Kunal Shah - Exploring Consumer Psychology - [Return on India, EP.06]

My guest today is Kunal Shah, founder and CEO of CRED. When you think of India as a society, the motivations and psychology of consumers and how they interact with brands is fundamentally different than Western societies. There's a different philosophical value attributed to collectivism versus individualism. Trust finds itself aggregating in large entities and institutions and the Indian society often function in spite of itself versus with the same efficiency and structure in the west. But understanding these elements is critical to understanding what types of businesses succeed in India. And in today's episode, Kunal and I unpacked each of these philosophical elements amongst others, and applied them to different topics in Indian markets. Namely, why is the consumption class aggregated in approximately 1% of the population, why has credit been historically underutilized in India, and what are the characteristics needed to build a platform company for next generation India. Please enjoy my conversation with Kunal Shah. For the full show notes, transcript, and links to the best content to learn more, check out the episode page here. ----- Return On India is a property of Colossus, LLC. For more episodes of Return On India, visit joincolossus.com/episodes. Stay up to date on all our podcasts by signing up to Colossus Weekly, our quick dive every Sunday highlighting the top business and investing concepts from our podcasts and the best of what we read that week. Sign up here.

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Kunal Shah - Exploring Consumer Psychology - [Return on India, EP.06] is an episode from Return on India by Dominic Cooke.

This episode is 48:23 long.

This episode was published on Jan 12, 2023.

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