Channel
Business
Companies, founders, and the decisions that went one way instead of the other.
11 stories and growing

How Bombay Shaving Company Built a Category Gillette Never Thought India Needed
An ex-McKinsey founder, two FMCG giants, and the category Gillette never thought to build.
26 min

The Zerodha Story
Two brothers built India's biggest stockbroker by refusing the entire startup playbook.
26 min

The Company That Made Lying Into an Accounting Method
The SEC approved the accounting method that made the fraud legal
38 min

Product-Led Growth Examined Through Notion's Unconventional Rise
Two broke founders in Kyoto rebuilt a failed app into a ten billion dollar empire
30 min

The Invisible Empire: How Oil Built the Dollar's Throne
A secret weekend meeting rewired the global economy forever
38 min

What Serial Entrepreneurs Know That First-Timers Don't
Failure barely helps. Success helps more. But the real edge is stranger.
28 min

The Engineer Who Invented the Future and Was Told to Hide It
He built the first digital camera. His bosses said bury it.
30 min

The Man Who Convinced SoftBank That Office Space Was a Religion
A twelve-minute pitch in a car became the most expensive bet in venture capital history
31 min

The SAFE Note — How One Document Democratized Early-Stage Funding
A four-page document rewrote the rules of startup funding.
33 min

The Company That Outlasted the British Empire
A priestly family built a fortune inside colonialism, then bought the empire's crown jewels.
35 min

The Meeting Where Google Almost Died
Two grad students tried to sell Google for $750,000. The buyer said no.
25 min
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