This post is about the principle of Give and Take. This is the name of an awesome book written by Adam Grant. This is one of those books which changed my life in a profound way. Over the last ten odd years, I have tried practising it as a way…

In the last few months, there has been a sudden surge in the interest people have started to take in CaratLane. In large part it has to do with people suddenly discovering, that CaratLane was at a 2000+ crore revenue run rate with high profitability. A lot of people have…

This article is about a ruler who can be a great inspiration for all of us. Someone we can learn a lot from. Someone who’s history we should definitely be aware of. Especially business Leaders. His name is Genghis Khan. I am sure, most of you are shocked to hear…

This post is the transcript of this video – https://youtu.be/WKu7bqaUn6A This post about using consumer psychology to become a better sales person. Understanding consumer psycology isn’t limited to marketing only. It lies at the core of great selling as well. Second, remember that we are all sales person. …

In August 2008, the CaratLane website finally went live. Building the website took a lot of time and money ( we didn’t have Magento or Shopify. Were using something called OSCommerce). It also took a lot of time and effort to get a courier company to ship jewellery ( BlueDart…

We will first make the argument for sports – why its the best place to learn about awesome people practises. Then we will see what are the things we can learn. In the end, I will share one of my favourite people metrics that comes from the world of sports. Why is sports the hardest job when it comes to people practises ? …

Recently heard a great podcast on the Big Idea Club where the guest was the amazing Yuval Noah Harari. (https://podcasts.apple.com/in/podcast/the-next-big-idea/id1482067226?i=1000590965889) As expected, Yuval made some great points and was full of wonderful insights. But one point stood out for me. I am paraphrasing it. We dont realise that we aren’t…

CaratLane was started in 2008 by Mithun Sacheti who ran a jewellery store called Jaipur Gems in Chennai and Srinivasa Gopalan who ran a software company called Lister Technologies. Back in the day, in 2008, start-ups were so uncool and CaratLane was such an unknown that giving a CaratLane visiting…

I read this recently about the British East India Company. They borrowed money from Indians, to hire Indians, to help them rule over Indians. This made me think about the achievements of the Indian diaspora. They are CEO’s of big global companies, they are rising to the top posts in…