“While climbing, respect those who are coming down; they give you love when you fall”
Outliers with Pankaj Mishra · Oultiers S05 E14 Lucky Ali There’s a certain “ruhaniyat” or something deeply spiritual about the way music touches us, not always, but sometimes. Is it the music or the musician? A musician without his or her music is incomplete and vice versa. As I discover in this episode, the Season […]
“The more I lose myself, the more I find myself”
Outliers with Pankaj Mishra · Outliers S05 E13: Nand Kishore Chaudhary Entrepreneurship can mean so many things for different people. The mainstream startup and entrepreneurship narratives are all about creating value, wealth and becoming an x of y (Uber of India, Airbnb of India, or Amazon of India) and so on. For a rare few, […]
“What you run for is more important than the speed at which you cross the finishing line”
Outliers with Pankaj Mishra · Oultiers S05 E12: Ajit Isaac Ajit Isaac is a quintessential Indian entrepreneur who has had a long, slow journey of nearly three decades, unlike many startup rocket ships we see around us today. He has built his company Quess, which is valued at around ₹ 4,900 crore on the BSE, […]
“India needs to figure if it wants women as economic agents of change or reproductive agents”
Outliers with Pankaj Mishra · Outliers S05 E11: Aditi Mittal Why do Indian women do the most unpaid work in the world? Everyday Indian women work for six and a half hours without getting paid, compared to a mere 45 minutes of unpaid labor for the men. When I started recording this episode of Outliers […]
The good news crusaders: Anuradha and Dhimant Parekh of The Better India
Outliers with Pankaj Mishra · Outliers S05 E10: Dhimant and Anuradha Parekh No news is good news until it’s bad news. Over the years, several mainstream news engines have secretly nourished the idea of using bad news as a tool to create virality of their content. It’s reached a stage where The World Health Organisation […]
How Mitch Grasso is building a J.A.R.V.I.S. of presentation software
Outliers with Pankaj Mishra · Outliers S05 E09: Mitch Grasso The first time I used the presentation software, Beautiful.ai, I could sense a deep conversation with the tool, a kind of a push back everytime I wanted the deck to look in a particular way, and the software didn’t agree. It didn’t stop there. It […]
How Notion works
Share on facebook Share on twitter Share on linkedin Share on facebook Share on twitter Share on linkedin Great products are built on ideologies and insane beliefs of their founders who are outliers. Notion started as a personal project for Ivan Zhao in the final year of his college, and went on to become a […]
“If you have made mistakes, don’t carry that baggage forward”
Outliers with Pankaj Mishra · Outliers S05 E04 Gaurav Taneja The world of social media influencers is glittering and filled with all the stardom you can aspire for. These influencers shape public opinions and help brands engage deeper with their customer communities. It’s also quite lonely for them, their crowded social media fan universe notwithstanding. […]
“The ideology spectrum is like a horseshoe magnet: both the ends are similar”
Outliers with Pankaj Mishra · Outliers S05 E03 Dhruv Rathee At 26 and with 3.75 million subscribers of his YouTube channel, Dhruv Rathee is an important voice in the world of chaos and complexity. For some, he’s a truth crusader asking tough questions to the powers that be, the questions that many in the mainstream […]
When you break out of resistance you always come out stronger
Outliers with Pankaj Mishra · Outliers S05 E02: Jay Vijayan “Either people or companies, the fundamental life principle is, when you break out of resistance you always come out stronger,” Jay Vijayan, founder of Tekion and the former CIO of Tesla tells me in this podcast. “If you think about a seed that you sow […]