In this podcast, we cover - 1. Lessons in grit: balancing personal responsibilities with professional goals through a difficult medical diagnosis 2. Frameworks for understanding risk and regret: how to know you’re making the ‘right’ decision 3. Zero involuntary churn: building teams that work Pascal Uffer is the co-founder of Boostbar alongside some of the industry's brightest minds. In 2020 he started his entrepreneurial journey that transformed his startup into one of the fastest-growing e...
Jan 19, 2024•55 min•Transcript available on Metacast In this podcast, we cover - 1. The art and science of forming multi-dimensional careers: nuances of achievement 2. Frameworks for understanding change as a philosopher 3. Frameworks for analysing achievement in the automated workspace Sven Nyholm is a Professor of the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence at LMU Munich and the Principal Investigator for AI Ethics at the Munich Center for Machine Learning. Much of his recent work has been about the impact of emerging technologies on our opportunities...
Jan 19, 2024•1 hr 3 min•Transcript available on Metacast In this podcast we cover - 1. The increasing importance of liberal arts in a world with rising automation 2. The role of mentors and building an ‘entrepreneurial mindset' 3. The ‘Personal Journey Map’ and the importance of the ‘startup of you' Priyank Narayan Founding Director of the Centre for Entrepreneurship at Ashoka University, a leading liberal arts university. He started his career with IBM. He has been an entrepreneur for many years before joining Ashoka University. Priyank teach...
Jan 13, 2024•49 min•Transcript available on Metacast In this podcast, we discuss - 1. Frameworks for overcoming the cold start problem in early stage startups 2. Content and product strategies to empower small and medium sized businesses 3. Insights on startup acquisitions Amita holds the position of Co-founder and CEO at Playback, a pioneering interactive video platform designed to assist businesses in fostering customer engagement and enriching their brand storytelling. She spent over a decade on Wall Street and in management consulting. She als...
Jan 13, 2024•42 min•Transcript available on Metacast In this podcast we cover - 1. Key geo-political trends in 2024 to look out for 2. The repercussions of diminishing US leadership and rising new non-state actors 3. Frameworks for thinking about optimism, technology and a new social contract. Dr Maha Hosain Aziz is a professor and author in global risk and future trends based at NYU’s MA International Relations Program, leading the annual global risk prediction project with Wikistrat, the world’s first geopolitical crowdsourced consultancy; she i...
Jan 07, 2024•48 min•Transcript available on Metacast Mark-Anthony Falzon is a social anthropologist. He is a professor at the University of Malta and a life member of Clare Hall, Cambridge. His books include Cosmopolitan Connections (Oxford, 2005), Multi-Sited Ethnography (Ashgate, 2009), The Examined Life (2019), The University of Malta (2020) and Birds of Passage (Berghahn, 2020). His book examines the social and cultural infrastructure that sustains Sindhi business and its trade networks. It provides a rich historical context to the narrative b...
Nov 27, 2023•1 hr 2 min•Transcript available on Metacast Anirudh Suri is a venture capitalist, technology entrepreneur and policy advisor. He is the managing partner of India Internet Fund, a US and India-based technology venture capital fund, and author of The Great Tech Game: Shaping Geopolitics and the Destinies of Nations (HarperCollins, 2022). Previously, he worked with the Government of India in Delhi, McKinsey and Co. in New York, the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington DC, and Goldman Sachs in London. Anirudh completed hi...
Nov 21, 2023•58 min•Transcript available on Metacast In this pathbreaking work, Shrayana Bhattacharya maps the economic and personal trajectories--the jobs, desires, prayers, love affairs and rivalries--of a diverse group of women. Divided by class but united in fandom, they remain steadfast in their search for intimacy, independence and fun. Embracing Hindi film idol Shah Rukh Khan allows them a small respite from an oppressive culture, a fillip to their fantasies of a friendlier masculinity in Indian men. Most struggle to find the freedom-or inc...
Nov 06, 2023•1 hr 6 min•Transcript available on Metacast In this podcast, we cover - 1. How giving advice to others helps us more than it helps them 2. The importance of setting ‘flexible’ goals. 3. Forgetfulness and the art of avoiding everyday errors. Katy Milkman is the James G. Dinan Professor at The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, host of Charles Schwab’s popular behavioral economics podcast Choiceology, and the former president of the international Society for Judgment and Decision Making. She is the co-founder and co-director ...
Oct 30, 2023•56 min•Transcript available on Metacast In this podcast, we cover - 1. The art and science of curating interesting conversations 2. Nuances of productising serendipity 3. Anyone’s technology and philosophy suite Introducing Alfred Malmros Currently building Anyone, an app that makes it easier to get and give advice through 5-minute phone calls. Get in touch for early access. Previously worked at Google's Jigsaw, that builds technology to make people in the world safer. Launched and built the Jigsaw brand and brought Perspective, I...
