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Social commerce platforms including Meesho, WhatsApp Business, and Instagram Shopping used by Indian consumers.
Featured

What is social commerce and why India is its biggest market

By TFN Editorial Team, The Founder Nation Editorial Team While Western markets are still debating…

By Ridhima Garg
Leading Indian D2C brands such as Mamaearth, boAt, and Sugar Cosmetics that use asset-light manufacturing models.
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What is asset-light manufacturing and why every Indian D2C brand is doing it

While venture capital got more cautious about funding factories, it got far more comfortable funding…

By Ridhima Garg
Meesho marketplace and boAt consumer electronics representing two Indian startups that built successful businesses by targeting Tier 2 and Tier 3 markets.
Artificial Intelligence

Meesho vs boAt: Two startups that found India in places nobody was looking

While most Indian startups chased the same 50 million metro shoppers, two very different founders…

By Ridhima Garg
Hugging Face Hub homepage showing the world's largest open-source AI model repository.
Artificial Intelligence

Hugging Face GitHub of AI: How an open-source chatbot startup became the platform every AI company depends on

While OpenAI built walls around its models, Hugging Face gave everything away for free and…

By Ridhima Garg
Midjourney AI image generator homepage showing the bootstrapped platform that became profitable without venture capital funding.
Artificial Intelligence

Why Midjourney stayed profitable without VC funding

While its best-funded rival nearly collapsed, a 163-person company with zero outside capital quietly crossed…

By Ridhima Garg
Duolingo homepage featuring the Duo owl logo and language learning platform.
Artificial Intelligence

How Duolingo Built One of the World’s Most Addictive Learning Apps

While every other edtech company was racing to build better curricula, Duolingo quietly built a…

By Ridhima Garg
Cloudflare homepage showing the internet infrastructure platform used by millions of websites worldwide.
Artificial Intelligence

How Cloud-flare Built the Infrastructure Powering 20% of the Internet.

While AWS and Google Cloud raced to build the internet's compute layer, a company most…

By Ridhima Garg
Ather Energy and Ola Electric scooters representing two different strategies in India's electric two-wheeler market.
Featured

Ather vs Ola Electric: How Quality Beat Blitzscaling in India’s EV Market

While Ola Electric blitzscaled to half the electric scooter market and then watched it collapse,…

By Ridhima Garg
Postman logo and API platform homepage representing one of the world's leading API development platforms built from India.
Featured

How Postman became a global product from India

While every Indian SaaS founder was being told to move to San Francisco before building…

By Ridhima Garg
What is Vercel developer platform for frontend deployment and web applications
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How developers became Vercel’s developer led growth engine

While most cloud platforms sell to IT departments, Vercel built a $9.3 billion company by…

By Ridhima Garg
MongoDB employee growth and revenue per employee from FY2015 to FY2024
Startup Playbook

Why developers abandoned SQL databases and built MongoDB into a Nasdaq company

While millions of developers fled rigid SQL schemas in the late 2000s to build MongoDB…

By Ridhima Garg
Artificial Intelligence

GitLab fully remote company IPO: how 1,300 people in 65 countries went public on Nasdaq

While the world was debating whether remote work was sustainable, GitLab had already been running…

By Ridhima Garg

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