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Thinking of opening a cafe ́ or franchise in Nepal?
This conversation breaks down what actually happens after the doors open.
From real costs and franchise models to systems, royalties, and why most cafés fail early. This episode goes beyond coffee and into how the business really works. If you’re considering a café, franchise, or any F&B venture, this is the reality check you should watch first.
Timestamps:
0:00 – Intro
02:24 – How Caffeophilia Scaled to 16 Outlets in 25 Months
03:40 – 18 Years of Experience: Lessons From the Ground
06:14 – Why Coffee Shops Feel Trendy (And Why That’s Risky)
07:02 – How Much Does It Cost to Take a Caffeophilia Franchise?
07:38 – Infrastructure Requirements for a Cafe
09:28 – Different Types of Costs: Build, Training, Setup
11:00 – “Why Not Open My Own Brand Instead?”
11:20 – Why People Actually Invest in a Brand
13:37 – Cost of Opening Franchise Explained
16:49 – Is Franchise Really Passive Income?
18:15 – Can Restaurants Really Make 15–20% Profit?
20:55 – The Role of WhatsApp Groups & Community Systems
25:14 – The Question Every Listener Is Thinking: How to Take a Franchise
26:24 – Tata, Starbucks & How Big Franchise Systems Work
39:32 – Franchise Model Explained
42:22 – How We Designed Our Franchise Model
44:19 – Why Doing Business in Nepal Is Expensive
47:43 – Building Momo & Tea Brands Before Cafes
50:14 – Learning From Bajeko Sekuwa & Himalayan Java
52:23 – Master Franchise vs Area Franchise Explained
58:22 – The 3 Pillars: System, Cash Flow & Audit
01:04:26 – Can a Franchise Run Without the Founder Present?
01:07:50 – Why China? Why Not India or the US?
01:15:02 – How Nepal Failed to Standardize
01:22:15 – Taking Nepali Food Global
01:26:27 – From Farmer to Brand: The Backend Reality
01:30:02 – The Truth About Hotel Management Education
01:33:02 – Your Circle Shapes Your Future
01:36:09 – Manifestation vs Action
01:39:28 – Take Risks Early, While You’re Young
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Shashank Prabhat Shrestha
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Friday Jan 30, 2026
Friday Jan 30, 2026
After spending 23 years in mainstream journalism at Kantipur, Ghanashyam Khadka chose to pause and reflect.
In this conversation, Ghanshyam speaks openly about what decades inside the newsroom taught him. Not just about society, but about the human mind. He reflects on how constant negativity, breaking news, and outrage-driven media shape the way people think, feel, and react both individually and collectively.
We talk about:
-why we feel angry and overwhelmed despite living in a relatively peaceful time
-how “you become what you consume” applies to news and social media
the darker side of negativity-driven journalism
-what Solution Journalism actually means
-why mindfulness is missing from public life
-and why he decided to step away from mainstream media
Ghanashyam also shares his journey into mindful living, writing, and building a new platform, Nepal Bolchha, focused on solutions and stories of people who are quietly doing good.
This episode is a slow, thoughtful conversation about journalism, awareness, responsibility, and the kind of society we are becoming.
Timestamps
00:00 – Introduction
01:29 – 23 years at Kantipur and why he left
01:43 – The rise of negativity and constant outrage
02:08 – Living in the most peaceful era, yet feeling angry
03:24 – Why society is always cursing and reacting
03:46 – What Solution Journalism really means
07:19 – You become what you consume
07:48 – How negativity spreads from media to people
11:44 – Realizing the harm caused by negativity-driven journalism
12:07 – The pathway to mindfulness
12:37 – Why we need a different kind of journalism
19:00 – From journalist to entrepreneur
23:55 – Switching from journalism to podcasting
31:36 – The global shift in news and media
36:11 – What is transactional psychology
38:41 – Everyone is acting as media now
48:59 – Why Mindful Journalism is the future
59:29 – Mindfulness as a powerful healing tool
01:08:11 – Why youths are leaving Nepal
01:30:40 – “Put off the light so that we can see better”
01:41:29 – Why society needs more altruistic action
Friday Jan 16, 2026
Friday Jan 16, 2026
In this episode, Subhas Sapkota, CEO of Yeti Airlines and former CEO of eSewa, shares his lived experience leading across fintech, aviation, and education in Nepal.
The conversation moves across three industries where Subash has held senior leadership roles and made long-term decisions inside complex systems.
