Side Notes by Zerodha Varsity

By Zerodha Varsity

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 Jan 8, 2025

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Byte-sized lessons on investment strategy, financial metrics, business decisions, and/or market phenomena.

Episode Date
Is Louis Philippe Indian or French?
Mar 17, 2026
What went wrong with Intel? What is it up to now?
Mar 10, 2026
Poka Yoke - Toyota's design thinking
Mar 03, 2026
How Lenovo took over IBM to become the world's largest PC maker?
Feb 24, 2026
Why Apple Moved To The Type-C Charging Port?
Feb 17, 2026
Revlon's fall from glory to bankruptcy, and revival
Feb 10, 2026
The curious case of Narayana Health's profits
Feb 03, 2026
Trent and Asian Paints - A tale of two popular stocks
Jan 27, 2026
Nestle's brilliant razor and blade pricing model - and its pitfalls
Jan 20, 2026
Dmart's pseudo debt - a common accounting peculiarity
Jan 13, 2026
Diet Coke Vs Coke Zero - What's the difference? Why the difference?
Jan 06, 2026
Wipro's multiple hats - from groceries to IT
Dec 30, 2025
Microsoft's bold pricing shift and the business rationale behind it
Dec 23, 2025
Nike, Adidas, Puma, and their D2C pivot
Dec 16, 2025
Why Amazon did not care for profits in its initial years?
Dec 09, 2025
Temasek - A sovereign wealth fund that other nations want to emulate
Dec 02, 2025
TikTok ban - How Instagram and YouTube swiftly took over the market?
Nov 25, 2025
Stanley Cups - from rugged uses to a stylish collectible
Nov 18, 2025
Zomato to Eternal - Taking a leaf from Google and Facebook's playbook
Nov 11, 2025
When Reliance and Amazon went shopping at Big Bazaar
Nov 04, 2025
Starbucks Vs CCD | Whatsapp Vs WeChat | First movers vs Challengers
Oct 28, 2025
Muhurat Trading and New Beginnings
Oct 21, 2025
The world's best restaurants may not have a Michelin Star, do you know why?
Oct 14, 2025
Hyrox - Can cultural trends spark investment ideas?
Oct 07, 2025
Brand Collabs, Drop Culture, Limited Editions - the business of hype
Sep 30, 2025
Bhushan Steel's Fall From Fortune to Fraud
Sep 23, 2025
When Reliance Jio behaved like a startup
Sep 16, 2025
Flipkart is loss-making but valuable for Walmart
Sep 09, 2025
L&T's hostile takeover of Mindtree
Sep 02, 2025
Lacoste - A solid business of solid shades
Aug 26, 2025
How does WhatsApp make money?
Aug 19, 2025
Tata Steel's adventurous (mis)step - Corus
Aug 12, 2025
Vaseline - a soft product with rugged origins
Aug 05, 2025
Tata Nano - Visionary Product or Failed Experiment
Jul 29, 2025
Labubu Mania - The Business of Fad
Jul 22, 2025
The Day Silver Broke Wall Street
Jul 15, 2025
Dettol's Liquid Soap Over Bar - Blue Ocean Strategy
Jul 08, 2025
How Cadbury's hostile takeover turned into a friendly takeover?
Jul 01, 2025
Hersheys Hazelnut Chocolate Spread travels six countries to reach you!
Jun 24, 2025
Gulf Rupee - the time when India printed currencies for other countries
Jun 17, 2025
Semiconductor Chips - Moore's Law, TSMC, ASML, India's push for chips
Jun 10, 2025
How shale oil made the US the world's largest oil producer? What is shale oil?
Jun 03, 2025
From earth to your cars - how crude oil is extracted and refined into petrol
May 27, 2025
How Zara's control over its supply chain makes it the most fashionable
May 20, 2025
The rise and fall of Long Term Capital Management (LTCM)
May 13, 2025
Who broke the Swiss Banking Secrecy Code?
May 06, 2025
Sumitomo Copper Scandal - How one trader cornered the world's copper market?
