Founding Fuel

05/04/2025

When crisis strikes, preparation makes all the difference.

After navigating his wife's complex cardiac procedures and a ₹40 lakh medical bill, Deven Pabaru shares the exact system he developed to:

🫀 Properly assess family health vulnerabilities
💰 Determine appropriate coverage amounts
🧭 Navigate policy options and jargon
🗃️ Streamline digital health records
🏥 Ensure smooth claim processing

This isn't theoretical advice—it's hard-earned wisdom from someone who learned these lessons in the real world.

The rising incidence of critical illnesses and the growing cost of hospitalisation hangs like a Damocles sword over us. My personal journey of how to deal with growing health risks, smartly buy health insurance—and save my family from financial ruin

29/03/2025

⏰Three voices on intermittent fasting & health

🏃 Charles Assisi shares his quiet health shift
⚡️NS Ramnath reveals his top 5 mistakes
💡Dr Aasim Maldar explains the science & offers tips

🚦A practical guide for your wellness journey

Read it here 👉 https://www.foundingfuel.com/article/weve-been-experimenting-with-intermittent-fasting-heres-what-were-learning/

Charles Assisi and NS Ramnath share their journeys—and lessons—on the road to better health. And Dr Aasim Maldar, an endocrinologist, weighs in on how and why to make it something one can sustain

12/02/2025

Rather than fighting the use of AI in the classroom, it’s time to reimagine the real goals of learning and teaching, writes Kavi Arasu

"Saying no to AI is a false choice. AI will seep into academia like a meandering tsunami that doesn’t respect traffic lights at the shore. The real challenge is not limiting AI, but reimagining education....

AI is not the threat. The real danger is holding on to learning models that worked well in an earlier time."

[Inside the story: A five-minute audiogram in which Kavi narrates the dilemmas of learning in the age of AI]

https://www.foundingfuel.com/article/ai-in-academia-the-grind-the-gain-and-the-great-recalibration/

Rather than fighting the use of AI in the classroom, it’s time to reimagine the real goals of learning and teaching

24/01/2025

| Justin Logan, The Cato Institute

⚡️ Justin Logan will bring his unique perspective to the Founding Fuel Masterclass next Friday, joining a stellar panel.

Mark your calendar 🗓️ Fri 31 Jan, 6:30PM IST

🚀 The registration process is short and simple—it will take just a minute and you need to register only once (To register click here: https://lu.ma/hjv8zjoa )

Sign up now and get access to

📺YouTube Livestream
👤Spotlight on the panellists
📄Briefings on key themes
🎥Recordings
💼Takeaways

23/01/2025

| Yao Yang Peking University

⚡️Join Prof. Yao Yang, a leading Chinese economist, as he untangles what's in store this year along with a stellar panel.

🌏 Founding Fuel Masterclass series on The World in 2025

🗓️Fri 31 Jan, 6:30PM IST

🚀 The registration process is short and simple—it will take just a minute and you need to register only once. Sign up here:
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Get access to
📺YouTube Livestream
👤Spotlight on the panellists
📄Briefings on key themes
🎥Recordings
💼Takeaways

21/01/2025

🌏 Join us for the Founding Fuel Masterclass series on The World in 2025

💡 Engage with our stellar panel Yao Yang (Peking University), Philippe Le Corre (Asia Society), Sundeep Waslekar, Justin Logan (The Cato Institute), Shyam Saran & Dinesh Narayanan

⏰ 630pm IST {Fri, 31st Jan} {Fri, 7th Feb}

🚀 The registration process is short and simple—it will take just a minute and you need to register only once. You can register here.

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By registering you will get
📺 Access to the YouTube Livestream.
💡 Curated newsletters with spotlight on the panellists and crisp set of Briefings on the most important themes, ahead of the two sessions.
📽️ A recording of the live session.
💼 Key takeaways from the session.

16/01/2025

📊 Crisis communication playbook: What L&T could learn from how Satya Nadella and Indra Nooyi handled their public gaffes. Indrajit Gupta weighs in.

Around the world, CEOs, even the smartest of the lot, are known to occasionally suffer from a foot-in-the-mouth disease. Yet there are playbooks in place on how to deal with such crises–something that L&T has chosen to ignore.

21/12/2024

The secret to successful cultural festivals?

'Being honest, authentic and having integrity of purpose'

Powerful conversation with Ravichandar Venkataraman & Shivendra Singh Dungarpur on building institutions that last.

Organisers of cultural festivals face existential dilemmas: How do they make their efforts sustainable and independent? Is it time to look beyond corporate s...

16/12/2024

📚 Join us for Founding Fuel on the Best Business Books of 2024

🎙️Shiv Shivakumar in conversation with Prof John Kay

🗓Thu, 19 Dec, 6:00 to 7:00 PM IST

🚀Register here: https://lu.ma/bxsr91mi

(If you registered for the Dec 6th session, you don't need to register again)

14/12/2024

On leadership, authenticity, resilience & personal operating models



📺Watch Founding Fuel Live conversation between Shiv Shivakumar & Ramesh Srinivasan, McKinsey & Company Sr Partner.

📃Read a 10-minute summary

👀 Check out: an exciting announcement!

A Founding Fuel Live conversation between D Shivakumar and Ramesh Srinivasan, co-author, ‘The Journey of Leadership’

14/12/2024

📚 Bangalore Literature Festival starts today. Ravichandar Venkataraman tells the story of its genesis and how it thrives without corporate sponsorship and guards its independence and diversity.

Bangalore Literature Festival

Can a festival survive and thrive without corporate sponsorship? Yes — and here’s how Bangalore literature festival found freedom through community funding

06/12/2024

| Shiv Shivakumar's 10 Best Business Books of 2024

📽️ Shiv will anchor Founding Fuel Live session on featuring John Kay & Ramesh Srinivasan

⏰ 6:30 PM IST today

🎯 Register now https://lu.ma/e0u6ks9l