Karma of Commerce
What you put into commerce always comes back. By Akash Mitra
Length8h 17m
About this audiobook
What if the fastest way to win is also the fastest way to fail?
For fourteen years, Akash Mitra has worked at the heart of Indian commerce, watching companies chase growth, inflate metrics, and ignore the people who made their success possible—until reality caught up.
Karma of Commerce is built on a simple principle: what you put into commerce always comes back. Not as mysticism, but as a practical business law. Mistreat suppliers, customers, employees, or investors, and the consequences eventually return.
Drawing on real business failures and firsthand experience from mandis, warehouses, and boardrooms, this book shows why trust, accountability, and long-term thinking remain the strongest foundations of success.
For founders, leaders, sales professionals, and anyone who believes business should create value, not just valuation.
What you put into commerce always comes back. Build accordingly.
Audiobook details
GenreBusiness and Economics
Length8 hrs 17 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateMay 2, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Introduction
26Building a company that can hear bad news
2Author's Note
27Chapter Five — Anatomy of a Collapse
3A Note on How to Read This Book
28The company that did it right — on the surface
4Part One — The Great Inversion
29Where the rot actually was
5Chapter One — The Valuation Game
30The collapse, and who was standing there
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6How a number gets to be a god
31What the anatomy teaches
7Where the spinning leads
32Chapter Six — Other People's Money
8The view from inside the room
33The weight of the entrusted
9The treadmill that feels like running
34The betrayals of stewardship
10The burn behind the applause
35Faithful stewardship
11What this chapter is not saying
36Chapter Seven — The Lies You Tell Yourself
12Chapter Two — The Story and the Spreadsheet
37Why founders are built to fool themselves
13A field guide to the flattering number
38The texture of self-deception
14The surviving number
39The discipline of looking
15The collusion of optimism
40Part Two — The People in the Chain
16How an honest story curdles
41Chapter Eight — The People Who Can't Negotiate Back
17The cohort, and other instruments of truth
42The asymmetry that is built into the crop
18Chapter Three — New Bottles, Old Wine
43What you owe the man who has to say yes
19The agritech mirage
44The infrastructure of giving someone the power to wait
20The same pattern, three industries deep
45Why this is the hardest-headed business decision you will make
21What real innovation actually looks like
46Chapter Nine — The People Who Move the Goods
22Holding my own work to the test
47The machine for transferring risk
23Chapter Four — How Good People Build Bad Companies
48Designing for dignity, in the details
24The slide nobody chooses
49The boss who has no face
25The room where no one owns the truth
50Why none of this is sentimentality
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