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Corner Office Conversation

Corner Office Conversation

By: The Economic Times
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Corner Office Conversation is The Economic Times’ flagship interview podcast featuring unfiltered, one-on-one conversations with some of India and the world’s most powerful business leaders.

Hosted by ET’s top journalists and editors, this fortnightly show goes beyond headlines and press releases to explore how CEOs and founders think, decide, and lead in an era of disruption.

From Marc Benioff (Salesforce), Dara Khosrowshahi (Uber), and Roland Busch (Siemens) to Adar Poonawalla (Serum Institute), Suresh Narayanan (Nestlé India), and Ravi Kumar S (Cognizant), these conversations uncover personal leadership playbooks, global strategy pivots, lessons from failures, and bold visions for the future — across industries like tech, healthcare, manufacturing, finance, and consumer goods.

New episodes drop every alternate Monday.

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Episodes
  • The $1.5 Billion Bet on a World Without Coders | Emergent’s Mukund Jha
    27 Oct 2026

    What if you didn’t need a tech team, or any code, to build software?
    In this episode of Corner Office Conversation, Anirban Chowdhury sits down with Mukund Jha, Founder and CEO of Emergent, the AI platform where anyone with an idea can build a real, hosted, working app. A former Google engineer, Mukund also co-founded Dunzo, the unicorn that became a verb in India...and then folded.
    He shares hard-won Dunzo lessons on growth versus endurance, focus and unit economics, and why second-mover advantage matters in AI. Emergent says 18 million apps have been built on it. Mukund believes anyone could soon build any software without code.

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    31 min
  • Who Gets Left Behind by AI? Google DeepMind’s Lila Ibrahim
    26 Oct 2026

    As AI becomes more powerful, who gets to shape its direction—and share its benefits? ET’s tech editor Surabhi Agarwal speaks to Google DeepMind’s Chief AI Readiness Officer, Lila Ibrahim, about the tension between rapid development and responsible deployment. They discuss India’s place in the global AI race, the role of teachers in AI-enabled classrooms, and research that could help farmers grow more resilient crops. Ibrahim also reflects on responsibility inside DeepMind, the work around AlphaFold, and the everyday ways she uses AI as a parent. A conversation about preparing people and institutions for a technology already changing their lives.

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    26 min
  • India's Food Regulator Is Done Being Quiet
    13 Oct 2026

    Misleading packaging, restaurant inspections and scrutiny of the kitchens behind your delivery apps: FSSAI is sharpening its enforcement. ET's FMCG editor Ratna Bhushan talks to FSSAI chief Rajit Punhani about holding food businesses accountable, taking regulatory action public, and the proposed changes that could help consumers know more about what they buy. Listen in:

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    19 min
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