engineer, inventor, migrant. building @CRED_club ; lesser half to @monagandhi ; @virginia_tech alum. 🇮🇳
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India just found its Elon Musk in Mukesh Ambani #RILAGM
the scale of the ambition at @reliancejio is unprecedented at a whole new level.
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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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“Sir” is my favourite word as an entrepreneur in India.
better master it early and practice daily.
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India has the best tech stack for democracies to function smartly.
identity (aadhar), payments, revenue collection (gst + itr), subsidy (dbt), and electronic polling.
packaged together one can fathom a "democracy OS"
made/scaled in india, ready for the world
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I reported a product issue to @vijayshekhar at 18:55 today.
by 19:55 the @Paytm product team had found the issue, fixed it and shipped it ...on the flagship Paytm app!
#wow #agility #respect
no wonder they are worth $10B+ !!!
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goosebumps reading @sbikh interview on the @deepigoyal and @zomato story.
this is the story of what's possible in 21st century India!
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life becomes 10x more productive when you are surrounded by intellectually honest people.
at home, at work, with friends, and society at large.
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one of the best decisions I made was to move back to India and be closer to my parents. w/ @monagandhi
tough professionally, but rewarding in many other ways.
it’s a false dichotomy to think you can’t do both (family & work) at the same time!
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July 2019 was a special month for @Timesinternet !
5 of our products had over 100M MAUs each ! (and 2 of these had over 200M MAUs)
@timesofindia @MXPlayer @gaana @cricbuzz @NavbharatTimes & languages
grateful to our users, teams, and customers! 🙏
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I am privileged and super excited to join the incredible team @CRED_club and work with @kunalb11 🚀
building out the full roadmap @CRED_club could be that unbounded adventure I wrote about last week. miten.co/2020/09/26/unbounde…
its a compelling mission! 🙏
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often younger team members are shocked at the networks of seniors.
your network is one of those assets that truly compounds over time.
if you’ve always been well behaved and fair to peers, the dividends of good will stack up.
play the long game!
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private boom v/s public gloom -- the current market cycle in India can be very tricky for startup founders.
sharing some pointers on what's going on & how to navigate
miten.co/2019/08/17/indiacap…
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creditworthy individuals deserve elevated experiences in everyday encounters -- at least that's how it should be!
@CRED_club is a community of the most creditworthy citizens on the Internet, whose impact is barely understood today.
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masks will be a permanent fixture globally for the next 5 years for most local & international travel. (that gives you TAM)
sporting goods & athleisure makers (Nike, Adidas, Lululemon) will go after this aggressively.
#AfterCovid
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India's biggest & arguably best export is her people.
great for the world, not so much for India herself.
we need to retain our best to realise our true potential.
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butterfly effect moment today for India Tech sector.
@zomato ipo is the match that lights the fire; and the effects will persist for a decade or two.
what a time to be here in this market, in tech industry, and this peer group of makers.
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Incredible run for @on_india Omidyar India team on EdTech investments!
they have:
@vedantu_learn $10M in, MTM at ~$60M
@DoubtnutApp $4M in, MTM at ~$20M (<2 yrs)
@whitehatjunior $3.5M in, MTM at $45M (<2 yrs)
~$18M in, MTM ~$120M
wowza @SiddharthTKMA @pbbadri & team!
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"2019, an exponential year" - personal reflection on the year gone by.
onwards to 2020! miten.co/2019/12/22/2019-exp…
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Bangalore kids robotics competition at openhouse.study
very Bay Area hobbyist club vibe
time to build ! 🇮🇳
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when you have an abundance mindset, opportunities pop up with high frequency
a zero sum mindset, yields the opposite.
evolution is a function of abundance and remixing.
choose well ✌️
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starting 90 days from now, we will see a huge flood of tweets & blogs about how awesome working in the office is.
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building something while being misunderstood by others for a long period of time is tremendously emotionally exhausting.
it’s a form of athleticism.
rewards can be immense if you get it right. but the odds are random at best.
so, pace yourself. it’s a marathon.
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looking to add 2 driven individuals to join @CRED_club strategy & IR team.
work alongside @jainmayank_943 @kunalb11 & myself
can directly apply or refer friends 👇
jobs.lever.co/cred/8eb844f7-…
jobs.lever.co/cred/1b784cce-…
we promise steep learning curves, and some adventure! 🙏
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All the dudes & dudettes saying "I told you so" about startups churning ...Yes you were right; now go try to build something & talk in 2yrs
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thrilled to share @LiveHappay will be a part of @CRED_club ecosystem
@anshularb @varunrathi87 & team have built a product suite with incredible customer-love that makes expense management delightful
together we will make good financial behavior more rewarding for our members!
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the third place (April ‘23)
many of us need a third place in life to think and be at every now and then
home and work are the first two places
third place is basically a salon for the mind. the gym, the club, the social space etc. gymkhanas, pubs, coffee shops traditionally solved this well.
but our minds (and needs of our minds) aren’t so hyper local anymore
you don’t relate so much with everyone that comes to Juhu Gym (or Indiranagar Club) as much as you might with folks in a whatsapp group you are a part of. local bookstores did this to some extent as well, but that business model is dead.
unfortunately it’s hard to just casually hang in a virtual place.
twitter solved this for many of us for a while, but now it’s fading. same for LinkedIn and so on.
a place to belong, a place to be vulnerable, a place to evolve.
the third place will be curated (some form of community frameworks), it will be virtual, it will also be physical (from time to time, perhaps even persistent), it will enable serendipity, it will enable trust.
