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Name: Is innovation really expensive, or are founders trying to build too much alone? In this episode of
Uploaded: 2026-06-25T14:23:58.306Z
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Description: Is innovation really expensive, or are founders trying to build too much alone? In this episode of Khul Ke Scale, Shantanu Deshpande (Founder & CEO, Bombay Shaving Company) joins Rahul Jain (Co-found

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Is innovation really expensive, or are founders trying to build too much alone? In this episode of Khul Ke Scale, Shantanu Deshpande (Founder & CEO, Bombay Shaving Company) joins Rahul Jain (Co-founder, Beanly Coffee) and Samayesh Khanna (Co-founder, Beanly Coffee), along with Shiv Shivakumar (Operating Partner, Advent | Ex-SVP, Nokia | Ex-CEO, PepsiCo) and Toshan Tamhane (Global Chief Operating Officer, UPL | Ex-Senior Partner, McKinsey), to unpack how challenger brands can use ecosystems to innovate faster without burning unnecessary capital. For a coffee brand, innovation does not always need to start with a massive internal R&D team. It can start with knowing where the knowledge already exists. The smarter founder does not try to rebuild all of it from scratch. Sometimes, the real founder's skill is not doing everything in-house. It is knowing what the ecosystem already knows. Full episode out now on our YouTube channel.

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