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Ishaan Kumar

6 stories · Startups · Markets · Media · Hospitality

Ishaan covers the operators and the infrastructure builders — Deepinder Goyal, Masayoshi Son, Patrick Collison — and the businesses that only work at scale.

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Deepinder Goyal: Turning a Menu Directory Into a Food-Delivery Giant
Startups

Deepinder Goyal: Turning a Menu Directory Into a Food-Delivery Giant

Deepinder Goyal built Zomato from a simple restaurant-listings site into one of India's defining consumer-internet companies.

Masayoshi Son: The Boldest — and Most Volatile — Bettor in Tech
Markets

Masayoshi Son: The Boldest — and Most Volatile — Bettor in Tech

Through SoftBank and the Vision Fund, Masayoshi Son reshaped startup investing with enormous bets that produced historic wins and painful losses.

Patrick Collison: Building the Financial Plumbing of the Internet
Startups

Patrick Collison: Building the Financial Plumbing of the Internet

With his brother John, Patrick Collison founded Stripe to make online payments simple — and built one of the world's most valuable private companies.

Reid Hoffman: The Networked Mind Behind Silicon Valley
Startups

Reid Hoffman: The Networked Mind Behind Silicon Valley

Reid Hoffman co-founded LinkedIn, backed a generation of startups, and became one of tech's most influential thinkers on scale and AI.

Steven Bartlett: The Dropout Who Turned Curiosity Into an Empire
Media

Steven Bartlett: The Dropout Who Turned Curiosity Into an Empire

From a bedroom in Manchester to one of the world's biggest podcasts, Steven Bartlett built The Diary of a CEO on radical honesty and relentless curiosity.

How a Two-Star Chef Rewrote the Restaurant Economy
Hospitality

How a Two-Star Chef Rewrote the Restaurant Economy

Sabine Léon closed her Michelin-starred dining room and built something more radical: a restaurant that pays its cooks like engineers.