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Masai School: the Messiah for Tier 3 city learners?

Vishy KurugantiFebruary 08, 20242 mins

Masai School is the first Omidyar portfolio company I decided to look at after news broke of Omidyar Network exiting India. Masai is not the only outcome driven career school in India. Sure it is…

Dignity starts with a job

Vishy KurugantiJanuary 24, 20242 mins

Upaya Social Ventures (Upaya SV) was founded 12 years ago to create dignified jobs for people living in extreme poverty by building scalable businesses with investment and consulting support. Upaya is…

Naya Kya Hai?

Vishy KurugantiJanuary 12, 20242 mins

(For non-Hindi readers, Naya Kya Hai means “What’s New”) Let me start by telling you what is NOT new. It’s December-end (early-Jan) and I’m 4 ~2 weeks away from racing yet another Tata Mumbai Marathon…

Is Impact Investing Dead?

Vishy KurugantiDecember 16, 20233 mins

(Created with Bing Image Creator/Dalle-3 using “impact investing is dead. long live impact investing”) This was the first question that popped up when I heard about Omidyar India’s news. And then I…

Good economics for hard times

Vishy KurugantiNovember 30, 20235 mins

Back in 2011, I took my longest ever career sabbatical (15+ months) which would eventually lead me to “start up” for the second time. Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Poverty…

MacKenzie's blistering pace of giving

Vishy KurugantiJanuary 01, 20214 mins

Giving Pledge to $5.9 billion in 19 months On Jan 9, 2019 Jeff Bezos tweeted his divorce announcement, ending his 25-year old marriage with MacKenzie Scott. The divorce would eventually be finalized…

The other Nilekani

Vishy KurugantiNovember 29, 20205 mins

Philanthropy’s changing gender? Philanthropy has been overwhelmingly male-driven because (obviously) it’s men who’ve accumulated enormous surplus of wealth across eras and industries. In the last 2…

Why OLPC failed

Vishy KurugantiOctober 09, 20207 mins

If you’ve heard of Nicholas Negroponte and MIT Media Lab, chances are you’ve also heard of the OLPC (One Laptop Per Child). If Negroponte doesn’t ring a bell, here’s the briefest of introductions: an…

Boiling the poor frogs

Vishy KurugantiOctober 02, 20203 mins

In the recently concluded first American Presidential debate, the stark economic policy difference between the two candidates was best illustated by their responses to “how exactly is the American…

A phone is indeed not enough

Vishy KurugantiSeptember 26, 20203 mins

If you are reading this article, you are probably witnessing (directly or indirectly) the Zoom’ification of the Indian classroom. While the Ubers and the Olas have come to a screetching halt, Byju’s…

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