Session Date: 7th October, 2020
Session Time: 06:45 PM to 08:00 PM (IST)
In Partnership
Panel Members
Anju Srivastava
Founder & CEO,
Wingreens Farms
Karan Bajaj
Founder,
WhiteHat Jr
Rishi Gupta
MD & CEO,
Fino Payments Bank
Siddharth Nautiyal
Chairman, IIC,
Partner, Omidyar Network India
Anju Srivastava
Founder & CEO,
Wingreens Farms
Karan Bajaj
Founder,
WhiteHat Jr
Rishi Gupta
MD & CEO,
Fino Payments Bank
Siddharth Nautiyal
Chairman, IIC,
Partner, Omidyar Network India
Agenda of the panel
- Showcase the capacity for high social impact organizations to also create value for all stakeholders – employees, suppliers, customers and shareholders
- Establish the idea that we CAN create social impact/social good along with financial returns in the Indian context.
- Decode the importance of being vision and mission-driven in identifying and solving important problems
- Decode the thinking and construct of business models which allow for this double-bottom-line orientation (impact as well as financial return)
- Help aspiring entrepreneurs as well as potential investors understand the potential of this market segment
Key areas of discussion and broad flow
1) Brief 2 minute introductions to the three panelists and their businesses and where they are in their journey
2) Initial perspectives on the Social Impact : Financial Returns equation and their thinking about this concept : happenstance or integrated into business design itself : personal experiences
01
Thought on how an entrepreneur in the social impact space should relate to this issue: can social impact be built into the business model ?
02
What’s the North star – how do you define success for your enterprise ? social impact, financial outcomes, or both ?
03
Is this a worthwhile model for India to consider scaling substantially?
3) Designing a business model for social impact and financial returns what does it take?
01
Is this model more suitable for pure online businesses alone?
02
What has been the experience of some of you who run an offline/online combo model or even pure offline models?
03
Is Technology a significant enabler and would this model succeed in pure play non tech enabled businesses too ?
04
What are the challenges of scale in such businesses? scale in impact as well as business growth? what’s the template for business decisioning under such situations?
4) Funding and Investor Choices
01
For social impact businesses, what role do investors play ?
02
What role have your investors played in the design and build out of your business ?
03
Is the choice of investors important to stay true to your goals of a double bottom line ?
04
What should impact entrepreneurs look for in an investors, if they have a choice that is ?
5) Creating shareholder returns and exit related decisions
01
What has been your experience in creating returns for shareholders and employees
02
Partial or Full Exits : what are the dimensions of decisioning when one thinks about this ?