Oct 23, 2023•58 min•Transcript available on Metacast Dr. Anamika is a prominent contemporary Indian poet, social worker and novelist writing in Hindi, and a critic writing in English. She has eight collections of poetry, five novels and four works of criticism in her credit. Currently, she is Reader at the Department of English, Satyawati College, University of Delhi. Anamika was born on 17 August 1961 in Muzaffarpur, Bihar. Her father Shyamnandan Kishore was a Hindi poet and her "first teacher in poetry". Anamika describes herself as a ...
Oct 17, 2023•34 min•Transcript available on Metacast A.S. Panneerselvan is fellow at Roja Muthiah Research Library, Chennai and head of its Centre for Study in Public Sphere. Earlier, he was the Readers' Editor (an independent internal news ombudsman) of The Hindu, for nearly a decade. Apart from being a regular columnist, he is also an adjunct faculty member of the prestigious Asian College of Journalism,Chennai. Panneerselvan is the author of Karunanidhi: A Life, published in 2021 by Penguin Random House. He was conferred the G.U. Pope award...
Oct 16, 2023•59 min•Transcript available on Metacast Shashi Tharoor is a member of the Indian Parliament from the Thiruvananthapuram constituency in Kerala. He previously served as the United Nations Under-Secretary General for Communications and Public Information and as the Indian Minister of State for External Affairs. He is also a prolific author, columnist, journalist and a human rights advocate. He has served on the Board of Overseers of the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University. He is also an adviser to the International ...
Oct 10, 2023•29 min•Transcript available on Metacast Abhay Kumar or Abhay K. (born 1980) is an Indian poet-diplomat and India's 21st Ambassador to Madagascar and Ambassador to Comoros. He has served in different diplomatic capacities earlier in Russia, Nepal and Brazil. His published collections of poetry include The Seduction of Delhi, The Eight-Eyed Lord of Kathmandu, The Prophecy of Brasilia, The Alphabets of Latin America among others, while his edited books are CAPITALS, 100 Great Indian Poems, 100 More Great Indian Poems, New Brazilian P...
Oct 09, 2023•58 min•Transcript available on Metacast In this podcast we cover - 1. The art of navigating success and failure 2. Lessons from Indian mythology for modern careers 3. The story of Dhruva and insights on leadership Gauranga Darshan Das, a disciple of His Holiness Radhanath Swami, is an educator, TEDx speaker and a spiritual author of over 33 books. He holds a master’s degree from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. He is a resident of the ISKCON Govardhan Ecovillage (GEV) and serves as the dean of the Bhaktivedanta Vidyapitha. ...
Sep 04, 2023•54 min•Transcript available on Metacast In this podcast, we cover - 1. The importance of liberal arts in an AI-powered world 2. The art of asking better questions 3. How AI is changing corporate strategy 4. Building differentiable competitive advantage when machines are universally available 5. How to make diversity and inclusion work Tiger Tyagarajan is President and Chief executive officer of Genpact.Genpact has more than 115,000 employees and annual revenues of $4.37 billion USD as of December 31, 2022. Tiger was appointed as Genpa...
Aug 28, 2023•1 hr 3 min•Transcript available on Metacast In this podcast we cover - 1. A new framework for India, beyond the rough and tumble of partisan politics 2. History of Indian polity 3. The future of India and its people Harsh Gupta ‘Madhusudan’ is an India-based public markets investor. He has written extensively on economics, finance and politics for Mint, Swarajya, The Wall Street Journal, The Indian Express and other publications.Harsh enrolled to study at IIT Delhi, before dropping out. He graduated from Dartmouth College with an AB degre...
Aug 15, 2023•1 hr 11 min•Transcript available on Metacast In this podcast, we cover - 1. Nuances of understanding Indian cities and how we have reached this point of exasperation 2. The pivotal role of India achieving India's promised destiny 3. The art of meaningfully addressing the blizzard of policy issues that come with the phenomenon Devashish Dhar is a former Public Policy Specialist at NITI Aayog. He is a Mason Fellow from the Harvard Kennedy School and Li Ka Shing Scholar from the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, Singapore. He is also ...
Aug 02, 2023•56 min•Transcript available on Metacast In this podcast, we cover - 1. Nuances of biochemical interventions into love and relationships 2. Ethics of deciding which medications should be a part of our society 3. The art of calibration within yourself to negotiate with your ideals of self worth Brian is a Senior Research Fellow in the Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics at the University of Oxford, Associate Director of the Yale-Hastings Program in Ethics and Health Policy at Yale University and The Hastings Center, and Associate Editor ...
Jul 23, 2023•1 hr 4 min•Transcript available on Metacast In this podcast, we cover - 1. Mental models for planning different ‘chapters’ of your life & taking different ‘tours of duty’. 2. Lessons on networking and augmenting your leadership skills. 3. The art and science of navigating career transitions Anoop Prakash is currently President of the Ambulance Division at the REV Group Inc, a publicly-traded specialty vehicles manufacturer based in Brookfield, Wisconsin. At REV, Anoop runs a manufacturing and distribution organization of 1500 people a...
