Raj Shamani

Founder, House of X

The Entrepreneur. The Podcaster. The Questioner.

Raj Shamani charted his journey around a simple instinct: to ask better questions. From starting his first business as a teenager during a period of financial difficulty to becoming one of India's most recognisable entrepreneurial voices, his journey has been defined by curiosity, communication and an unwillingness to remain in one lane.

Turning curiosity into conversations

The table where worlds meet: On Figuring Out with Raj Shamani, entrepreneurs, athletes, artists and global figures share one conversation.

The podcast brings very different perspectives into the same room. Entrepreneurs, athletes, artists and global figures sit down for the same kind of conversation, and Shamani asks the questions that draw out how each of them thinks. He has also built businesses from scratch and written about entrepreneurship, so he asks from experience rather than from a script.

As founder of House of X, he works where business, media and culture overlap. That position is unusual. He speaks to entrepreneurs as one of them, and he speaks to audiences as someone who still asks the obvious question out loud. The starting point was a teenage business during a period of financial difficulty. The habit that came from it was curiosity, and he has never let it go.

Ambition as a question

Shamani doesn’t treat success as a place to arrive, but as a place to come back to every time and build toward.

Shamani doesn’t present success as an endpoint. He approaches ambition as a subject for conversation, something to understand and keep redefining. He questions the norms around it instead of repeating them. That instinct explains why his work has never stayed in one lane. Podcasts, books and businesses all start from a question he wanted answered. A teenager with a first business and little money had to ask how things worked. The adult has kept asking, at a larger scale and in public. He has stayed recognisable across all of it because the voice stays the same: curious, direct and unwilling to accept an easy answer. He keeps asking what comes next, and that restlessness sits close to the idea of becoming more.