Part of “The Indian Business” Box set, ‘Rokda’ focuses on five Baniya businessmen who have disrupted their respective industries. The book sheds light on the story of Emami, Snapdeal, Meru, Hindware, and Bansal classes.
The book is a light read for the enthusiasts who want to know the stories. Do not expect any deep insight about the community or the style of doing business.
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I had been listening to Reid Hoffman’s podcast with the same title—the Masters of Scale—for nearly a year and felt there may be something more that I would get from this book. But I must admit, I was a bit disappointed while I read through the book. Most of the book talks about similar lessons that have been shared in the podcast, and this book gives very little additional insight or analysis that I would have loved to see from Hoffman, where he has a more elaborate canvas to detail out.
I must admit, this could be my bias given the years I have put into the entrepreneurial ecosystem here. You may also find the book interesting if you have not heard the podcast as well.
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This book by Nikhil was sponsored by the Marico Innovation Foundation to study the scaling up of eight organizations to emerge as the top player in their own fields. No, it was not intentional that I went out searching for another book by Nikhil Inamdar the same year. It is just one of the coincidences.
Given the mandate of talking about these eight ventures, I think Nikhil has done a great job of presenting the stories of the eight ventures. I loved reading the stories of the following eight companies in the book: Tanbo Imaging, Goonj, Rivigo, ISRO, Forus Health, Agastya International Foundation, The Better India, and St Judes.
The academician in me, however, began asking the question, so what? What could we extract from these eight that we could generalize? This is one layer that I would have loved to see in this book. I understand it may not have been the objective of the book, but I feel it would have given it a sense of direction having read the stories.
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