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October 5, 2026

India's stock market has an AI play

AI Industry & TrendsIndia Market Insights
September 29, 2026

Instinct competes on judgement, not intelligence

Product & UX AnalysisAI Industry & Trends
September 24, 2026

How I ended up in a circular deal with the FT

AI Industry & Trends
September 21, 2026

Who has promised money to whom in AI?

AI Industry & Trends
September 15, 2026

Meta may have found its next Instagram

AI Industry & TrendsProduct & UX Analysis
September 9, 2026

The personal AI agent wars are on!

AI Industry & TrendsIndia Market Insights
August 31, 2026

Joining Lightspeed India

Marketing & Brand Strategy
August 5, 2026

Instant house help startups will lose money on purpose

Indian Startups & BusinessIndia Market Insights
July 31, 2026

Swiggy and Eternal are betting on opposite futures

Indian Startups & Business
July 27, 2026

Ather: A masterclass in brand laddering

Indian Startups & BusinessMarketing & Brand Strategy
July 22, 2026

Claude Code filed my ITR end-to-end

AI Tools & Workflows
July 20, 2026

Quick Commerce is now bigger than Modern Trade in Bengaluru

Indian Startups & BusinessIndia Market Insights
July 17, 2026

The verdict is in: Perplexity fumbled the Airtel boost

AI Industry & TrendsIndia Market Insights
July 15, 2026

AI is saving us time. But we're not getting to keep it.

AI Industry & Trends
July 14, 2026

Charts: The Many Urban Indias by Tata Sons and PRICE

India Market Insights
July 8, 2026

Zepto and Instamart have two opposite problems

Indian Startups & Business
July 6, 2026

I remade the Silicon Valley intro for Bengaluru▶

AI Tools & Workflows
July 5, 2026

A nice place to work is a business model

Indian Startups & Business
July 3, 2026

A shot of espresso and protein…

Indian Startups & BusinessIndia Market Insights
July 1, 2026

Podcast Summary: Aravind Srinivas x Harry Stebbings (20VC)

