Startup & Business Success

Tencent’s Quiet Rise to a Global Tech Empire

Chapter 1: Shenzhen’s Endless Hum I remember walking down a street in Shenzhen in the late 1990s. Rain had left puddles on the uneven sidewalk. Neon signs flickered in the water, and the smell of frying noodles mixed with gasoline and wet cement. Cranes loomed overhead, groaning like old machines, while workers shouted at each

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MicroStrategy: From Dot-Com Star to Bitcoin Leader

The extraordinary rise, fall, and rebirth of a company that dared to bet everything on Bitcoin 🚀 The Dream Begins: Two College Bros Who Thought They’d Conquer the World (1989-1998) In 1989, two ambitious MIT fraternity brothers, Michael Saylor and Sanju Bansal, founded MicroStrategy with a simple yet revolutionary vision: democratize business intelligence through powerful

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How Peter Thiel Made Billions Betting Against the Crowd

🧠 Peter Thiel: The Billionaire Who Bets Against the Crowd — And Wins There’s a certain type of billionaire who makes you feel like they’ve time-traveled from the future. Peter Thiel is one of them. While most VCs sprint after trends like greyhounds chasing a mechanical rabbit, Thiel is sitting back, watching the race with

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Inside SoftBank’s Vision Fund: Big Money, Big Risk

🧧 SoftBank’s Vision Fund: The $100 Billion Experiment That Burned Bright—and Then Just Burned 🚗 Let’s Begin with a Wild Thought Imagine you’re at a poker table. Now imagine you don’t just have chips — you have a mountain of them. Enough to raise the stakes at every hand, even if your cards are trash.

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Jio BlackRock: The New Face of Indian Finance

Jio BlackRock: The Silent Restructuring of India’s Financial DNA In July 2023, while the financial world kept busy with IPO charts, inflation chatter, and RBI speculation, something quietly unfolded beneath the noise: BlackRock, the world’s largest asset manager, partnered with Jio Financial Services, the freshly carved-out financial arm of Reliance Industries. The result was a

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Palantir: The Most Powerful Tech You Missed

Palantir: The Shadowy Giant Shaping Our Future — What’s the Price of Data Power? Introduction: The Silent Overlord of Big Data You may not hear the name Palantir Technologies tossed around in everyday chatter. But if you’ve ever read about secret surveillance programs, algorithmic policing, or how data is increasingly fused with warfare, then you’ve

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Zoho’s Business Model: Outsmarting Big Tech

How a quiet Indian software company, born in a small Chennai flat and rebuilt in a Tamil Nadu village, became the global anti-startup unicorn. Chapter 1: The Software Giant Nobody Talked About There’s something curious about Zoho. For a company that now powers the backend of over 100 million users across 180 countries, there are

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