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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March 26, 2021, 5:47 p.m. Strategy and Innovation

Untold stories about how India built its higher ed institutions

Stories of visionary leadership: How Homi Bhabha, Satish Dhawan, Ravi Matthai, PK Kelkar, and Verghese Kurien among others, built world class institutions

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March 25, 2021, 10:34 a.m. Newsletter

FF Daily #332: How to plan going hybrid

March 25, 2021: Why startups need to set up processes yesterday; Patrick Collison on the future; The Indian vaccine

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March 25, 2021, 8:59 a.m. Newsletter

FF Daily #331: Why elevator pitches don’t work

March 24, 2021: Standing up for academic excellence; The future of the Dalai Lama; Who killed Goliath

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March 23, 2021, 8:56 a.m. Newsletter

FF Daily #330: Building talent: How Lee Kuan Yew built Singapore’s cadre

March 23, 2021: Futurist Bob Johansen on Full Spectrum Thinking; Covid-19: Why experts got it wrong; The unsubtle art of social endorsements

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March 22, 2021, 4:28 p.m. Strategy and Innovation

Reframing VUCA: What will it take for leaders to thrive in the next decade?

Futurist Bob Johansen talks about key principles from his new book ‘Full Spectrum Thinking’—which is the ability to make sense out of the future, across gradients of possibility, and take actions now to be a part of those possibilities

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