19 What should you do if a large competitor says, "Sell to us or we'll crush you."? We feel if we sell now we are selling short but obviously concerned about the risk of our competitors’ capabilities.

20 What were Bill Gates's worst decisions as CEO?

21 What are some examples of great turnaround of businesses from near bankruptcy situations?

22 Why is Costco able to pay so much more than Walmart to their employees?

23 Why did Walt Disney go to such lengths to hide his identity while buying land for Disney World, and how did he manage it?

24 What are examples of very successful turnarounds in last 5 years?

25 Why is Pepsi not as popular as Coca-Cola? They're practically the same drink with different names.

26 How do you predict revenue for a startup?

27 Has Google ever decisively lost any war against any competitor?

28 Is it possible to start a business with little to no money? How?

29 How should I treat a business competitor who keeps copying my unique ideas?

30 How did IBM lose its market dominance? Could anything like that happen to Apple?

31 What is the right way to ensure your company succeeds in your absence?

32 Why did Oyo succeed in China whereas Amazon and Uber could not?

33 What big businesses came back from the brink of failure?

34 Why did Juicero fail?

35 What psychological tricks do restaurants use?

36 A new entrepreneur usually has many many ideas for his or her startup. How can he/she choose that one idea if all options seem viable?

37 What are some advice you could give to an entrepreneur with no capital, no experience, and no connections?

38 Why did Nissan buy out Mitsubishi while Toyota didn't buy out its struggling Japanese rival?

39 Where did Microsoft go wrong with the Windows phone and its OS?

40 When Intel was crushing AMD, how did AMD survive that period to become the best CPU manufacturer of the current 2 years?

41 Why can Google offer so many employee perks and still remain so profitable?

42 How does Walmart keep on pushing back at Amazon?

43 Are the big car makers not responding to Tesla in a big way because they don't regard it as a threat?

44 Why didn't Microsoft dominate the smartphone market?

45 How do I compete with businesses that can offer similar products/services at a lower cost?

46 What are some (sometimes dirty) tricks that entrepreneurs use to gain profit?

47 What's a good example of strategic leverage?

48 As a startup founder, what are the pros and cons of building something you would want to use yourself?

49 Why is Amazon getting into satellite internet?

50 Why hasn't KFC currently opened new stores in the US for a very long time?

51 How do entrepreneurs find opportunities?

52 How can Reliance become a net zero debt company in 18 months as claimed by Mukesh Ambani?

53 What does Jeff Bezos have to gain by claiming publicly that Amazon will fail one day?

54 What are some acquisitions that didn't go through and it is probably for the better?

55 What is an example of a counterintuitive but effective business strategy?

56 Is it better to focus on just one business and see it grow before starting another or should one try to build more than one business at a time?

57 Why doesn't Glock make anything other than pistols?

58 What were some of the key mistakes Microsoft made under the leadership of Steve Ballmer?

59 What did Jeff Bezos do to set Amazon apart from all the other early dot-com companies?

60 Why did GM eliminate the Pontiac, Oldsmobile, and Saturn line of cars?

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