Founding Fuel

Founding Fuel aims to create the new playbook of entrepreneurship. Think of us as a hub for entrepreneurs- the go-to place for ideas, insights, practices and wisdom essential to build the enterprise of tomorrow. It is co-founded by veteran journalists Indrajit Gupta and Charles Assisi, along with CS Swaminathan, the former president of Pearson's online learning venture.

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July 23, 2021, 6:48 a.m. Newsletter

FF Daily #431: Shut up; Reporting from Afghanistan; Creating rain

July 23, 2021: On silence, reporting from a war zone, climate change, and the thing about dads

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July 22, 2021, 11:05 a.m. Leadership

Masterclass | A Bold New Breed: How Leaders Can Embrace a Gig Mindset Culture

Gig-mindsetters are any entity’s secret weapon in these volatile times. Who exactly are they, and how can leaders nurture them? Jane McConnell, Ravi Venkatesan, and Santosh Desai offer different lenses to understand and encourage this new breed

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July 22, 2021, 7:37 a.m. Newsletter

FF daily #430: Policymaking meets the real world

July 22, 2021: Kaushik Basu on the Aadhaar project; Sundeep Waslekar deciphers the big shifts in geopolitics; A cloud over Olympics 2021; The most useless day

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July 21, 2021, 9:12 a.m. Newsletter

FF Daily #429: What if your employees want to WFH permanently?

July 21, 2021: On gratitude; The underbelly of perfectionism; How old are you?

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July 20, 2021, 9:58 a.m. Big Ideas

How the world has moved in the second quarter of 2021

The April-June quarter saw Biden making significant diplomatic moves vis-a-vis Europe, Russia and China; the Middle East saw two significant elections in Israel and Iran; China showed ascendancy in space; and there are developments in India’s neighbourhood, especially in Afghanistan. Sundeep Waslekar deciphers the implications

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