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A game about real business calls

Sit in the hot seat of a real company.

Make the big calls. Live with what happens. Then see what really happened.

Short, narrated stories · 5–8 minutes each · Made for people starting a business

How it works

  1. 1

    Pick a Hot Seat

    Each one is a real company at a real turning point. You are the CEO.

  2. 2

    Make the big calls

    Choose from three options. Every call moves Profit and Future. Costly calls lose the board's trust.

  3. 3

    See what really happened

    Get your CEO score, what the real company did, and notes written for the calls you made.

Hot Seats

Real companies. Real turning points. New ones every week.

  • Amul

    The farmers' own brand

    Middlemen decide what your milk is worth. What if the farmers themselves owned the dairy?

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  • IndiGo

    One plane, on time

    A new airline with no planes orders 100 of them. Then the whole industry starts losing money.

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  • Kodak

    The camera with no film

    Your own engineer has built a camera with no film. Film is how you make your money. What do you do?

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  • Apple

    Back from the edge

    Your company is losing hundreds of millions of dollars, and its fans are leaving. Can you save it?

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  • Blockbuster

    The $50 million offer

    A small DVD-by-post startup wants you to buy it. Do you see where this could lead?

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  • Harshad Mehta

    The Big Bull

    Harshad Mehta rode the market to the top in 1992. Then the banks wanted their money back.

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  • Intel

    The chip that built Intel

    Memory chips made your name. Now Japan makes them cheaper, and your future may be somewhere else.

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  • Kingfisher Airlines

    The King of Good Times

    Vijay Mallya's airline was India's most glamorous. It never made a profit. Can you make it fly?

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  • LEGO

    Back to the brick

    Kids are moving to screens, and LEGO has just lost money for the first time. How far do you take the brick?

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  • Maggi

    Two minutes to crisis

    A lab test in one small town grows into a nationwide ban. Can you save India's favourite noodles?

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  • Maruti Udyog

    A car for every Indian family

    A failed car company, no car experts, and a huge goal. Can you build India's first family car?

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  • Netflix

    Kill your own business

    You rent DVDs by post and face a giant. Can you build what comes next before it is too late?

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  • Coca-Cola

    The recipe nobody asked you to change

    Pepsi keeps winning the taste test. Do you change the world's most famous recipe?

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  • Nokia

    The phone that ruled the world

    Four in ten phones on Earth are yours. Then a phone that is almost all screen arrives.

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  • Tanishq (Titan)

    The gold test

    Titan built a jewellery plant for Europe, and Europe said no. Can you sell gold to India instead?

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  • Jio

    Free for everyone

    Launch a telecom network by giving data away.

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Daily streak

One call a day keeps your streak alive.

Weekly leagues

Earn XP, climb from Intern to Tycoon.

Your notes

Every Hot Seat leaves lessons you can reread.

Your first Hot Seat takes about 7 minutes.