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Sep 24, 2026
Rachel VargheseHOST
There is this refreshing feeling that the world has been washed clean, and that is the feeling that we're chasing.
Rachel VargheseHOST
For the first time, my colleague and The Ken CEO, Rohin, who writes our wonderful Sunday newsletter, First Principles, and I from Daybreak, are making an autumn-inspired playlist built by you.
Rachel VargheseHOST
So tell us, what does autumn feel like where you are? What's the little thing that tells you that it has arrived? And what is the one song that sounds like autumn to you? Tell us why that song matters to you as well.
Rachel VargheseHOST
We might read your answer on Daybreak or even feature it on First Principles.
Rachel VargheseHOST
So CLOU is actually drawing in customers from the HDFCs and ICICs.
Rachel VargheseHOST
Which means a credit line on UPI may just be the leverage small banks needed to take on the giants, because the big banks can't easily recreate the same tactic.
Rachel VargheseHOST
Welcome to Daybreak, a business podcast from The Ken.
Rachel VargheseHOST
I'm your host, Rachel Varghese, and every day of the week, my co-host Nipa Sharma and I will bring you one news story that is worth understanding and worth your time.
Praveen GopalkrishnanHOST
easily like they're going to be a bunch of companies who are going to really like struggle and prevent it from happening like for example you spoke the example of amazon i'm sure they're going to be other examples so let's start with the first one so this question of personal ai assistance in india is something that at the can also you've been thinking about for a long time now the way how i approached this problem was i said okay I need to find out how is this going to pan out? How is this going to work? And I was exactly stuck in the same place as you, Dharmesh, where I was like, but what are these use cases that people are going to use? So like most things, what I did was I created a competition on this.
Praveen GopalkrishnanHOST
So it's basically the third edition of the Ken's Case competition happens every year.
Praveen GopalkrishnanHOST
So this year's edition is called the Great Rewiring.
Praveen GopalkrishnanHOST
where essentially I wrote, quote, every business in India built on owning your attention, your habit, or your indecision will discover that an AI agent has none of the three.
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Praveen GopalkrishnanHOST
So I am the one mentally assembling combinations and second-guessing every pairing.
Praveen GopalkrishnanHOST
Very, very Indian use cases.
Praveen GopalkrishnanHOST
By the way, all of these are on the Ken's website at The Great Rewiring, and we want to create more interactive experiences where you can see each one of them.
Praveen GopalkrishnanHOST
But let's talk about some of these use cases.
Nikita SharmaHOST
There is this refreshing feeling that the world has been washed clean, and that is the feeling that we're chasing.
Nikita SharmaHOST
For the first time, my colleague and The Ken's CEO, Rohin, who writes our wonderful Sunday newsletter, First Principles, and I from Daybreak, are making an autumn-inspired playlist built by you.
Nikita SharmaHOST
So tell us, what does autumn feel like where you are? What's the little thing that tells you that it has arrived? And what is the one song that sounds like autumn to you? Tell us why that song matters to you as well.
Nikita SharmaHOST
We might read your answer on Daybreak or even feature it on First Principles.
Nikita SharmaHOST
The same backlog that makes this idea so attractive is also what makes it so hard.
Nikita SharmaHOST
Because here, of course you are betting on whether a case wins, but more importantly, you are betting on when it wins.
Nikita SharmaHOST
In a recent edition of our weekly newsletter, Ka-Ching, my colleague, The Ken reporter Muttasim Khan, looked at who is making this bet, who's putting up the money, and who is it actually helping.
Nikita SharmaHOST
And today, I'm reading out his piece for you.
Rachel VargheseHOST
There is this refreshing feeling that the world has been washed clean, and that is the feeling that we're chasing.
Rachel VargheseHOST
For the first time, my colleague and The Ken CEO, Rohin, who writes our wonderful Sunday newsletter, First Principles, and I from Daybreak are making an autumn-inspired playlist built by you.
Rachel VargheseHOST
So tell us, what does autumn feel like where you are? What's the little thing that tells you that it has arrived? And what is the one song that sounds like autumn to you? Tell us why that song matters to you as well.
Rachel VargheseHOST
We might read your answer on Daybreak or even feature it on First Principles.
Rachel VargheseHOST
You see, ever since the quick commerce boom took off, the math has always been about speed and a logistical network of dark stores that enable that speed.
Rachel VargheseHOST
But Amazon's quick commerce bet right now is actually less about speed and more about everything else it has to offer.
Rachel VargheseHOST
Welcome to Daybreak, a business podcast from The Ken.
Rachel VargheseHOST
I'm your host, JJ Varghese, and every day of the week, my co-host Nikasha Sharma and I will bring you one news story that is worth understanding and worth your time.
Snigdha SharmaHOST
There is this refreshing feeling that the world has been washed clean, and that is the feeling that we're chasing.
Snigdha SharmaHOST
For the first time, my colleague and The Ken CEO, Rohin, who writes our wonderful Sunday newsletter, First Principles, and I, from Daybreak, are making an autumn-inspired playlist built by you.
Snigdha SharmaHOST
So tell us, what does autumn feel like where you are? What's the little thing that tells you that it has arrived? And what is the one song that sounds like autumn to you? Tell us why that song matters to you as well.
Snigdha SharmaHOST
We might read your answer on Daybreak or even feature it on First Principles.
