Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchIs Rapido trading passenger safety for growth?
Episode 117
Lately, India's bike taxi leader, Rapido, has been in the news for all the wrong reasons. With numerous complaints of sexual harassment, theft, and e…
2 years, 6 months ago
India has over 10,000 unemployed pilots but airlines can’t hire them
Episode 116
Airlines in India, from Indigo to Akasa, are on a spree to expand their fleet. Around a thousand more aircrafts will be flying the Indian skies in th…
2 years, 6 months ago
There's more to Unacademy's U-turn than what meets the eye
Episode 115
Last month, Unacademy did something very unsusal. It introduced a new policy, restricting how much its educators can engage online.
Ever since, Unaca…
2 years, 6 months ago
Your EV is a computer on wheels and your data is its fuel
Episode 114
Between 2018 to 2021, incidents related to breach of cybersecurity in the auto industry rose by 228%. In the next few years, this number is only expe…
2 years, 6 months ago
Disney leaves Jio the keys to the kingdom
Episode 113
A few months ago, multiple Hotstar executives had told The Ken the same thing. “IPL or no IPL, cricket is going to be the platform’s most important c…
2 years, 6 months ago
Sleepwell isn’t sleeping on the mattress business anymore
Episode 112
The mattress industry in India this year is valued at around $2.5 billion and growing at a CAGR of 10%. Up to 9 million mattresses are sold in the co…
2 years, 6 months ago
Byju’s had one escape route. Now, it is in limbo
Episode 111
Over the course of a year or so, we’ve seen how one by one, the chances of Byju's survival have been narrowing down. However, there’s one thing that …
2 years, 6 months ago
How Tata’s using “innovation managers” to enter the FMCG race
Episode 110
For the longest time, despite being a giant steel-to-software conglomerate, Tata’s consumer goods game was nowhere close to India's top FMCG companie…
2 years, 6 months ago
Tutors have a troubled relationship with Unacademy. Here's why
Episode 109
Last week, the edtech unicorn Unacademy fired Karan Sangwan, a law teacher for asking students to vote for educated candidates during elections in on…
2 years, 6 months ago
Nothing's coming in the way of Star Health's recovery. Not even angry customers
Episode 108
A March 2022 report from the World Health Organization said that over 17% of households in India incur catastrophic health expenditures every year. A…
2 years, 6 months ago