We begin with fintech. After years of leading eSewa and helping build it into a trusted digital wallet, Subash chose to step away from the CEO role even when everything was working well. In this episode, he explains why he left, what the “what next” moment looked like, and why he chose not to return to the wallet business again.
In aviation, Subash shares his experience as the CEO of Yeti Airlines, where he took charge during a challenging period and led changes that helped move the company from loss to profit. He talks about the realities of running an airline in Nepal, the impact of policy and taxation, and how leadership decisions shape outcomes in a highly regulated industry.
In education, the conversation turns to a problem he observed repeatedly as an employer and the gap between academic degrees and real-world readiness. Drawing from his experience at Yeti Airlines, eSewa, and F1Soft International, Subash explains why finding truly job-ready individuals is difficult. This led him to co-found two colleges in Nepal focused on practical, skill-based learning rather than rote education.
Across all three industries, one pattern becomes clear:
different sectors, different challenges but the same way of thinking behind leadership decisions.
This episode is for anyone interested in:
- leadership inside Nepal’s systems
- making hard decisions when things are working
- understanding how thinking transfers across industries
- building long-term value rather than chasing short-term wins
🎙️ Watch the full conversation to hear how these experiences connect and what they reveal about leadership in Nepal.
Timestamps
0:00 Journey of Subash Sapkota
6:20 Why Esewa wont’t become a bank
13:00 Core Leadership Framework used by Subash Sapkota
20:30 Harsh Reality of Airline Business (Yeti Airlines Ceo insight)
32:00 What Mindset Nepalese must have
35:50 Education System in Nepal
42:43 Limitation of Academic Degree
55:00 Reality of Foreign University Affiliated college in Nepal
57:02 Whose mistake ? Student leaving country
1:06:46 Master Framework of Subash for Business
1:10:50 Radical Changes required for Nepal
1:33:07 Will he ever come back to eSewa?
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Subash Sapkota
CEO @ Yeti Airlines
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Sunday Jan 11, 2026
Sunday Jan 11, 2026
The way we learn, work, and stay relevant is changing faster than ever.
Yet many of our education systems were built for a very different world.
In this episode, we sit down with Subigya Basnet, a multimedia specialist and long-time video producer who has worked closely with universities and global institutions to build online education content. From starting out in engineering to shaping digital learning experiences, Subigya brings a rare behind-the-scenes perspective on how education, AI, and content are evolving together.
What You’ll Learn in This Episode:
-Why earning a degree no longer guarantees real-world readiness
-How online education actually works behind the scenes
-Why early online programs relied on “white-glove” models and why that’s changing
-How universities are shifting from third-party platforms to in-house digital learning
-Why the application of knowledge matters more than information itself
-How AI is reshaping learning, work, and job roles without fully replacing humans
-Why one person using AI well can outperform entire teams
-How content, multimedia, and storytelling are becoming core learning tools
-Why personalized learning may define the future of education
How global experience, networks, and content creation can become powerful assets
This episode is for students, professionals, creators, educators, and anyone trying to understand how learning and careers are evolving in an AI-driven, content-first world and what it takes to stay relevant.
Timestamps:
00:00:00 Intro
00:02:47 Leaving Engineering for an Uncertain Career
00:03:11 The Video-First Internet Prediction
00:04:42 How Online University Degrees Actually Work (OPM)
00:06:58 The Revenue Model Behind Online Education
00:08:34 The Rise and Fall of 2U (EdTech Reality)
00:10:15 Producing a Semester of Education in 5 Days
00:12:40 The “White Glove” Culture in Higher Education
00:14:51 Why Education Was Built for the Industrial Age
00:15:59 Why Classroom Teaching Failed Online
00:16:45 The End of Universities as Knowledge Gatekeepers
00:17:29 ChatGPT vs Traditional Classrooms
00:20:25 Do Degrees Have an Expiry Date?
00:21:41 Why Big Tech Doesn’t Care About Degrees
00:24:35 The Era of Multiple Careers
00:25:42 Interdisciplinary Skills vs Single Specialization
00:27:51 AI Won’t Replace You But Someone Using AI Will
00:31:31 Applying Knowledge vs Memorizing Information
00:50:09 Why Every Company Is Becoming a Media Company
01:09:54 Building Community Before Building Products
01:35:50 2026 and the Need for Bold Decisions
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Subigya Basnet
Multimedia Specialist
German Marshall Fund of the United States
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Sunday Jan 04, 2026
Sunday Jan 04, 2026
This fintech platform disbursed ₹18,000 crore+ in loans and serves over 3 crore users across India.
