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Investing at @MenloVentures . Formerly founding team @glean , @Google Search. @Cornell CS. Tweets about tech, immigration, India, fitness and search.

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Joined August 2011

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Twitter is the de facto outlet for my thoughts. It's not easy for a lurker to know the ethos of one's tweets at a glance. They only see recent ones. I used the API to scrape all my tweets to allow readers to scan through the most popular ones!

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Twitter is the de facto outlet for my thoughts so I used their API to mine a list offline to make browsing older content easier. I tweet about tech, AI, business, immigration, India, humor and...

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This is shocking. Facebook gave Netflix all your private messages on Messenger in exchange for all your watch history, while Netflix paid them $100M+ for ads. Meta will sell your data at a heartbeat for profit.

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Tech Layoff Meta - 11k (13%) Twitter - 3.7k (50%) Intel - 20% Snap - 20% Netflix - 450 Robinhood - 30% Stripe, Lyft - 13% Salesforce - 2k Amazon - 10k 120k+ layoffs. 2000-01 dot com layoffs were ~107k. Q4 layoffs have just begun. A brutally cold tech winter is coming.

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Taking over papa's business is not entrepreneurship.

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It's embarrassingly hard to get Google Gemini to acknowledge that white people exist

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If you’re not from India and you ever meet someone from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) who studied Computer Science, know that they took an examination that ~1,000,000 students spent 4 years preparing for and were (likely) in the top 300. They’re geniuses.

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If you graduated in 2013 and took a job at Nvidia with $400K equity over 4yrs, just that equity (no refreshers) would now be worth... $100 million! This is not a joke. The stock ~250x'd in 11yrs.

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Parents getting old when most kids in their late 20s/30s live far away from them grinding at work is such a social tragedy that we don’t talk about enough It’s truly depressing

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When someone tells me they're looking for a Strategy role, all I hear is "I want an unaccountable high-paying job where I can do high-level thinking without ever getting my hands dirty with day-to-day affairs.. and I probably went to business school"

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Tech layoffs affect immigrants the most! 5–15% of the 100k+ layoffs are H-1B holders. In 60 days (30-45 in practice), they must find a new job or be deported from the US. Families who've been here 10+yrs are told "We don't need you anymore. Leave." 10+ tips to stay– 1/12

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I lived in India for a year and it is SO MUCH HARDER to be fit– - Gyms are expensive / inaccessible - Harder to walk / run on streets + lower quality air - Difficult to find healthy food - Few social options without food+drinks Most high-income Indians aren't very fit.

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Man builds ChatGPT wrapper that just helps people respond to texts on dating apps. Charges $28/mo, makes $2.3M/yr and the business is selling for $3.5M. Engineers worry about technical moat and venture outcomes instead of building something users want!

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Raising a child in the US seems hellish compared to India. US—Wake up early, cook, drive kid to work, both parents work, do groceries, chores, cleaning. Lonely. India—Maid cleans, driver drops you, groceries in 15mins, cook cooks, parents babysit. Community. (requires $$) 1/4

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Facebook bought Israeli VPN Onavo in 2013 for ~$200M, and used it to spy on activity in other apps in the man-in-the-middle attack (SSL bump) by impersonating a root cert : Snapchat in 2016 YouTube in 2017 Amazon in 2018 For Meta, the ends always justify the means.

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Only 0.3% of Indians go to the gym. — Streets not built for walking, and air quality is low — Most food is unhealthy: fried, processed, low protein — Social events are centered around food and drink — Culturally, "life" > fitness This drastically reduces our lifespan. 1/5

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My mom, at 60 years of age, just graduated with a Masters in Computer Science at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (with stellar grades too)! She doesn't believe you can be too old to be curious, which is a core value for me.

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Huge personal news! My EB-1A Green Card for Extraordinary Ability was APPROVED today! 🇺🇸 After 12 contiguous yrs in the US, 18yrs in total, $20k+ in legal fees, a Denial, and 3.5yrs of working on this 900 page app, I'll finally be able to travel freely and.. be unemployed!

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Let’s just say wear no one is saying: Meta blew $30B+ into the Metaverse not because it had to, but because their pampered engineers would work for nothing short of $500k-$1m a piece, full well knowing this could never ship but their vacation home in Tahoe would be fine!

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Steve Ballmer's net worth is a ludicrous $110B despite Microsoft going -26% from 2000-14. Bill Gates' is $116B; he grew it from scratch to $500B in 1975-2000. Satya Nadella's is after growing the company ~9x from 2014-now.. is $1B. Tells you a lot about wealth accumulation.

