Why R A Mashelkar remains “dangerously optimistic”
R A Mashelkar, the chairman of Reliance Industries’ innovation council talks about innovation and other things.
Devi Shetty on why he’s obsessed with affordable healthcare
Dr Devi Shetty of Narayana Health is more a pioneer and a disrupter than an Outlier. Shetty, who is widely credited with disrupting India’s healthcare scene with affordable surgeries, is shaping the future of healthcare in the country, too. And while he’s doing all that, he is relentlessly exploring new technologies from 3D printing to […]
Computing pioneer Bob Frankston says algorithms are the new bureaucracy
We discussed everything from the future of computer programming to how algorithms and their masters such as Facebook, Google and Amazon are beginning to take control of our lives.
Dr Anil Gupta on what entrepreneurs must learn from grassroots innovators
I first heard of Dr Anil Gupta some ten years ago. Finally, I met him earlier this month to talk about grassroots innovation.
Wingify’s Paras Chopra on bootstrapping his startup from zero to $18m revenue
There’s something fascinating about the entrepreneurs who stay away from the VC funding frenzy and quietly build their startups one baby step at a time. Doing a startup overall is a crazy, bold thing to do, in the first place. The odds are stacked against you. On top of that, if the entrepreneur decides to […]
Ashish Sinha on Indian startups’ underbelly and going back to his product roots
In this episode of Outliers, I met a new Ashish with his bearded looks.
ThreadSol founders on what it means to not be “an Uber of anything”
“It’s a game of belief,” Manasij Ganguli tells me about getting customers, investors and employees around you. We are sitting in his living room at Noida home, east of capital New Delhi, with his wife Mausmi Ambastha. This becomes “a game of thrones” if the startup idea you’re pitching doesn’t have a global equivalent. For […]
Ashish Hemrajani of BookMyShow says he’s a cockroach, and not a unicorn
Who wants to be a Unicorn? It’s almost every entrepreneur’s dream to build a company that crosses the $1 billion dollar valuation mark. For investors too, the starting question is whether a pitching startup can become the next Unicorn. For Ashish Hemrajani, the co-founder of BookMyShow, who started his company in 1999, the journey is […]
Zainab Bawa on lessons in building the HasGeek community
What’s the best way to build communities that last?
Lessons Amit Ranjan learnt in building products for the government
On Wednesday, we published the first part of Outliers Podcast with SlideShare co-founder Amit Ranjan in which he shared entrepreneurial lessons in building a consumer internet product. In the second part, Ranjan talks about his ongoing assignment with India’s government where he’s helping build next generation digital products.