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Nov 26, 2024 | 
the-ken.com | Snigdha Sharma |Alifiya Khan |Aayush Agarwal |Praveen Gopal Krishnan
In the June quarter of 2024, Honasa Consumer, the maker of Mamaearth, decided to launch this new project called Project Neev. The idea was to bring about a foundational change in the way the company operates, especially distribution. For context, Mamaearth hit the bourses in October last year when everyone else who had IPO plans had decided to hold them off for a bit. But Varun Alagh, the CEO and co-founder of Mamaearth, was of the firm opinion that the timing was perfectly ripe.
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Nov 7, 2024 | 
the-ken.com | Rohin Dharmakumar |Praveen Gopal Krishnan |Alifiya Khan |Aayush Agarwal
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Oct 24, 2024 | 
the-ken.com | Rohin Dharmakumar |Alifiya Khan |Aayush Agarwal |Praveen Gopal Krishnan
The government has played a pivotal role in establishing and promoting Digital Public Goods(DPG) and Digital Public Infrastructure(DPI) in the past decade and a half, and there have been few which have been integral in our daily lives in more ways than one.
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Oct 17, 2024 | 
the-ken.com | Rohin Dharmakumar |Praveen Gopal Krishnan |Alifiya Khan |Aayush Agarwal
We’ve unlocked this episode for our Basic and Free subscribers for a limited time. Listen to it on your favourite streaming platform for a limited time. Listen to the unlocked episode: Spotify | Apple Podcasts | Amazon Music | YoutubeOla and Uber are in a “late-stage duopoly”. After spending billions and billions of dollars, they have finally secured pole positions in ride-sharing in India.
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Oct 10, 2024 | 
the-ken.com | Rohin Dharmakumar |Praveen Gopal Krishnan |Alifiya Khan |Aayush Agarwal
We’ve unlocked this episode for our Basic and Free subscribers for a limited time. Listen to it on your favourite streaming platform for a limited time. Link to the unlocked episodes: Spotify | Apple Podcasts | Amazon Music | YoutubeAs a career, Product Management in India has gone through multiple eras — in the early days, PMs struggled to explain to people what they actually did. Think about all the people you’d imagine who work at a software company. Marketing. Engineering. Sales. Analytics. Design.
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Oct 2, 2024 | 
the-ken.com | Rohin Dharmakumar |Alifiya Khan |Aayush Agarwal |Praveen Gopal Krishnan
[This episode has been unlocked for a limited time for free and basic users. You can listen to the full ‘Premium subscriber only’ episode wherever you get your podcasts]Link to the unlocked episode here – Spotify | Apple Podcasts | Amazon Music | YoutubeAther Energy is the third-largest seller of electric two-wheelers in India. Founded in 2013, Ather Energy is known to have kicked off the electric two-wheeler wave in India.
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Sep 18, 2024 | 
the-ken.com | Rohin Dharmakumar |Alifiya Khan |Aayush Agarwal |Praveen Gopal Krishnan
The fastest growing segment of insurance in India is individual health insurance. It’s growing steadily at a, well, healthy pace of 20% annually. But scratch just a little beneath the surface and things don’t appear so rosy. Of the 20% annual growth in revenue, nearly 15% comes from medical inflation. Meaning, existing customers paying higher premiums each year because the costs of treatments are going up. The growth in the number of customers each year is just around 5-6%.
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Sep 11, 2024 | 
the-ken.com | Rohin Dharmakumar |Praveen Gopal Krishnan |Alifiya Khan |Aayush Agarwal
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Sep 3, 2024 | 
the-ken.com | Rohin Dharmakumar |Alifiya Khan |Aayush Agarwal |Praveen Gopal Krishnan
School education is a fundamental right in India. An average Indian child spends 10-12 years in schools. And for most parents and families, the money they spend on educating their child is one of the largest over time. And yet, school education is slowly becoming (or perhaps being made) irrelevant in the next step that comes after that: college. The schools-exams-college “chain” is broken. Perhaps because it is now the schools-private-coaching-exams-college chain.
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Aug 28, 2024 | 
the-ken.com | Rohin Dharmakumar |Praveen Gopal Krishnan |Alifiya Khan |Aayush Agarwal
Google Pay is India’s second largest UPI app with a market share of 38%, with 500+ crore transactions a month. It’s one of the world’s mightiest companies, and yet, we argue that it’s possibly in a vulnerable, strange position. By this, we don’t mean that it will disappear overnight, but that all kinds of competitors are coming for it. Already it’s market share has declined from 44% to 37%. It’s an outpost of an empire that’s fighting a global war.
