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
2Author's Note
3A Note on How to Read This Book
4Part One — The Great Inversion
5Chapter One — The Valuation Game
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6How a number gets to be a god
7Where the spinning leads
8The view from inside the room
9The treadmill that feels like running
10The burn behind the applause
11What this chapter is not saying
12Chapter Two — The Story and the Spreadsheet
13A field guide to the flattering number
14The surviving number
15The collusion of optimism
16How an honest story curdles
17The cohort, and other instruments of truth
18Chapter Three — New Bottles, Old Wine
19The agritech mirage
20The same pattern, three industries deep
21What real innovation actually looks like
22Holding my own work to the test
23Chapter Four — How Good People Build Bad Companies
24The slide nobody chooses
25The room where no one owns the truth
26Building a company that can hear bad news
27Chapter Five — Anatomy of a Collapse
28The company that did it right — on the surface
29Where the rot actually was
30The collapse, and who was standing there
31What the anatomy teaches
32Chapter Six — Other People's Money
33The weight of the entrusted
34The betrayals of stewardship
35Faithful stewardship
36Chapter Seven — The Lies You Tell Yourself
37Why founders are built to fool themselves
38The texture of self-deception
39The discipline of looking
40Part Two — The People in the Chain
41Chapter Eight — The People Who Can't Negotiate Back
42The asymmetry that is built into the crop
43What you owe the man who has to say yes
44The infrastructure of giving someone the power to wait
45Why this is the hardest-headed business decision you will make
46Chapter Nine — The People Who Move the Goods
47The machine for transferring risk
48Designing for dignity, in the details
49The boss who has no face
50Why none of this is sentimentality
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