AI Industry & Trends
June 30, 2026

I gave this website an arcade mode

Product & UX AnalysisMarketing & Brand Strategy
June 29, 2026

Kunal Shah's KPIs at WhatsApp

Product & UX AnalysisIndia Market Insights
June 23, 2026

I put every WTF intro animation in one place

Product & UX AnalysisMarketing & Brand Strategy
June 22, 2026

Impeccable vs Taste: redesigning IRCTC three ways

AI Tools & WorkflowsProduct & UX Analysis
June 17, 2026

Elon Musk is worth more than every Indian billionaire combined

India Market Insights
June 17, 2026

I drew Zepto's entire 10-minute stack on one page

Indian Startups & BusinessProduct & UX Analysis
June 13, 2026

Indian internet has entered its loyalty era

Indian Startups & BusinessIndia Market Insights
June 2, 2026

Open-sourcing my Claude Code Command Center

AI Tools & Workflows
June 1, 2026

Instamart's wallet trick is a behavioural hack

Indian Startups & BusinessProduct & UX Analysis
May 22, 2026

Claude is ten products, not one

AI Tools & WorkflowsAI Industry & Trends
May 20, 2026

I run all my work from one folder using Claude Code

AI Tools & Workflows
May 19, 2026

Bajaj Finance is out-AI-ing the AI startups

AI Industry & TrendsIndian Startups & Business
May 12, 2026

I feel bad for today's 21-year-olds

AI Industry & Trends
May 12, 2026

Every quick commerce player now has to pick a lane

Indian Startups & BusinessIndia Market Insights
May 11, 2026

Swiggy's lit shareholder letter cover designs

Marketing & Brand StrategyIndian Startups & Business
April 30, 2026

Giving away my LinkedIn personal branding playbook

Marketing & Brand Strategy
April 20, 2026

My early thoughts on Claude Design

AI Tools & WorkflowsProduct & UX Analysis
April 16, 2026

Swiggy built a rival to Swiggy

Indian Startups & BusinessIndia Market Insights
April 6, 2026

Call me Chief Claude Officer

AI Tools & Workflows
April 2, 2026

The Human Judgment is the Whole Job

AI Industry & Trends
April 1, 2026

Releasing 'Claude Code for the Rest of Us' Playbook

AI Tools & Workflows
March 30, 2026

Platform fees are rewriting Indian marketplace economics

Indian Startups & BusinessIndia Market Insights
March 24, 2026

Reflections from my first Claude Code workshops

AI Tools & WorkflowsMarketing & Brand Strategy
March 17, 2026

Joining Pronto

Indian Startups & Business
March 10, 2026

Rapido is doing to food delivery what it did to mobility

Indian Startups & BusinessIndia Market Insights
March 6, 2026

MacBook Neo is Apple's India laptop

India Market Insights
March 6, 2026

The Anxiety of Keeping Up

AI Industry & Trends
February 24, 2026

Podcast Summary: Nikhil Kamath x Dario Amodei (Anthropic)

AI Industry & Trends
February 19, 2026

Takeaways from Bangalore's first Claude Code Meetup

AI Tools & WorkflowsAI Industry & Trends
February 17, 2026

Giving away my LinkedIn writing playbook

Marketing & Brand Strategy
February 13, 2026

Quick commerce comes full circle with slotted delivery

Indian Startups & BusinessProduct & UX Analysis
February 11, 2026

The New Employee

AI Industry & Trends
February 5, 2026

The Era of Vertical Long-Form Is Here

Marketing & Brand Strategy
February 2, 2026

This is how India actually wants to date

India Market Insights
January 30, 2026

Quick commerce in India just had a rebirth

Indian Startups & Business
January 27, 2026

The Indian Rishta Standards Calculator

India Market Insights
January 23, 2026

Indian omnichannel brands operate as two businesses sharing a logo

Marketing & Brand Strategy
January 20, 2026

I finally built the personal website I always wanted

AI Tools & WorkflowsMarketing & Brand Strategy
January 12, 2026

Run clubs are the natural evolution of the Decathlon trend

India Market InsightsMarketing & Brand Strategy
January 5, 2026

Moving on from Elevation Capital after ~3 years

Indian Startups & Business
December 30, 2025

Rapido accidentally created a premium tier within two-wheelers

Indian Startups & BusinessProduct & UX Analysis
December 29, 2025

Claude Code now controls my browser▶

AI Tools & Workflows
December 24, 2025

ChatGPT is attempting something that's never worked before

AI Industry & Trends
December 19, 2025

Quick commerce apps reach peak UX convergence

Indian Startups & BusinessProduct & UX Analysis
December 18, 2025

My Claude Code use cases

AI Tools & WorkflowsMarketing & Brand Strategy
December 15, 2025

24 marketing AI use cases from Anthropic interviews

AI Tools & WorkflowsMarketing & Brand Strategy
December 10, 2025

A special day as Meesho goes public

Indian Startups & BusinessIndia Market Insights
December 4, 2025

Elevation thesis: The Next Wave of Consumer AI x India

AI Industry & TrendsIndia Market Insights
December 2, 2025

Creating beautiful experiences with Claude skills▶

AI Tools & WorkflowsMarketing & Brand Strategy
November 30, 2025

Podcast summary: Nikhil Kamath x Elon Musk

AI Industry & Trends
November 27, 2025

Generate stunning slide decks with NotebookLM

AI Tools & Workflows
November 25, 2025

AR Rahman's music and shrinking attention spans

India Market Insights
November 19, 2025

Insights from Bernstein's deep dive on quick commerce

Indian Startups & BusinessIndia Market Insights
November 17, 2025

8 timeless principles for brand building

Marketing & Brand Strategy
November 13, 2025

Indians spend 50 days in a year on 4 apps

India Market Insights
November 4, 2025

Zerodha has become an unlikely media powerhouse

Indian Startups & BusinessMarketing & Brand Strategy
October 29, 2025

India's superapps sit between US and China

India Market InsightsProduct & UX Analysis
October 8, 2025

Uber and Rapido meet in the middle in India

Indian Startups & BusinessIndia Market Insights
October 6, 2025

Science behind Urban Company's unique rating scale

Product & UX Analysis
September 30, 2025

Can Zoho compete with themselves for Arattai's sake?

