Ep 2: The Untold Story | 8 Years. 3 Failed Studios. 1 Real Product | Build 2 Create

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EPISODE 2 | B2C: Build 2 Create “8 Years. 3 Failed Studios. 1 Real Product: The Untold Story.” Building a real product doesn’t fail in months. It fails quietly over years. In Episode 2 of B2C: Build 2 Create, we sit down with Vivek Madappa, Founder of Mobident a med-tech entrepreneur who has spent over a decade trying to solve one of India’s most overlooked healthcare problems: 🦷 Access to dental care. Vivek’s belief was simple but brutally hard to execute: A dentist shouldn’t need a clinic to treat a patient. The clinic should travel to the patient. What followed was an 8-year journey of: Failed studios and broken promises Endless redesigns and unusable prototypes Frustration with teams that couldn’t translate intent into reality Until one critical decision changed everything: 👉 Stop patch-fixing. Start re-architecting the problem from scratch. Today, Mobident is building one of the world’s most advanced portable dental clinic systems engineered to be: Truly portable Clinically functional Manufacturable at scale Designed for real-world abuse, not lab demos And we had the privilege of building that system together. This episode isn’t about motivation. It’s about implementation. It’s about why hardware is unforgiving, why most “innovation” fails, and what it actually takes to bring a medical product to life. 🎙 What You’ll Learn in This Episode: 00:00 - Intro 01:21 - Guest + Project Intro 02:55 - How the clinic came on wheels 15:16 - Italian Design X German Engineering X Indian Ingenuity 39:50 - Insight into the chaos zone 50:10 - Where Everything Finally Clicked 1:10:09 - The hot seat switch 1:15:57 - Hard truth we learned building hardware 1:23:24 - What's next for dentistry on wheels? 1:24:31 - Outro Build 2 Create: Audio Podcast now Live on Spotify! Spotify Podcast Channel: https://open.spotify.com/show/7M1B5fX1CxWCAm1aAvG0Xw?si=-mp3P69HSAS0NQA_srGCMQ 🎧 About B2C: Build 2 Create B2C is a podcast on building real products, not pitch decks. We bring in founders who’ve been in the trenches, made the mistakes, and stayed long enough to fix them. If you are a founder, you definitely should be here: The Product Founders Hub: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/16566026/ Check Series on 1. YouTube: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLC2ZEmYEiyp5g6AfZq0UCM9hVdVISmerv&si=ig5lmdorJ3f8pc1j 🌏 Follow & Build With Us: 🔗 Website: https://www.analogydesign.co/ 🔗 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/anal... 🔗 Instagram: / analogy.design 🔗 Twitter (X): https://x.com/analogydesignco 🔗 Threads: https://www.threads.com/@analogy.desi... 🔗 Pinterest: / hub If you’re a founder building hardware, med-tech, or anything that has to survive the real world, this episode is for you. 🎙 Subscribe to B2C Because products aren’t built fast. They’re built right.