XL Podcast

You may know Rachit Dayal already, he’s the cofounder of our previous podcast guest Prantik Mazumdar. Together they grew their digital agency to over $10m in sales and later acquisition by Dentsu. In this successful team, Rachit was the original founder, the one who didn’t take the corporate salaryman route of safe, comfortable career with all its trappings and bragging rites for distant family. Instead, Rachit tells the story of survival mode and eating Maggi Noodles for the first 3 years of his business life. Not easy when your University peers are getting ahead with impressive hires in management consultancies and safe blue chip companies.

But then, to be a successful entrepreneur you not only have to think different, but be different. You have to be the kind of person who both is annealed to the expectations of others and also confident that somehow things are going to work out okay in the future. This baseline of operations allows you to ignore the voices and grow your business on your terms. In this podcast, Rachit shares how his focus on daily metrics and the constant evolution (“Kaizen”) of those numbers rather than the big picture goals helped him keep the business on track.

Rachit’s story is, to me, the lesser heard story of entrepreneurship. It’s less about raising large amounts of capital early in the game and growing at breakneck speeds. And it’s not so much about the end goal of the exit to measure the worth of our efforts. Instead, it’s the constant evolution, growth and belief in a path that leads forward. It’s about enjoying the game while we’re playing it and the joy of proving a few of our doubters wrong along the way.

Show Notes

You may know Rachit Dayal already, he’s the cofounder of our previous podcast guest Prantik Mazumdar. Together they grew their digital agency to over $10m in sales and later acquisition by Dentsu. In this successful team, Rachit was the original founder, the one who didn’t take the corporate salaryman route of safe, comfortable career with all its trappings and bragging rites for distant family. Instead, Rachit tells the story of survival mode and eating Maggi Noodles for the first 3 years of his business life. Not easy when your University peers are getting ahead with impressive hires in management consultancies and safe blue chip companies.

But then, to be a successful entrepreneur you not only have to think different, but be different. You have to be the kind of person who both is annealed to the expectations of others and also confident that somehow things are going to work out okay in the future. This baseline of operations allows you to ignore the voices and grow your business on your terms. In this podcast, Rachit shares how his focus on daily metrics and the constant evolution (“Kaizen”) of those numbers rather than the big picture goals helped him keep the business on track.

Rachit’s story is, to me, the lesser heard story of entrepreneurship. It’s less about raising large amounts of capital early in the game and growing at breakneck speeds. And it’s not so much about the end goal of the exit to measure the worth of our efforts. Instead, it’s the constant evolution, growth and belief in a path that leads forward. It’s about enjoying the game while we’re playing it and the joy of proving a few of our doubters wrong along the way.

What is XL Podcast?

Produced by Pikkal & Co - Award-Winning Podcast Agency.

The XL Podcast by Graham Brown showcases conversations with Authentic Leaders in business and society. By creating conversations not interviews, XL highlights Leaders in their own words, without PR spin or handlers. XL brings regular hard-hitting insights and transformative journeys outside the comfort zone of regular business.

Previous XL guests include Tony Fernandes (CEO AirAsia), Howard Yu (Author & Professor of IMD), Rod Drury (CEO Founder Xero), Hal Bosher (CEO Yoma Bank), Jiawen Ngeow (Successful entrepreneur with $25m exits), Mun Ching Yap (Head of The Air Asia Foundation), Sahar Hashemi (Founder of Costa Coffee and named in The Independent on Sunday as one of The "20 most powerful women in Britain”), Lewis Pugh ("The Human Polar Bear”, UN Patron of The Oceans and World Record holding Swimmer) and Rob Nail (CEO of Singularity University)