Gravity of Growth
A podcast by Manish

Gravity of Growth

Long-form conversations with the builders, operators, and founders who shaped India's most impactful companies.

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Most podcasts about entrepreneurship tell you what worked. Gravity of Growth tells you what actually happened.

We dive into the messy middle—the choices that compound over time, the systems that scale, the moments that change everything. With founders, operators, and investors who are actively building India's next wave of companies.

How we're different

Every episode is structured to extract the actual decision-making logic behind growth.

Generic advice

Specific patterns from real operators

Polished retrospectives

Honest operating stories

Follow someone else's playbook

Understand the thinking behind the playbook

Surface-level insights

Deep case studies on unit economics and systems

Who we feature

Conversations with people who are actively operating at scale.

Growth Leaders

VPs of Growth and expansion leaders who scaled products to millions of users

Product Builders

Engineers and product managers who built the core systems

Founders

Founders building their second or third company in India

Operators & CTOs

Day-to-day operators managing complex scaling challenges

Investors

VCs and operators who invested in these companies early

Creators & Editors

People building audience and community at scale

Every episode has seven parts

We structure conversations to extract decision-making logic at every stage of growth.

i
The idea

How did you think about the problem before anyone else was thinking about it?

ii
The early days

First principles. First users. How did you know you had product-market fit?

iii
Scaling the unit

Unit economics. Systems. The moment when luck stopped and systems took over.

iv
The second curve

Where growth came from when the first curve flattened. How teams evolved.

v
Decision and doubt

The two moments you almost quit. What you wish you'd known sooner.

vi
What's next

What you're building now. How you think about the next wave.

vii
A letter to the future

If a 15-year-old future founder hears this ten years from now...

We believe India's next decade will be shaped by people who understand not just what worked, but why it worked. That's what Gravity of Growth is about.

— From the Gravity of Growth mission

Want to be a guest?

If you've built something that India learned from, we want to hear your story. Operators, founders, product leaders—reach out.

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