Suchita Salwan of LBB on building a discovery platform for Indian millennials
Helping India’s over 500 million internet users find what they are looking for is the Holy Grail for everyone from Facebook and Google to Flipkart and Amazon. Little Black Book (LBB), an online discovery and shopping platform cofounded by Suchita Salwan, a 29-year-old former marketing executive with BBC India, is fast becoming the go-to place […]
Kausshal Dugarr of Teabox on disrupting a legacy biz with a billion cups of tea
Welcome back to the second episode of The PlayBook – a brand new podcast from FactorDaily bringing conversations with the doers and inventors about how they build products of impact in India. In the first episode, we discussed “How Anand Jain used frugality lessons from childhood to build CleverTap.” In this episode, I sat down […]
How Ritesh Arora learned from failures to bootstrap, then turn BrowserStack into a $60m rocket ship
If you’ve been following the mainstream startup movement in India, it’s likely you’ve never heard of BrowserStack, or its low profile founder Ritesh Arora. But if there’s one startup playbook you must learn from, it’s the BrowserStack journey. By the time BrowserStack earned its first million-dollar revenue in the year 2012-13, the founders Arora and […]
William Bissell of Fabindia on building brand, lessons from the journey
“Giving just returns to your investors and shareholders is a restrictive model for business. Business is such a powerful force, it needs to stand for a higher purpose,” Bissell tells me in this episode of Outliers. Bissell, who took over the business in 1999, is now the vice chairman of Fabindia. If you want to […]