Episode 83: CEO’s Journey: McKinsey to Entrepreneurship w/ Simran Khara

About Simran Khara:
My next guest on The One Percent Project is the charismatic Simran Khara, the CEO of Koparo. Simran talks about her Journey: From McKinsey to Entrepreneurship.
She has an MBA from Indian School of Business and is an alumnus of the London School of Economics and Shri Ram College of Commerce. With over 16 years of experience, she has advised, built, and monetized in her roles at McKinsey & Co, Star TV, and Juggernaut Books. Now, she is building Koparo, a D2C toxin-free home-care brand.
In this conversation, Simran talks about the importance of discipline, adaptability, and social skills that she imbibed growing up in a Faugy Family, the liberating environment Mumbai offers to women, her role at Star TV and what she gathered from her mentor Uday Shankar,, becoming the CEO of Jaggaurnat Books an innovative new age book publishing house, building Koparo, the impact of being featured on Shark Tank India and much more.
This conversation inspired me to kick off a series on "First Time Founders", where I will invite young and experienced entrepreneurs who will help share their journey of building a business with no prior entrepreneurial experience. If you have any guest recommendations, drop me a line at [e-mail]
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In this conversation, she talks about:
00:00 Intro
02:24 Finding Love and Career in Mumbai: A Personal Journey
03:31 Life Lessons from a Fauji Brat: Discipline, Packing, and Social Skills
05:07 Embracing Competition and Empathy in Professional Life
07:41 From McKinsey to Star TV: A Career Transition Story
10:47 Learning from Uday Shankar?
11:30 The CEO's Perspective: Sales vs. Operations
13:15 Leading Juggernaut: An innovative book publishing venture
21:06 Launching Koparo: Innovating in Home Cleaning
24:27 Applying to Shark Tank India: Leveraging TV for Brand Growth
26:24 Unique Challenges and Insights as a D2C Founder
30:15 Generalist Vs Specialist: A career choice for youngsters
32:26 Why is struggle an evolving concept?
33:41 Counterintuitive insight about entrepreneurs.
34:28 Shark Tank India: Impact, Value & Opportunity
36:15 What does success mean to you?

[@dharambirkhara-eb5jn]

Bravo…….deeply touched ….moving.
More power to you.

[@binkykhara5707]

Blessings! Proud of you and the journey you readily share ♥️

[@jasleenkular9419]

Loved every minute of this!! So proud of you Simran … love and blessings always!!

[@rishirao9502]

Too good

[@harshtekwani265]

Even you didn't openly mentioned your ingredients in website. You fear that some can copy your product or you are hiding something.