·Economy, Policy & Society
No country for old people
They are educated, retired, and well to do. Yet digital technology has left them behind. What’s behind this digital divide?
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Charles Assisi
Co-founder and Director | Founding Fuel
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·Business & Strategy
How do you keep track of your changing customer needs?
The digitisation wave and Andy Grove’s strategic inflection points, Clayton Christensen on understanding the customer’s jobs to be done, disruptive technologies, optimising board composition in the digital era, and understanding “phygital”
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·Technology & the Future
The future of food, social media platforms and facial recognition
April 27, 2019: A roundup of news and perspectives on disruptive technology from around the world. In this issue: Sri Lanka’s social media ban, Beyond Meat IPO, facial recognition, employee activism, robot rights and more
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N S Ramnath
Senior Editor | Founding Fuel
·Entrepreneurship, Startups & Innovation
Behind Naresh Goyal’s wilful blindness
Naresh Goyal’s miscalculations, how technology amplifies human bias and what makes entrepreneurs entrepreneurial
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·Technology & the Future
Bias, fixing brains, and the difficulty of regulating tech
April 20, 2019: A roundup of news and perspective on disruptive technology from around the world. In this issue: Regulatory sandboxes; brain implants and genetic engineering; and AI bias
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N S Ramnath
Senior Editor | Founding Fuel
·Entrepreneurship, Startups & Innovation
How entrepreneurs learn
Large established firms have a tough task in embedding entrepreneurial thinking inside the firm. Because it means rewiring the way leaders think about the future
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Indrajit Gupta
Co-founder and Director | Founding Fuel
·Economy, Policy & Society
The science of photos & the art of capturing impressions of a changing world
This Week: How photos are changing business trends, India’s wages crisis, the black hole photo, lessons from Peter Thiel, the future of work, and what is safe to forget
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Founding Fuel
·Economy, Policy & Society
India doesn't have a jobs crisis, it has a wages crisis
Is technology killing jobs? And can India use technology to create jobs? Teamlease’s Manish Sabharwal says, our problem is providing a living wage, not jobs. We need to worry about improving productivity through the application of land, labour, and capital—and not so much the impact of automation
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·Technology & the Future
Exploring black holes, space, and mapping Earth
April 14, 2019: A roundup of news and perspective on disruptive technology. In this issue: the science behind the black hole photo; how Facebook is mapping Earth; private rocket science; data and privacy; the future of jobs; and EVs path to profitability
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N S Ramnath
Senior Editor | Founding Fuel
·Business & Strategy
Death of the white shirt?
The millennials’ love for selfies is driving a change in what sells in apparel stores—and the rise of Jawed Habib
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Charles Assisi
Co-founder and Director | Founding Fuel
·Economy, Policy & Society
Are you a jackal or a giraffe?
This Week: Marshall Rosenberg on nonviolent communication, Barack Obama on the lessons from his presidency, deep listening, Andreessen Horowitz, why private business corporations need reform, and more
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·Economy, Policy & Society
Private profit vs. public good: A case for repurposing capitalist enterprises
Private business corporations, the central tool of capitalism, need reform. We need to rethink the purpose of the corporation, the principle of limited liability, and the idea of who owns the enterprise
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Arun Maira
Former Chairman, BCG India | Member, Planning Commission
·Technology & the Future
The bias in technology
April 06, 2019: A roundup of news and perspective on disruptive technology. In this issue: Tech’s complicated relationship with government; robots, drones and anti-drones; and environmentally cool food
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N S Ramnath
Senior Editor | Founding Fuel
·Business & Strategy
The fight to stay relevant
This Week: Rajat Gupta interview, disruption, Tesla Model 3, humans vs robots
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·Leadership & Organisation
Behind Rajat Gupta’s dogged attempt to save his reputation
The former McKinsey chief’s tell-all book is an attempt to offer his side of a story that sent shockwaves around the world. But the book is unlikely to sway his detractors. In an interview, Gupta shares some of the lessons he learnt from the crisis—and a lot more
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Indrajit Gupta
Co-founder and Director | Founding Fuel