Kishore Biyani on Brand Building, Future, India, & Relationships

About Guest - Kishore Biyani is the founder and Group CEO of Future Group. Widely credited as the pioneer of the modern retail industry in India, Kishore Biyani is a mentor and role model for many Indian entrepreneurs and a thought leader in Indian business. Over the past two decades, he has created and led some of India's most popular retail chains like Big Bazaar, Central, Brand Factory, Foodhall, fbb, among others. Over time, various retail chains like Nilgiris, Aadhaar, Easyday, Heritage, HyperCity and others have also become part of Future Group. These retail chains are present in more than 250 cities across India and attract over 500 million customer footfalls annually. Simultaneously, he has also led the creation of a wide portfolio of consumer goods brands in fashion, food and electronics, distributed through the group's retail chains and various other modern retail networks in the country. The group also made substantial investments in technology, analytics, food processing, logistics and warehouse networks, provides mentorship and investments to many Indian entrepreneurs and brands and operates joint ventures with Clarks, Generali Group, and Hidesign, among others. A believer in the group’s corporate credo, ‘Rewrite Rules, Retain Values,’ Kishore Biyani considers Indianness as the core value driving the group. His autobiography, ‘It Happened In India,’ has been translated into a number of languages. Kishore Biyani was born in August 1961 and is married to Sangita Biyani. They live in Mumbai with their daughters, Ashni and Avni. Credits: Host: Shivank Joshi - https://www.linkedin.com/in/shivankjoshi-2001/ Video Editor: Abhishek Tiwari - https://www.linkedin.com// abhishek-tiwari-599546244 Thumbnail: Rudra Timestamps: 00:00 Teaser 01:57 What's keeping KB busy? His Readings, Interests and New Passion. 03:52 His new venture Broadwaylive.com and thesis of Experiential Commerce. 06:11 Trend of second-time Founders & Selling to Rich vs Selling to Poor. 08:40 Kishore Biyani and Podcasts and learnings from @rajshamani & @RanveerAllahbadia . 11:27 Building a Brand in the Times of Shorter Attention Spans. 13:16 Kishore Biyani's Venture Studio and Celebrity Brands & Personality of Krishna vs Ram. 18:51 Have you worked on your brand? State of Joyfulness & Experience of Writing a Book 16 years ago. 21:51 What does it take to stay relevant? Highs and Low in Life in India vs China. 23:53 Bharat Darshan & Understanding India, Society and Young Generation and Belief System. 28:58 Business of Temples & Personalities of Indian Gods. 31:26 Wealth Creation, Happiness and Liquidity Issues. 34:44 Highs and Lows of Big Bazaar. 37:28 Amazon vs Relience Fight for Future Group. 39:00 Kolkata and understanding cities. 42:32 Shall we think big or small is beautiful? 44:55 Prediction Fashion & Future and Reading Patterns. 47:38 Learning Hiring from Mahabhratha. Krishna vs Ram vs Dhuryodhana vs Ravana. 49:15 Is interviewing a skill? @rajshamani vs @RanveerAllahbadia vs @nikhil.kamath 51:00 Why Korean Pop culture is becoming popular? 52:31 Understanding Debt. 54:10 Patterns in Successful People & Art of Story Telling. 55:55 Favourite Marketeer of KB. 56:35 Understanding Competition & The Art of War. 57:10 DMart & Radha Kishan Damani. 58:25 How to construct a strong Balance Sheet? 1:00:30 Interesting People KB has met & Patterns in Successful People. 1:02:22 Learnings from Rajesh Jhunjhunwala sir. 1:03:50 Meeting Ambanis. 1:05:10 Can quick commerce be disrupted? 1:06:45 How to Build Relationships? 1:10:30 Skills sets of Institutional Building - 0 to 1, 1 to 10 and 10 to 100. 1:11:50 Theory of Time Pass. 1:13:10 What has the NCLT Insolvency process taught you? 1:13:50 Movies Recommendation. 1:14:30 KB's Fatal Flaws. 1:15:10 One thing KB has a contrarian view on. 1:16:35 One Belief that you have recently changed in life. 1:18:45 Point of Wealth after which everything is sorted in India.