Snigdha SharmaHOST
And then there's also a second question: did GST 2.0 do the bigger thing that it was designed to do? Because this reform was also meant to make GST itself simpler for businesses, cutting the number of slabs and clearing up the classification tangles that made the tax hard to navigate.
Snigdha SharmaHOST
And the timing matters, too, because in two weeks, on the 7th of October, the GST Council will meet again, and this time, the focus is expected to be the next layer of the reform, which is the processes, compliance, and the rules sitting underneath the rates.
Snigdha SharmaHOST
Welcome to Daybreak, a business podcast from The Ken.
Snigdha SharmaHOST
I'm your host, Nikda Sharma, and I don't chase the news cycle.
Sudeshna RayGUEST
Uh, and, uh, if you've probably thought of it, uh, there may be a peptide around it.
Rachel VargheseHOST
You just heard my colleague Sudeshna Ray, a reporter at The Ken, and she almost attended the first ever peptide party in Bangalore on August 29th.
Rachel VargheseHOST
Almost attended because the party never happened.
Rachel VargheseHOST
Never happened because it drew the attention of the Karnataka Food Safety and Drug Administration.
Rachel VargheseHOST
And unlike Jones, who was a brilliant archeologist and had a way to identify the real cup, these peptides are sold in a way where regular consumers can't really verify what the contents of the vial are.
Rachel VargheseHOST
So today, I had Sudeshna join me in the studio to explore what the craze is about, how peptides are actually acquired and circulated here, and why exactly the party got canceled.
Rachel VargheseHOST
Welcome to Daybreak, a business podcast from The Ken.
Rachel VargheseHOST
I'm your host, Reshma Ragheese, and every day of the week, my co-host, Nika Sharma, and I will bring you one news story that is worth understanding and worth your time.
Snigdha SharmaHOST
Its parent, InterGlobe Aviation, has watched its share price fall 9% over the past one year and trailed the Nifty 50 by four, and still there is none of the alarm that you would hear from passengers.
Snigdha SharmaHOST
So why does the thing that worries IndiGo's flyers not worry the people who own it? Welcome to Daybreak, a business podcast from The Ken.
Snigdha SharmaHOST
I'm your host, Nidha Sharma, and I don't chase the news cycle.
Snigdha SharmaHOST
Instead, every day of the week, my colleague Rachel Varghese and I will come to you with one business story that's worth understanding and worth your time.
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Snigdha SharmaHOST
For years, the airline decided what your ticket included.
Snigdha SharmaHOST
Today, the only thing that a ticket really guarantees is the seat itself, and everything wrapped around it has become a separate line that you can take or leave.
Snigdha SharmaHOST
[outro music] Daybreak is produced from the newsroom of The Ken, India's first subscriber-focused business news platform.
Snigdha SharmaHOST
What you're listening to is just a small sample of our subscriber-only offerings, and a full subscription offers daily, long-form feature stories, newsletters, and a whole bunch of premium podcasts.
Rachel VargheseHOST
More recently, the association has also explicitly pointed out that the current tax structure is causing the government to lose hundreds of crores because of the increase in gray market sales of phones.
Rachel VargheseHOST
But if the memory shortage is a global phenomenon and prices are increasing across brands and all over the world, why was Apple's India hike one of the biggest? And what happens when cheaper alternatives eventually run out? Welcome to Daybreak, a business podcast from The Ken.
Rachel VargheseHOST
I'm your host, Shreya Verghese, and every day of the week, my co-host, Dinkar Sharma, and I will bring you one news story that is worth understanding and worth your time.
Rachel VargheseHOST
Today is Thursday, the 17th of September.
Rachel VargheseHOST
As a result, phone makers everywhere have had to increase their prices to accommodate increased manufacturing costs.
Rachel VargheseHOST
In India, Counterpoint's research shows that prices have increased by more than 20%.
Rachel VargheseHOST
On top of that, The Ken's own reporting shows that many makers are even compromising on manufacturing costs by cutting corners elsewhere in the phone's make.
Rachel VargheseHOST
A Croma salesperson told my colleague, Sakshi Sadashiv, in July that phones are becoming heavier, peak brightness is coming down, selfie cameras are losing resolution, and cheaper camera sensors are replacing better ones despite carrying the same megapixel count.
Snigdha SharmaHOST
How do you measure an entire economy in a single number? His answer changed the world, but he spent the rest of his life regretting it.
Snigdha SharmaHOST
Welcome to Daybreak, a business podcast from The Ken.
Snigdha SharmaHOST
I'm your host, Nigdha Sharma, and I don't chase the news cycle.
Snigdha SharmaHOST
Instead, every day of the week, my colleague, Rachel Varghese, and I will come to you with one business story that is worth understanding and worth your time.
Martin KilcoyneHOST
But I was in there getting, you know.
Jackson BurkettHOST
Yeah, you keep your heads up when you're in the Ken zone.
Martin KilcoyneHOST
I do.
Tim McKernanHOST
The Ken zone they call it.
Martin KilcoyneHOST
Ken zone, yeah.
Tim McKernanHOST
You have entered the Ken zone.
Martin KilcoyneHOST
Did you wear a diaper?
Jackson BurkettHOST
He wore the flotation device, and as I predicted, people were like, "This isn't good," because it's a yellow belt that you would wear to, in the ocean, not a diaper.
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