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Karnataka let gig workers ask their apps a question. Swiggy, Zomato took the whole law to court
Episode 784
Some of India's biggest consumer platforms, Swiggy, Zomato's parent Eternal, Zepto, Urban Company, and Meesho's logistics arm Valmo, have asked the K…
3 months, 2 weeks ago
AI is eating your phone's memory and hiking up prices. No, festive sales can't save you either
Episode 783
Before every August, Indians who've been nursing a cracked screen or a lagging phone make the same calculation: wait for the festive season. The disc…
3 months, 3 weeks ago
A royal family’s billion-dollar bet on Indian startups—without a winner
Episode 782
Lightrock arrived in India with nearly a billion dollars and royal backing — the Liechtenstein dynasty's centuries-old fortune funding bets on around…
3 months, 3 weeks ago
How many ‘bad’ schools make a good private equity investment?
Episode 781
K12 Techno Services has a very specific type of school it likes to find. They're old, debt-ridden, maybe run by an ageing owner with no succession pl…
3 months, 3 weeks ago
A new class of gig-workers in India are teaching robots to do the dishes
Episode 780
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3 months, 3 weeks ago
Why Instagram wants to be on your TV now
Episode 779
This week, Instagram expanded its TV app to Samsung Smart TVs, joining Amazon Fire and Google TV, and announced it is testing episodic series and liv…
3 months, 3 weeks ago
India's IT sector bet its future on AI access it doesn't actually control
Episode 778
On June 11th, TCS announced an exclusive partnership with Anthropic — 50,000 employees trained on Claude, early access to new models, a dedicated bus…
3 months, 4 weeks ago
Google and Perplexity paid Jio and Airtel a fortune to reach Indian users. OpenAI paid nobody
Episode 777
India's telcos looked like the obvious gateway for AI companies chasing scale. With nearly 900 million subscribers between them, Jio and Airtel could…
3 months, 4 weeks ago
Why Mamaearth's 2022 bet on a little-known drone startup is paying off in unexpected places and for unexpected players
Episode 776
In 2022, Mamaearth's founder made two unusual logistics bets: one on a shipping aggregator and one on a small Delhi drone startup nobody had heard of…
4 months ago
India built UPI for the economy. Gamblers built an economy on UPI
Episode 775
2026 was the first IPL season after India banned online real money gaming last year. The platforms were gone and the payment gateways were blocked. T…
4 months ago