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Bubble Tea Takes the Crown! 🏆🥤 Mixue, China's $1 bubble tea giant has officially surpassed McDonald's and Starbucks to become the world's largest fast food & drink chain by store count! With 45,000+ locations its rapid rise is reshaping the global

India’s next Bangalore! Most nations scaled innovation by building around cities. But India’s context demands something different, a distributed ecosystem that reflects its geography, diversity, and demographic scale. When innovation infrastructure

In 1999, Webvan, an online grocery delivery startup (us zamane ka zepto), was scaling at a breakneck pace. Backed by millions in venture capital, they expanded to multiple cities in the US, built massive warehouses, and hired hundreds of employees, a

From a Street Stall to a $14B Giant – The Mixue Phenomenon Imagine starting as a small street-side stall and growing into the world's largest fast-food and beverage chain by store count! That’s the story of Mixue, a Chinese bubble tea brand that jus

70% of McDonald's US revenue comes from 'drive-thrus'. In India, we have <150 drive-thru locations across all QSR chains combined. But I think India might be an Ideal market for drive-thrus (parking constraints + busy roads) ⤵️ Drive-thru was actua

How Alibaba Beat eBay in China So In 2003, eBay was leading China’s e-commerce market with over 77% market share! But then, because of one company, eBay exited China’s market and never came back again. And that company is Taobao (Alibaba’s B2C sit

Man behind India's third-largest food app after Zomato and Swiggy. 1. Anshoo Sharma had everything one could dream of—a computer science degree from IIT Delhi, an MBA from IIM Ahmedabad, and a coveted consulting job at Bain and Company. But he still

Meet the woman behind a 2360 CR company with 175 million users. 1. Born in 1988 in a small city in Uttar Pradesh, Saumya Singh Rathore had a brilliant start. After finishing her Master's at the University of Manchester, she joined KPMG in January 20

Meet Vidit Aatrey and Sanjeev Barnwal who built Meesho into a billion-dollar revenue company. 1. Coming from a lower-middle-class family in Meerut (UP), Vidit Aatrey made everyone proud when he got a seat at the prestigious IIT Delhi for electrical