How do you turn a love for beautiful spaces into a growing home and lifestyle brand?

Aditi M Agrawal, Co-Founder of Nestasia, joins Abhishansa Mathur to talk about spotting a gap in the home décor market, building a distinctive design identity, expanding across online and offline channels, and balancing creativity with the realities of scaling a business.

Pratik Gupta, CEO & Co-Founder of Pluckk, joins Abhishansa Mathur to explore the journey of building a fresh, clean-label food brand in India. From rethinking how consumers buy fruits and vegetables to building a made-to-order model around freshness, traceability, technology, and quality, the conversation looks at what it takes to build in a complex, supply-chain-heavy category.

Pratik shares insights into changing consumer preferences around health and nutrition, scaling across D2C, marketplaces, and quick commerce, balancing growth with profitability, using technology across the supply chain, and building consumer trust through education and content. He also discusses Pluckk’s approach to expanding across categories and geographies, including acquisitions and the decisions behind building versus buying capabilities.

Vishakha Bhaskkar, Co-Founder of Angrakhaa, joins Abhishansa, Founder of Local Samosa, to talk about building the fashion brand she couldn’t find for herself.

From Love Them Curves to Angrakhaa, Vishakha shares her journey of creating inclusive fashion for real bodies, including the brand’s “no fat tax” approach.

The conversation gets into what it really takes to build and scale a fashion brand: starting with a made-to-order model, using customer data to drive decisions, navigating performance marketing and AI, and growing without losing sight of the community that started it all.

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