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“Your duopoly is my opportunity” - India’s third-place challengers
#48
Last Wednesday at 11:49 PM


Who broke Bengaluru, and how do we fix our cities?
#47
06/19/2025


Where AI Can and Can’t Replace Human Coaching
#46
06/11/2025


45. Are we seeing the unbundling of quick commerce?
#45
06/05/2025


Can Smallcase maintain its relevance in a changing market?
#44
05/29/2025


Reliance Retail pays the price for size
#43
05/22/2025


India’s AI program is unlikely to create unicorns
#42
05/15/2025


Coffee versus cafe? India is poised at an inflection point
#41
05/08/2025


Who will be the next Blusmart?
#40
05/01/2025


Can Stage become the Netflix for Bharat (trailer)
04/24/2025


Can Stage become the Netflix for Bharat?
#39
04/24/2025


Why build when you can buy and then build? Here come the search funds (Trailer)
04/17/2025


Why build when you can buy and then build? Here come the search funds
#38
04/17/2025


No easy moves: Is India facing a crisis or an opportunity?
#37
04/10/2025


Are we in the "enshittification" phase of Indian consumer tech?
#36
04/03/2025


Should you invest the first two years of your career doing strategy consulting?
#35
03/27/2025


Ultrahuman and Kuku FM have broken out
#34
03/20/2025


How big is the market for treating farmed animals humanely?
#33
03/13/2025


Who'll become new televison? Youtube or streaming companies?
#32
03/06/2025

Between Youtube and streaming companies, who do you think will become the new television?


That was the question Two by Two hosts Praveen Gopal Krishnan and Rohin Dharmakumar posed to our guests this week.


Youtube TV has surpassed mobile as the primary device for Youtube viewing in the US. The company wants to press this advantage further and bring more attention to itself from linear television and streaming companies. How is the bigger picture shaping up in India? 


To discuss, we invited as guests Swati Mohan, t...


Airtel fights spammers. And Truecaller's business model
#31
02/27/2025


What is stopping 10-minute alcohol delivery?
#30
02/20/2025


Going out of India is easier than going out in India
#29
02/13/2025


Razorpay, Phonepe, and others confront Juspay’s “white box”
#28
02/06/2025


Who and how do you incentivise to solve India's air pollution problem?
#27
01/30/2025


Zomato, Swiggy, and the rise of the 10-miunte "dark" cafe
#26
01/23/2025


If B-schools were invented today, would students run placements?
#25
01/16/2025


The Future was electric cars. Until it wasn't
#24
01/09/2025


Are we past peak Amazon India?
#23
01/02/2025


The death of D2C
#22
12/19/2024


AI comes to annihilate India's SaaS companies
#21
12/12/2024


The mystery of usury
#20
12/05/2024


Marketing is eating itself from the inside
#19
11/28/2024


Dmart versus the challengers at the gate
#18
11/21/2024


Can venture capitalists do no wrong?
#17
11/14/2024


What does Ola Electric's future hold?
#16
11/07/2024


The relentless rise of the "government" as a competitor
#15
10/24/2024


How will Ola and Uber avoid "death by a thousand cuts"?
#14
10/17/2024


Do we even need Product Managers (Premium Subscribers Only)
#13
10/10/2024


Ather Energy was a pioneer. But can it also be a leader?(Premium Subscribers Only)
#12
10/03/2024


Netflix's last growth market
#11
09/26/2024

Netflix is trying hard to crack the Indian market. Ever since the US streaming giant entered the country it has been hard at work to make an impact. And over the years they’ve learnt a thing or two about how the Indian streaming space functions.


Netflix is also not shy about expressing how it sees India as its last growth market. Most of the other geographies it has saturated its reach to a large extent, but India has always been a pain point for it to get a leg up on. So much so...