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Tag : consumption-culture

‘At heart, all founders are hackers’
  • Gayatri Jayaraman
  • Aug 25, 2017 11:08a.m.
  • Entrepreneurship
‘At heart, all founders are hackers’

In her book ‘Who Me, Poor?’ Gayatri Jayaraman explores the aspirations and compulsions that fuel a culture of consumption and debt among India’s millennials. This extract examines the startup ethos in that context—an ethos that is about not paying attention to what went before

  • Read Time : 6 mins
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  • Books
  • Startup culture
  • Debt culture
  • Millennials
  • Entrepreneurship
  • Consumption culture

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