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Unofficial Sources
Each fortnight we take India’s most significant business and tech stories and strip away complexity, spin and PR and add unbiased analysis, simplicity and wit. The result is business stories and conversations that are both fun and insightful. Told by the trusted and experienced writers and editors o...
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Introducing Cost to Company
Cost to Company is a brand new podcast by The Ken. We tell you how your workplace is changing before you hear it on slack. Hosted by Sneha Vakharia an...
How Tata Power and Jio-BP are charging up for an EV empire
As the EV space picks up pace in India, so is the fuel behind it all: charging. And big players like Tata Power and Jio-BP are pushing their weight to...
Bhavish Aggarwal's electric dreams
Ola Electric has tried to replicate the Tesla story in India. With a lofty vision to convert all two-wheelers sold in India to electric by 2023, has B...
Does Stoa need to be schooled?
Stoa school is riding on the wave of cohort based courses in online learning with the promise of getting a business education, a salary hike, a job at...
Should the banking relationship manager die?
A relationship manager has to make 20 calls, generate 8 leads and convert 5 of those to sell banking products. Daily. What was fundamentally set up to...
How underdog Ajio is preparing to topple Myntra
The pandemic has seen a boost in online shopping across India, and Reliance backed Ajio is no stranger to that. But it’s not just good timing and luck...
Meesho, Flipkart and the social commerce identity crisis
Remember those neighbourhood aunties with their side-hustle of selling women’s apparel to their social circle? E-commerce company Meesho built a tech-...
How will smallcase win the millennial investing turf war?
When smallcase began operations in 2015, it took the retail investment world in India by storm. Investors flocked to the service for their intuitive a...
Why India is quietly building the world’s largest e-commerce platform
Open Network for Digital Commerce or ONDC is the Indian government’s alternative to the American “laissez-faire, completely market-driven model”. It a...
Disney+ Hotstar's Desire to Break Out of IPL's Golden Handcuffs
Disney+ Hotstar is India’s largest streaming platform, a feat that is largely owed to its prized licensing of the IPL, the cricketing tournament makes...
LIC Wants to Have India’s Biggest IPO
LIC is the Indian government’s crown jewel as far as public sector undertakings go. The 65-year-old insurance behemoth has grown as part of India’s hi...
The Case of the 800 Million Missing Vaccines
800 million vaccine doses is almost half of what India needs to vaccinate its entire adult population by the end of 2021. So why, and how, did they di...
The Shift to Hybrid Work for Bengaluru's IT Sector
In IT companies, contrary to popular belief, employees have cooled towards their old office spaces. What's replaced is an unholy mash-up of WFH work-c...
WOW and Mamaearth Have a New Skincare Routine for You
Beauty is not just about make-up anymore. The rise of the “feel-good” economy mirrors the rise of two skin and hair care brands from India. WOW Skin S...
How Prime Video is Building an Amazon for Streaming
The Indian streaming space is filled with over 40 OTT streaming platforms, all trying to capture and sell to niche audiences. Enter Amazon Channels--a...
How to Covid-Proof a Hospital
The pandemic has flipped the economics of private hospitals, in both large and small cities in India. While they have been scrambling to provide Covid...
Inside Adar Poonawalla’s Plan for Global Vaccine Domination
The Serum Institute of India has been at the center of vaccine production for COVID-19. But as the second wave crashes down on the country, an export...
The Silent Crisis in Education
The past year has been hard for both students and educators alike across government and private schools in India. WIth lack of access to tech and inte...
What broke India's Largest Stock Exchange?
The National Stock Exchange is the most popular exchange in India, seeing 95% of all market activity. Being the first exchange in India to be hosted o...
Why Uber, Ola and Rapido Love Autos
The decades-old auto rickshaw space had a monopoly over urban mobility in India, and then came the Ola and Uber disruption. They offered cars with com...
The IIM Tipping Point
The Indian Institutes of Management have a legacy of delivering quality business education across India. Through the evolution of the brand, the IIM g...
Amazon India’s Five Armies
Since its entry into India in 2014, Amazon has known and conquered its biggest competitor Flipkart, to become India's number one e-commerce seller. Bu...
How Raw Pressery Ran Out of Juice
Raw Pressery started a few years ago to solve a niche problem—to provide fresh juices to elite, urban India. And within that niche, it found roaring s...
Udaan Wants to Change How Kiranas Buy
Ever looked at your neighbourhood kirana store and wondered how it stocks all the basic essentials, day in and day out? The supply chain of a kirana i...
Why Flipkart and Zomato Want to Go Public
According to reports, two of India's biggest and most popular startups are set to go public. Flipkart, the Walmart-owned e-commerce giant, and Zomato—...
How Chinese instant loan apps are creating a crisis in India
In today's world, where there's a need, there's an app. With the onset of the pandemic, many Indians have been struggling to make ends meet, and the d...
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