In this episode, we sit down with Dipesh Karki, Co-founder & CPTO of LenDenClub, to unpack how a Nepali founder built one of India’s largest peer-to-peer lending platforms by focusing on systems, scale, and execution.
Born into a middle-class family of teachers in Khotang, Dipesh began his journey with a scholarship to study engineering in India. Instead of looking West, he chose to build in India leveraging proximity, market depth, and a rapidly maturing fintech ecosystem.
Today, LenDenClub has enabled ₹17,000–18,000 crore in loans, serves 30+ million customers, and is preparing for a potential IPO positioning itself as India’s first listed P2P lending platform.
What You’ll Learn in This Episode:
- Why “Nepal is a small market” is an incomplete way of thinking
- What India’s startup ecosystem gets right about scale and regulation
- How unsecured lending works when borrowers have little or no credit history
- How AI is used to assess “intent to pay,” not just credit scores
- How LenDenClub navigated RBI regulation while others struggled
- Why India can be a real alternative market for Nepali founders
- Why Nepal needs to move from exporting labor to building creators and systems
This episode is for founders, builders, students, policymakers, and anyone curious about how large-scale platforms are built, regulated, and sustained in the real world—especially from South Asia.
Timestamps
00:00 Intro
01:35 Why Nepal Feels Like a “Small Market”
04:05 Nepali Identity Beyond Political Borders
07:28 Choosing India Over Nepal for Education
09:20 First Job in Delhi & Early Career Reality
12:05 Moving to Mumbai & Entering High-Stakes Engineering
14:35 Birth of LenDenClub
16:35 ₹17,000+ Crore in Loans & National Scale
18:05 Serving 30 Million Customers
19:35 The Problem with Shadow Lending
21:15 Why Regulation Was Non-Negotiable
25:35 How AI Changed Credit Decisions
27:05 Judging “Intent to Pay” with Data
30:35 The Future of Banking Without Banks
35:35 Why Unsecured Lending Matters
38:35 India vs Nepal: Regulation & Ease of Doing Business
41:35 Why Building in India Is Easier Today
47:35 Staying Nepali While Building in India
51:54 Nepal Between the World’s Two Biggest Markets
58:35 Why Civic Sense Holds Countries Back
1:06:35 Turning Native Skills into Global Products
1:24:35 The Only Limitation Is the Mind
1:34:35 From Labor Economy to Creator Economy
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👥 Guest
Dipesh Karki
CTO @ LenDenClub
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Wednesday Dec 31, 2025
Wednesday Dec 31, 2025
As part of Digital December 2025, in partnership with Laxmi Sunrise Bank Limited, this episode explores how Nepal’s digital payment infrastructure is shaping the way money moves across the economy from everyday transactions to enterprise and national-level systems.
This conversation brings together two key perspectives from Nepal’s digital payment ecosystem:
- Manoj Thapa, Country Head – Visa Nepal, sharing a global view on payments, cross-border commerce, and how international networks connect Nepali businesses to the world.
- Munni Rajbhandari, COO – Nepal Clearing House Ltd. (NCHL), explaining the national payment rails, enterprise payment systems, and the infrastructure that processes millions of transactions every day.
Together, they discuss Nepal’s journey from manual, paper-based processes to a digitally connected payment ecosystem — and why the focus is now shifting from building infrastructure to driving adoption, trust, and customer experience.
In this episode, you’ll learn:
- How money moves across banks, businesses, and platforms in Nepal
- What large-scale digital payment volumes reveal about the economy
- How enterprises and SMEs manage salaries, vendors, taxes, and disbursements digitally
- Why global payment connectivity matters for tourism, exports, and IT services
- How digital transaction data builds trust, creditworthiness, and future financial access
- Why security, standards, and financial literacy are critical as digital payments scale
Whether you’re a business owner, financial professional, policymaker, or someone who pays digitally every day, this episode helps you understand where Nepal’s digital payment system stands today — and where it’s headed next.
