Co-Founder Arta Finance. previously-(Google Pay, ChromeOS, Files, GStation... Payments & Next Billion Users teams
@Google
). Posting in my personal capacity.
Folks - I’m thrilled to introduce you all to
@arta_finance
We started Arta because we believe financial superpowers shouldn’t belong to just the ultra-rich.
Learn more in our announcement 👇
The ultra-rich have financial superpowers that most of us don’t even know about. That changes today.
Introducing Arta, the “Digital Family Office”. With the help of deep tech & AI/ML, our mission is to bring these superpowers to millions more globally 👇
After ~15 wonderful yrs
@Google
, I’m stepping into the outside world on a new journey. I leave, heart full of gratitude, joy and many deep friendships. 🙏🙏🙏
@sundarpichai
and many many Google friends.
More at
Excited about what's next. Wish me luck!
So excited to finally get this fresh new UI out for
@google
Finance. Team's worked really hard on this and we have a lot more cool stuff coming. Stay tuned!
Finally got my
@Tesla
after many years of waiting (Tesla started deliveries in Singapore earlier this year). This car is amazing. Well done
@elonmusk
Never going back to gas guzzlers again!!!
After ~15 wonderful yrs
@Google
, I’m stepping into the outside world on a new journey. I leave, heart full of gratitude, joy and many deep friendships. 🙏🙏🙏
@sundarpichai
and many many Google friends.
More at
Excited about what's next. Wish me luck!
Exactly 3 years from launch (Sept 18, 2017), today the most downloaded fintech app globally. Thank you friends for your trust and support 🙏🙏🙏
We're working hard to make
@GooglePayIndia
better for you every single day.
We
@Google
are excited to be an initial member of
@mojaloop
.
#Mojaloop
#OpenSource
software will help drive financial inclusion and interoperable payment systems globally. Looking fwd to working with our partners to serve the
#NextBillionUsers
. More at
Proud to support India’s digital growth. By solving for Indians and Indian businesses, and by making sure technology works for everyone, we will emerge stronger together into a glorious Digital India.
#GoogleForIndia
#G4IN
#DigitalIndia
Today at
#GoogleForIndia
we announced a new $10B digitization fund to help accelerate India’s digital economy. We’re proud to support PM
@narendramodi
’s vision for Digital India - many thanks to Minister
@rsprasad
& Minister
@DrRPNishank
for joining us.
13 years at Google today. Many products, 3 countries, countless friends later, still loving it. Thank you
@sundarpichai
and
@Google
for this opportunity to serve our users and hopefully have a positive impact. What more can one ask for.
#Grateful
#Googleversary
Yes, a nice guy can absolutely be an effective leader. I have seen
@sundarpichai
be both for a long time and if you don't want to believe me, look at $GOOG (274.56% up in the past 5 years).
Tez has been out 2 months today. 10M users, >74M transactions and growing. Thanks everyone for your love and support. We're working hard to bring you even more cool stuff.
@GoogleIndia
@TezbyGoogle
Very excited to share that I’m starting Arbo Works along with a group of amazing people. We are announcing the first set of
#Arbonauts
today -
@davidjshapiro
, Felix Lin and
@zelidrag
and over the next few weeks will share more.
Thrilled to welcome Mrs Shikha Sharma, ex-CEO of Axis Bank, as an advisor to
@GooglePayIndia
. Shikhaji has been an early champion of bank-tech partnerships, and a mentor to us. Now her strategic thinking and guidance will help us accelerate our global payments journey. 🙏🙏🙏
Super satisfying. My kid wanted to use Minecraft Java edition. She was told by her friends she could not do it on her Chromebook. Turned on Linux mode, download the deb and installed. Now it runs faster than on her friend's Mac/Win. Chromebook FTW and I'm the coolest dad ever.
We are deeply inspired by India’s nation-building ambition, intellectual capital and spirit of enterprise. We look forward to being India’s committed partner in this journey — and to seeing India become the home of many global firsts in the coming years.
Excited and very grateful that
@singh_sequoia
and
@Sequoia_India
will be leading (
@arboworks
) seed round. Also joining over 100 friends/mentors incl # of CEOs, founders, senior execs and angels from around the world.🙏🙏🙏
More at
Everyone should have access to the internet. Proud to partner with
@reliancejio
to increase access for the hundreds of millions in India who don’t own a smartphone with our 1st investment of $4.5B from the
#GoogleForIndia
Digitization Fund.
Finally, huge huge huge thanks to
@sundarpichai
for the many years of mentorship, encouragement and friendship and most importantly for allowing me to take this big step and see if I can stand on my own. 🙏🙏🙏
As part of
@GoogleIndia
Digitization Fund, we're excited to invest in great Indian companies/founders that are making more digital content available in Indian languages. Here's to a more inclusive internet for all Indians.
#DigitalIndia
#NextBillionUsers
Great to see today's news on a real-time payments system in the US! We
@Google
welcome the Fed's leadership here. This is a good step toward more economic opportunity and financial inclusion for everyone.
