India is a meat-loving country, with more than 70% of the population eating meat (spanning religions & cultures). India still has the lowest per capita meat consumption in the world. Traditionally, meat buying has been aligned with a neighbourhood butcher that either operates on the roadside or out of a…

An individual has taken over the leadership of a company post the early days of the pandemic. The company had witnessed immense pain in the preceding months. Now a year later, the company has managed to reach the pre-pandemic levels of performance. …

FCF to the rescue — Nigeria becomes the first nation to ground flights as fuel costs rise. The country’s 23 airlines have said that they have been “subsidising” flights for the past four months and can no longer absorb the costs after the price of aviation fuel more than tripled to 700 nairas ($1.68) …

Coinbase, the largest crypto exchange in the US, saw its shares tumble 78% since its April 2021 initial public offering (IPO) In its recent filing mentioned that, in the event of bankruptcy, crypto assets held by the exchange could be considered property of the bankruptcy proceedings and customers could be…

2 years is a good enough time for sense-making. Circa 2020, OTT was on an upswing with rising COVID cases. And now, we have Netflix in the past week announcing the loss of 200,000 paying subscribers. Rising COVID cases is a constant. On another note, there has been a ~75%…

“Paytm has got customers by way of cashbacks, not by rendering services. A bank has a brand, credibility and owns a customer whereas a payments company only rides on the groundwork done by the bank.” - Aditya Puri, a senior banker & former CEO of HDFC Bank. This argument is…

Let me begin with the tale of two Presidents Former President of the US, Donald Trump launches his own social media app which is called Truth Social. It is a Twitter-like platform that has been created as an alternative social media for people who feel that their views are censored…

Traditional wisdom says that while working on a startup in the healthcare domain, especially one that is targeting India 3 markets & beyond, affordability & accessibility should be the mainstay of any proposed solution. In reality, that doesn’t stand true in a lot of instances. The advancement of technology has…

The interplay of constraints and opportunity — Investor: I need some money for personal use. I am thinking of redeeming it from my mutual fund investments. Advisor: Sir, you have a direct equity portfolio as well, it will be better to sell some holdings there. …