2021 Review: Best Episodes, Learnings, Life Update, Plans for 2022

The Indian Dream

Sahil (@sahil071) and Siddharth (@sidbetala) hang out and discuss various ideas on this episode of Business Munchies. We're now actively sharing interesting snippets on Twitter and reels on Instagram. Follow us there to stay updated!
This episode is a look back of 2021. This is our first full calendar year of creating podcasts and newsletters for The Indian Dream. Just this year, we've produced ~80 podcasts and written ~30 newsletter talking about Founder Journeys, Market Trends and various opportunities.
In this episode, we look back and make sense of the year that's gone by:
Top Episodes (01:19)
a) Space-tech episodes
b) Blockchain with Nischal Shetty from WazirX
c) Mushroom & Seaweed Farming
d) OfBusiness
e) Business of Hotels & Restaurants
f) Abhishek Goel
Biggest learnings (12:02)
a) Focus on doing less but doing that better
b) Don't monetise too early in your content journey - it's a labour of love that will monetise eventually
c) Courses are really hard to do even if you know the subject really well.
d) Collabs and inviting people to munchies was harder than I thought.
e) It's really tough to motivate people in this kind of setting - got a lot of people who wanted to contribute for free but it just didn't work.
f) Follow your curiosity - will lead to great episodes
Personal Lives (26:04)
a) Portfolio of small bets
b) Siddharth having a baby
c) Rollercoaster of habit building
d) Change in my worldview on entrepreneurship and life in general
Plan for next year (33:59)
a) Do less but more
b) focus on distribution for the podcast.
c) Keep experimenting with stuff on the podcast and in personal life.
d) Keep trying to build it into an asynchronous organisation like AJVC