Independent business & technology journalGlobal desk · July 2026Read with context

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Rohan Iyer

13 stories · Business · Technology · Markets · Entrepreneurship

Rohan writes about capital and the discipline of allocating it — infrastructure empires, founder-built banks, and the investors who compound quietly. The Adani, Kotak, Dimon and Buffett files are his.

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Business

Ambani vs Adani: Two Empires, Two Playbooks

India's two biggest business houses get named in one breath — but Mukesh Ambani and Gautam Adani built on opposite logics. Consumer platform against infrastructure.

Business

Gautam Adani: The Ports-to-Power Empire Built on Indian Infrastructure

From one port at Mundra to airports, energy and green power — how Gautam Adani built India's largest infrastructure group, and survived its worst crisis.

Technology

Satya Nadella: The Quiet Reinvention of Microsoft

How Satya Nadella transformed Microsoft from a stagnating software giant into a cloud and AI leader — and one of the world's most valuable companies.

Markets

Warren Buffett: The Enduring Discipline of the Oracle of Omaha

Across seven decades, Warren Buffett turned patient value investing into the greatest track record in market history. What the discipline still teaches.

Business

Azim Premji: The Billionaire Who Gave Most of It Away

Azim Premji built Wipro into a global IT giant, then pledged the vast majority of his wealth to education — redefining Indian philanthropy.

Markets

Uday Kotak: How a Trading Desk Became One of India's Great Private Banks

Uday Kotak turned a small finance company into Kotak Mahindra Bank — a rare founder-built institution among India's banking giants.

Markets

Jamie Dimon: Wall Street's Most Powerful Banker

Across two decades and multiple crises, Jamie Dimon built JPMorgan Chase into a banking giant — and became the industry's most influential voice.

Technology

Dario Amodei: Building AI With Safety at the Centre

Dario Amodei left OpenAI to co-found Anthropic on a bet that frontier AI can be built and steered with safety as a first principle.

Business

Aliko Dangote: The Industrialist Betting on Africa's Future

Africa's richest person, Aliko Dangote built an industrial empire in cement, sugar and one of the world's largest refineries — all on the continent.

Technology

Shantanu Narayen: The CEO Who Bet Adobe on the Subscription Cloud

Shantanu Narayen transformed Adobe from a boxed-software maker into a cloud powerhouse — one of tech's most successful business-model pivots.

Entrepreneurship

Justin Welsh: The Quiet Case for the One-Person Business

Justin Welsh built a multi-million-dollar business with no employees — and taught a generation that staying small can be the entire point.

Real Estate

The Broker Who Only Sells One House a Month

Marcus Whitfield turned down a top brokerage to build a boutique practice with a strict, career-defining rule.

Technology

AI is Not a Strategy

Every company has an AI roadmap. Very few have a plan. Here's what separates the compounders from the dabblers.