Chairman @timesinternet, India's largest digital co, with leading platforms in news, sports, fintech, and more. Cofounder @MLCricket
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this literally feels like an SNL skit
::coughs:: it is contagious, but the death rate is pretty low
::coughs::, ::drinks his daughters water and then gives it back to her to drink::, they said yea im fine
Fox News just interviewed a Pennsylvania man who went through the coronavirus quarantine process -- but he couldn't stop coughing during the interview 😳
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Nothing like a print ad (in the @nytimes no less) to solidify the arrival of cricket in America!
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My latest for Cricbuzz: Knight Riders eyeing Los Angeles franchise in the US T20 League along with being part owners of the league itself.
Hollywood meets Bollywood
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Looking forward to talking tonight on AI and India with @sama, hosted by @EconomicTimes… Watch it live at 6pm IST at economictimes.com or at piped.video/watch?v=AiE7FsdR… #ETChatWithSamAltman
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For more than 20 years, we at The Times Group have been imagining digital, via @TimesInternet, not merely as running digital versions of our leading traditional media assets, across print, TV, radio, etc, but with a broader ambition. 1/12
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Saw this graphic in one of our ad campaigns, and really loved it. So many iconic brands, old and new, that make up the "Times" city
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some poor girl named Sara keeps sending me her homework. I keep replying that its the wrong email address 😟
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Crazy to see Zoom as the #2 app, and Whatsapp as the #9 app, in Android Play Store in India. Real testament to Zoom video quality that the product with less network effects, and restricted free product, is surpassing the pure free video product. And in India!
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love to see it when cricket news becomes mainstream news in the US. congrats @VaibhavSV12 @willowtv
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1/4 Excited to share that @MXPlayer has raised $110 million from @TencentGlobal and @Timesinternet! This is our second business to raise external capital, after @gaana last year.
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Publishing "Times Internet Today", an deep, inside look into Times Internet, what we do, and where we're going timesinternet.in/blog/index.…
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In case you are wondering how important individual impact is on societal COVID19 spread, read this story about Patient 31 in South Korea, who singlehandedly may be responsible for 80% of cases over a period of time. graphics.reuters.com/CHINA-H…
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"...her passing is not to be mourned; instead the liberation of the soul is to be celebrated. But there's no bar on my deeply missing a woman who walked with seers, but had her feet decidedly on the ground."
🙏 Chairman & Dadi
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400 million 😮
Proud to be the No.1 Premium Digital Publisher in the World!
#Marketing #Media #DigitalMarketing #CMO
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Happy to announce that @Gaana, a @TimesInternet business, is raising $115m, led by Tencent. For @prashan_agarwal and the @gaana team, the real work starts now. economictimes.indiatimes.com…
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Last month @gaana passed 100 million monthly active users, being the first Indian music service to do so! It's a massive achievement for a business incubated in house at @TimesInternet. Congratulations to @prashan_agarwal and the team! 1/4 economictimes.indiatimes.com…
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I’m excited and proud that @timesofindia is launching #MaskIndia, a movement to get every Indian to make a cloth mask and protect themselves and others! This is the front page of today's paper, and you can learn more at maskindia.com 1/7
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interesting data from @IndiasporaForum in @timesofindia on US NRI impact
- 6% of taxes from 1.5% population
- 25% of international students at US universities are from India
- 10% of US patents from Indian-origin inventors
- 28 of 34 spelling bee champions are India
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What a day! Land in London, then World Cup to Wimbledon, then straight to the airport to catch flight! Physically and mentally exhausted, as I start my trip 🤦♂️
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.@gaana is a homegrown Indian product by @TimesInternet that leads against local and global players, and continues to grow rapidly. @prashan_agarwal and team focused on building the best product for all of India. Thanks @newley @WSJ for sharing our story. buff.ly/2trAKeY
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Let’s goo
Thank you, @StarSportsIndia for renewing the partnership!
Welcome on-board @viacom18 and @TimesInternet.
This is just the start of a promising 5-year journey. We can't wait to get going.
#TATAIPL
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Investors and spectators (and weak leaders) look at funding fatalistically. If X raises more money then X’s competitor is doomed. I’ve found that it’s often the opposite: Limited cash creates operating efficiency and forced innovation. And an underdog sense of urgency.
How do SoftBank's big checks affect startup competition?
A year ago Wag raised $300M from SoftBank.
Wag's sales rose 8% since then. Rover's rose 25%.
wsj.com/articles/since-recei… via @WSJVC
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What a weekend for cricket in America!
