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Rohan Iyer

10 stories · Business · Entrepreneurship · Technology

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.

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.

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

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

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.

Business

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.

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

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.

Business

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.

Business

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.