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

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

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

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

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