Prem Sivakumaran is co-founder & CEO of Growth Mechanics, a leadership and entrepreneurship-focused business content company in India. Growth Mechanics publishes The Smart CEO, a publication focused on enabling peer-to-peer knowledge exchange among C-level executives and board members. The platform reaches over 1.2 lakh CXOs across its website, app, print publication & CEO Round Tables, and has featured on the cover India’s leading business leaders/founders from Infosys, Mindtree, Tata Sons, ICICI Bank, Biocon, Yes Bank and several others. In addition of Smart CEO, Growth Mechanics also organises the Startup50 Conference & Awards, an annual event to recognize India’s top 50 startups every year. Startup50 Alumni include Freshdesk, Oyo Rooms, Urban Ladder, Capital Float, Paperboat Beverages, among others. Growth Mechanics’ primary business model revolves around linking CXOs and Brands around engaging content and has worked with India’s leading companies including Mahindra Group, Godrej & Boyce, BASF, Airtel, Tata Docomo, Fiat, IDA Ireland, Yes Bank, Prestige Estates, Frederique Constant, Indian Terrain
Prem Sivakumaran Featured in #Editor's Pick #Cover Story
Mar 30, 2024
R. Gopalakrishnan, director, Tata Sons, the promoter company of various Tata Group companies, shares with us anecdotes and lessons learnt from his 45-year-long career as a professional manager. He believes these stories will enable managers to reminisce about
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Gearing up for the 2nd edition of Leadership Unplugged
Jan 06, 2020
I begin at least one day a week listening to a podcast. Some of my favourites are Recode Decode, Pivot, Acquired and Exponent. Irrespective of the topic or speakers, these podcasts are…
Prem Sivakumaran Featured in #Cover Story
Oct 02, 2019
We requested 50 leading founders and CEOs to fill up The Smart CEO Questionnaire last year. In there, we had one question that threw out a very surprising response; The question was…
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Announcing Smart CEO’s Startup50 Conference & Awards 2019
Sep 18, 2019
The events team at Smart CEO is gearing up for the 5th Edition of Smart CEO’s Startup50 Conference & Awards scheduled for December 2019. Over the last four years, we’ve…
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Why Exponential Growth is non-intuitive
Nov 26, 2018
Prem Sivakumaran, Director, Smart CEO I was recently reading Swiss Businessman & Author, Rolf Dobelli’s The Art of Thinking Clearly, a brilliant book and especially relevant if you’re an entrepreneur…
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Announcing Smart CEO’s Startup50 Conference & Awards 2018
Sep 20, 2018
I write this note, one week after the completion of Leadership Unplugged held at Taj Coromandel, Chennai on Sept 6 & 7, 2018. It was a wonderful platform to meet over 30…
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Leadership Unplugged by Smart CEO
Jun 26, 2018
I begin at least one day a week listening to a talk on TED.com. Irrespective of the topic or speakers, the talks are brilliantly produced. They are succinct, to-the-point…
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5 Rapidly Scaleable Ideas for Entrepreneurs
Jan 09, 2018
Through several of our past interviews & insights captured from venture capital data in the US, Europe & Asia, we share with you ideas that VCs in India will absolutely love! …
Entrepreneurship LeadershipPrem Sivakumaran Featured in #Editors Note
Jan 09, 2018
Welcome to the January 2018 edition of Smart CEO. Our regular readers would have noticed the new logo on the magazine’s cover. Recently, we also launched our new website (www.smartceo…
Prem Sivakumaran Featured in #Consumer Products
Dec 26, 2017
In Startup50 2017: RAW Pressery, which in a very short time has become India’s No. 1 cold-pressed juice company, offers 26 varieties of cold-press juices to customers in India…
