Discover what's capturing attention across the Founding Fuel network this week.
How IndiGo’s greatest strengths created the conditions for the December 2025 crisis — and what it reveals about the limits of high-performance systems. Part One of a two part special series
Satish Pradhan
Independent Consultant
Ten essential reads on money, leadership, and navigating a changing world
D Shivakumar
Operating Partner | Advent International
Ambassador Shyam Saran on a post-American order, a slowing China, and how India must balance room for manoeuvre with hard-headed realism on Russia, the US and China.
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Why India’s corporate leaders can no longer separate digital risk from strategic resilience
G Venkat Raman
Professor, Humanities and Social Sciences | Indian Institute of Management, Indore
How small everyday choices shape cultures, organisations, and the societies we become
Kavi Arasu
Works at the intersection of people, systems, and organisational change
Europe entered 2025 already strained by war, fractured politics, and economic anxiety. As Philippe Le Corre explains, this was the year when three pressures collided—an unending war in Ukraine, a drastically altered transatlantic dynamic under Trump 2.0, and a more openly competitive China
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When innovation icons turn into liability machines, it’s not chemistry that fails—it’s governance, incentives, and courage
Devangshu Dutta
Founder | Third Eyesight
The Codes rewrite the architecture of wages, flexibility, digital compliance, gig work and industrial relations. But the real transformation depends on how states implement them—and how leaders rebuild trust, dignity and fairness inside workplaces
Vineet Kaul
HR Advisor and Mentor
In an age of noise, overload and drifting meetings, facilitation is no longer a “tool”, it’s a core leadership discipline
Kavi Arasu
Works at the intersection of people, systems, and organisational change
Justin Logan of the Cato Institute on how Trump’s second term reshaped global trade, defense alignments, and America’s domestic equilibrium—and why the turbulence may be far from over
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Three competing visions inside the MAGA movement—over AI, immigration and national sovereignty—may determine America’s technological doctrine for the next decade
Sundeep Waslekar
President | Strategic Foresight Group
Sundeep Waslekar, president of Strategic Foresight Group, on a West in turmoil, an international order in free fall, and an AI race racing ahead of rules.
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When machines, like humans, fail to see difference—and turn bias into code
Chirantan Ghosh
Seasoned technologist | Growth architect and business leader
How does China see the Trumpian reset of the global order? What's really happening inside its domestic economy? And are we seeing signs of a thaw with India? A conversation with Chinese economist Prof. Yao Yang
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Products succeed when they answer what people feel, not just what they need
Shrinath V
Founder, The Salient Advisory | Product & AI Strategy Advisor
