Aksh Gupta's guest appearances

Aksh Gupta

52 Founders

Above the Cloud

Economics & Strategy Podcast

John Adams

Itai Sadan

Jack Altman

Ryan Denehy

Jason Fried

Alexandr Wang

Rainforest QA

Jonathan Baker

Dan Clark

Ro Gupta

Tracy DiNunzio

David Rabie

Fred Stevens-Smith

Kevin Wang

Scott Norton

OwlTail

This month, we are joined by DePaul Alumnus of the Economics &amp; Policy Analysis Masters Program, Aksh Gupta. Aksh is the Cofounder &amp; CEO of Occasion, a startup dedicate to solving tech challenges of experiential businesses. Occasion addresses a common problem in such disparate industries like nail salons, live theatre, and pilates studios: A better reservation system. Now, reservation systems aren’t novel, and its apparently very a crowded industry. So what will be the key to Occasion’s success?

This month, we are joined by DePaul Alumnus of the Economics &amp; Policy Analysis Masters Program, Aksh Gupta. Aksh is the Cofounder &amp; CEO of Occasion, a startup dedicate to solving tech challenges of experiential businesses. Occasion addresses a common problem in such disparate industries like nail salons, live theatre, and pilates studios: A better reservation system. Now, reservation systems aren’t novel, and its apparently very a crowded industry. So what will be the key to Occasion’s success?

Episode 001: Aksh Gupta, Occasion

Aksh Gupta runs Occasion, a marketing and scheduling platform for small businesses focused on delivering experiences -- zip lining, cooking classes and so on. This podcast focused on the decision process that goes into changing a business when the original plan isn't working. Aksh went through this and came out the other side with vastly better KPIs.

Episode 24: "Scheduling is like hosting," featuring Aksh Gupta

In this episode, you’ll hear about:-How the idea for Occasion was born out of frustration from being unable to reserve tennis court time in Chicago-Aksh’s view on how AI will transform his industry-The long lineage of entrepreneurship in Aksh’s family, and how it molded his childhood dreams-Why Aksh works at his mother’s store every six weeks, and how that enables him to build a better product-The apprenticeship program Occasion started for its employees in order to gain more customer empathy-Why entrepreneurs shouldn’t equate business failure with personal failureCatch the end of the episode, where Aksh talks about the growing importance of voice interfaces and why it’s critical to surround yourself with mentors who are much more senior in their career.

In this episode, you’ll hear about: -How the idea for Occasion was born out of frustration from being unable to reserve tennis court time in Chicago -Aksh’s view on how AI will transform his industry -The long lineage of entrepreneurship in Aksh’s family, and how it molded his childhood dreams -Why Aksh works at his mother’s store every six weeks, and how that enables him to build a better product -The apprenticeship program Occasion started for its employees in order to gain more customer empathy -Why entrepreneurs shouldn’t equate business failure with personal failure Catch the end of the episode, where Aksh talks about the growing importance of voice interfaces and why it’s critical to surround yourself with mentors who are much more senior in their career.

Episode 13: Aksh Gupta, Occasion