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Context is everything.
Detailed stories on technology startups, business and economic current affairs.
Detailed stories on technology startups, business and economic current affairs.
A lot of money was spent on building a home-grown social media success story. The only thing that got built was fundraising pitch decks.
Note: This is the second story in a series where The Morning Context is doing deep dives into sectors where the Indian venture capital hypothesis has failed to live up to the hype.
Over the past two decades, VC firms of all varieties have sold the India story to a whole host of institutional investors across the world. Several sectors have been packaged together, from e-commerce and education to real-money gaming, classifieds and short video, to create this powerful idea that a market of a billion Indians is ripe for consumption, technology disruption and wealth creation. Where pouring VC funds …
The contrasting approaches are driven by two very different strategies. One wants to capture more markets; the other is focused on discipline and profits.
The instant house help business has become the centre of focus and investment at the home services company. But another fight may be brewing in its core business.
India’s grocery and food delivery platforms are increasingly displaying misleading images of food using artificial intelligence, defeating the very purpose of buying online.