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No one: What if GTA was based in India Internet: say no more AI tools have democratized creativity.

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People aren't taking the "everyone will be filmmakers" seriously enough. I made this 20s trailer in 15mins with an OpenAI Sora clip, David Attenborough's voice on Eleven Labs, and sampling some nature music from Youtube on iMovie

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Anyone who has worked at Google knows why no one speaks up: 10-15% H-1B holders are scared of being let go 10-15% Believe it's their dream company 40-60% Resr and vest, pay mortgage and promo-maxx Rest agree There's no incentive for anyone to rock the (ideological) boat.

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Indians today are so torn between following tech drama and the cricket world cup.

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There's ~5.5k Thai restaurants in the US but only 300k people. Why? The Thai govt offers up to $3M in loans for nationals to start restaurants abroad since 2002. ~10k have opened abroad since. Max fixed cost = $30B. Tourism went up 6.5x in value to $65B netting +$55B recurring

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1/20 MEGA THREAD Overheard from BigTech engineers in the Bay Area: “Man, I know I get paid $350k to work 20hrs a week but I just want to work on something state of the art and world changing! Like AI or blockchain. Only 20hrs/week tho”

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1/9 Indians in the US on a work visa can't go home. There’s NO appointments. The now ~200k H-1B Telegram group is growing by 13,000 per month. Even with ~$40m in fees, the 5 VACs process ~10,000 a month. The next availability is ~2024! Here’s 6 stories from hurting families:

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India-based startups are finally eating the US consumer market. PocketFM, founded by IIT Kharagpur alums, is Netflix for audio with 100M+ users and is #14 in Entertainment in the US Apple App Store! They have $150M in revenue, are a Unicorn, and $100M+ comes from the US!!

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In the last 20yrs, "study CS and work in tech" became a "path" to wealth Now: —BigTech did layoffs, aren't hiring —Tech job postings are ~40% of '21 —Startups often prefer tenured hires —Huge pipeline of CS majors: 40% of MIT Winter is coming for software engineering. 🧵 1/5

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In the Bay Area, people intermittent fast all day. It's en vogue to not drink. Ethical vegetarianism / pescatarianism is common. Our annual pilgrimage is to Yosemite. Pre-marital virginity rates are at an all time high too! The Bay Area has successfully rediscovered Islam.

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India's biggest startup, $22B Byju's, is going BUST: - Cash running out. Last VCs never send in the $250m. - Lied about paying for the Aakash acquisition. $180m of $1B still unpaid. - FY21, they spent $850m to make $285m. Claiming $1.25B FY22 revenue, but no official report!

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FAANG = Facebook Amazon Apple N̶e̶t̶f̶l̶i̶x̶ Nvidia Google

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“Approved H1-B holders as of July 16, 2023 will receive an open work permit of up to 3yrs, which means they will be able to work for almost any employer anywhere in Canada.” Canada is finally ready to eat USA’s lunch on poor immigration policy!

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It's so over.

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I’m very sus of AI startups without demos, but… Today I met a co where the founder literally made me describe an app in text and 20mins later, the entire app, backend and frontend was made, and fully functional. Feels like the Industrial Revolution of software engineering.

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HUGE NEWS for US immigration today! Extending H-1B visa grace period from 60 to 180 days was approved at the @WHIAANHPI meeting today and will be announced by USCIS in ~3mos!! For the 100k+ workers affected by layoffs, this is a huge sigh of relief. Thanks @ajainb ! 🧵 1/3

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Zerodha is simply the BEST Indian startup. - $607m revenue, $256m PROFIT at 80% growth. - Never raised VC. Self-valued at $2B. Could raise at $10B+ - 9m+ users, ~1100, 90% remote employees A consumer tech startup, beloved product and beautiful business. The posterchild. 1/6

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In San Francisco, I've stopped using DoorDash because I'm paying $25 to wait 55mins to get a bang average cold sandwich. In Bangalore, I just ordered the most mindblowingly mouthwatering hot biryanis from Meghana's for $5 and it arrived in EIGHT MINUTES!

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The immigrant workers in Elon’s picture are not there because they’re “held hostage”. It’s work ethic and dedication. That’s why so many and their children are founders, professors and CEOs. The beautiful thing about American is the meritocracy - work hard and you shall win.

