Entrepreneur · Author · Business Educator
Sahil Khanna
Sahil Khanna is an Indian entrepreneur, business educator, and creator known for Intellectual Indies and Lapaas. At Indies Education, he turns business research and operating experience into rigorous, practical lessons.
- 684
- Published lessons
- 1M+
- Primary-channel subscribers
- 2017
- Intellectual Indies founded
Background and practice
From engineering fundamentals to practical business education
Sahil’s published profiles describe a transition from chemical engineering into marketing and management. That combination—systems thinking from engineering and commercial judgment from business—continues to shape how he explains complex ideas.
He founded Intellectual Indies in 2017 and built it into a business-learning content ecosystem covering company case studies, startups, marketing, strategy, and candid founder conversations. He also founded Lapaas, a New Delhi digital-marketing and education business. Sahil describes his entrepreneurial journey as including the eventual exit from the agency he built.
Across workshops, courses, consulting, and digital media, Sahil’s work has reached students, startup founders, legacy-business owners, and operating teams. His primary Intellectual Indies channel has more than one million subscribers. Sahil’s public profiles describe a combined audience above two million across his content ecosystem, while Lapaas course pages report more than 140,000 entrepreneurs reached through its educational work.
At Indies Education, Sahil serves as author and lead educator. Every lesson is designed to go beyond definitions: readers should understand the mechanism, examine evidence and limits, apply a framework, and leave with an action plan and checklist.
Elsewhere
Profiles and source notes
Written by Sahil Khanna
Latest business lessons
Evidence-led chapters designed to move from understanding to action.
Retail Management: The Complete Operating System
A rigorous, practical guide to coordinate customer missions, assortment, merchandising, pricing, inventory, people, stores, digital channels, and cash. It combines a defensible decision model, a worked business case, implementation steps, measurement architecture, ethical guardrails, leadership questions, and field exercises for operators who need to turn analysis into coordinated action.
Execution Excellence: From Strategy to Results
A rigorous, practical guide to translate strategic choices into owned outcomes, operating cadences, visible dependencies, learning, and reliable delivery. It combines a defensible decision model, a worked business case, implementation steps, measurement architecture, ethical guardrails, leadership questions, and field exercises for operators who need to turn analysis into coordinated action.
Cost Reduction Without Destroying Value
A rigorous, practical guide to remove structural cost and non-value work while protecting customer outcomes, capability, resilience, safety, and future economics. It combines a defensible decision model, a worked business case, implementation steps, measurement architecture, ethical guardrails, leadership questions, and field exercises for operators who need to turn analysis into coordinated action.
Productivity Ratios: A Manager’s Complete Guide
A rigorous, practical guide to measure how effectively defined outputs are produced from labour capital materials time energy and total inputs without rewarding harmful shortcuts. It combines a defensible decision model, a worked business case, implementation steps, measurement architecture, ethical guardrails, leadership questions, and field exercises for operators who need to turn analysis into coordinated.
Passive Income Frameworks Without the Hype
A rigorous, practical guide to design low-touch recurring income assets honestly by separating upfront creation, ongoing operations, capital risk, legal rights, maintenance, and distribution. It combines a defensible decision model, a worked business case, implementation steps, measurement architecture, ethical guardrails, leadership questions, and field exercises for operators who need to turn analysis into coordinated action.
Breakdown maintenance vs preventive maintenance: Practical M
A rigorous practical guide to breakdown maintenance versus preventive maintenance, combining a defensible decision model, worked business case, implementation sequence, measurement architecture, ethical guardrails, leadership questions, and field exercises for operators turning analysis into coordinated action.
Disruption & innovation: Practical MBA Guide
A rigorous practical guide to disruption and innovation, combining a defensible decision model, worked business case, implementation sequence, measurement architecture, ethical guardrails, leadership questions, and field exercises for operators turning analysis into coordinated action.
New product development: Practical MBA Guide
A rigorous practical guide to new product development, combining a defensible decision model, worked business case, implementation sequence, measurement architecture, ethical guardrails, leadership questions, and field exercises for operators turning analysis into coordinated action.
Turnaround strategy: Practical MBA Guide
A rigorous practical guide to turnaround strategy, combining a defensible decision model, worked business case, implementation sequence, measurement architecture, ethical guardrails, leadership questions, and field exercises for operators turning analysis into coordinated action.
Backward & forward integration in business: Practical MBA Gu
A rigorous practical guide to backward and forward integration, combining a defensible decision model, worked business case, implementation sequence, measurement architecture, ethical guardrails, leadership questions, and field exercises for operators turning analysis into coordinated action.
Capturing Nonconsumers Through Market Creation
A rigorous, practical guide to convert barriers to participation into a simpler, more accessible value system without confusing nonconsumption with disinterest. It combines a defensible decision model, a worked business case, implementation steps, measurement architecture, ethical guardrails, leadership questions, and field exercises for operators who need to turn analysis into coordinated action.
Distribution Management: A Complete Strategy Guide
A rigorous, practical guide to design channel coverage, inventory flow, partner economics, service levels, and information so products are available where decisions occur. It combines a defensible decision model, a worked business case, implementation steps, measurement architecture, ethical guardrails, leadership questions, and field exercises for operators who need to turn analysis into coordinated action.