Raghav Jhawar is the Co-Founder of @thestateplateofficial

The State Plate offers authentic regional foods from iconic brands across India, allowing you to explore and taste diverse local flavours.

Raghav Started the business in COVID & took it to Sark Tank Season 1.

In September 2023, JustMyRoots acquired The State Plate, to enhance its presence in India's intercity food market.

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In this Episode we’ve talked about:

- Raghav's Backstory & start of The State Plate.

- BTS of Shark Tank

- How to take your business to Shark Tank

- Content Creation as a brand

- Venture Capital & Funding

- Founder Mental Health

- Future & AI in the D2C space.

There’s lots of hidden learnings in this episode packed with so much value, hope you learn something new

Raghav is an inspiration to us & many others! We guarantee you that you will learn a-lot.

Have Fun, Enjoy the Show

Feel free to comment down any thoughts you have about the whole conversation.

0:00 - PreCap of this Episode

1:25 - Always Young Show Intro & Disclaimer

1:43 - Start of the Podcast

4:26 - Introduction & Backstory of Raghav

14:57 - Masti nahi Rukni Chahiye :)

18:13 - Food Business & Online D2C

20:30 - Exploring Business Ideas in COVID

22:47 - Start of The State Plate

25:13 - Be Young, Dumb & Curious.

26:52 - Deciding the First Products

29:00 - Identifying the need for funding for your business

33:00 - MOAT

33:54 - If you don't have money to start a business, what do you do?

36:15 - First Funding

39:45 - Pros & Cons of Raising Funds

42:34 - The Ambiguity of Shark Tank Season 1

44:19 - How to decide the amount of money your business needs?

47:00 - How to take your business online?

51:32 - How to create content as a brand?

56:25 - How to deal with Uncertianiity of Shark Tank?

58:16 - THE BTS OF SHARK TANK

1:04:20 - How to take your business to Shark Tank?

1:07:15 - Funny Story - Ashneer Grover

1:08:58 - How to get a deal at Shark Tank?

1:12:10 - Founder Mental Health.

1:18:46 - Future & AI in the D2C space.

1:25:09 - Rapid Fire Round

1:30:09 - Bloopers

1:30:49 - End of Podcast!

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