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Quibi failure: Why $1.75 billion and Hollywood connections were not enough
Startup Playbook

Quibi failure: Why $1.75 billion and Hollywood connections were not enough

While Jeffrey Katzenberg assembled the most credentialed launch team in streaming history, the most basic question about the product went...

Dunzo shutdown: What went wrong and why
Resources

Dunzo shutdown: What went wrong and why

For years, asking someone to "Dunzo it" was simply how people in Bengaluru talked about getting something delivered. The company...

India’s Unicorn Boom: The Winners, The Failures, and the Lessons Every Founder Should Learn
Artificial Intelligence

India’s Unicorn Boom: The Winners, The Failures, and the Lessons Every Founder Should Learn

By TFN Editorial Team, The Founder Nation Editorial Team While India minted a record 44 unicorns in a single year,...

How Scale AI Became the Most Important Company Nobody Talks About: The Hidden Infrastructure of AI Training
Artificial Intelligence

How Scale AI Became the Most Important Company Nobody Talks About: The Hidden Infrastructure of AI Training

Scale AI has no brand recognition. You have never heard of it. Most venture capitalists have barely heard of it....

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

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
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 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
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 better anxiety loop. More than...

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

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