For Immediate Release: Mumbai, 16 April 2026: Personal Finance TV (PFTV), one of the content-led educational initiatives of 1 Finance, has recently announced the launch of ‘INHERITED: Stories of Succession,’ a podcast that brings together the founders of India’s family businesses and the next generation. The show explores what it truly takes to carry a legacy forward, across identity, trust, conflict, and the realities of succession.
Family businesses contribute close to 80% of India’s GDP, yet according to a study by the Indian School of Business, the average lifespan of a family business in India is just 35 years, with barely 1.2% surviving beyond a century. A striking tension sits at the heart of this: 88% of business founders trust the next generation to manage family wealth, yet only 7% of inheritors feel obligated to take on the family business. ‘INHERITED’ is built around that gap.
Filmed in the living rooms of India’s business families, each episode covers the unspoken dynamics of succession covering power transitions, vision clashes, emotional baggage, knowledge transfer, and the question every inheritor faces: how do you honour a legacy while making it your own? Succession, it turns out, is not a single event. It raises questions of trust and control, of how roles are allocated, of how knowledge is passed down, of how the next generation is trained without being stifled. The visual identity and logo of the show has been crafted by Studio Paper Heads, a multi-disciplinary graphic design studio and they have brought the same heft and intentionality to the assets that compliment the stories effortlessly.
The inaugural season features conversations with families behind Hari Krishna Exports Pvt. Ltd., Cycle Agarbatti, and Ras Beauty, with many more in the pipeline. The show asks questions that address the various dynamics of a family business at every stage of it. Every founder builds something to last. Every inheritor arrives with their own idea of what it should become. ‘INHERITED’ thrives in that gap, where legacy meets ambition, and the next generation decides how much of the old world to carry forward.
Speaking about the initiative, Rohan Richard, Channel Head, Personal Finance TV said, “There is an entire ledger of personal finance that rarely makes it into any curriculum; the cost of unspoken expectations, the liability of an unprepared successor, the irreplaceable asset of institutional memory held only in the mind of a founder. Legacy businesses are where all of that becomes viscerally real. At Personal Finance TV, we have been deliberate about building a platform that addresses personal finance in its entirety, not just its most legible chapters. ‘INHERITED’ is the team’s most ambitious undertaking in that spirit; a series that required not only editorial conviction but deep empathy for the families generous enough to open their homes and their histories to us. It is a conversation that is long overdue in Indian financial discourse, and one that reflects the depth of purpose we bring to everything at Personal Finance TV. At its core, it sits in seamless alignment with the founding ethos of 1 Finance, to be, in every sense, one with your interest.”
Shraddha Nileshwar, Head – Will & Estate Planning, 1 Finance further added, “We’ve built an entire culture around celebrating what founders create, but almost no vocabulary for what happens when it has to be handed over. The numbers are striking! Barely 1.2% of Indian family businesses survive beyond a century, but what the statistics don’t capture is the moment before the unravelling: the handover that was assumed rather than planned, the successor who was never truly prepared, the patriarch who couldn’t let go. Succession planning in India is still treated as morbid, premature, or somehow an act of distrust toward the next generation, when in reality, the absence of a plan is what erodes trust. The families that endure are not necessarily the wealthiest or the most sophisticated, but they are the ones who treated succession as a process, not an event. & ‘INHERITED’ is the conversation that process demands, and one I am glad is finally being had in public.”
CONCLUSION:
‘INHERITED: Stories of Succession,’ is now live on the Personal Finance TV YouTube channel. For families navigating the weight of legacy, and for those who have yet to begin that conversation, it is a good place to start.
