Strat Team Advisors

09/07/2025

The three stages of Confucian engagement with non-Chinese entrepreneurs
1 Attract and elevate
2 Enable and extract core skills
3 Discard and move on
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In 2019, Elon Musk marvelled at his new Shanghai gigafactory and declared, “China is the future.”
Today, Tesla is learning a brutal lesson taught to a generation of foriegn-owned companies before it: China’s future may not include you.

Tesla is falling behind the very Chinese competitors it helped foster. And Musk’s value to Beijing has sunk,

To U.S. executives who have done business in China, this is a painfully familiar story.
Mark Duval, a former Motorola executive who spent 16 years on the front lines, has seen this before.

For the full story, please follow the link to the WSJ article

13/03/2025

Every time Trump threatens, Modi gives something.
So Trump with threaten again and again, to get more and more

Mr Modi, you will have to draw a line

Trump Announces Tariffs on India, Praises Musk in Speech to Congress | Firstpost America | N18G United States President Donald Trump addressed the joint session of Congress. In a speech that lasted more than one hour and 39 minutes, Trump touched on several issues including illegal migration, social...

07/03/2025

Mr Gadkari should order a complete audit of every road design, and get them corrected.
Accepting the problem is the beginning, and a good beginning. Cannot stop there

Union Minister Nitin Gadkari on Thursday blamed faulty detailed project reports and defective road designs prepared by civil engineers and consultants for increasing road accidents and fatalities in the country.

05/03/2025

https://www.business-standard.com/economy/analysis/datanomics-india-closes-in-on-japan-for-fourth-largest-economy-tag-125030300925_1.html

The Indian economy has come closer to Japan. The latter stood at $4 trn in 2024. It is quite possible that India's economy may overtake Japan's next year as latter's economy is struggling to grow

10/02/2025

19/01/2025

https://www.business-standard.com/economy/news/india-to-remain-fastest-growing-large-economy-in-fy26-fy27-world-bank-125011601478_1.html

The global economy is projected to expand by 2.7 per cent in both 2025 and 2026, the same pace as in 2024, as inflation and interest rates decline gradually

17/01/2025

What have you taught your employees to protect your business?
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Ferrari narrowly missed being scammed when an AI deepfake claimed to be Benedetto Vigna, CEO of the company.

The employee though asked the sender to verify their identity before doing as instructed whereupon the scammer ended the call.
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IS YOUR COMPANY EQUALLY SAFE , HAVE YOU GIVEN THE SAME PRECAUTIONARY INSTRUCTION TO YOUR STAFF ? TO VERIFY ?

16/01/2025

Fact : Successful startups are founded by people of average 45 years age . Not 20-25 year old with zero practical experience

Indian fact : Most startups are founded by kids in their 20's.
Even the angel fund-venture funds etc. are full of 25-35 year old people who are not willing to fund anyone over 40 .
Are they trying to maximise the waste and minimise the ROI ? You decide

It’s widely believed that the most successful entrepreneurs are young. Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, and Mark Zuckerberg were in their early twenties when they launched what would become world-changing companies. Do these famous cases reflect a generalizable pattern? In fact, the average age of entrepre...

15/01/2025

Potential bankruptcies in the US Insurance sector are likely, after Insurance loss estimates crossed $150 billion due to the fire : and the fire continues, hence the estimates keep climbing.

These bankrupties may have cascade effect, on global operations as well

Check your business exposure to such risks, and decide if you need to take any steps to reduce your risk.