Timestamps
00:00 – Welcome to Digital December | Episode 2
02:00 – Why Digital Payments Matter for Nepal’s Economy
05:00 – Nepal’s Leapfrog Journey into Digital Payments
07:00 – Women Leadership in Nepal’s Fintech Sector
10:00 – What Visa Really Does Beyond Cards
14:00 – Connecting Nepal to Global Money Movement
18:00 – Tourism, Remittance & Early Payment Advantage
23:00 – How Government Payments Went Fully Digital
27:00 – From Cheques to Instant Dividends & Salaries
30:00 – Digital Payments Growth: Data vs Reality
35:00 – What Is NPI? Nepal’s Payment Backbone Explained
38:00 – APIs, Account Validation & Secure Transfers
42:00 – Why Trust & Security Come Before Scale
45:00 – Corporate Pay & Enterprise Payments for SMEs
49:00 – How Nepali Businesses Can Accept Global Payments
56:00 – Why SMEs Struggle with Digital Adoption
01:02:00 – Payment Gateways, Aggregators & Automation
01:14:00 – How Digital Payments Build Credit History
01:26:00 – Fraud, Awareness & Consumer Protection
01:44:00 – Final Takeaways: The Future of Digital Nepal
👥 Guest
Munni Rajbhandari
Chief Operating Officer @ Nepal Clearing House Ltd. (NCHL)
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👥 Guest
Manoj Thapa
Country Head – Nepal @ Visa
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Friday Dec 26, 2025
Friday Dec 26, 2025
As part of Digital December 2025, in partnership with Laxmi Sunrise Bank Limited, this special roundtable explores how digital payments and software systems are reshaping businesses and the economy in Nepal.
This episode brings together three perspectives from Nepal’s digital payment ecosystem:
Santosh Tamrakar, Managing Director at IMS Software, sharing the system builder’s view on business software, data, and scalable growth.
Arun Khatri, CEO of Digital Network Solutions, covering digital infrastructure, security, compliance, QR innovation, and biometric identity.
Shashank Prabhat Shrestha, Managing Director of Caffeophilia, offering real-world insights from running a multi-outlet business where most transactions are digital.
Together, they discuss Nepal’s shift from near-zero digitization to a QR-first economy where digital payments are now essential especially for urban businesses.
In this episode, you’ll learn:
- Why digital payments are non-negotiable for modern businesses
- How QR, cards, and compliance systems work behind the scenes
- The role of data, loyalty systems, and real-time reporting
- Why sustainable payment systems can’t be free forever
- What’s next: biometric KYC and data-backed, collateral-free digital lending
Whether you’re a business owner, policymaker, or someone who pays digitally every day, this conversation helps you understand how Nepal’s digital payment ecosystem works and where it’s headed next.
Timestamps
00:00 – Intro
02:00 – Digital December
03:20 – How Businesses Depend on Digital Payments Today
05:20 – The Evolution of Digitization in Nepal
06:28 – Covid and the Digital Payment Surge
07:02 – Why QR Payments Replaced Cash in Urban Nepal
07:50 – Real-Time Data and Business Control
11:01 – Digitization vs Digital Transformation
14:17 – Customer Loyalty Systems and Data Usage
21:02 – Entrepreneurial Vision and First-Mover Advantage
27:17 – How Digital Payments Reduce Fraud and Risk
33:06 – Biometrics and Centralized KYC
36:42 – QR vs Card Payments: How Nepal Pays Today
46:26 – MDR Explained: The Cost of Digital Payments
01:08:21 – The Future of Unsecured Digital Lending
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👥 Guest
Arun Khatri
CEO @ Digital Network Solution
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👥 Guest
Shashank Prabhat Shrestha
Managing Director @ Caffeophilia
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👥 Guest
Santosh Tamrakar
Managing Director @ IMS Software
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Sunday Dec 21, 2025
Sunday Dec 21, 2025
This platform approves loans in hours, not days and is used by 3.53 crore+ people.
In this episode, we sit down with Bhavin (Co-founder & CEO) and Dipesh (Co-founder & CTO) to unpack how one of India’s most impactful fintech platforms was really built.
One of the founders is Nepali, who coded the first version himself and today the platform has enabled ₹17,000+ crore in loans and operates at a speed traditional banks struggle to match.
What You’ll Learn in This Episode:
-How the first product was built without a tech team
-Why coding is not the hardest part but vision is
-How lending moved from days to hours
-Why banks struggle with small-ticket loans
-How AI is used as a daily habit, not a buzzword
-Why trust in fintech takes 15+ years, not quick growth hacks
-What young founders should build next in fintech
-Why entrepreneurs must invest back into the ecosystem
This episode is for founders, builders, operators, and anyone curious about how large-scale platforms are built, scaled, and sustained in the real world.
