How to Make It Big in Media | Ashwin Suresh | Varun Duggi | Take aPause
Varun DuggiFebruary 23, 202301:06:24

How to Make It Big in Media | Ashwin Suresh | Varun Duggi | Take aPause

In this episode of Take aPause, media entrepreneur Ashwin Suresh chats with Varun Duggirala on taking calculated risks and making strategic moves that helped him make big life decisions that changed the trajectory of his personal and professional life. If you’ve been in a state of analysis paralysis and feel too scared to drift from the safe path, this one’s for you!

Entrepreneur Ashwin Suresh is the Co-Founder of Pocket Aces, one of India's leading digital entertainment companies and known for its media entities including FilterCopy and Dice Media. He has a BS and MS Electrical Engineering from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and worked in Investment Banking in New York before moving back to India to explore a career in media and entertainment.

Time stamps:
00:00 Intro
02:15 Ashwin Suresh Talks About His Early life
05:50 Ashwin Suresh On Choosing your path
16:10 Ashwin Suresh and Varun Duggirala On Figuring It Out
21:11 Ashwin Suresh On Luck vs Plans
26:25 Ashwin Suresh and Varun Discuss The Production Structure
32:25 Ashwin Suresh On Creating Niches and Expansion
38:10 Ashwin Suresh On The Importance Of Laziness
45:00 Ashwin Suresh On Going Through Changes
53:50 Ashwin Suresh On Taking the leap
1:04:17 Ashwin Suresh On The Best Advice He Has Received

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ABOUT VARUN
A creative entrepreneur turned content creator, Varun is one of India’s leading conversationalists in the modern business, personal development, and creator landscapes with over 1 million podcast listens.
The author of the bestseller Everything Is Out of Syllabus, he’s the host of Advertising Is Dead, one of India's most popular business podcasts with over 300,000 listens in 2021 alone, as well as co-host of Think Fast, an irreverent business podcast that has ranked #3 on Apple’s Podcast Marketing Charts.
In 2009, he co-founded The Glitch, India’s largest ‘digital-first’ creative agency.

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|| Take A Pause with Varun Duggirala ||
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|| Think Fast ||
https://pod.link/1596432556

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