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Omer Basith, co-founder and CEO at Virtual Forest, on replacing imports in India's nascent electronics manufacturing segment
Our guest today is Omer Basith, co-founder and CEO of Virtual Forest. It is an electronics design and manufacturing services provider to home appliances OEMs. In today's conversation, Omer talks about how he and his co-founders have innovated their business model with a platform approach to serve large customers for their two-year-old venture. In the process, they are helping to replace imports of electronic motor controls with made-in-India products.
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Capco's Leonard Langsdorf, CTO of digital innovation labs, on the rise of 'no code' and the 'citizen developer'
Our guest today is Leonard Langsdorf, CTO of Digital Innovation Labs at Capco, a Wipro company. Low-code and no-code software development has been around for several years. So has the idea of the 'citizen developer', a term which the business technology consultancy Gartner is said to have coined. After the Covid-19 pandemic, however, they have become truly relevant. In today's conversation, Langsdorf talks about why the time has come for both low-code and no-code applications, and the rise of the citizen developer
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A peek into our first 'Roaring 50s' special
Forbes India's Naini Thaker—the author of the cover story this fortnight—and Rajiv Singh—anchor of the 'Roaring 50s' special—unpack the latest edition on stands which analyses, recognises, and celebrates founders who started up in their late 40s or 50s, and how a clutch of former professionals, like Nykaa's Falguni Nayar and Digit Insurance's Kamesh Goyal, have found success after taking the plunge and shining, instead of settling, in their twilight yearsÂ
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HackerEarth's CTO Vishwastam Shukla on why it's a candidate's market out there
Our guest today is Vishwastam Shukla, chief technology officer at HackerEarth, a Bangalore and Silicon Valley company that offers a tech platform for developers and companies to find each other. In today's conversation, Vishy discusses HackerEarth's 'state of developer recruitment 2021' report — how it's a candidate's market out there right now; what might happen to diversity in the short term; and what companies are doing with tech to hire techies
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Vikas Gopal at TCS on the imperatives facing global CFOs and how tech is changing the world of consulting
Our guest today is Vikas Gopal, global managing partner, finance and shared services consulting lead at Tata Consultancy Services. TCS, one of the world's biggest IT services companies, found that many finance leaders in companies around the world relied more on instinct than on data, in a survey of 750 such senior executives. In today's conversation, Vikas discusses some of these findings and the imperatives facing global CFOs
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Parag Agrawal's accession as full-time CEO may be a move to future-proof Twitter: Forrester's Mike Proulx
Our guest today is Mike Proulx, VP and Research Director at Forrester, which advises enterprises around the world on their business technology strategies. Mike offers his analysis of Jack Dorsey's somewhat abrupt departure from Twitter, and the choice of Parag Agrawal, the company's CTO, as the new CEO. Crypto, metaverse, and bringing GenZ to the platform are going to be some of the challenges Parag will have to solve. Parag represents Twitter's switch to a full-time dedicated CEO, at a time when the company faces both product and policy challenges, accord
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Vidit Aatrey and Sanjeev Barnwal, co-founders at Meesho, on the work ahead and paying it forward
Our guests today are Vidit Aatrey and Sanjeev Barnwal of Meesho. Their unicorn company is in the news for all the right reasons. They are taking social commerce to small-town India and in the process, are helping millions of women turn into micro-entrepreneurs. Investors love them and privately value their company at $5 billion. Today, Vidit and Sanjeev talk about the work ahead and how they are already paying it forward
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Inside Forbes India WPower Special
Our W-Power list strives to feature such superwomen—ladies who have taken charge, coped with crises and scripted their success. The list is by no means exhaustive, but it is representative of women from diverse fi elds like business and science, entertainment to social impact and sport. Varsha Meghani explains how an insatiable hunger, a strong work ethic, the ability to persist, their integrity and humble demeanour are the common factors that bind them together
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Tata Motors: The phoenix emerges in India's EV revolution
Cover story author Manu Balachandran explains why he calls Tata Motors the phoenix of India's automobile market. That and the carmaker's gambit in India's Electric Vehicle future, where it is building not only products but also an ecosystem that can support the clean vehicles revolution
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Forbes India Rich List: Key numbers you should know
The annual Forbes India Rich List 2021 issue is on stands now, and Ruchika Shah, who dissects the rich list data every year to bring you insights and trends from the 100 richest Indians' net worth, takes you through the key numbers that you must know. Like, which sector surprisingly didn't do too well this year; and which is the up & coming sector that could go neck and neck with IT and pharma by the next decade. Who's the richest (no surprises there!), and who are the youngest billionaires (one of them is a woman), and lots of other trivia
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Three reasons why Infra.Market is on the Forbes India cover
From value to revenue and disruption, cover story author Rajiv Singh unpacks why Infra.Market caught his eye and how its founder Aaditya Sharda and Souvik Sengupta are building up the startup to be the next infrastructure conglomerate