Gaurav GuptaClimbing the Trust Stack for Digital-first BrandsThe Yes Bank collapse has got its retail deposit holders in deep soup. Is this the price the depositors pay for reposing their trust in Yes…Apr 24, 2020Apr 24, 2020
Gaurav GuptaBetter late than never: Begin your startup career at 40 + years.“The answer to the ultimate question of life, of universe and everything is 42” is a memorable line from Douglas Adam’s The Hitchhiker’s…Mar 6, 2020Mar 6, 2020
Gaurav GuptaThree steps to manage your attention in a distracted worldI recently finished reading John Carreyrou’s Bad Blood, a gripping true story of greed, lies and hubris in the Silicon Valley. Midway…Sep 3, 2018Sep 3, 2018
Gaurav GuptaBooks that bookbhook subscribers crushed this weekWhat does it take for soccer players to play at the top, stretching their body beyond limits, extracting every ounce of performance to…Jun 30, 2018Jun 30, 2018
Gaurav Gupta3 Books That Influenced Satya Nadella & Changed Microsoft foreverI just finished reading Satya Nadella’s HIT REFRESH- a book that covers his journey as a Microsoft employee, how he is building a new…Oct 2, 2017Oct 2, 2017
Gaurav GuptaA couple of days back, this musician in Bangalore strummed his guitar while doctors drilled a…Coincidentally, when I read about this young musician’s surgery, I was also reading the summary of Jo Marchant’s Cure-: A Journey into the…Jul 23, 2017Jul 23, 2017
Gaurav GuptaWhat’s better than free?In 2008, Kevin Kelly wrote about how the internet is one giant copying machine and content will be super abundant,and therefore worthless…Jul 12, 2017Jul 12, 2017
Gaurav GuptaNice guys finish first too…..When Wharton professor Adam Grant studied interaction between employees in organisations, he classified employees at two ends of the…Jul 9, 2017Jul 9, 2017
Gaurav GuptaHow does a company grow & shrink at the same time?The folks at Automattic (the parent company of WordPress) have the answer. WordPress powers more than 25% of the web content platform and…Jul 9, 2017Jul 9, 2017
Gaurav GuptaBetting on the futureWarren Buffett released Berkshire Hathaway’s Annual Report 2016 over the weekend. Media has covered extensively his comments on S&P Index…Feb 28, 2017Feb 28, 2017