
FF Daily #259: FF Recommends | The Best Stories of 2020
December 19, 2020: A year of chaos, resilience and opportunity

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Discover the most-read stories across the Founding Fuel network over all time.

December 19, 2020: A year of chaos, resilience and opportunity

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It looks inevitable technology companies will outrun the theories of the Nobel Prize winner in Economics. And that is a frightening thought

N S Ramnath
Senior Editor, Founding Fuel

Renaming Facebook as Meta indicates a big bet on the metaverse, as well as an “escape hatch” from the issues and scrutiny Facebook has been facing. The entire industry is at the beginning of a big wave and Mark Zuckerberg has been building capacity for some years now. However, the key to Meta’s success will depend on whether and how fast customers adopt it to work, learn, play, build and live.

N S Ramnath
Senior Editor, Founding Fuel

Nurturing an experimentative culture requires a new set of leadership tools that allow variance and controlled risk-taking to flourish

Indrajit Gupta
Co-founder and Director, Founding Fuel

In their book ‘The New Long Life’, Andrew Scott and Lynda Gratton say, as individuals and as a society, we need to reimagine work, career, learning and relationships, among other things. And both the young and the old will need to share the burden and opportunities of longer lives
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Alibaba broke all records with sales of $14.3 billion on Singles Day this year. How did it manage this amazing feat?

CKGSB Knowledge
Knowledge Partner

From the ingenious and the enterprising to the borderline weird, people are clambering on to platforms like Fiverr to live a life of their choosing

Charles Assisi
Co-founder and Director, Founding Fuel

It is paradoxical—past data becomes more valuable just when current data diverges dramatically from past trends

Nitin Srivastava
CEO, Toqfactor Technologies

The sharing economy exploded in China this year, with companies for bikes, umbrellas, toys and more all taking part in the hype. But with the concept reaching fever pitch, sharing could be in for a reality check

CKGSB Knowledge
Knowledge Partner

This Week: Behind the Wunderman-JWT global merger, Facebook’s moral dilemma, the changing nature of work, digital inclusion, creative imagination and more

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August 28, 2021 | FF Daily #461: A toolkit for making better decisions

Charles Assisi
Co-founder and Director, Founding Fuel

A conversation with Chinmay Tumbe, author of ‘The Age of Pandemics’, where he talks about lessons from cholera, Spanish influenza and plague; why policy response lags the science; and what this could mean for India’s urbanisation and political leadership
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For companies and individuals alike, a competitive advantage keeps getting harder to win and maintain. This is the first article in a five-part series that explores how today’s companies can stand out in a competitive marketplace, differentiate their products and build a high-value firm

CKGSB Knowledge
Knowledge Partner

We need affordable medicines and we need more innovation. It’s time to reinvent the patents regime

Arun Maira
Former Chairman, BCG India, Member, Planning Commission

Family managed businesses run the risk of being run over by their more contemporary counterparts. If they adhere to some ground rules though, they can come up trumps.

Harsh Vardhan
Strategy Consultant