Podcast Episodes

Why India's biggest employer of women gig workers refuses to listen to its own workforce

Episode 370

A decade ago, when platforms like Urban Company entered the scene, they were seen the beacon of hope for thousands of women like Selvi and Nisha, two beauticians based in in Bangalore—finally, an ave…

Published on 1 year, 1 month ago

How regional jewellery brands are trying to beat Tanishq at its own game

Episode 369

For more than two decades, India’s jewellery industry has been dominated by one name and one name only – Tanishq. The Titan-owned brand has managed to become the go-to jewellery store for people acro…

Published on 1 year, 1 month ago

Did someone just find the US$533 million that Byju’s lost?

Episode 368

Bloomberg recently published a damning report about Byju’s according to which Byju Raveendran, the edtech’s founder, allegedly tried to convince an American businessman to leave the country so he wou…

Published on 1 year, 1 month ago

Why Mamaearth is stuck with dead stock and mounting losses

Episode 367

In the June quarter of 2024, Honasa Consumer, the maker of Mamaearth, decided to launch this new project called Project Neev. The idea was to bring about a foundational change in the way the company …

Published on 1 year, 1 month ago

Are school-fee loans the next goldmine for Indian fintechs?

Episode 366

 Regular CBSE schools just don’t cut it anymore for the aspirational middle class parents in India. But considering how the annual fees at most of these schools can range anywhere between Rs 3 lakh t…

Published on 1 year, 1 month ago

The murky world of money mules and how they fuel India’s Rs 2,500 crore fraud economy

Episode 365

The world of cyber fraud has gotten even murkier thanks to a slick new tech service that is streamlining fraud for scammers and making them even harder to track down. This new concept is called ‘Mule…

Published on 1 year, 1 month ago

How lenders like Navi resort to extreme borrower surveillance to keep their A game on

Episode 364

If you’ve ever taken a loan from a non bank or an NBFC, the EMI is usually auto-debited from your account every month. But if you missed a payment, you know what usually goes down. You are inundated …

Published on 1 year, 1 month ago

How do you get people to switch to electric cars? Take the subscription route

Episode 363

In many ways, electric vehicles today are where mobile phones were in the early 2000s. 

It’s December 2002. Mobile phones have entered the market, but the average Indian is still pretty sceptical. Cel…

Published on 1 year, 1 month ago

As the Gen AI race heats up data centres, water becomes the new air

Episode 362

Cloud, streaming, generative AI… while all of these are increasingly becoming hot topics of discussion, data centres—the large, boxy buildings that house high-powered computers—are looking for innova…

Published on 1 year, 1 month ago

How Hurun's turned ranking India's ultra-rich into a mini-industry

Episode 361

Hurun India began curating rich lists a decade ago. Now, it has moved up ahead of ranking giants like Bloomberg and Forbes with 17 lists so far. It has a Global 500 list, similar to Bloomberg’s Billi…

Published on 1 year, 1 month ago