Cathedral Entrepreneurship Society · Mumbai
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Conversations on building, founding, and figuring it out — from the Cathedral Entrepreneurship Society.
Episode 2 · 42:59
She was a finance professional with a CFA. Then she quit, started a catering company out of a gap she'd noticed in the market, and four years later opened a restaurant that told diners there was no menu to choose from — just ten courses of Indian produce, take it or leave it. People warned her it wouldn't work. Masque has since been ranked India's best restaurant for five consecutive years and won the Art of Hospitality Award from The World's 50 Best. Under Urban Gourmet India, Aditi Dugar now runs a portfolio that includes TwentySeven Bakehouse, Circle Sixty-Nine and Paradox, alongside the kitchen at Seesaw Café. In this episode of CES Visionaries, we talk about leaving a stable career for an unproven one, why she describes herself as an "accidental food entrepreneur," what it takes to build supply chains with farmers across the country, and how she decides when a concept is worth betting on.
Episode 1 · 43:33
Open your fridge, your medicine cabinet, a packet of chips — almost every flexible package in an Indian home is held together by a laminating adhesive. Gaurav Talwar makes them. As Managing Director of Brilliant Polymers, he runs one of India's largest producers of laminating adhesives for flexible packaging, supplying food, pharma and consumer goods manufacturers across India and exporting to the Middle East, Africa and Southeast Asia — from a plant in Ambernath, less than two hours from where we're sitting. It's also a second act. His father founded Converter Adhesives, a pioneer in packaging adhesives, and sold it to Henkel. Brilliant was started from scratch in 2011. In this episode we talk about building in an industry nobody grows up dreaming about, what it takes to compete with BASF and Dow from Maharashtra, and why the least visible products are sometimes the best businesses.
