A zeitgeist, antagonist &
community for trade & commerce.
Engagement, education, & entertaining content.
Our Podcast Series
Impact eats strategy
A short‑form series where Paras Sood and co-hosts deconstruct the strategy and management models that shape modern business - exposing where they fail, how they distort decision‑making, and what actually drives impact inside real organisations.
Each episode critiques a classic framework through the lens of value chains, capability architecture and application.
- 1 Customer of Choice, unplugged
- 2 Operating model canvas, unplugged
- 3 Value chains, unplugged
- 4 Porter’s Five Forces, unplugged
- 5 Balanced scorecard, unplugged
Future of commercial work
Exploring how value creation is being rewritten across industries. As technology, geopolitics and new ecosystems reshape how organisations operate, the series examines the emerging models, capabilities and behaviours that will define the next decade of commercial work.
It looks beyond functions to the flows, networks and architectures that determine how modern organisations compete, collaborate and execute.
- 1 The Rise of Ecosystem‑Driven Value Chains
- 2 The New Commercial Operating Model
- 3 What AI Really Changes in Commercial Work
- 4 The Skills and Capabilities of the Next‑Generation Commercial Team
How We Are Different
The conversations that usually stay behind closed doors.
Talk Trade is a community and learning space for people who want to understand how trade, strategy and transformation actually work — not how they’re supposed to work.
We bring together thinkers, practitioners and the occasional mischief-maker to cut through the noise and get into the substance.
Broadcasting & Content
Grounded conversations and briefings that prioritise clarity over amplification. No theatre. No titles. Just people who know what they’re talking about.
Community & Learning
Community-led learning sessions and formats shaped by the people who show up. Thinking over credentials, dialogue over performance.
Research & Intelligence
Exploring the dynamics, complexities and behaviours shaping modern commerce — from sustainable trade to negotiations, disputes and beyond.
Events
Debates with provocateurs and operators. Formats that don’t follow the usual script. Expect substance over polish.
From Our Founder
What is Talk Trade?
Talk Trade is a platform for people who operate where strategy meets the real world. It brings together practitioners, operators, economists and architects to decode how value chains, organisations and commercial systems are shifting - and what leaders need to do next. It’s a space for honest conversations, lived experience and cross‑industry insight, not theory.
Paras Sood
Founder/CEO, Thinq Capital