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watching Scam 1992 on @SonyLIV makes you realise the importance of a free & competent press in the functioning of a self-correcting society.
bold stuff by @suchetadalal 🙌
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great “strategists” are no different than futurists.
if you are hiring, ask “what have you predicted ahead of the rest of the world?” ... ask for tangible proof!
if you can’t predict a potential future, creating one is far less likely!
work backwards from end game👇
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.@Timesinternet portfolio seeing some good momentum 🚀🚀🚀 ... @Mattermark ratings has us at #4 overall and #1 for late stage ...globally!
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let's get a billion litres of oxygen to people who need it the most right now !
inviting @CRED_club community members to do your part
@CRED_club is working with the good people at @milaapdotorg to make it happen!
Update: CRED members can now donate CRED coins towards buying oxygen concentrators for hospitals, healthcare orgs across India. With a goal of 1 billion litres, we’ve partnered with Milaap to ensure contributions reach hospitals in need.
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treks around Mumbai are something else!
👇Dhom Lake in Karjat w/ @monagandhi
h/t @helloanand @ku1deep for recommendation.
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launching @MXPlayer today!
@karanbedi leading with some big numbers! —> 275M Global MAUs, 100M Global DAUs
today we bring OTT capabilities, original content & a broader entertainment platform to MX users
@Timesinternet product !
@satyan @gsinha @vivekrjain
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whoever put BLR airport where it is has effectively put a perma productivity handicap on people who live/come-by here.
the cumulative wasted man-hours ought to be staggering !
planners have to consider second order effects.
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Back to being a Mumbaikar after a short break of 16-years
Mumbai —> Virginia Tech (4.5-yrs) —> San Francisco Bay Area (6.5-yrs) —> Delhi-NCR (5-yrs) —> Mumbai
learned a few things along the way!
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$10B question haunting Indian tech community right now ---> "how long will the ban on Chinese apps last?"
fortunes can be made, or unmade.
game on.
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one way to identify a true tech company is to identify the number of internal tools that can become revenue generating startups by themselves.
simple long term test, no where to hide :)
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All Electric fleet for employee-transport services @Timesinternet at our Gurgaon office! ... doing our bit to ease pressure from the air-pollution in NCR! cc @mfuloria
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wow it’s just been a year 😅
I am privileged and super excited to join the incredible team @CRED_club and work with @kunalb11 🚀
building out the full roadmap @CRED_club could be that unbounded adventure I wrote about last week. miten.co/2020/09/26/unbounde…
its a compelling mission! 🙏
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if i had taken "Economic History" as a minor along with "Computer Science" in college, i'd be way ahead in life.
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keeping your personal burn rate low at the early stages of your career is a big moat.
massively compounds risk taking ability.
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moved back to India 🇮🇳 ten years ago to the day w/ @monagandhi
grateful for every day we get to live & build in this vibrant country!
rate of change is staggering, sometimes chaotic but always tending to improving the lives of her citizens
couldn't get luckier 🙏
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100,000,000 monthly active users on @Gaana 🎼 #basbajnachahiyegaana
@prashan_agarwal @satyan
@Timesinternet
.@gaana celebrates being India's first music streaming app to hit 100 million users! #musicstreaming
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just f****n bored of WFH now, someone get me a vaccine please! #covid19
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fellow coffee lovers ☕️
super excited to share that @CRED_club Store now has the widest collection of Coffee beans you can find in India!
50+ varietals of beans, 7 brands (+5 soon) + gear
we aim to be the best place to satisfy that espresso urge!
app.cred.club/k63y/19dd1fb7
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wish i had read this 15 years ago.
paulgraham.com/identity.html
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good to see @MXPlayer on the @appannie Breakout Video Streaming apps of 2019 list!
#1 in India
#1 in Russia
#2 in Indonesia
#3 in Canada
all this #userlove in < 1-year of launch of streaming services!
kudos @karanbedi @vivekrjain @gttalks @satyan
@TimesInternet Co✌️
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good read + a moment to reflect on India's progress!
by @Swaminomics --> Why @Zomato IPO is reason for cheer ecoti.in/sVcgca via @economictimes
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6th flight in 6-weeks. ✈️
2021 feeling a tad like 2019 ... here is to hoping the trend continues through the year on all fronts — and life gets back to pre-covid. #optimistic
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someone asked me “what it takes to be good at your job in Corp Dev?”
3-simple ingredients IMO
1) intellectual honesty (about your own business)
2) imagination (for what’s possible, in your industry & adjacent ones)
3) integrity (especially in markets like India)
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in 2016 the future of food tech in India looked bleak if you read the news.
i had a contrarian view: that shifts in habit would be one way & create giant companies.
