🎙️ Akshay Datt

Co-Founder

Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan28 yrs 3 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Hosted ~600 founder interviews on the podcast.
  • Founded a successful employability training institute.
  • Expertise in hiring across diverse sectors.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a versatile entrepreneur with expertise in media, education, and recruitment sectors.

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Skills

Core Skills

PodcastingEntrepreneurshipEmployability TrainingHiring

Other Skills

Content MarketingFundraisingSpoken English TrainingTalent AcquisitionContent DevelopmentCRMPerformance AppraisalBusiness DevelopmentMarket ResearchEmployee EngagementTraining DeliveryEmployee RelationsVendor ManagementOperations ManagementRecruiting

About

Passionate about entrepreneurship, bring founder stories to life at the Founder Thesis podcast. Figuring out what I want to spend the next decade of my life on. Have run ventures in Employability Training, Hiring and Podcasting.

Experience

28 yrs 3 mos
Total Experience
7 yrs 1 mo
Average Tenure
20 yrs 11 mos
Current Experience

Fast code ai

Marketing Consultant

Mar 2026Present · 2 mos

Aarnâ protocol

Producer of the alpha un# podcast

Jan 2025Present · 1 yr 4 mos · Remote

Mu sigma inc.

Founder's Office

Jul 2024Sep 2024 · 2 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

  • Grateful to Mu Sigma that they took a crazy bet by hiring a failed founder, and they took an early call when they realised that it was not working out.

Founder thesis

Founder and Host

Feb 2020Present · 6 yrs 3 mos

  • The Founder Thesis podcast (founderthesis.com) features deep dive long form interviews with disruptive founders with the goal of learning about finding product market fit, finding customer love, building moats, building flywheels, hyperscaling and a lot more. The show is distributed through all major streaming apps and I have interviewed ~600 founders till date.
PodcastingContent MarketingEntrepreneurshipFundraising

Unnati

Founder

Jun 2005Present · 20 yrs 11 mos · New Delhi Area, India

  • 2003 to 2013: Unnati was an employability training insitute with a focus on spoken English training. We trained 10k students over this decade through our offline centre and on-campus engagements
  • 2013 to 2024: Unnati was a hiring agency helping companies across sectors ranging from FinTech, EdTech, HR Tech, Food Tech, B2B Saas products, health-tech, D2C brands, real estate tech etc.
  • 2024 and beyond: Figuring Out
Employability TrainingHiringSpoken English TrainingTalent Acquisition

Exl service

Assistant Manager - Training

May 2002May 2003 · 1 yr · Noida Area, India

  • Was responsible for managing the training calendar across the organisation and delivering a few soft skills training workshops. Built a rather primitive e-learning module for the onboarding training process.

Career launcher

Visiting Faculty

Nov 2000Mar 2005 · 4 yrs 4 mos · New Delhi Area, India

  • Worked intermittently as a visiting faculty for Personality Development classes.

Mcdonald's corporation

Crew Member

Jan 1997Jan 2000 · 3 yrs · New Delhi Area, India

  • Worked part time along with college, was at the bottom of the hierarchy doing everything from preparing food in the kitchen to taking orders at the cash counter to maintaining cleanliness at the store and attending to customers seated in the restaurant.

Education

Management Development Institute, Gurgaon

PGDM

Jan 2000Jan 2002

PGDAV College

Bachelor of Commerce (B.Com.) - Honors

Jan 1997Jan 2000

Delhi Public School - R. K. Puram

high school

Jan 1985Jan 1997

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