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In 10 Best Answers For Peter Thiel Interview Question – Part 1, I gave five answers to the following Peter Thiel interview question: What is the one thing that’s true but nobody believes it when you tell them? In this second part, I’ll give five more. Here goes. #6. Fixed deposit beats inflation Matt Levine … Read more
Peter Thiel interview question: What is the one thing that’s true but nobody believes it when you tell them? I have not attended an interview with Peter Thiel nor do I have any intention of doing so. But I do know 10 things that are true but nobody believes me when I tell them. I’ll … Read more
“A basic premise of Web3 is that every product is simultaneously an investment opportunity” – Matt Levine The previous post entitled How Tokenonmics Has Revolutionized Web3 Software was about the revolutionary impact of tokenomics on Web3 software. In this post, we will do a deep dive into the following characteristics of Tokenomics. The genuine Tokenomics … Read more
In the traditional Onprem software paradigm, a Customer pays the full License Fee of the software upfront and gets the rights to use the software in perpetuity. If he wants maintenance and updates, he additionally pays AMC every year, which is typically 18-22% of the LF. Upgrades are charged separately, as and when they’re released. … Read more
Amul and Parle have stopped supplies to Udaan. According to ET Prime, Alleging that B2B ecommerce platform Udaan was monopolising distribution to retailers, some of India’s largest FMCG makers such as Amul and Parle have stopped supplying stocks to the startup. Amul and Parle are multibillion dollar FMCG (Fast Moving Consumer Goods) companies headquartered in … Read more
It has become a favorite pastime for a lot of people to predict the disruption of B2B sales. (Ditto banks, telcos, et al.) Take the author of this LinkedIn post entitled Enterprise Sales Has Been Disrupted – Why Sales Pros Should Care for instance. Like disruption talk in many other areas, this is a sureshot … Read more
Both FMCG (Fast Moving Consumer Goods) and DTC (Direct to Consumer) companies manufacture their own products. (NOTE: In some markets, FMCG is called CPG or Consumer Packaged Goods. Source: McKinsey.) Both of them sell online and via brick-and-mortar stores. Their products are used by a Consumer i.e. private individual in his or her personal capacity … Read more
In Interoperability – The Sole Loser In UPI, we saw why interoperability has been compromised in UPI. In this post, we’ll explore ways to revive this noble goal. Some people advocate education campaigns to increase awareness of VPA and thereby revive interoperability. Once people know what a VPA is, first they would ensure better VPAs and … Read more
There are countless theories on what it takes to be a great salesperson. When I began my career in sales back in the day, Harvard Business Review called out Empathy and Ego Drive as the most important qualities of a great salesperson. A few years later, it changed its mantra to “A good salesperson does … Read more
We ended Banks Have Not Lost The UPI Plot on a sobering note: Sadly, interoperability has been given the short shrift in the way UPI has evolved. In this post, we’ll see how interoperability has lost the UPI plot. One of the founding principles of UPI is “interoperability”, which stipulates that anyone with any UPI app … Read more