It’s LAUNCH day!!!!!! 🔥🔥🔥🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🧿🧿 @theindiaopportunity 250,000 of you, 100+ conversations, mad 20+ hour days, 2 years of grind, the hard days, the good days, the “I can’t believe this is happening” days, the “I’m burnt out” days - all of this has led me here. It feels like a real high to have this book now out there for the world to see. It’s almost never about the destination, it is the journey, the people I get to hang out with, and the internal expansion that follows both for me and our community ❤️🙏🏻🤗 If this book does well, I already have a second idea to write about 💡🤣🤣 Soon I’ll be onto the next one, cause I have a healthy detachment from outcomes - I just want to stay focused on the process of creation - it’s truly the joy of my life 🙏🏻❤️ But today we savour this day and celebrate. It’s a huge milestone and I’m grateful to everyone who’s enabled this - the guests, my production crew, post production crew, my team, my publisher, editors, and the 250,000 of you who watch & consume the content we get to create. It’s not work when you’re having fun ❤️🎂🥳🙏🏻 Buy on Amazon, link in bio 🤗

In the US, senior living is a multi-billion-dollar industry, with a market penetration of 6–7%. In India, that number is still just 1.5%. And 15 years ago, when most people in India couldn't even imagine senior living becoming a serious business, a 23-year-old decided to build something in this space. She personally handled the first 100 customer interactions and the first 100 sales of her company. It took almost 7 years to sell her first senior living community in Dehradun. Today, she has built Antara into a senior care business with residential communities, nearly 500 care beds, and a growing D2C business. She’s none other than Tara Singh Vachani, Founder and Executive Chairperson of Antara Senior Care and Vice Chairperson of Max India. Being the daughter of Analjit Singh, founder of the Max Group, she had access to resources, capital, and an established business legacy. But she decided to take on a challenge that very few people in India even considered a business opportunity. When she started Antara, senior living was largely associated with old age homes, and convincing people to move into such communities was extremely difficult. The initial years were so challenging that she began questioning her own abilities, the market, and even the concept itself. But she didn't give up. In 2018, she decided to step back from the CEO role and bring in experienced leadership because she believed that building something meaningful was more important than holding on to a designation. She went on to expand Antara into assisted care services and AGEasy, a senior care products business, with the vision of helping India's elderly population live independently and with dignity. What I found particularly inspiring was her approach towards leadership. Despite coming from an established business family, she openly acknowledges her privilege, talks about her failures, and believes that kindness should never be mistaken for weakness. People often associate entrepreneurship with raising funds, scaling businesses quickly, and building valuations. Well, she chose a different path, spending 15 years patiently building an industry that India had barely explored. If there has to be an example of someone building not just a business, but an entirely new category with patience, courage, and compassion, it has to be her :) Watch the full conversation only on The India Opportunity Show. Link in comments

He revived a watch from 1978 that had almost been forgotten. He initially planned to manufacture just 10,000 pieces. Within the first year, the demand reached 300,000 pieces. That watch was the Tissot PRX, which went on to become one of the brand's biggest success stories. He's none other than Sylvain Dolla, Global CEO of Tissot, one of the most iconic Swiss watch brands with a legacy of over 170 years. Interestingly, he discovered the PRX design in the archives during his very first week as CEO and immediately decided to bring it back. His team told him it would take a year to develop, but he pushed them to complete it in just 8 months. And all of this happened when the world was increasingly moving towards smartwatches and digital wearables. Today, India has become Tissot's 3rd largest market, with sales growing 6x in just 5 years. What's even more interesting is that despite leading a global luxury watch brand, he has no ambition to make Tissot more expensive. Instead, his vision is to make fine Swiss watches accessible to millions of people without compromising on quality. He even says that if an opportunity to sell 100,000 additional watches could damage the brand's reputation, he would simply reject it. People say that businesses must constantly chase new trends to stay relevant. Well, he is someone who went back to a decades-old design, turned it into a massive success, and showed that sometimes the biggest innovation lies in your own history :) Watch the full conversation only on The India Opportunity Show. Link in comments. P.S. Wishing everyone a very Happy Dussehra! ✨

He has 15+ years of experience in capital markets, fundraising and investment banking. He launched a Rs. 100 Crore fund focused on investing in Indian SMEs. He has now come up with his second fund of Rs. 500 Crores. He invested in a laptop refurbishment and e-waste recycling company at a valuation of Rs. 100 Crores, which reached Rs. 300 Crores in just 8 months. He’s none other than @ShrikantG17158, Co-Founder of GetFive and Fund Manager at GetFive Funds, a SEBI-registered Category I AIF focused on investing in high-potential Indian SMEs. An IIM Ahmedabad alumnus, he has previously worked with Tata Capital and IDBI Bank before building his own journey in the investment industry. While most investors are chasing listing-day gains and quick multibaggers, he believes that real wealth creation happens when you identify a good business early and stay invested in its growth journey. In fact, he prefers holding companies for a minimum of 3 years, allowing them to grow from SME platforms to the mainboard rather than exiting after making 2x or 3x returns. He has even walked away from investment opportunities where the numbers and industry looked promising, simply because he wasn't convinced about the promoter's integrity. People often associate stock market investing with buying and selling at the right time. Well, he believes that sometimes the biggest returns come from doing nothing after making the right investment. If there is one thing his journey teaches us, it is that successful investing is not just about identifying multibaggers, but also having the patience to let them become one :) Watch the full conversation only on The India Opportunity Show. Link in comments

He manages over Rs. 1,700 Crores of investors’ money today. He spent 21 years at DSP Merrill Lynch, leading institutional research and analysing where institutional money should be invested in India. He has now spent nearly four decades in the Indian stock markets. He’s none other than JyotiVardhan Jaipuria, Founder & MD of Valentis Advisors. His flagship small-cap portfolio has completed 10 years. And despite managing money professionally, his portfolio churn is just 16%. In fact, one of the first few stocks he bought when he started the fund 10 years ago is still in his portfolio today. That investment has gone up more than 20X. While most investors look for stocks that are already performing well, Jyoti follows almost the opposite philosophy. He looks for companies that are underowned, undervalued and underperforming; where he believes an earnings inflection is yet to come. His approach is simple: Don’t think about where the stock will be 3 months from now. Think about whether the company can double its earnings over the next 3 years. And his research doesn’t stop at meeting the management. His team speaks to dealers, distributors, competitors, suppliers and customers to build a 360-degree understanding of a business. There have even been instances where a company’s earnings fell nearly 75%, but after understanding that the problem was temporary and not structural, he went back and bought more. That is the kind of conviction that comes from research, patience and decades of experience. And after spending almost four decades in the markets, one principle remains constant for him: “The market is a slave to earnings.” In a world where everyone wants to know what a stock will do tomorrow, JyotiVardhan Jaipuria has built his investing philosophy around what a business can become over the next 3–5 years. Watch the full conversation only on The India Opportunity Show. Link in comments