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Mukesh Ambani’s next big bet: What Reliance does after Jio
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Mukesh Ambani’s next big bet: What Reliance does after Jio

While Jio's IPO makes the headlines, Ambani has already moved his most consequential capital to the next frontier: AI, clean...

What is social commerce and why India is its biggest market
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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 whether social commerce is a...

What is asset-light manufacturing and why every Indian D2C brand is doing it
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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 the brands that never had...

Meesho vs boAt: Two startups that found India in places nobody was looking
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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 went looking for the other...

Why Midjourney stayed profitable without VC 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 $500 million in annual revenue....

How Duolingo Built One of the World’s Most Addictive Learning Apps
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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 better anxiety loop. More than...

How Cloud-flare Built the Infrastructure Powering 20% of the Internet.
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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 users have never heard of...

Ather vs Ola Electric: How Quality Beat Blitzscaling in India’s EV Market
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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, Ather built slowly, carefully, and...

How Postman became a global product from India
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How Postman became a global product from India

While every Indian SaaS founder was being told to move to San Francisco before building for the world, a Yahoo...

How developers became Vercel’s developer led growth engine
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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 giving its core product away...

Why developers abandoned SQL databases and built MongoDB into a Nasdaq company
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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 into a publicly traded company,...

How Juspay powers the payments you do not know you are using
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How Juspay powers the payments you do not know you are using

While consumer fintech brands fought for app downloads, Juspay built the layer those apps quietly run on, and never needed...

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