Talk of Many Things – Page 20 – Personal Blog of Ketharaman Swaminathan

Maximizing Before-After Arbitrage In B2B Technology GTM

19 October 2022

Let's see the pitch of a few B2B technology products: ERP prevents stock-outs by triggering stock transfers from one store to another, thereby driving greater revenues. WMS drives greater inventory…

Eight WYSINWYG Terms In Finance – Part 1

12 October 2022

There are many terms that don't mean what they say. Some are misnomers e.g. Nonprofit Others sound broader than they are e.g Insider Trading Still others are obfuscatory e.g. KYC.…

Role Of Business Analyst In Payments

5 October 2022

This blog post is a slightly edited version of my answer to the following Quora question: What is the role of a business analyst in the payments domain? I assume…

10 Best Answers For Peter Thiel Interview Question – Part 2

28 September 2022

In 10 Best Answers For Peter Thiel Interview Question – Part 1, I gave five answers to the following Peter Thiel interview question: What is the one thing that's true…

My Article On Car Speed Governor In Economic Times

21 September 2022

In the days following the death by car accident of Cyrus Mistry, the scion of Shapoorjee Palonjee construction group and the largest shareholder in Tata Sons, there's a lot of…

Ten Answers For Peter Thiel Interview Question – Part 1

14 September 2022

Peter Thiel interview question: What is the one thing that's true but nobody believes it when you tell them? I have not attended an interview with Peter Thiel nor do…

People Buy From People But Must Get Used To Paying Numbers

7 September 2022

Back in the day, when you wanted to pay Tom, you whipped out your cheque book, wrote Tom’s name in the payee field, and handed over the cheque to Tom.…

Teardown Of Web3 Tokenonomics

1 September 2022

“A basic premise of Web3 is that every product is simultaneously an investment opportunity” - Matt Levine The previous post entitled How Tokenonmics Has Revolutionized Web3 Software was about the…

Netflix Implemented Emandate But Nobody Knew

24 August 2022

When I signed up for Netflix more than a year ago, I used my credit card as my payment method. On the tenth of every month, the streamer would charge…

How Crypto Tokenonomics Is Revolutionizing Web3

17 August 2022

In the traditional Onprem software paradigm, a Customer pays the full License Fee of the software upfront and gets the rights to use the software in perpetuity. If he wants…