From US beating Pakistan to hosting 34k people in New York City for the epic India Pakistan showdown… it’s been a weekend to remember
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Proud to see @TimesInternet as the top Indian app publisher globally, amidst many strong companies and groups, large and small! appannie.com/en/apps/ios/top…
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Excited to finally announce one of our biggest launches! Get ready for the best @TimesBlackCard @ICICIBank @Visa
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Boom! “How Gaana is winning India's streaming war with Punjabi music and podcasts” @qz
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Very excited to be working with @usacricket to build a massive and lasting footprint for Cricket in the US!
BREAKING NEWS: USA Cricket has completed its RFP process for the development of a world-class professional T20 cricket league in the United States🇺🇸 and has selected American Cricket Enterprises (ACE) as its strategic partner.🏏
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Privileged to have @TheEconomist feature @Timesinternet so prominently in its special feature on internet usage. We are building experiences like @gaana and @MXPlayer that are completely different from Western models, and the exploration is exciting! economist.com/briefing/2019/…
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What a day! @indiatimes, for the first time ever, is the most engaged site on Facebook in the WORLD! ✈️💯👍 #OnTheMap🇮🇳 #WhatsAPortal
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We had a big counting day! 133 million daily users, nearly 4 billion minutes of engagement! @Timesinternet timesofindia.indiatimes.com/…
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Thanks @sama for taking time to speak to India’s leaders about AI and India. Also thank you for the compliment :)
From investor frenzy around generative #ArtificialIntelligence (AI) to potential job losses that would accompany the mass adoption of the technology, #SamAltman spoke on a wide range of topics.
#ETChatWithSamAltman
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Last month, @gaana crossed 40m monthly users, almost 3x growth in the last year, and one of the fastest growing bizs in @TimesInternet 1/3
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im still baffled by the fact that no traditional car company has built a giant touchscreen display like tesla's. has nothing to do with being electric vs gas, but its like going from blackberry to iphone
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This year, for the first time, China has more companies in the Fortune 500 (129) than the US does (121). And they are growing faster.
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If you haven’t yet, do check out the new @EconomicTimes across devices. A beautiful and optimized experience economictimes.indiatimes.com…
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Excited to chat with @sama on AI and India next month! m.economictimes.com/tech/tec…
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Excited to share that @Cricbuzz has launched CricbuzzTV, in partnership with eVision @eAndUAE . CricbuzzTV will be the home of broadcast cricket across all platforms in the Middle East! m.economictimes.com/industry…
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7 years ago, I was fortunate enough to have been introduced to @miten, and today we wish @miten the best on the next step of his journey. Colleagues inside @TimesInternet and in the digital ecosystem have felt Miten’s curiosity, passion, intellect, and excitement.
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after an incredible 7-years of learning, doing, failing, succeeding and creating some impact @timesinternet, I am stepping back from my role as CSO
grateful to my colleagues, teams, partners, and investors who put so much trust in enabling me to deliver 🙏
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BOOM!
Delhivery now publicly trading on the stock exchanges!
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#nseindia #DelhiveryIPO #delhivery #supplychain
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Excited to see our first major cricket stadium development in the US!
Dallas stadium is set to become the new home of USA Cricket. @smit2592 has more on the big development cricbuzz.com/cricket-news/11…
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How A $1 Billion Investment Into American Cricket Will Kick-Start A Professional U.S. T20 League | @Forbes forbes.com/sites/tristanlava…
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$1 billion of investments managed by @ETMONEY in 3 years, and a business growing 3.5x each year. More importantly, 60% of customers were first time investors. Congratulations @kalramukesh and team on building something special and impactful
1/5 Wow, we just turned 3years old! What an amazing journey it has been. A BIG THANK YOU to all our Users & Partners🙏🙏Together, we have scaled a few mountains 👇👇
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kudos to the incredible delivery and production networks that make this possible 🙏🙏🙏
Mumbai Airport runway shut, schools closed, train stations flooded, but the newspapers arrived in my house on time & dry! I have to salute those quiet, unsung heroes who brave torrential rain just so we can experience a ‘normal day.’ 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽
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With that said, I’m excited to share @TimesInternet’s 2nd Annual Report. While it’s been a wacky 6 months, I’m proud that we are growing on all metrics, tracking towards our goal of 1 billion users and 1 billion USD revenue by 2025. timesinternet.in/blog/times-… A few highlights: 4/12
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Spotted on the streets of Palo Alto @_sameernigam @PhonePe
Does this make it a global brand?
