June 17, 2021: Garry Kasparov on competitive people and the complexities of chess; The State vs Big Tech; Amazon Prime; How to write

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• competitive people
• Garry Kasparov
• Twitter
• Susan Cain
• Big Tech
• Amazon Prime
• writing
• chess

How cheap bandwidth and smartphones together with micropayents will affect tectonic shifts in telecom, TV and Bollywood, retail, banking and more

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• blended commerce
• video streaming
• Jio
• fintech
• Amazon
• user-generated regional content
• Walmart
• Vodafone
• Airtel
• Chinese smartphones
• Aadhaar
• data protection
• banking
• eCommerce
• DTH
• India Stack
• Privacy
• Amazon Prime
• Digital disruption
• Netflix
• gaming
• food tech
• Flipkart

The euphoria around Flipkart’s recent acquisition of Jabong may be a tad misplaced. After all, there are far bigger competitive issues at stake that could define the next phase of growth of Indian e-commerce

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• Snapdeal
• e-commerce
• Myntra
• Amazon
• Jabong
• Amazon Prime
• Flipkart
• Acquisitions

Why customers behave the way they do and what you can do to influence their behaviour

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• fear of regret
• loss aversion
• Sensodyne
• sunk cost fallacy
• Amazon Prime
• The Economist
• scarcity effect
• Zara
• expert bias
• OnePlus
• Bagpiper whisky
• social proof
• Behavioural science
• Starbucks