From Stellaris Venture Partners' contrarian bets to Sabyasachi Mukherjee's business philosophies, here are our most popular stories of the week
1) Contrarian bets and magic of disciplineIn 2017, Alok Goyal teamed up with Ritesh Banglani and Rahul Chowdhri to start Stellaris Venture Partners, an early-stage and sector-agnostic venture capital fund. Their shared belief: Most of the outsized money in venture (capital) is made in contrarian bets. They even look at downturns as an opportunity to find good bets, even if they are loss-making. Goyal reckons if the sole metric of investment is profitability, then patient investors can take advantage of that choppy market, and invest in companies that have sound fundamentals and are less cash-guzzling. Is there a flip side to this approach? Read more