In this week’s wrap up, we talk about the Wakefit IPO, what’s sending SSD prices skyrocketing, the Indigo monopoly, the Warner Bros.–Netflix saga, and the Right to Disconnect.

Also, in this week’s Markets edition, we take a detailed look at the ICICI Prudential AMC IPO. You can read it here.

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With that out of the way, let’s take a look back at what we wrote this week.

The Wakefit IPO explained

Wakefit began as a simple idea — help Indians sleep better. Nine years later, it’s a home furnishings giant gearing up for a ₹1,289 crore IPO. Pretty impressive for a brand that started with mattresses, right?

But behind the glossy growth story sits a tricky reality: losses in previous years, rising depreciation from its rapid store expansion, and a valuation that’s asking investors to take a leap of faith.

So is Wakefit’s IPO a dream opportunity… or a wake up call?

Check out our Monday newsletter to read the full breakdown and decide for yourself.

What’s sending storage prices to the moon

Over the week, a colleague wanted to build his own SSD, and he came up to me for suggestions. Whatever I paid for back in 2024, is a mythical number today. Why?

Because storage and RAM stick prices have hit all time highs this past year and nobody could understand why it’s happening. In the background, all the big AI tech firms were setting up massive data centres across the globe, including a few on our home turf.

Those centres mean tons of hardware that are made by only a handful of manufacturers. Those manufacturers happen to make both the consumer grade storage cards as well as the enterprise-level hardware. And when AI companies are willing to pay top dollar, guess who really controls the market?

But what does the RAM in your computer and the server-level hardware have in common?

And when will this price surge stop? Find out by reading our Tuesday story here.

Has IndiGo’s monopoly paralysed India’s aviation system?

Everyone’s been talking about IndiGo’s meltdown — the cancellations, the chaos, the stranded passengers. But beneath all the noise lies a bigger question: can India’s biggest airline actually be held accountable… or is it simply too big to punish?

Because once you peel back the layers, the crisis isn’t just about messed up rosters. It’s about how IndiGo became so dominant, how that power is now shaping the government’s response, and why any penalty could end up hurting India’s entire aviation system instead.

Curious how we landed here?

Check out Wednesday’s newsletter to understand the full story.

The Warner Bros.–Netflix Saga Explained

Warner Bros., once the crown jewel of Hollywood, is up for sale after years of collapsing cable revenues, streaming losses, and a debt load nearing $40 billion. 

Surprisingly, Netflix, a company that was built on killing traditional studios, offered to buy them.

Because, you see, for Netflix, the prize is clear: timeless franchises it never owned, from Harry Potter to DC, giving it the one thing its hit-machine model lacks. But before anyone could blink, Paramount–Skydance crashed the party with an even bigger all-cash offer.

So who wins, and what happens next? Read the full breakdown in Thursday’s story.

Why India needs the Right to Disconnect

Looking back at how we used to work three generations ago, the world has rapidly evolved. You’d punch out a card, hear the factory whistle, and that was it. Work ended when you stepped out of the gate. Home was home, work was work. Clear-cut boundaries that rarely overlapped.

That reality has all but vanished today. We’re always connected, never fully offline, and work has quietly seeped into every corner of our personal time. In a world that lives and works online, that constant connectivity has a cost — burnout. And nobody knows this better than Indian workers, with well over half reporting symptoms of work-related exhaustion.

Which is why MP Supriya Sule reintroduced the Right to Disconnect Bill this year, even though it first made its appearance back in 2019. Between then and now, not only has work changed — we have changed too. Our expectations, our limits, and our relationship with time have all been rewritten.

Given its importance, you’d imagine the Bill would’ve sailed through Parliament. But it didn’t. France was the first country to adopt its own bill, but we’re still not there. Find out why in our Friday story here.

Finshots Weekly Quiz v2.0 🧠

Hey folks! A few months ago, we hit pause on the Finshots Weekly Quiz because we were cooking up something new. And last week, we finally unveiled the Finshots Weekly Quiz v2.0. If you missed out, don’t worry. Click here to check out the rules and set a reminder to participate consistently starting next month!

But for now, it’s time to announce the top scorers of our previous weekly quiz. There were a whole bunch of you who participated, and many of you ended up with the same scores. So we’re calling you Bulls, Bears, Unicorns, Blue Chips, and Rising Stars. Here’s how the leaderboard looks right now:

If your name has been featured on the leaderboard, then congratulations! If not, don’t lose hope. If you attempted last week’s quiz, keep at it and answer all the weekly quizzes this month. You never know when the turntables! Click on this link to take this week’s quiz, which is open till 12 noon, Friday, 19th of December, 2025. The more answers you get right, the better your chances of appearing on the Finshots Weekly Quiz leaderboard. We’ll publish it every Saturday in the Weekly Wrapup. And the first winner will be announced in the first week of January.

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