Over the last few years, a lot of us have become fans of Shark Tank, a show where you pitch an idea and get to watch the Sharks either take it down or be floored by it and be full of appreciation. We're bringing you next an interview or a conversation of sorts. Shark Tank India is back with season four. We've got an interview with two of those who are considered the most formidable sharks, Kunal and Ritesh. Take a look.
This is a conversation. Thank you both for speaking to us and welcome to the Breakfast Club. In this very interview, we'd want to know your understanding of your entrepreneurial business and, of course, your reason to be back on Shark Tank. So, moving with the first question for the two of you all: what is your reason to be back? What motivates you all to come back on Shark Tank season four? And, you know, what are your expectations when it comes to the entrepreneurs who will be here in this season?
Yeah, look, I think I was there in the last season, and I think season three, in my mind, was a very important needle-moving movement for Shark Tank, where essentially you saw the quality of companies, size of companies continue to expand. And the reaction and love the season three got has been out of this world. It's probably significantly ahead of any of the seasons we've seen.
I believe that in life, what data doesn't say, anecdotes do. So a lot of data points were saying that Shark Tank three did very well, but the anecdotes were, for the first time, I heard such incredible stories of people from Samastipur, Darbhanga, of course, in bigger cities like Delhi, Bangalore, Chennai, creating exceptional companies purely because they found great ideas from Shark Tank. So I think India, which possibly will be one of the most prominent economies in the world, will only get there because of its entrepreneurial rise. And Shark Tank, I think, is probably the most, is leading the pack in terms of helping entrepreneurs in India. So that's why I'm back. But yeah, over to Kunal, he's back.
So, you know, a lot of what I've done over the last 17, 18 years is to do with the startup ecosystem. Right, like when I started my company in 2010 along with my co-founder Rohit, there was nothing known as a startup. Right, it was either you did a family business or you did a job. This twilight zone of a, you know, 20-year-old, 21-year-old, or 18-year-old starting a company and raising money from someone else, not family money, was an unheard of concept. Right, but look how far we've come in the last 17, 18 years. We've just seen an explosion, thousands and thousands, tens of thousands of startups, you know, lakhs of crores of value created for employees, shareholders, those who took risks like the founders themselves.
It is incredible how much the startup ecosystem has moved the needle for India. And for me, you know, I've been playing the role of a founder, an entrepreneur, operator, as well as of an investor, having invested in many companies over the last 13 years, many of which have become very big. Also, this to me was an extension of that, where whatever, you know, inputs, knowledge, experience, mistakes, and capital that I could share in a closed room, now we can do it at scale on a national platform like Shark Tank.
What are you actually looking for in the entrepreneurs you all will be meeting in this very season?
