Podcast Episodes

Licious has enough money but not enough customers

Episode 129

Licious, the online meat delivery platform, was India’s first direct to consumer company or D2C that achieved the unicorn status.  It was valued at $1.4 billion two years ago and it had enough money …

Published on 2 years, 2 months ago

How the $17 billion-worth Jio Financial is gearing up to disrupt India's NBFC space

Episode 128

It took Bajaj Finance over 15 years to become the most valued NBFC in the country. And then came along Jio Financial Services Ltd (JFSL) and took the no. 2 position in a span of just two months. It i…

Published on 2 years, 2 months ago

Dunzo fans made it a verb. Then it became just another delivery firm

Episode 127

What makes Dunzo unique is that one could never imagine a company its size to have the kind of influence it does.
In 2022, a $200 million funding from Reliance Retail sent the quick-commerce startup f…

Published on 2 years, 2 months ago

The Kota factory is imploding and student suicides are not the only reason

Episode 126

After the pandemic years, Kota’s coaching industry saw an unprecedented boom. Money was pouring in from everywhere–from edtechs to investors. In the last five years, Kota saw about 2 lakh engineering…

Published on 2 years, 3 months ago

What VC analysts do when there are few deals to make

Episode 125

All the twists and turns in the journey of startups have been well-documented since VC funding began drying up over the past year or so. In the first half of 2022,  Indian startups received more than…

Published on 2 years, 3 months ago

Why Airtel's Gopal Vittal is betting on younger and “hungrier” executives for top roles

Episode 124

From the time it was the number one indian telecom company to braving the whole phase when Jio came around and disrupted the whole space. Its been a long, brutal competition for Airtel and Gopal Vitt…

Published on 2 years, 3 months ago

Credit-card whizzes are beating banks at their own game

Episode 123

For a people who were quite averse to the whole concept of credit, Indians really seem to be developing a new found love for the piece of plastic and banks have been happy to ride the wave.

But latel…

Published on 2 years, 3 months ago

In the push to make social media 'safe,' Youtube, Instagram creators are collateral damage

Episode 122

From content flagging, suspension, shadow-banning and even account deletion, content creators are grappling with a variety of censorship methods on social media platforms—all in the name of maintaini…

Published on 2 years, 3 months ago

How Apple is building an army of 'faithfuls' in India

Episode 121

For almost two decades, India was a stagnant market for one of the leading tech companies of the world. But in 2021, things changed and Apple’s sales graph in India began to rise upwards.

By 2022, App…

Published on 2 years, 3 months ago

Why banks are suddenly lining up to finance your study abroad

Episode 120

For the longest time public sector banks, as we know them, have been very reluctant about study abroad loans. And it was for good reason. They've suffered greatly because of education loans going bad…

Published on 2 years, 3 months ago