Timestamps
00:02:36 From Football to Founders
00:04:19 The P2P Idea Begins
00:07:46 Coding Without a Tech Team
00:10:28 Credit Banks Ignore
00:13:19 Trust Takes Time
00:15:27 The UPI Effect
00:16:59 Building First Credit
00:20:51 Why We Don’t Pivot
00:24:57 Facing Regulatory Storms
00:28:39 Vision Over Coding
00:35:46 Why Banks Avoid Small Loans
00:37:39 The Secret Lending Recipe
00:44:08 AI as a Daily Habit
00:50:19 Building with 100% AI
00:54:39 Big Fintech Opportunities
01:07:53 Surviving the Long Game
01:10:16 Nepal’s Startup Loop
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Dipesh Karki
CTO @ LenDenClub
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👥 Guest
Bhavin Patel
CTO @ LenDenClub
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Wednesday Dec 10, 2025
Wednesday Dec 10, 2025
What happens when two of the sharpest minds in analytics, decision science, and entrepreneurship sit together to decode how data shapes businesses and how intuition and persistence shape a founder’s journey?
In this episode, we speak with Anunay Gupta, former analytics leader at JPMorgan & HSBC and now Managing Director at Xcelyst Partners and Bhupendra Khanal, serial entrepreneur and founder of Dogsee and Himalayan Natives, known for building global consumer brands powered by data.
What You Will Learn in This Episode
- How data quality impacts decisions and business outcomes
- When to trust intuition over dashboards
- The realities of starting a company after 35
- Why data-thinking transfers across every industry
- How algorithms shape opinions and create echo chambers
Together, they bring decades of experience building companies, leading teams, and making decisions that changed their lives.
Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
2:40 – Data vs Intuition: Which One Wins?
4:17 – How Marketelligent & Simplify360 Were Built
10:10 – Satya Nadella’s Bold Prediction: Will SaaS Die?
13:39 – Real-World Use Cases of Data
18:30 – How a Data Background Accelerates Your Career
22:42 – Applying Data to Build Better Businesses
33:16 – Good Data vs Bad Data: How to Tell the Difference
42:39 – The Future is Automated: Data Without Humans
44:59 – How Social Media Rewires Your Brain
51:39 – Why Staying Private Is Becoming Expensive
57:37 – The Fear Holding 30–40 Year Olds Back
1:01:49 – Scale vs Impact: What Truly Matters?
1:06:29 – Using Data to Improve Your Personal Life
1:08:19 – Finding Your Best Business Idea
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🎤 Host: Anup Ghimire
Founder of Doers Nepal
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👥 Guest
Anunay Gupta
Managing Director @ Xcelyst Partners
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👥 Guest
Bhupendra Khanal
Founder & CEO @ Dogsee & Himalayan Natives
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Tuesday Dec 02, 2025
Tuesday Dec 02, 2025
Pet care in India isn’t just dog food. It’s 20+ untapped verticals and the next big opportunity.
In this episode, we sit down with Vineet Khanna, Founder of Supertails, a platform building one of India’s largest pet ecosystems with 1,700+ products across nutrition, healthcare, and services.
Alongside him, we have Sneh Sharma, Founder of Dogsee Chew, the brand that took a single iconic product i.e. chhurpi and turned it into a global clean-treat loved in 30+ countries.
What will you get:
-what early players actually do in a market with no roadmap, no benchmarks, and no safety net
-why India’s next big consumer unicorn could come from the pet industry
-the contrast between building wide (1,700+ products) vs. building deep (one hero product)
-the biggest myths about pet care in India—and why they’re wrong
-the discipline required to build a bootstrapped company in a new market
-the real mistakes, pivots, and founder decisions you never hear publicly
Whether you're a doer, a founder, a creator, or just someone curious about how new industries are born, this conversation will open up a side of the pet industry you’ve never seen before.
Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
2:39 Why start a pet business? The easiest question with the hardest answer
7:57 What makes a truly “good” pet product? Inside the craft
8:47 Is this a borrowed industry? How India & Nepal adopt pet trends
11:05 90% of Indian pet parents are first-timers — what that means
12:37 India vs. Nepal pet parents: are they really that different?
13:47 "No competition?" Why this industry is still surprisingly open
15:42 Supertails ecosystem vision: the full-stack pet care play
16:57 What pet founders don't do (and why it matters)
18:47 The hardest part: evolving with the industry
21:02 3 co-founders, one mission: how they divide the work
22:52 Why saying NO matters more than saying YES in pet care
24:37 Why pet products can't be built like other D2C categories
27:07 Niche vs. mass market: why stay focused
28:15 The metrics that wake these founders up every morning
29:42 How they measure market size and real opportunity
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🎤 Host: Anup Ghimire
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👥 Guest
Sneh Sharma
Co-Founder @ Dogsee Chew
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/manishlens/
👥 Guest
Vineet Khanna
Co Founder @ Supertails
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