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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…
1 year, 3 months 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 t…
1 year, 3 months 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 A…
1 year, 3 months 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 a…
1 year, 3 months 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 th…
1 year, 3 months 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 hard…
1 year, 3 months 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, y…
1 year, 3 months 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…
1 year, 3 months 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 h…
1 year, 3 months 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 h…
1 year, 3 months ago