The world comes to talk to India.
RAJ SHAMANI
Raj Shamani is an entrepreneur, bestselling author, investor and the host of India's No.1 podcast, Figuring Out. He sits across from presidents, billionaires, astronauts and champions and asks the questions you would, until the answers are useful.
His storyThe people running the world take his chair.
From Indore to everywhere.
One of the most-watched podcasts in the world, ranked No.1 in India and in Spotify's global top 100.
Subscribers on the main channel, plus 1.6M on Raj Shamani Clips.
Followers. Reels of the best moments from every conversation.
Followers for the daily thinking behind the show.
Figures as of October 2026, from the YouTube, Instagram and X profiles, Storyboard18 (Spotify ranking) and his YouTube channel bio (talks and countries). A country-by-country audience breakdown isn't published, so the map shows where guests came from.
Five ideas he keeps coming back to.
Build, don’t talk.
The title of his bestselling book, and the rule he works by: ship the thing first, explain it later.Source: His book
It’s still day one.
Treat every day like the start, however big the numbers get. One of his most-watched clips, with 23M+ views.Source: YouTube Shorts
Your brain gets better at whatever you repeat.
Discipline as training: what you practise every day is what you become good at.Source: His pinned post on X
Don’t compromise on what you believe is right.
His advice on building a business out of content, given to Mint at the end of 2024.Source: Mint, Dec 2024
To help people live & love better.
The purpose he states in his own Instagram bio. Every conversation is meant to leave you with something you can use.Source: Instagram bio
Straight from X.
Your brain gets better at whatever you repeat. If you spend hours every day worrying about worst-case scenarios, your mind becomes an expert at finding things to worry about.
View on XYou think you aren’t capable enough to dream big, to achieve big, to conquer it all. But you almost every time forget that it is in your control to change that thinking.
View on XYour brain is like a muscle, and like all the other muscles, you are fully capable of training it to become as strong as you want. You just need to want it enough to work for it.
View on XListening to music while walking, switching on a show while doing chores, using your phone while waiting- why do you never give your brain a break? What is so difficult about sitting with your own thoughts that you always seem to be escaping them?
View on XFiguring Out Media.
One chair on camera. Behind it, a production house that books guests from around the world and runs a full studio, with lighting, cameras and a team that ships every week.
Follow a single episode from first idea to your feed. Five teams, one handoff after another.
- Research their story
- Find the angle
- Write the questions
It starts with a name and a question.
The ideas team picks the guest, researches their life and work, and finds the angle that makes two hours worth your time.
- Guest research
- Question design
- Guest pitching
Then someone makes it happen.
Calendars, travel, visas and logistics, so that a guest from the other side of the world can sit in the chair.
- Global guests
- Scheduling
- Logistics
The studio goes live.
Cameras, lighting and sound are run by the production crew, so the only thing anyone has to think about is the conversation.
- Studio
- Lighting
- Sound
Two hours become a hundred moments.
Editors and designers cut the episode, make the thumbnail and title, and turn the best minutes into clips and Shorts.
- Editing
- Thumbnails
- Clips & Shorts
One conversation, everywhere his audience is.
And it goes out to the world.
Strategy decides what's next and where each piece should live, from YouTube and Spotify to Instagram and X, plus brand partnerships.
- Growth
- Distribution
- Partnerships
Raj takes the chair.
Fifty-plus people put in the work so that, for two hours, it's just him and the guest. That's the show you watch.
From humble beginnings.
Born in Indore
● Indore, IndiaBorn on 29 July into a Sindhi family. His father runs a textile and chemical trading business.
Sixteen, and in charge
● IndoreAfter his father's health setback, Raj steps into the family business and launches his first product, Jadugar Drop dishwashing liquid.
Shamani Industries
● IndoreJadugar Drop merges with the family's chemical trading business to become Shamani Industries.
One mic, one classroom
● Figuring Out beginsFiguring Out starts in a coaching-centre classroom with a single microphone. The first guest is his tuition teacher.
The world's biggest YouTuber
● MrBeast flies to IndiaMrBeast sits in the chair. The same year Raj speaks at the National Creators Award and addresses Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Gates, Macron, No.1
● The world comes callingBill Gates and the President of France join the guest list. Spotify Wrapped names him India's No.1 podcaster, ahead of Joe Rogan.
19.9 million
● And counting575+ episodes, a 50-person production house and one of the most-watched podcasts in the world.
The conversations India couldn't stop watching.
Let’s create a conversation
that reaches millions.
Every episode starts as one honest conversation and ends up in millions of phones. Watch one, share one, or tell the show who should sit in the chair next.