future (39:49) Advice for new founders (41:49) Closing remarks  -------------------------------------  Connect with Amrit: Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rohithbhat/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/rohithbhat  -------------------------------------  Connect with Us:  Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/startup-operator ​Twitter: https://twitter.com/OperatorStartup​​  -------------------------------------  If you liked this episode, let us know by hitting the like button and share with your friends and family. Please also remember to subscribe to our channel and switch on the notifications to never miss an episode!  ---   Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/startup-operator/message

Rohith Bhat is the founder of Robosoft technologies and is the founder and CEO of 99Games. He built Robosoft Technologies from a tier 2 city in India over 2 decades ago with Apple as their first client and recently got acquired by Technopro of Japan. In this episode he spoke about going from startup to getting acquired, how the process of it, what it is like to build a startup from a second tier city and more in his interview with Roshan Cariappa. Key Highlights: (00:00) Introduction  (01:35) Highs and Lows of getting acquired (02:14) That Day After Feeling  (04:21) The Process of Acquisition (08:52) Building in a tier 2-3 city like Udupi (13:19) Stories and Anecdotes from the early days of Robosoft (15:42) Building for the Apple Ecosystem (19:38) Working with Japanese clients (21:40) Choosing customers and projects  (23:05) Building customer empathy in your teams (25:06) Building an engineering culture (27:26) Genesis of 99 Games (32:11) Mindset shift required to move from services to products (35:14) Looking into the future of 99 Games (38:04) Optimism for the future (39:49) Advice for new founders (41:49) Closing remarks ------------------------------------- Connect with Amrit: Linkedin: <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/rohithbhat/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.linkedin.com/in/rohithbhat/</a> Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/rohithbhat" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/rohithbhat</a> ------------------------------------- Connect with Us:  Linkedin: <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/company/startup-operator" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.linkedin.com/company/startup-operator</a> ​Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/OperatorStartup​​" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/OperatorStartup​​</a> ------------------------------------- If you liked this episode, let us know by hitting the like button and share with your friends and family. Please also remember to subscribe to our channel and switch on the notifications to never miss an episode! --- Send in a voice message: <a href="https://anchor.fm/startup-operator/message" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://anchor.fm/startup-operator/message</a>

EP 121 : Startup to Acquisition - Rohith Bhat (Founder, Robosoft & 99Games) | Apple Development | Gaming | Based in Tier II

“When Steve Jobs went on the stage in 2008 to announce the App Store, he showed the first 500 apps, and the five of them were built in this building, in Udupi,” Rohith Bhat, founder of Robosoft tells me as I sat down to record this episode of Outliers in Udupi, a small temple town located some 400 kilometres from Bangalore. What’s really exciting about Bhat’s journey is not just having Apple as an old, loyal customer, but how he is transforming Robosoft into a next-generation company that’s now building new gaming apps too. The Star Chef game, for instance, has been downloaded over 20 million times and has earned revenues of nearly $20 million in three years. But it’s been a long, slow and at times frustrating entrepreneurial journey too. And that’s where Bhat is inspired by the Japanese culture and its companies. If you remember the Outliers Podcast with Zoho founder Sridhar Vembu, even he talked about why Indian startups need to emulate the likes of Honda, and not get starry-eyed by looking at the Silicon Valley all the time. Listen in.

“When Steve Jobs went on the stage in 2008 to announce the App Store, he showed the first 500 apps, and the five of them were built in this building, in Udupi,” Rohith Bhat, founder of Robosoft tells me as I sat down to record this episode of Outliers in Udupi, a small temple town located some 400 kilometres from Bangalore. What’s really exciting about Bhat’s journey is not just having Apple as an old, loyal customer, but how he is transforming Robosoft into a next-generation company that’s now building new gaming apps too. The Star Chef game, for instance, has been downloaded over 20 million times and has earned revenues of nearly $20 million in three years. But it’s been a long, slow and at times frustrating entrepreneurial journey too. And that’s where Bhat is inspired by the Japanese culture and its companies. If you remember the Outliers Podcast with Zoho founder Sridhar Vembu, even he talked about why Indian startups need to emulate the likes of Honda, and not get starry-eyed by looking at the Silicon Valley all the time. Listen in.

Ep 44: How Rohith Bhat built an app development powerhouse from small town India