SEBI’s nod to @Swiggy IPO reminds us all of magic of tech startups changing the world!
tinyurl.com/ymtwk7sm
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started as a vague idea "can we make this an OTT? 🧐" in 2016 !
and then the adventure has been nothing short of amazing.
we've got an amazing team led by @karanbedi @vivekrjain in India & a solid engineering team in Beijing. @Timesinternet
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.
tech.economictimes.indiatime…
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every time I travel to NCR (typically every couple of months), I notice 1-2 new meaningful pieces of infra getting built.
it's staggering how far ahead the NCR region is infrastructure wise.
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frequent all hands meetings is one of the simplest culture preservation tactics.
it has massive second order effects on every operating metric
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Great to see Delhivery become a unicorn! ... onwards to the next milestone for Sahil Barua and team.
.@Timesinternet wrote the first institutional cheque to Delhivery. #portfolio
@gsinha saw a great team solving a massive problem. Midas touch.
Softbank Vision Fund leads $413 million round in ecommerce focused logistics co Delhivery, valuation jumps to $1.5 billion. The investment is likely to be followed by a secondary share sale worth $150 MN by early investors of the company toi.in/5zysDY/a24gj
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in my limited experience, the top early indicator of a persons potential is the quality of questions they tend to ask/be-curious about.
close second is drive to reshape order with their POV.
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many sizeable startups are now announcing we are “open for M&A”
by announcing that, you will get “sellers” crowd your inbox, and waste time/resources analysing suboptimal opportunities.
best companies are bought, and not sold.
startup m&a is as much sell-side as buy-side
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.@gaana continues to shine in the face of major global competition (@Spotify @AppleMusic) entering India music streaming market! ... 152M MAUs 🚀
story by @newley
w/ @prashan_agarwal @satyan @gsinha @TimesInternet
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anecdotal pattern from my travels
all the well dressed (stylish) people in BLR seem to be heading home to BOM end of the week.
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amazing how @Whatsapp call works better than the regular mobile phone network in india!
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“and those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music” - F Nietzsche
come join us in building @CRED_club ... hiring across roles —> careers.cred.club
Happy to announce a $1.2M ESOP buyback along with our Series C round of $81M led by DST.
It’s rare to buyback in 2 yrs and still retain 10% of cap table for esop at Series C.
As a founder nothing feels more special than creating wealth for all those who put their faith in you
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Boom 💥 📺📱🚀🦄 ... one of our most ambitious product platform offerings at @Timesinternet in the making. billion users in sight ! #video
#mxplayer will be the entertainment destination for young India! We are super excited to build upon India’s favourite video platform along with @Timesinternet #excitingtimesahead @satyan @gsinha @miten
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great companies are built when a core group of people dedicate a significant portion of their lives to crafting a institution around a business
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.@TimesInternet #1 digital publisher on 🌏
400M monthly users!!!
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great to have @amazonIN board the @Shuttl_Ind story. @goodnotenough and team are building an amazing company! ... @Timesinternet lucky to be an early backer :)
Shuttl raises Rs 75 crore in Series B funding led by Amazon buff.ly/2uVaOG3 @Shuttl_Ind
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i would build a Singapore++ type new city-country, with following features:
- innovation friendly policies
- participative governance
- good schools, nice airport, port
- in temperate climate
15-20 year road-map.
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😂
No one:
Every @peakbengaluru guy in coffee shops when asked if they know any VCs in India:
ft @miten @tejeshwi_sharma @LightspeedIndia @accelindia @Sequoia_India
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.@haptik started with a bold vision back in 2013, when no one thought about conversational-interactions the way they did, not even @WeChatApp
@aakuvaish & @SRajdev saw well ahead of the curve. I had the good fortune of writing the first seed cheque 🙏
We are excited and proud to announce that Haptik has entered into a strategic transaction with Reliance Jio.
The total deal size is 700 Cr, with Jio holding ~87% of the combined business on a fully diluted basis.
bit.ly/2FMcCWl
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many of us think “once I get X, I’ll be really happy” — that X could be a role, salary, networth, accomplishment/award, dating someone, buying a house/gadget etc
but when we get there, we tend to feel empty or “oh its not really that fun” and wonder!
happens to most of us!
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"its amazing what you can accomplish when you do not care who gets the credit" - Harry Truman
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monsoon treks around Mumbai are a treasure! ... short 1-1.5 hr drive from city center you are amidst some of the most stunning vistas, seasonal waterfalls, and vast untouched flora!
thx @helloanand & @ku1deep for getting me hooked!
Epic trek today with @miten. Dripping rain, misty clouds, and a cool breezy wind. We took Katwan route to Alexander point and down Rambaug.
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got lucky to meet a real life hero today in @virenrasquinha who leads @OGQ_India
"It takes 6 grams of Gold to lift the worth of a nation" he said!
inspiring to see amazing people like him & the OGQ team take on audacious work of building 🇮🇳's capabilities ground up!
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i've had the privilege of a ring side view into the surge of @namrataganatra 's career as she scaled from @microsoft to @facebook to @coinbase and now CTO @LambdaSchool
she is the exemplar of what women-in-tech can do.
role model for many!
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