Apr 29, 2025
Salomon Brothers Scandal and how Warren Buffett handled it
Apr 22, 2025
Bernie Madoff's big fat Ponzi scheme - How was it discovered?
Apr 15, 2025
Lijjat Papad - How a group of 45,000 women swiftly run a pan-India organization?
Apr 08, 2025
How a Rogue Trader caused the collapse of UK-based Barings Bank?
Apr 01, 2025
Reliance has equity reserves of ₹8 lakh crore! How does it use them?
Mar 25, 2025
Ryanair offers cheapest airfares and is still the most profitable
Mar 18, 2025
Crazy Eddie - Scams and More Scams
Mar 11, 2025
Why Jio Financial Services became part of the Nifty 50 index for just 13 days?
Mar 04, 2025
Why Airlines are a tough business to crack? Indigo, Jet Airways, Kingfisher and others
Feb 28, 2025
Friends of Reliance Vs the Bear Cartel of Kolkata
Feb 25, 2025
Why Hong Kong lets private banks print its currency?
Feb 21, 2025
How Harshad Mehta Scam led to many reforms in the Indian markets?
Feb 18, 2025
Why mutual funds were suddenly underperforming in 2019?
Feb 14, 2025
Leverage, ROE, and ROI - Margin Trading and Businesses
Feb 11, 2025
Crude Oil once traded at negative prices - Do you know why?
Feb 07, 2025
Surf Excel, Rin, Wheel - Why does HUL sell detergents under different brand names?
Feb 04, 2025
Singapore is the most expensive place to own a car!
Jan 31, 2025
Diseconomies of Scale in Steel Recycling
Jan 28, 2025
Parle-G and Cadbury Dairymilk - Shrinkflation
Jan 24, 2025
Why is RBI selling Dollars? The USD-INR Struggle
Jan 21, 2025
IL&FS, Essel, and Others - Why NBFCs were failing in 2018-19
Jan 17, 2025
Amber Enterprises, Taj, Ultratech Cement - What's common among them?
Jan 14, 2025
Bricks, Nuts and Bolts, Zips and Buttons - businesses without brands
Jan 10, 2025
Bajaj Auto Vs TVS Motor and Return on Assets
Jan 07, 2025
Vedanta paid dividends in excess of earnings
Jan 03, 2025
Parachute Oil, Colgate Toothpaste, & Velvette Shampoo - Packaging Innovations
Dec 31, 2024
India and China - Electric heating vs sun drying - Population density
Dec 27, 2024
Samsung, Apple, TSMC, Nvidia, and their PE Ratios
Dec 24, 2024
Argentina's 287% inflation rate - Cheap money and freebies
Dec 20, 2024
Was Adani Power charging a country risk premium to Bangladesh?
Dec 17, 2024
Cuba, China, Middle East, and Concentration Risk
Dec 14, 2024
Adani Power, Palantir - Nationalization of Businesses
Dec 10, 2024
Palantir, TSMC, Apple, and their Concentration Risk
Dec 06, 2024
Torrent Pharma's Constant Currency Growth
Dec 03, 2024
Quality of earnings Vs. Quality of reporting
Nov 29, 2024
Dmart, L&T, and their Trade Receivables
Nov 26, 2024
Warren Buffett's moats and Nestle, Dmart, IRCTC
Nov 22, 2024
TSMC's business continuity plan in the face of Covid and water shortage
Nov 19, 2024
Loss leaders of Reliance Mart, Zepto, Blinkit
Nov 15, 2024
M&M and Tech Mahindra - Rules of Thumb and Exceptions
Nov 12, 2024
Yes Bank - How its market cap has grown despite a decline in stock price?
Nov 08, 2024
Zero Promoter Companies - HDFC Bank, ICICI Bank, L&T, and ITC
Nov 05, 2024
Infosys weighs heavier than TCS in the Nifty 50 index
Nov 01, 2024
Vodafone and Facebook - Why companies pay in equity?
Oct 29, 2024
Tata Steel's captive mines and power plants - Backward Integration
Oct 24, 2024
Toyota - Just In Time - Demerits uncovered by the semiconductor industry
Oct 24, 2024
Colgate & Nestle - eponym brands and marketing spends
Oct 24, 2024
Hindustan Aeronautics - High leverage but zero debt
Oct 24, 2024