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COVID19 growth in hot places, over the last week (8Mar to 15Mar):
Malaysia (27°C) - 99 to 428 cases
Qatar (23°C) - 15 to 401 cases
Bahrain (22°C) - 85 to 214 cases
Philippines (26°C) - 10 to 140 cases
Indonesia (26°C) - 6 to 117 cases
Florida (26°C) - 0 to 115 cases
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On 26Jan, congrats to @RadioMirchi for launching their first radio station in the USA! NY/NJ/Long Island/Connecticut Indians - check out Radio Mirchi at 1600 AM!
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I might be biased but @timesofindia really should get credit for having the best big story headlines
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Thank you @narendramodi @PMOIndia for your support!
Always better to take that extra precaution. Will help you and those around you.
I commend the @timesofindia group for this very innovative movement. #IndiaFightsCorona
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PS: I want to thank the @timesofindia Brand, Edit, and Online teams, that labored all weekend until late hours to put this together, all while working from home. Very proud of the effort, and it shows that working for the greater good brings out the best in all of us :)
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Excited to launch @ETMoney Genius, one of our most ambitious initiatives! Genius is India’s smartest, personalized investment strategy partner. Strategies normally only available for high net worth individuals, now available to any Indian.
More here -> piped.video/watch?v=ANkTPqOa…
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I used GPT-3 to make an AI version of @hvgoenka on Twitter. This is what it gave me for his next tweets 😂
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Going live on Clubhouse with @sriramk @bhogleharsha @ashwinravi99 @prithinarayanan in two hours, to discuss cricket and digital media. Do join!
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Happy Engineers Day to the 900+ engineers that help @Timesinternet serve nearly 500 million monthly consumers. Putting it simply, our engineers individually service over 500,000 consumers, each. Thank you.
Engineers are synonymous with diligence and determination. Human progress would be incomplete without their innovative zeal. Greetings on #EngineersDay and best wishes to all hardworking engineers. Tributes to the exemplary engineer Sir M. Visvesvaraya on his birth anniversary.
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Proud of a very successful Inaugural Season of @MLCricket. Sold out stadiums across the United States for an American cricket league exceeded expectations. Looking forward to doing it bigger and better next year!
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Awesome tech innovation by the @MXPlayer @MXTakaTak teams
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one of our most successful venture investments, led by @gsinha. we take pride in backing teams we believe in, and Sahil is one of the best CEOs in India
One of the biggest winners in Delhivery IPO will be Times Internet
They hold a 5% stake (pre-Offer) in Delhivery - A total of 3.17 cr shares held at Rs3.50 each, so total spend = 11.1 Cr
This has grown into 1550 cr - a cool 140x!
Times internet giving PEs a run for their money
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“Overall, Hotstar and @MXPlayer were ruling the roost with the highest share of OTT audiences using their platforms.” From “One OTT Platform Simply Not Enough for Indians” by @qzindia | qz.com/india/1641490/hotstar…
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if anyone ever doubts the power of technology, show them the photo of these guys literally flying through space by tapping on a touchscreen
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I've given up on inbox zero (I'm at 32,717 unread right now)... my new goal is Whatsapp Zero
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Cool partnership... @WillowTV and @YESNetwork have partnered to show @MLCricket @MINYCricket matches on YES, alongside New York @Yankees matches, this July! pretty cool to see the biggest baseball franchise in the world excited about bringing cricket to its fans! listen below
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500 million. 😳
#mxplayer has crossed 500 MILLION installs on the @googleplay store! And 10s of millions more off-store. On our way to a billion! 🚀🚀😎
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Excited to welcome @durgaraghunath and @indianeconomy to @TimesInternet, to drive @timesofindia forward. Looking forward to their contributions
Times Internet adds Durga Raghunath and Rohit Saran to leadership team -
@durgaraghunath @indianeconomy @gsinha
@guptpuneet @TimesInternet
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Next week I’ll be chatting with Sam Altman of OpenAI. We will discuss AI and India, amongst other things. Please let me know if you have any questions or topic suggestions
The Economic Times is delighted to host an exclusive evening with @sama — CEO of #OpenAI and the unofficial leader of the #AI revolution — on June 7 in New Delhi.
In conversation with Altman will be @satyan, Vice Chairman of Times Internet.
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We touched 110 million daily users and 557 million monthly users last year. We reach nearly 8 in 10 Indians, and nearly 7% of the world’s population, every month. And we’re the largest Indian digital network, reaching more audiences in India, aside from Google and Facebook 5/12
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Massive moment for @flipkart, for @binnybansal , for @_sachinbansal , and for Digital India... lots of implications for the Indian ecosystem to consider, but today is a day of congratulations and celebration!
