8% of India's pin codes have a quick-commerce dark store. 65% of those stores sit in just ten markets. In some pin codes, they are 750 metres apart.

As Blinkit, Zepto, Instamart and others race to expand, the question is no longer how many stores. It is where the next one adds demand instead of dividing it.

Would you build a company alone if you had to do it all over again? Naren Shaam, founder and CEO of Omio Group, wouldn't.

In our latest CapTable Conversation, he talks about sleepless nights, the loneliness of entrepreneurship, making tough decisions under pressure and why the financial rewards of going solo may not be worth the personal sacrifice.

Brands experts are increasingly asking brands to invest in AEO or GEO which essentially means to get them AI visibility on engines such as ChatGPT or Claude. But, so far only 5% of Indian brands have invested in it.

Anthropic is asking public markets to finance a technology it says could transform the global economy, and potentially threaten humanity. The harder question: can markets price a risk they may never fully understand?

Indian IT services firms are trimming their middle layer of workforce as AI tools make execution faster than ever. A migration plan, for example, that once took a five-person team two weeks now requires three days and one senior employee with an AI tool.

With AI now writing resumes, hiring executives say it is no longer a reliable filter.

Recruiters are now validating claims through structured reference checks, practical assignments, and deeper conversations designed to assess how candidates think, prioritise, and make decisions, which are areas that remain harder for AI to optimise.