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FF Daily #387: The limits of ingenuity
June 2, 2021: Elizabeth Kolbert on climate change; Anand Deshpande’s dilemmas; Bootstrapping versus funding; Elegy for the Arctic
Anand Deshpande’s founder’s dilemma at Persistent
After scaling up, do you get a professional to lead as CEO or continue at the helm? Where do you draw the lines between ownership and management? Is it better to exit totally or wait until the kids have grown up? If they want to, how do you induct them? When a crisis happens, do you step in or let professionals handle it? These are questions that Anand Deshpande, founder and chairman of Persistent Systems, has wrestled with and opens up on in this candid conversation
The walls of innovation
It requires sustained effort to move innovation from a poster on the wall to conversation and action in the hall
Growth forces you to take risks that are not always sensible
Ecosystems have consumers with problems, authorities seeking to facilitate resolutions, and entrepreneurs who see growth in attempting to resolve it. An interview with Anand Deshpande and Amit Ranjan
Paul Allen the artist versus Bill Gates the entrepreneur
There are artists and entrepreneurs. Their stories aren’t pretty. But tough calls must be taken. Their stories can be found across the world, India included where the IT Services business is staring at a tough time
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