Anand Ramachandran's guest appearances

Anand Ramachandran

Couch Talk

That One Idea

Chris Adams

John Wright

Aatif Nawaz

Stuart McGill

Mike Young

Simon Jones

Wright Thompson

Andy Zaltzman

Andrew Miller

Chris Green

Paul Harris

Peter Lalor

Gideon Haigh

Brad Hogg

Craig McDermott

OwlTail

Anjali Sosale of Waterbridge Ventures chats with Anand Ramachandran of BigFatPhoenix.  BigFatPhoenix builds first party video games for kids to help them build their social, emotional and life skills. Through their Fairside Stories app, they've built video games that give kids an online social safe space to play games and interact with their friends and peers.  You can find them at https://www.bigfatphoenix.com/.  We dive deep into Anand's journey and explore the series of experiences and events that led to him building BigFatPhoenix:   (3:49) Dropping out of college (6:56) Always wear your passion on your sleeve (13:05) Why every child is a game designer (15:07) Breaking into Zynga without formal training (17:22) College dropout in a pre-internet world (27:40) BYJU's first game designer for kids (30:25) Meeting the founding team and conceptualizing BigFatPhoenix (33:18) Not shying away from love (36:03) Video games as a positive influence on kids (37:08) The slow epiphany of BigFatPhoenix (44:48) Feedback should take you by surprise (54:46) Creative energy in a remote work environment (01:00:28) Why we should trust kids more

Anjali Sosale of Waterbridge Ventures chats with Anand Ramachandran of BigFatPhoenix.  BigFatPhoenix builds first party video games for kids to help them build their social, emotional and life skills. Through their Fairside Stories app, they've built video games that give kids an online social safe space to play games and interact with their friends and peers.  You can find them at <a href="https://www.bigfatphoenix.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.bigfatphoenix.com/</a>.  We dive deep into Anand's journey and explore the series of experiences and events that led to him building BigFatPhoenix:   (3:49) Dropping out of college (6:56) Always wear your passion on your sleeve (13:05) Why every child is a game designer (15:07) Breaking into Zynga without formal training (17:22) College dropout in a pre-internet world (27:40) BYJU's first game designer for kids (30:25) Meeting the founding team and conceptualizing BigFatPhoenix (33:18) Not shying away from love (36:03) Video games as a positive influence on kids (37:08) The slow epiphany of BigFatPhoenix (44:48) Feedback should take you by surprise (54:46) Creative energy in a remote work environment (01:00:28) Why we should trust kids more

BigFatPhoenix | Anand Ramachandran

Sidin Vadukut

In this episode, Sidin Vadukut (author, blogger, editor) and Anand Ramachandran (Game designer, blogger), both Page 2 writers on Cricinfo and all around nice guys, discuss satire in cricket writing, the enormous ability of cricket to provide material for humor, the feedback from fans etc. I apologize in advance for the audio-recorder malfunctioning that caused a slight feedback towards the end of the podcast.

In this episode, Sidin Vadukut (<a href="http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=ntt_athr_dp_sr_1?_encoding=UTF8&amp;sort=relevancerank&amp;search-alias=books&amp;field-author=Sidin%20Vadukut" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">author</a>, <a href="http://www.whatay.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">blogger</a>, <a href="http://www.livemint.com/articles/Authors.aspx?author=Sidin+Vadukut&amp;type=wa" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">editor</a>) and Anand Ramachandran (Game designer, <a href="http://www.sonofbosey.in/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">blogger</a>), both <a href="http://www.espncricinfo.com/page2/content/site/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Page 2 writers on Cricinfo</a> and all around nice guys, discuss satire in cricket writing, the enormous ability of cricket to provide material for humor, the feedback from fans etc. I apologize in advance for the audio-recorder malfunctioning that caused a slight feedback towards the end of the podcast.

Couch Talk 13 - Sidin Vadukut, Anand Ramachandran