Interactive Communities: the next big thing in the creator economy
Community is the latest buzz word in tech. Communities are crowning new influencers, driving Github projects to global adoption, replacing formal education, & propelling D2C brands to tens of millions in sales. In fact, community builders are disrupting the online...
How software can lead to improved data privacy (no, really!), and why we are excited about it
Over 3 decades since Tim Berners Lee pioneered the world wide web, the internet has changed the way we socialize, work, shop, learn, get entertained, & so on, at an unprecedented rate. At the heart of much of the internet’s power lies data – data that...
The Next Decade in Indian Ed-Tech
A lot has been written about the surge in funding in Indian ed-tech – the sector received more than USD 2B in funding in 2020, compared to USD 550M in 2019. However, Byju’s acquisition of Akash finally felt like a watershed moment in Indian ed-tech (irrespective...
Why digital first consumer brands need to transform themselves into data first consumer brands
Historically, It has been hard to disrupt a consumer brand. Many of the leading consumer brands (either individual or a group) – Coca Cola, L’Oreal, Unilever, P&G, Colgate, Gucci, Nestle, etc – have been around for about a century. Over the last...