@federalreserve
announces Federal Reserve Banks will develop FedNow Service, a new round-the-clock real-time payment, settlement service to support faster payments in the U.S.:
I find it quite sad that when there are leaders that at nice people (like
@sundarpichai
or Jane
@Citibank
) people try to prove that they are less effective than the jerks!
If we want a better world, we need more nice leaders. Let's support them vs trying to tear them down.
It took a global community to put smartphones in everyone’s hands. Today, it’s time for that global community to come together again to digitize economies and create more economic opportunity for all.
This is the kind of stuff that makes the blood, sweat and tears (part and parcel of building new products) totally worth it. 🙏🙏🙏
Digital Payments make it safer, faster and much easier for every business no matter how small.
@GooglePayIndia
@UPI_NPCI
Thanks
@kunalb11
for stopping by
@arta_finance
and doing a fireside chat with us. Thought provoking and insightful as always. Also thanks for being an angel too 🙏🏾
Lets do this more often!
Zoya, my 14 year old, just released her first single. She did everything - lyrics, music and vocals. So proud of her. Please give it a listen,like/follow and retweet to encourage a budding artist.
Yup. We rewrote the entire
@GooglePayIndia
app. >1M LOCs to make it faster, sleeker and more secure. This will now unlock a bunch more new features for our users. This is starting with the beta channel. Beta testers thanks for your help and feedback 🙏🙏🙏
🤩
@GooglePay
rewrites their mobile app with
@FlutterDev
!
Are you in India or Singapore? Test this version on Android and iOS. When
#GooglePay
fully migrates, it will be one of the largest
@FlutterDev
deployments.
Learn why Google Pay chose Flutter →
Cash is convenient so the shift to digital will take some time but it is going to happen. Ease of use, improving tech, better economics and the right policies are making
#DigitalIndia
inevitable.
@TezbyGoogle
@GoogleIndia
@sundarpichai
Heartbreaking to hear this. I remember Luiz's kindness and him singing so beautifully at the last offsite I was at Google pre-covid. He will be missed.
My 13 yr old and 2 of her friends have started an online business making and selling Slime from good materials. If you are in Singapore, you can order at Thanks in advance for your encouragement and support as these young women learn to be entrepreneurs.
Very excited about how our leadership team in India is shaping up for
@GooglePayIndia
. Great leaders but more importantly really good individuals. Excited and grateful to have the opportunity to work with them.
@pankaj
@kenghe
@Sajith_google
Excited to introduce Datally, a new app by
@Google
that helps you save more and do more with mobile data. People testing it have been saving 30%, on average, of their data! Now available globally. Download now from
#DatallyByGoogle
.
Realized a long time dream of making an electric guitar from scratch. Probably first of many. Loved the process and working with wood.
Thank you Ben at for guiding me through this. 🙏🙏🙏
Ps: yup this is a great way to manage start-up stress 😁
The Internet is not gender equitable. How do we make it more representative, inclusive and welcoming for women? Our NBU Research and Insights team has published a new report () with reasons and recommendations. Read more here
Gojek + Tokopedia = ‘GoTo’. 💚
We’re combining our businesses to form GoTo Group - the largest technology group in Indonesia and the “go to” ecosystem for daily life.
Together, we will champion on-demand 🚕, e-commerce 🛒, and financial services 💰.
Google Pay SG now has a free Menu Discovery feature to
#SupportLocal
food merchants during
#CircuitBreakerSG
. Find eateries by cuisine, browse menus, contact and place order at over 250 eateries all in the Google Pay app. Download for Android and iPhone.
100 million people are using
#FilesByGoogle
every month to free up space on their phones—and today we're adding more features, including dark theme ✨📱✨ →
We've been pretty vocal that we believe the right model for driving digital payments is through partnership between banks, governments & tech companies through open and standards based infrastructures like UPI.
White paper here:
What an adventure!
@GooglePayIndia
will always be Tez in my heart. Every milestone and every stumble is etched into my memory. 🙏🙏🙏 to everyone who got us to this day. And the best is yet to come. All the best
@GooglePayIndia
Exactly 4 years ago on Sep 18,2017, we had launched a new payments app called Tez (later renamed to
@GooglePayIndia
) that changed the shape of digital payments in India forever.
Wearing my Tez shirt today and sending love to former colleagues! ❤️
11 emerging economies account for almost half of recent global growth in internet users. How should companies position themselves to serve the Next Billion Users? Learn more at
@baininsights
#NextBillionUsers
Wow. This is from 17.6M in Aug 2017 when
@GooglePayIndia
launched. What a rocket ship.
@dilipasbe
@NPCI_NPCI
huge respect for creating such amazing public infra. Riding on a super fast highway like this, financial inclusion and economic growth will come to every Indian. 🙏🇮🇳🚀
Honored to have hosted Prof Abhijit Banerjee (
@AbhijtBanerjee
) 2019 Nobel winner who spoke about his work at the
@Google
NBU summit. Inspired and motivated to work even harder to make technology work for everyone.
