Founder-led brands: Is there a winning formula?
August 20, 2026Founder-led brands: When does the founder help the brand, and when does the brand need to outgrow the founder?
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Founder-led brands: When does the founder help the brand, and when does the brand need to outgrow the founder?
You thought it was a waste of money? But I bet you missed the one detail that would disprove your assumption!
Britannia Milk Bikis’ ThirukkuraL campaign (agency: Talented) has won widespread praise. But the more I looked at the campaign, the more I wonder if its behavioral design actually solves the problem it set out to solve? The deeper I dug, the more contradictions I found!
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Extrapolating the end of a beloved neighborhood departmental store to imagining the FMCG brand-building stack 2.0
I have always wanted to imagine a meeting and conversation between the two diametrically different geniuses, Bharathiyar and Ramanujan – what would a left brain genius and right brain genius talk if they met, while knowing about each other’s prowess?