Mumbai, India While the debate as to whether AI will take over the world continues, the race to harness and master it continues. The latest development on the AI front is where a Startup Show called The Snakes and Ladders Startup Show is now an AI Powered Startup show. One is likely to wonder as to what makes a show an AI Powered Show and that too a Startup show that invites founders and Investors to identify the Snakes ( Risks and Pitfalls) and Ladders ( Breakthroughs and Upsides).
The answer lies in a highly trained, tutored and Customised AI Powered Chat bot which has been deployed on the Home Page of The Great Unicorn Hunt ( www.thegreatunicornhunt.com) . It proudly claims that it is an AI Chatbot of the Startup Ecosystem, by the Startup Ecosystem, for the Startup Ecosystem. It has been trained and customised to a level of perfection where it answers questions specifically pertaining to the Snakes and Ladders posed by the seeker. Infact a comprehensive list of Snakes and Ladders to be discussed on the show is extracted via the AI Powered Chatbot making it the World’s First AI Powered Startup Show. “It’s an excellent example of Artificial Intelligence complementing Human Intelligence because the only way to harness AI successfully is to make it complement Human Intelligence” says Sachin Karnik, Founder and CEO of The Great Unicorn Hunt , who is the anchor of the show making the show sparkle with his measured but engaging style of sharing quotes and anecdotes not to mention the occasional yorkers posed to participants.
The Snakes and Ladders Startup Show started a few months back and has already covered Startups and themes with each episode garnering anywhere from 15000 to 70000 views.
The format involves some incisive and peppy questions on Snakes and Ladders faced by the founders with each episode dedicated for one Startup or a theme . The candid experiences around the pitfalls and upsides , snakes and ladders is making the show content stand out but the icing on the cake is where different Angels, Super Angels, VCs, GPs , LPs , experts invited on the show share their perspectives, insight and wisdom about Snakes to be watched out for and ladders to be potentially monetised.
The first couple of episodes of the show has Oldsold a refurbished Cellphone Startup and Homeoform, a Homeopathy based personal care D2C Startup. Alok Parmar, the Founder and COO of OldSold has regaled viewers with his candid and endearing style of sharing experiences. Bhupinder Singh and Dr. Jaswinder Kaur the Husband-Wife Cofounders of Homeform share their vulnerable moments and highs as they seek a toe hold in the crowded D2C space.
The esteemed Jury Members and Investors who have graced the inaugural show are Devang Mehta, a seasoned leader, Investor, Venture Advisor and Venture Partner with Anthill Ventures, Anil Kumar Siddu, a Super Angel and Gold Member and Selection Panel member with IPV and an anchor investor for Senior Experts and Second Innings Home and Vatsal Kanakia, CEO of 100X VC , perhaps one of the youngest CEO from the Investing Ecosystem. The other Startup Founders that have featured on the Show are Katrin Ruland from Noah Mobility alongwith Head of Global Partnerships, Damian Porter.
The Noah Mobility episode was graced by Bhavish Sood (GP – Modulor Capital), Radhesh Kanumury (MP – Suvan Ventures) and Sasha Mirchandani (MD – Kae Capital) .
The Thematic episodes on Startup Mortality and Growth Hacks has seen eminent folks like Suraj Juneja (Free Flow Ventures) , Rishi Kappal (Startup Evangelist, 5X author), Himanshu Sharma ( Investor , Theia Ventures) , Shantanu Chaturvedi ( VP , Transition VC) and Filmboard Founders Rajesh Butta and Sandeep Varma sharing their valuable insight and wisdom culled from years of experience of dealing with Startup scenarios, predicaments and curveballs.
The recently launched episode which was Episode number number seven but also the first AI Powered Episode featured Apola and Kumaresh Founders of Craftspark a Food and Beverages Startup sharing their Snake bites and ladders . The Soon-to-be-released Part Two features Amit Singal, Founding Partner of Fluid Ventures and Real Time Angel Fund and Kishore Kumar ( Head of Brand Intelligence and Accelerator Program at Big Basket) . Its not a wonder that the show is proving to be an awesome example of AI meets HI. If Chat GPT can be used as Chai GPT to sell tea where AI stands for Adrak and Ilaichi, why cant ChatGPT be used be Investors and Founders is the question the show has posed.