Indian Startups & BusinessProduct & UX Analysis
September 29, 2025

Jensen Huang's $5 trillion AI infrastructure equation

AI Industry & Trends
September 24, 2025

AI product marketing is happening on Reels

Marketing & Brand StrategyIndia Market Insights
September 22, 2025

Why ChatGPT's India billboards have no CTA

Marketing & Brand StrategyAI Industry & Trends
September 17, 2025

Taking Urban Company's Abhiraj Bhal back to where it all began▶

Indian Startups & Business
September 17, 2025

Urban Company IPO and institution building mindset

Indian Startups & Business
September 15, 2025

Why Infosys returns cash instead of betting on AI

Indian Startups & BusinessAI Industry & Trends
September 11, 2025

Where is consumer AI headed in India?

AI Industry & TrendsIndia Market Insights
September 5, 2025

Why Spotify beats YouTube Music in India

Product & UX AnalysisIndia Market Insights
August 22, 2025

Seven principles to become AI-native today

AI Tools & Workflows
August 21, 2025

Every foreign company follows this India pricing strategy

India Market Insights
July 29, 2025

Comet's immersive first retail store in Bengaluru

Indian Startups & BusinessMarketing & Brand Strategy
July 28, 2025

TCS layoffs are different this time

AI Industry & TrendsIndian Startups & Business
July 25, 2025

What went wrong with Zerodha?

Indian Startups & BusinessMarketing & Brand Strategy
July 22, 2025

I got early access to Perplexity's new Comet browser▶

AI Tools & WorkflowsProduct & UX Analysis
July 21, 2025

Airtel-Perplexity is done. Is a Jio-OpenAI deal likely?

AI Industry & TrendsIndian Startups & Business
July 17, 2025

Will Perplexity finally win over India with the Airtel deal?

AI Industry & TrendsIndia Market Insights
July 15, 2025

Meesho chose its customer, then chose its constraints

Indian Startups & Business
July 9, 2025

Elevation Capital thesis: The State of AI in 2025

AI Industry & Trends
June 30, 2025

The business model of content creation as we know it is dying

AI Industry & TrendsMarketing & Brand Strategy
June 26, 2025

Chrome with a brain: Dia feels like the browser we were waiting for

AI Tools & WorkflowsProduct & UX Analysis
June 16, 2025

Snabbit’s blitzscale is hard to ignore

Indian Startups & Business
June 3, 2025

A glimpse into BCCI's extraordinary growth and scale

Indian Startups & Business
June 2, 2025

Striking themes from Mary Meeker's AI trends reports

AI Industry & Trends
May 28, 2025

Elevation Capital thesis: AI x Financial Services

AI Industry & TrendsIndia Market Insights
May 22, 2025

Taking Zerodha's Kite MCP for a spin▶

AI Tools & WorkflowsIndian Startups & Business
May 21, 2025

Indian IT returns cash. US big tech returns breakthroughs.

Indian Startups & BusinessIndia Market Insights
May 19, 2025

Who is building the TBPN for India?

Indian Startups & BusinessMarketing & Brand Strategy
May 8, 2025

Y Combinator's new startup ideas for 2025

Indian Startups & BusinessAI Industry & Trends
May 6, 2025

Why ChatGPT won't kill Google search

AI Industry & Trends
April 29, 2025

Kunal Shah's post-AI predictions are coming true

AI Industry & Trends
April 28, 2025

India's looming mass unemployment crisis from AI

AI Industry & TrendsIndia Market Insights
April 2, 2025

Where should you spend your $20 on AI?

AI Tools & Workflows
April 1, 2025

Podcast highlights: Indian Premier League Cricket by Acquired

Indian Startups & Business
March 28, 2025

Demo of NotebookLM's interactive mindmaps feature

AI Tools & Workflows
March 24, 2025

Podcast summary: Nikhil Kamath x Aravind Srinivas

AI Industry & TrendsIndia Market Insights
March 12, 2025

Elevation's framework for making great pitch decks

Indian Startups & Business
February 26, 2025

It is SO over* for software engineers

AI Tools & Workflows
February 24, 2025

I made a website to help you 'Know Your Zeros'▶

India Market Insights
February 21, 2025

Common thread in IVAR's 'India in one tweet' slide

India Market Insights
February 6, 2025

Elevation Capital's Enterprise AI Thesis

AI Industry & Trends
January 17, 2025

Xiaohongshu is not your typical Chinese social media app

Marketing & Brand Strategy