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

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

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

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

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