Stories that inspire

The Slack Story

The Slack Story

It’s 10 minutes before a meeting with your manager. You’re supposed to be presenting the budget variances from last quarter. Except, you haven’t started with the presentation and you need...

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The Marketo Story

The Marketo Story

  A career in Physics is lucrative, said no one ever. However, you can take up Physics, do a little bit of fusion research and then do stints in Management Consulting, and eventually fin...

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The HubSpot Story

The HubSpot Story

Imagine you walk into a store and you realize you are the only customer. You hear the door chime as you get in and you realize you have caught the attention of the bored salespeople...

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The Canva Story

The Canva Story

  Give marketers a design team and you help them for a while.  Give marketers a Canva account and you help them for a lifetime.   University for most of us is a big blurry mush of p...

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The Eventbrite Story

The Eventbrite Story

Remember the sweet sweet time when live events did not mean scurrying to a conferencing platform on time, only to be stuffed into a virtual square alongside a hundred others?   We’re ta...

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The Gong Story

The Gong Story

Anyone who cooks knows how absolutely heartbreaking it is when your 8-hours-slow-roasted chicken doesn't come out as good as the last time. But oh wait, it gets worse when you just can't ...

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The MailChimp Story

The MailChimp Story

It's the early 2000s and it's a wild time. Women dressed in low waist bootcut jeans with slicked back hair and men dressed in boots, oversized sunglasses, and Cargo pants. Why all of us c...

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The Intercom Story

The Intercom Story

It's 2011, and four engineers and designers are at a Dublin cafe, sipping on coffee and talking about their unexceptional and wonted work lives. This sounds like the title sequence to a b...

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The Freshworks Story

The Freshworks Story

A broken 40-inch LCD Samsung TV, a few strands of pulled out hair, and a ‘makes you punch a hole in the wall’ problem later, Girish Mathrubootham found himself on the receiving end of a b...

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The Workday Story

The Workday Story

Say it’s a Monday morning, and you’re craving freshly brewed coffee. One way to go about it is to stop by at your local cafe.    Another, is to be an absolute lunatic, buy land in Afric...

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The Royal Enfield Story

The Royal Enfield Story

“Four wheels move the body. Two wheels move the soul.”   For many riders around the globe, motorcycling is not just a hobby or need. It’s a passion and often the very purpose of life. ...

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The Nintendo Story

The Nintendo Story

How Mario (and sometimes Luigi) goes on to save Princess Peach is the arcade-game equivalent of a Disney fairy tale ending.   Calling all the 80s and 90s kids who share the same sentime...

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The Michelin Stars Story

The Michelin Stars Story

Internet’s favorite sensation and world’s no.1 chef Gordon Ramsay is a British culinary expert who shot to fame for three things:   Mastery in cooking Ruthless personality  

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The Velcro Story

The Velcro Story

What’s fascinating about the first-ever artificial human heart surgery?   Is it the fact that the blood vessels were taken from another part of the body and grafted onto an existing hea...

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The SoftBank Story

The SoftBank Story

Imagine you’re the richest person in the world. Richer than the richest man, Bill Gates himself- for a mere 3 days. And then you lose almost 99% of your wealth!   What do you do?   Yo...

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The Disney Story

The Disney Story

The Disney Story is the seventh instalment of the series 'Stories that Inspire'. These are simple stories that were significant enough to change our lifestyles today, only because of some...

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The Ikea Story

The Ikea Story

The Ikea Story is the sixth instalment of the series 'Stories that Inspire'. These are simple stories that were significant enough to change our lifestyles today, only because someone loo...

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The Louis Vuitton Story

The Louis Vuitton Story

The Louis Vuitton Story is the fifth instalment of the series 'Stories that Inspire'. These are simple stories that were significant enough to change our lifestyles today, only because so...

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The GoPro Story

The GoPro Story

The GoPro Story is the third instalment of the series 'Stories that Inspire'. These are simple stories that were significant enough to change our lifestyles today, only because someone lo...

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The 3M Story

The 3M Story

The 3M Story is the fourth instalment of the series 'Stories that Inspire'. These are simple stories that were significant enough to change our lifestyles today, only because someone look...

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The Nike Story

The Nike Story

Every single soul who owned a sole would know about this brand. And it's a feature story in our inspiration series calendar for this month.   Last month we saw how a plastic injection m...

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The Lego Story

The Lego Story

Some of the most powerful brands we know are built on stories that we don’t know. Simple stories that were significant enough to change our lifestyles today, only because someone looked a...

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