#NextBillionUsers
Excited to be rolling out the all new, all-in-one payments experience for Google Pay, built specially for 🇸🇬 on Singapore's robust
#payments
infrastructure
#PayNow
. Thanks to our partners
@dbsbank
@ocbcbank
@stanchart
Download on Android or iOS
Our growth in the past year has demonstrated the potential value of the high-trust, low-friction platform the CRED team has been building and has earned conviction of investors. CRED has closed its Series D funding round of $215 at $2.2B valuation.
Heart goes out to friends
@Google
who were impacted today but also to those who had to make the difficult decisions. Stay strong friends - this too shall pass.
As of today, Google is the 1st major company to eliminate our entire carbon legacy, including before we became carbon neutral in 2007. We’re also proud that by 2030, we aim to operate on 24/7 carbon-free energy in our data centers & campuses worldwide.
Have received a few questions on how the Spot Platform works. Here's more info, including a video. You can also request to join the EAP here. Looking forward to hearing more about the amazing offline to online experiences you want to create with Spot.
First 100Km bike ride!!!
I got into road biking during the lockdown and had set this arbitrary goal. In the end the challenge turned out to be more mental then physical. With this done, now to get faster. Thanks so much Mike, Bikram and Scott for the advice and encouragement.
Halloween costume for my 10 yr old.
Old sweatshirt + printed at home mask + a card board to stick it on = very happy kid!
No prizes for guessing the costume. 🦑🎮
Very sad to learn about the untimely demise of Sh. Arun Jaitley. He was a great statesman and a visionary. He encouraged us to build Tez (
@GooglePayIndia
) and personally launched the product. Our condolences go out to his family, friends and the millions whose lives he touched.
Starting 2020 right! Google and
@imdasg
will contribute $2M to expand
#codeinthecommunity
. This will help bring coding education to 9K underprivileged students in Singapore. Honoured to have Singapore DPM Heng Swee Keat speak at the launch.
Reyaan had his first Photo Exhibit yesterday. A bunch of people came and quite a few ordered prints. Huge encouragement for a 11 yr old 🙏🏽 Here are a few and the rest are at . All
#shotonpixel
Pixel4 FTW
@Google
@rosterloh
@sundarpichai
@donovansung
He'll get properly introduced to cash in Singapore and the US! Not sure whether to be sad or excited that it's an opportunity for us to solve with
@GooglePay
🤔
There are Good Product Managers and there are Great Product Managers. There are also Okay Product Managers and Bad Product Managers, but we will focus on the Good and the Great here.
Good Product Managers, Great Product Managers, a thread:
Files Go has launched! It can help you free up space on your phone, find files faster, and share files offline. People are freeing up an average of 1GB in their first 30 days. See if you can free up more! Get it at
#filesgo
#google
Friends in Mumbai, check out our latest app to get human, helpful, and local answers.
#IAmNeighbourly
If you want to bring it faster to your city, please sign up for the waitlist.
Introducing Neighbourly, a new app by Google that helps you find local answers and keep up with your neighbourhood. The beta version is available today in Mumbai. If you're in a different city, join the waitlist. Get it at
#IAmNeighbourly
Send, spend or save, we’re reimagining
@GooglePay
to help everyone build a better relationship with money. 💰 Tune into our event tomorrow at 9:30AM PT to see what’s new → ✨
So excited that these great companies formally come together. Congratulations
@gojektech
@tokopedia
Looking forward to seeing what magic you now create in Indonesia and the broader SEA region. 💪💪💪
CNBC: Gojek and Tokopedia announce merger.
Huge respect. Making a massive change like this so fast and so well is very impressive.
@PhonePe_
congrats and looking forward to steaming ahead with digital payments in India.
Congrats
@RajanAnandan
I will miss working with you everyday at
@GoogleIndia
but really excited to see this next chapter in your life and wish you all the best. I'm sure we'll continue to find ways to work together.
So proud of my team
#NextBillionUsers
for the hard work, dedication and intense user focus. Ultimately that's what leads to products that make a difference to people's lives.
At
@arboworks
we aim to ensure all
#arbonauts
have their ideal work environment.
@JishnuM
said that he felt that total darkness would help him get into the zone faster, so
@edchiang
and I built him a darkroom. ✅
And yes we are hiring :)
1/n Folks update on Arbo Works. We're now 35
#Arbonauts
- creative, driven, fun people all working on a really exciting mission. If you are in the SF Bay Area or in Singapore and looking to join a fast-growing
#Fintech
please reach out
#Hiring
@arboworks
This is what a Wasabi plant really looks like. All these years of eating sushi with wasabi and this is the first time I saw what the actual plant looks like. Wonder how we humans realized you could turn this into a paste and eat it.
#Amazed
at our ability to way eat everything!
Excited we're expanding Google Station to Nigeria, helping to make the internet more accessible to everyone with free wifi hotspots rolling out through the next year
#GoogleForNigeria
It was great to be in NYC the past week. Partner and angel meetings, seeing friends and lots and lots of walking. It's great to see the world coming back after 2+ years of darkness. NYC is definitely back!!!