InThe StartupbyRishabh Srivastava·Oct 24, 2019Dear journalists, AI is coming for your jobsThe news industry has been haemorrhaging jobs throughout the last decade. In the United States, the number of people employed in newsrooms…
Rishabh Srivastava·Aug 15, 2019Where is growth in India coming from?TL;DR: Sector-specific data, satellite imagery, and vehicle registration data provide some answersA response icon1A response icon1
Rishabh Srivastava·Jul 28, 2019What’s in a name? Plenty of possibilities for analyticsTL;DR: Names can be used to estimate affluence, ethnicity, age, gender, religion, and moreA response icon3A response icon3
Rishabh Srivastava·Jul 28, 2019Doing sales without being a jerk — lessons learntTL;DR: Add more value than you extract. Build real relationships. Follow up humanely.
Rishabh Srivastava·Jul 25, 2019Great content does nothing in the face of bad strategy — lessons from The Content TrapContent is a curse. It causes you to think you can make what’s going to delight users. It causes you to ignore their contributions. It…
Rishabh Srivastava·Jul 22, 2019No Silver Bullets: A Playbook for Digital PublishersPublishers today face a paradoxical challenge. Revenue and profitability outlooks for the industry are shaky – even as it reaches record…
Rishabh Srivastava·Jul 22, 2019Words are not enough — using sharp visual elements to create stories worth consuming“The most poorly read stories, it turns out, are often the most “dutiful” — incremental pieces, typically with minimal added context…
Rishabh Srivastava·Jul 22, 2019Digital publishers must take their destiny in their own hands with owned-and-operated platformsDon’t ever tether your business to the benevolence of a third party. – Jim VandeHei, Co-Founder of Axios and PoliticoA response icon1A response icon1
Rishabh Srivastava·Jul 19, 2019Bootstrapping a Data/API company in Asia from 0-80M+ monthly requests in 2 years — lessons learntTL;DR: I learned how to work at scale, had relative freedom, and got a decent amount of money as a bootstrapped solo entrepreneur. However…
Rishabh Srivastava·Jul 18, 2019Why Type-A people might want to sleep more: a summary of Why We SleepMatthew Walker’s Why We Sleep has been one of the most impactful books I’ve read this year. Was first made aware of the book on Peter…
