All posts tagged: India

Beat Amazon — with unexpected methods

SvD Näringsliv

How Flipkart won the battle against Amazon in India Published in Svenska Dagbladet, 2024-07-28. Translated from Swedish. They have been called India’s Amazon — but the road there was long and complicated. From nothing, Sachin and Binny Bansal built the e-commerce giant Flipkart in a country of nearly 1.5 billion people, most of whom had no internet access. Entrepreneurial stories of founders who spotted an opportunity to do better than the competition are plentiful. Rarer […]

A record in the making — Truecaller’s earnings show the way

SvD Näringsliv

This analysis was first published in SvD Näringsliv, in Swedish, on February 22nd, 2023. This piece was translated from Swedish by Claude. Some phrasing may differ from a human translation. Truecaller has long been stalked by short sellers. Now comes something harder to defend against — bad results. There’s a well-known industry truth that when a company is doing well, it’s because their product is fantastic. When things go badly, it’s because the marketing is […]