Taylor Swift has built an empire that redefines what it means to be an artist-entrepreneur. Her ownership battles, billion-dollar tours, and mastery of narrative have been hailed as a leadership blueprint for a new generation. Yet critics argue her success rests on singular talent, timing, and cultural lightning strikes that no strategy can replicate.

This episode debates whether Swift offers a replicable playbook for millennial leadership—or whether her empire proves she’s the rare exception who can’t be copied.

Previously a Fulbright Scholar, Fox International Fellow and Teaching Fellow at Yale, Gul has also been a Lead for the Digital Transformation of Industries at the World Economic Forum in Geneva, and an Expert on Higher Education, Entrepreneurship, and Industrial Policy at the United Nations Industrial Development Organisation in Vienna. His book The New Geography of Innovation won the Financial Times/McKinsey Bracken Bower Prize for writers under 35.

In this episode you will learn

1. How the geography of innovation is shifting and what it means for the new world order
   
2. The art of connecting innovation, geography, and ambition with the help of illustrative case studies
   
3. How to write a deeply-researched book
   

In order to thrive at work, must we always be working? For many young professionals, the hours outside work are no longer a refuge.

In this episode of Arguable, Dhruva and Utkarsh explore the shifting line between hobbies and side hustles, and what that says about careers today.

Are side hustles a smart form of insurance in an unpredictable economy, or a symptom of a culture that demands we monetise every interest?

Do they help us discover new sides of ourselves, or simply extend the workday into our free time? In order to thrive at work, must we always be working?