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Management guru - Howard Schultz!

Sometimes I feel, Indian businesses are trying to do too many things at the same time. Will scaling be possible? RIL is the only example, but it keeps killing its branches.

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MightyLazyGeekStar

Stealth

4 months ago

Well Starbucks is currently caught up in the middle eastern conflict which more or less is a reason for their bad quarter.
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WolfgangMozart

Stealth

4 months ago

Yup, a lot of people in US are currently boycotting Starbucks for its support of Israel
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BiryaniEnthu

Stealth

4 months ago

Trying too much too soon is a problem with young Indian businesses, just too restless. They want sales to pour in instantly, hire someone to 100x growth in a month, become "like Zerodha" in next 5 years (even Zerodha took longer) Everyone wants to IPO, don't understand what's the fashion. They don't see the downside of these.
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FunnyBones

Plivo

4 months ago

That which will sustain its value proposition will survive. What u describe is normal in a growing economy.
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