In one of the very interesting chats, here are some of the key insights from the episode, with his global experience for nearly 3 decades:
• Retail and brick and mortar businesses can be successful, but they are harder to scale exponentially with technology compared to tech startups, thus leading to the conundrum of VCs preferring tech. However, we also delve into why omnichannel is the strategy needed for the brand.
• The actual TAM (Total Addressable Market) and buying behaviour of the "Real Bharat".
• Value-of-money vs affordability, esp. in India (vis-a-vis US).
• How a company he co-founded garnered a 70% market share in just 6 months!
• Leadership traits he looks for in founders while investing / working with them.
• How Leadership differs when scaling from 0 to 1 versus 1 to 10.
• The actual "Scaling" process.