Jun 23, 2023•1 hr 6 min•Transcript available on Metacast In this podcast, we cover - 1. Why higher pay for workers doesn’t mean higher prices for customers, and the Costco case-study 2. Employee turnover: what drives it & how it costs companies more than most executives think 3. Differences in mindsets between good jobs and bad jobs systems Zeynep Ton is a Practice in the Operations Management group at MIT Sloan School of Management. She is also president of the nonprofit Good Jobs Institute, where she works with companies to improve their operati...
Jun 23, 2023•52 min•Transcript available on Metacast In this masterclass we cover - 1. Rebecca’s meandering career in academia and insights from her professional lowlights 2. The difference between malignant and benign sulking 3. The linguistic and gendered nuances of sulking Rebecca Roache is a senior lecturer in philosophy at Royal Holloway, University of London. She works on various issues in applied philosophy, and hosts The Academic Imperfectionist podcast. She lives in Oxfordshire.
Jun 19, 2023•58 min•Transcript available on Metacast In podcast we cover - 1. The art of persuasive writing; telling the universal story of having a dream, taking risks & leading a meaningful life. 2. Insights on having difficult conversations & making difficult choices 3. Lessons from geopolitics and the implications of our colonial histories on a new world order. Anjan Sundaram is an award-winning author, journalist, academic, and television presenter. He is the author of Stringer, Bad News, and Breakup. His books have been featured by C...
May 31, 2023•58 min•Transcript available on Metacast In this podcast we discuss - 1. Importance of cultivating multiple interests 2. How to navigate a world centered around work 3. Negotiating with envy to find your ikigai Simone Stolzoff is an author, designer, and workplace expert from San Francisco. A former design lead at the global innovation firm IDEO, his work has been featured in The New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, and many other publications. He is a graduate of Stanford and The University of Pennsylvan...
May 23, 2023•46 min•Transcript available on Metacast In this podcast we cover - 1. The art of writing an Indian book for a global audience 2. Translating social observation into gripping fiction. 3. The journey of writing a deeply researched fiction book Deepti Kapoor is an Indian author and journalist currently based in Portugal. Her first novel, A Bad Character, was published in 2015. In 2023, Kapoor published her second novel, Age of Vice, whose rights were sold to FX Studio for a major TV series.
May 09, 2023•41 min•Transcript available on Metacast In this masterclass, we cover - 1. Understanding BAAS and it’s market landscape 2. Solving high stake problem statements using first principles 3. Art of pivoting and finding product market fit Priyanka is on a mission to build accessible, secure, and modern finance solutions for the new digital economy. She is the co-founder of Falcon, a BaaS startup based in Delhi and Bangalore in India. She’s been immersed in fintech for almost a decade and has closely observed and participated in the ups and...
May 08, 2023•48 min•Transcript available on Metacast In this podcast we cover - 1. Nuances of trust in the Indian society 2. Frameworks for understanding institutions and actively engaging in public discourse 3. The journey of writing a deeply researched non-fiction book Subhashish Bhadra is an economist by training. He received an MPhil in economics from the University of Oxford on the Rhodes Scholarship and a BA in economics from St. Stephen's College, New Delhi. His career has straddled both the policy and corporate worlds. He spent over ha...
Apr 14, 2023•44 min•Transcript available on Metacast In this podcast, we cover - 1. Art and science of self-discovery 2. Becoming a deep-generalist 3. Meaningful career transitions with a growth mindset Pramath Raj Sinha has earned the tag of an institution builder, a profession that neither existed, nor could he ever have imagined for himself, when growing up in Patna, Bihar. What is perhaps less widely known is that as a Partner at McKinsey & Company, then as one of the Founders of the Indian School of Business (ISB), the Young India Fellows...
Apr 09, 2023•1 hr 15 min•Transcript available on Metacast In this masterclass, you will learn - 1. The art of following your curiosity to build a portfolio of careers 2. Insights on geopolitics, the end of history and public deliberation 3. Mental models on personal productivity Brian is a geopolitical strategist and advisor publishing extensively on Sino-American relations, statecraft in Asia, and the intersection of nascent technologies, political philosophy, and public policy. Currently pursuing a DPhil in Politics at Balliol College, Oxford, Brian ...
Mar 27, 2023•1 hr 6 min•Transcript available on Metacast In this podcast we cover - 1. Mukesh’s early career and adventures as an entrepreneur 2. The journey of tracing the story of our relationship with our body 3. Actionable advice on building a meaningful career keeping health and curiosity at the core Mukesh Bansal is a computer science engineer from IIT Kanpur and a technology entrepreneur. He founded India's largest fashion retailer Myntra and headed the ecommerce division for Flipkart after a highly successful acquisition. He is the...
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