Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella shares in this interview with David Rubenstein the advice that changed the course of his life. During the initial meetings around deciding the next CEO of Microsoft, Satya Nadella explicitly made it clear that he wasn’t hungering for the job and would only do it if...
Stripe was most recently valued at $35 billion as it raised $250 million in its last round of funding. Clearly, these guys know scale. It has grown into a payments behemoth from being a small startup, and in this video CEO & co-founder Patrick Collison offers lessons learnt in scaling over the...
The NextBigWhat Community has been conducting AMA sessions with some of the finest brains in the industry on product, growth & technology. The participation has been very enthusiastic and the previous AMA with Jason Fried of Basecamp resulted in a fantastic conversation with great takeaways for...
[Written by Kiran Johny] A shift from linear Darwinian evolution to era of exponential evolution requires the skill of Learning to learn fast anything, any conditions and challenges. The traditional idea of one skill and one specialization domain for the rest of your life is obsolete already.
The topic may sound very abstruse, but then this is how we (humans) perceive things at first go. Many young age entrepreneurs are often ardent about learning key entrepreneurial skills. In their odyssey, they try extracting lessons from almost everything, which inspires them. From books to...
Revenue is a lagging indicator.
Is your business costs are more than your profits? Are your processes sucking more than your profits? Are you losing money on procurement prices, delays and suppliers’ relationships? If this is the case with you then it is time to look at the supply chain of your business? Supply chain is a crucial...
There is a difference between knowing the path and walking the path.
The symbolic entity of a trademark is not merely restricted to a graphical image, icon or label which is synonymous to your company’s name; rather, it holds a lot of significance to it. It serves a twofold purpose of securing a copyright for the goods and services of your enterprise and...
