Why India’s Next D2C Winners Are Being Built In Indore, Not Indiranagar
Metro-first playbooks built India's first wave of digital-first brands. A new set of numbers suggests the founders chasing the next wave are looking somewhere else entirely.
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Info Edge’s Full-Ownership Playbook: What Coding Ninjas Reveals About Edtech’s Endgame
Info Edge didn't rescue Coding Ninjas — it tidied up a stake it had been building for six years, at a moment when the rest of India's edtech sector is being forced into far messier exits.
From Canada to Dubai: Two Canadians Left High Taxes Behind and Built GenZone
Kevin McKenzie and Shayan Nasiri didn't build GenZone from a whiteboard. They built it from lived frustration — after going through Dubai's broken business setup industry themselves and deciding the solution didn't exist yet.
When the US Pulled the Plug on Fable 5, India Got the Wake-Up Call It Had Been Ignoring
Anthropic killed access to its most advanced AI models for every non-American on the planet. Two weeks later, the ban is still live, the real reason has changed the story entirely, and India's policymakers are now being asked to respond by name.
Ex-Google, Maersk Exec Louisa Loran: “AI Doesn’t Break Culture — It Exposes It”
The former Google and Maersk executive on why well-resourced transformations still fail, what Indian and Gulf leaders must unlearn, and the four behaviours that separate companies that compound from ones that just stay busy.
[Exclusive] Mukund Jha, Emergent: ‘The Most Successful AI Agent for SMBs Will Be the One that Founders Actually Use’
The co-founder of Emergent — the vibe-coding platform that hit $100M ARR in eight months — on why the next frontier isn't building software, it's getting AI to help run your business by automating workflows through chat.
GoBoult crossed ₹762 crore in revenue — without taking a rupee of VC money
While boAt raised hundreds of crores and Noise chased market share, two brothers from Delhi built India's most profitable wearables brand without raising a single round.
Minimalist Never Hired a Bollywood Face, HUL Paid ₹2,955 Crore for It Anyway
While Indian brands debated celebrity versus influencer, two brothers from Rajasthan quietly built the country's biggest D2C beauty exit — by trusting the right creators over the biggest names.
The Startup Manager Who Posted About His Gen Z Team Accidentally Described Every Office in India
A viral Teamblind thread framed it as a generational personality clash. The data suggests the problem runs much deeper than that — and it lands squarely on leadership.
The UAE Just Made China Its Biggest Trade Partner — India Sits in the Middle of That Story
As UAE-China non-oil trade crosses $111 billion and 24 new deals get signed in Beijing, New Delhi has to reconcile a difficult truth: its most important Gulf partner is deepening ties with its biggest strategic rival.
She Built the Community Before She Built the Leggings
BlissClub founder Minu Margeret didn't launch a product in 2020. She started a conversation — and turned it into India's most-watched women's activewear brand.
Indian Startup Workers Are Tired of Being Told to Stop Complaining
A viral post on Teamblind has reignited India's grind culture debate — and unlike 2023, the comment section isn't split. It's furious.