Business news is complex and overwhelming. It doesn’t have to be. Every day of the week, from Monday to Friday, Daybreak tells one business story that’s significant, simple and powerful. Hosted from The Ken’s newsroom by Snigdha Sharma and Rachel Varghese, Daybreak relies on years of original reporting and analysis by some of India’s most experienced and talented business journalists.
694 episodes transcribedBack in 2019, an ed-tech called Scaler Academy decided to do for tech education what Masters’ Union did for the traditional MBA. The tech-ups...
Welcome to the world of consulting in 2025. AI is everywhere—from writing reports and making decks to crunching numbers. But you’d think the...
In this episode, we talk about the global trade war that stopped before it started. First, we talk about US President Donald Trump's decision...
One of the largest deals to acquire a D2C brand took place in January this year. India’s largest manufacturer of consumer good, Hindustan Uni...
Indian family businesses contribute more than two-thirds to India’s GDP. 70 per cent. That’s amongst the highest in the world. And that numbe...
For a while now, the new kids on the block in India’s $750 billion mutual fund industry have been trying to really shake things up. The like...
Despite the recent upheaval in clean tech efforts, governments around the world are investing billions into green hydrogen. Analysts are call...
As fitness studios exploded across Indian cities after the Covid pandemic, Cult.fit rose to prominence on the back of its fun, accessible cla...
India's biggest quick-commerce apps, Blinkit, Zepto, and Swiggy, have become prime real estate not just for regular FMCG brands but also for...
Back in January, when China’s Deepseek R1 model stunned the world with its performance and low training cost, India was thinking only one thi...
On January 29 of this year, Denta Water and Infra Solutions – a company that specialises in groundwater recharging projects – listed on the b...
In this episode we fill you in on three standout stories from the past week. First, we talk about the unravelling of Blusmart, India's first...
In January this year, nearly every single employee of the OG E-grocer Big Basket received an email from their CEO, Hari Menon. It was suppose...
Phonepe is all set to debut in the public market in the second half of FY26. That perhaps seems like the natural next step for the fintech g...
Every two years, SBI Cards, India’s only listed credit card company, valued at $9 billion, appoints a new CEO. This time, it's going to be Sa...
Remember that time in 2022 when India’s top digital payments companies Phonepe, Paytm*, and Bharatpe were in a no-holds-barred turf war? Look...
In this episode we fill you in on three standout stories from the past week. First, why the fight between every Indian’s favourite namkeen br...
Pharma is slow, complicated and tangled in regulatory approvals and compliances. But, consumer healthcare is fast moving, has far fewer rules...
About three years ago, the government decided that it wanted India to become a global powerhouse in cell manufacturing. So it went ahead and...
Private schools across the country are going through quite a crisis right now. Just last month, The Ken reporter Atul Krishna saw this play o...
