Our guest for today is Gaurav Baheti, CEO & Founder at Procol. Gaurav is an Engineer turned Designer & has worked at companies like Zomato and Google. But being passionate and full of potential, he decided to start his own company wanting to experiment and do what he really loves!

Procol is a digital procurement platform that helps companies digitize their buying processes. It has raised a capital of $1 Million from Blue Ventures & Rainmatter, a fund managed by Zerodha.

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⏱️ Timestamps

00:00 Our guest of the day — Gaurav Baheti from Procol

01:16 Three Mindset Shifts causing the transition from Job to a Startup

03:09 Learning and Implementing things faster

03:41 Journey of Raising Capital & What happens after Raising one?

05:19 Differentiating between Life and Work while Running a Startup

06:33 Convincing Big Clients to Trust your Product

09:48 Being in a state of flow & Managing Emotions

14:45 How books have impacted Gaurav's life

20:18 Connect with Gaurav!

21:21 Conclusion

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🔑 Resources/Books mentioned by Gaurav:

• How to Win Friends & Influence People by Dale Carnegie — to improve interpersonal skills

• The Speed of Trust by Stephen M. R. Covey — to learn how to build trust

• The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg — to develop habits

• Good Strategy/Bad Strategy by Richard P. Rumelt — for building strategy

• Blue Ocean Strategy by Renée Mauborgne and W. Chan Kim — for building strategy

• Metaskill by Marty Neumeier — for a learning framework

• Read books on Human Psychology

• Learn from Mentors and Experienced people

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