Why Environment, Sustainability are hot for Amuleek Singh of Chai Point

Amuleek Singh Bijral, the founder of Chai Point, is an outlier for many reasons. For me, Amuleek is an outlier because of his undying focus to ensure Chai Point is sensitive towards the environment. And he believes being environment-friendly makes business sense too. Also, he’s in my list of Indian founders who I believe are […]

How Vinoth Chandar of ChuChu TV made it a top global brand on YouTube

With over 24.5 Billion views and more than 38 Million subscribers across its channels, ChuChu TV is one of the top video creators on YouTube from India. Vinoth Chandar, founder and CEO of ChuChu TV, began the channel in 2013 with a nursery rhyme video titled ‘Chubby Cheeks’ sung by his daughter, which went viral […]

Sebastian Thrun on flying cars and solving today’s problems

Can Bengaluru’s traffic jams be solved with flying cars? For Sebastian Thrun, the Google X founder and among the world’s top AI and robotics scientists, flying cars are no more science fiction. Thrun, the cofounder of online education startup, Udacity, believes that learning new things is the only way to survive. “You can only learn […]

Kishore Biyani on his survival lessons for the future

Kishore Biyani’s entrepreneurial journey has been a rollercoaster ride since he first started selling fashion fabric to garment manufacturers in November 1983. Over the last four decades, Biyani has been through several cycles of business and technology disruptions, including the economic slowdown of 2008 when he had to scale down the business, negotiate with the […]

How Nandan Nilekani brings people together to create lasting impact

Most of us have known Nandan as the cofounder of Infosys, and the brain behind Aadhaar and India’s recent financial platforms, including “the IndiaStack.” While all of the above make for a good bio of Nandan, they don’t necessarily make him an outlier. From my days of tracking Infosys since 2000 to writing early stories […]

How Anand Jain used frugality lessons from childhood to build CleverTap

Welcome to The Playbook. A brand new podcast from FactorDaily bringing conversations with the doers and inventors about how they build products of impact in India. The idea is to get under the hood, go behind the scenes, and offer deep insights from their playbooks of building products and ideas that matter. Founded in May […]

‘I am the only one in Delhi with the courage to say the Prime Minister lies’

Journalism’s biggest existential battle isn’t about fighting the business model disruption or the way new consumers of news are behaving. It’s the war against intense polarisation and biases plaguing the newsrooms. There’s extreme negativity on one hand and excessive cheerleading on the other. For those in journalism staying true to the craft and following the […]

Phanindra Sama on how entrepreneurship is a self purification process

What’s the biggest lesson you learned as a founder? “Entrepreneurship is a self purification process.” Why sell now? “I wanted to demonstrate wealth to my parents who were getting old.” In September 2013, I interviewed RedBus co-founder Phanindra Sama for Mint newspaper, right after he sold the startup to Ibibo (now part of Makemytrip). To […]