Delighted to welcome @Walmart as our long-term partners in @Flipkart. This is the dawn of a new era for India's #StartUp ecosystem.
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Big milestone for team @gaana!Growing at its fastest clip ever, driven by fantastic exclusives and originals!
Gaana becomes the first Indian music streaming app to cross 50 million monthly active users toi.in/Qeexyb
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In case you weren’t convinced on the market potential of short form video in India, the top 6 downloaded apps in India across all categories are all short form video platforms (led by @MXTakaTak).
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Excited to see @gaana's growth highlighted in Mary Meeker's Internet Trends report! kpcb.com/internet-trends
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I’m convinced the primary cause of global inflation is the digital payments screens that ask you how much tip to add
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Thanks @sonamakapoor! The @iDivaOfficial team is really happy to see this! You might also like this video series by them - facebook.com/iDivaonFB/video…
I haven't watched too many web series but #DulhaWanted
seems interesting, hilarious and really intriguing!
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Thank you to @BCCI on a very well run process, excited to collaborate in the years to come
I congratulate Viacome18 for winning Aus, SA, UK,
Times have got MENA & US, who win the Rest of the World Rights. The IPL is as popular outside India as it is here and
the viewers will be able to enjoy top-class cricket.
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comScore Reports Top News Sites in India -- @Timesinternet doing well :) comscore.com/Insights/Rankin…
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Amazon has inspired a whole generation of entrepreneurs to believe that making profit isn’t important for a company, and to justify perpetually losing money. Running a zero or negative margin business is walking a tight rope
If predatory pricing were illegal, which is to say you were not allowed to run companies to intentionally lose money in anti-competitive ways, much of the bullshit counterfeit economy (Lyft, Uber, WeWork, Bird) would disappear. And it should disappear.
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Excited to work with @harshjain85 and @DreamSportsHQ and do things. Onto greater heights @cricbuzz @willowtv
💸 Sports tech company @DreamSportsHQ is set to invest $50 million (around Rs 427 crore) in cricket media platform @cricbuzz and North American cricket broadcaster @willowtv, both owned by Times Internet.
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My sister Seema Gajwani is transforming the criminal justice system of America by getting PROSECUTORS to use restorative justice. Nothing short of incredible 🙌🙏 npr.org/2019/07/02/735506637…
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Boom! @Mattermark ranking @Timesinternet as #1 trending late stage investor globally
.@Timesinternet portfolio seeing some good momentum 🚀🚀🚀 ... @Mattermark ratings has us at #4 overall and #1 for late stage ...globally!
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1/6 China will come out of this far stronger than the rest of the world. China is near finished with completing containment of COVID19, rest of world just getting started coming to terms with its existence.
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Landed in Bangalore! Love the weather, hate the traffic, but mostly excited to attend the @StartupAwardsET this evening. Look forward to hearing from @PiyushGoyal and @Rajeev_GoI, and spending time with India’s most promising entrepreneurs and disruptors
Watch it live at 5:30pm IST at etstartupawards.com/ #ETSA2023
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. @MLCricket will be available across many platforms this year in the US! Exciting to place cricket alongside baseball and other American sports. Thank you to our partners! MLC Season 2 starts Friday! Details below:
- All matches on @willowtv
- @MINYCricket matches on @YESNetwork
- @WSHFreedom matches on @MonSportsNet
- @TexasSuperKings matches on @BallySportsSW
- @LA_KnightRiders matches on @BallySportWest
- @MLCSeattleOrcas matches on @ROOTSPORTS_NW
- and 3 Sunday night MLC matches available for free on @Sling @fuboTV and @cricbuzz @willowtv
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For @gsinha and @TimesInternet, this is a landmark moment, as Gaana is our first business to raise external capital. Rest assured, we’re just getting started… we’re going to make Times Internet one of the most impactful digital companies in India. #backtowork
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Being an entrepreneur in India is harder than people realize. There’s less money, infrastructure, and foundation to build on. @aakuvaish and @SRajdev at @haptik have embraced it, and have demonstrated non-stop hustle over the last few years which is hard to find. 1/4
Thanks to @Timesinternet for being an amazing partner over the last 3 years. @satyan @gsinha @miten have built a platform that truly embodies the spirit of a startup, with the resources of an institution. Always true to their word and genuine backers of entrepreneurs. 🙏
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