Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchFour in 10 quit Niti Aayog in a year. Time to think or tank?
Episode 131
The NITI Aayog was created in 2015 to replace the decades-old Planning Commission. The idea was to adopt a more bottom-up approach to make India comp…
2 years, 8 months ago
The ICC World Cup is Disney+ Hotstar’s last chance
Episode 130
Losing IPL rights last year to Jio and then dropping HBO content has cost Disney+ Hotstar at least 21 million subscribers in just a year.
The streamin…
2 years, 8 months ago
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 $…
2 years, 8 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…
2 years, 8 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…
2 years, 8 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 …
2 years, 8 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…
2 years, 8 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 …
2 years, 8 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…
2 years, 8 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 s…
2 years, 9 months ago