The intersection of curiosity and synthesis. Two by Two is your own personal investigative brain. Each week it will question, discuss, and break down the most important business stories around you—all visualised as a 2x2 matrix of players, stakes, and winners. Available as Free and Premium versions.
The intersection of curiosity and synthesis. Two by Two is your own personal investigative brain. Each week it will question, discuss, and break down the most important business stories around you—all visualised as a 2x2 matrix of players, stakes, and winners. Available as Free and Premium versions.
Private labels meet brand ambition
Slicing up a horizontal giant one category at a time
The transition from artist to scientist in hospitality
A snapshot of some of the free flowing conversations we've had on Two by Two in 2025
Praveen and Rohin discuss, argue, and run through all 48 episodes to pick their favourites
The battle that's far from over
Why 95% of our guests are men
The counterintuitive bets behind its rise
Why is the world's smartest tech suddenly free in India?
The personal vs. corporate fix for career fatigue
Healthcare vs. sick-care
How dataset, not GPUs, is our real defence
Giva’s founder on the future of jewellery
How the ‘buy now, pay later’ dream soured
A curated club, not a crowded marketplace
Understanding the story behind India's confusing food labels
Inside Uber’s strategy for its most complex market
There is a critical mismatch between what traditional degrees offer and what the modern job-market demands
Dream distribution channel, but a risky place to build
Public goods shouldn't really be judged in terms of profitability
Finding fortune in fumigation
What lies beneath the glowing numbers and market highs
The hosts of the show reflect back on the first year of the podcast
Can Jio use its telecom playbook to disrupt India’s wealth management industry?
SEBI rejects Jane Street’s ‘arbitrage’ defence, and alleges coordinated expiry-day manipulation.
After the “lost decade” of the 2010s, India is putting money behind its effort to have autonomy, but it needs direction to make it meaningful
The former is taking away potential revenue and top-grade talent from the latter
Meesho, Rapido, and Zepto are out challenging established market duopolies
There is an end to the city’s woes. It just needs a lot of people to come together
Could on-demand chatbots be the solution for organisations and leaders?
Moving from being an everything store to having separate apps for everything?
The do-it-yourself platform has faced the heat from an old challenger
The retailer took the 'scale-first' approach everywhere it went. But it has fallen short on multiple fronts
Where should India focus its efforts in the AI race now?
Even as the market for coffee matures, cafes still struggle to turn profitable at scale
There is a Blusmart-shaped gap to be filled in the cab-hailing business
Vinay Singhal, co-founder and CEO of Stage, discusses how he’s building the ‘confidence layer’ of the country through regional content
The ‘searchers’ are out there to find the perfect business to acquire and run
India doesn’t have the leverage that other trading partners do. But there are opportunities for both industry and consumers
To live up to their ‘perceived value’, companies have gotten creative in extracting more from their customers, resulting in a worse experience for a user
A consulting firm can be seen as ‘finishing school’, a place where you likely are not going to spend your career
Founders Mohit Kumar and Lal Chand Bisu lay down the journey of taking their companies global.
Humanely raised meat and eggs sell at a premium, but consumers should demand it to ensure better animal welfare
Youtube wants to become the new television. But streaming companies are in no mood to just sit there and watch
Whose responsibility is it to protect you from being scammed?
It's the next big frontier in quick commerce, but regulatory and political challenges abound
More and more affluent Indians are choosing to go abroad to experience events when the same is available in India
Why is every major payment aggregator cutting ties with the payment orchestrator?
More data and more transparency will help shape a better understanding of the problem
The food aggregators are coming for the restaurants' lunch to stop themselves from getting disrupted
The only reason to involve students in placement committees should be for their professional development. Let’s leave the rest to professionals
What will it take for electric four-wheelers to become the new normal on Indian roads?
As the American giant tries to cover lost ground again in e-commerce, it looks where else it can press its right to win
A snapshot of all the free flowing conversations we've had on Two by Two in 2024
Brands might be digital-first, but not necessarily “direct-to-consumer” in the true sense
Will every SaaS company end up becoming an AI company to survive?
What led to the RBI's decision to ban a few NBFCs from disbursing loans?
The function has become a game of immediate impact for the company rather than building a brand over time
There’s a perfect storm which is forcing Dmart to blink
Some changes seem inevitable as VCs get back to investing following a "small reset"
The Indian EV two-wheeler maker has multiple fires it needs to douse, but its troubles keep piling up
What happens when the government plays the role of regulator, policymaker, and operator?
The ride-hailing giants conquered city after city using a disruptive model and technology, and now the same thing threatens to happen to them
If you are a Product Manager, especially in India, you’re probably going through a crisis of faith and existence
The co-founder and CEO of Ather discusses the IPO-bound company's strategy with the director of one of India’s most prestigious management institutes
Today, Netflix is in its strongest position ever. But how Netflix does tomorrow depends on whether it can succeed and scale in India — its last growth market.
From the surface, health insurance is one of the brightest spots in India’s insurance story, growing at nearly 20% annually. But that number doesn't tell the whole story
It's the world’s most powerful fintech, and yet it failed to capitalise on the world’s second largest startup market—India
12 years of schooling is losing out to private coaching as entry into India’s colleges gets increasingly centralized via entrance exams
How long before UPI businesses come to attack the UPI product?
In an age where AI chatbots are capable of coding and serving as a programmer, what will engineers do?
The Bengaluru-based startup pioneered both food delivery and quick commerce in India, but competitors have pulled ahead in the race
Have Delhi startups pulled ahead in the race and claimed the startup capital title from Bengaluru?
Zepto is not the biggest quick commerce player in the market, yet they're the talk of the town