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Whenever you feel like you're not good enough, always remember, the creator of the Associate Product Manager program at Google just dropped this.

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@JoshLekach Not trying to dunk on him, but a 1460 is about a 25%ile SAT score for Cornell admits. Can't obviously cite race as a factor here

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My mom, at nearly 60 years of age, is pursuing a Masters in Computer Science at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. She says "anyone who stops learning is old." She never had the ability to study abroad, and I'm so proud of her for never giving up on her dream.

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Can Gemini 1.5 actually read all the Harry Potter books at once? I tried it. All the books have ~1M words (1.6M tokens). Gemini fits about 5.7 books out of 7. I used it to generate a graph of the characters and it CRUSHED it.

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Stories have 6 primary arcs: • “Rags to riches” (rise) • “Tragedy” (fall) • “Man in a hole” (fall-rise) • “Icarus” (rise-fall) • “Cinderella” (rise-fall-rise) • “Oedipus” (fall-rise-fall) Programmatic analysis validates Kurt Vonnegut's legendary rejected masters thesis.

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Every parent I know that moved back to India from the US says they're significantly happier because of it.

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The Khosrowshahis are one of the most high-achieving families of all time. Despite losing a $500M+ biz in the Iranian revolution in 1977, they moved all over the world and— Went to elite universities Became elite entrepreneurs, execs or investors Have $10M to $1B+ net worth

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Overheard in SF: Girl—"I told him I wanted us to be serious. He sent me a long text about how he can't, but it was thoughtfully written." Friend—"Show me" ... Friend—"Umm.. no one talks like this. Are you sure this isn't ChatGPT?" Narrator— It was ChatGPT.

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Winter is coming for Indian Masters students in the US this year. ~50,000-65,000 Indian Masters students in CS are going to graduate looking for tech jobs that *most* will NOT find. This is the single largest international student subgroup in the US. THREAD 🧵 1/7

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Hindenberg Research's short on Adani Group isn't new! Trying to crash a company's stock for profit is as old as capital markets. In 80s India, Manu Manek tried to short another legend, Dhirubhai Ambani. Guess how that turned out? Some history and recommended movies— 1/6

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The US has LOST their stronghold as the premier education destination for Indian students. In 2022: —225k to Canada, 0.6% of population —200k to US 0.06% —127k to UK 0.17% Why? —Unaffordable tuition —Impossible to get work visa —No path to citizenship 1/3

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HUGE news for Indians working in the US! Later this year, renewing an H-1B / L-1 will be possible in the US without having to go back to India, where appointments might not be available for 2 years. 🧵 Why is this a big deal? 1/6

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India's biggest startup—$22B Byju's—is going BUST. —Deloitte resigned as auditor, FY21 not audited, delayed. FY22 not filled —Blackrock marked them down to $8.4B (-62%) 4mo ago —Owes lenders $40m+ unpaid —All non-family board members resigned I called it 10mo ago. 🧵 1/4

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Tech Layoff II (Nov 15–22) Google: 10k 7%* HP: 4-6k 10%* Carvana: 1.5k 8% Cisco: 4.1k 5% Asana: 180 9% UiPath: 241 6% Roku: 200 7% Twitter: 5.6k 75% ~30k more layoffs happened or *announced last week. ~150k total. Twitter's showing investors that there is fat to trim. 1/3

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Staff engineer at Google likens their management strategy to bogosort. Personally, 4/4 industry people I know who left to Google recently did it for only one reason: money. Not the Google it used to be.

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The EAGLE act, which would've removed the 100+yr wait for the US green card for ~750k Indians, was pulled from the House floor this week. Had it passed, ~5-15k laid off immigrant tech workers in the US would be able to stay instead of being forced out in 2mos! Here's why– 1/10

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As Mukesh Ambani's youngest son Anant gets married around the likes of Rihanna, Gates, and Zuck, I'm reminded how India's elite never get educated in India: Akash Ambani: Brown—Shloka Mehta: Princeton Isha Amban: Yale—Anand Piramal: Penn Anant Ambani: Brown—Radhika Merchant: NYU

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One of the most interesting paragraphs in the Elon vs Open AI lawsuit. The claim is you can't just get tax breaks as a non-profit and then become for-profit after product-market fit.

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America is obsessed with reducing privilege to race. A low-income first-gen college-goer Vietnamese boy whose divorced mum works 3 jobs is simply "Asian" and doesn't get any benefit, but a $500k+ earning Black prep school student does? That was affirmative action. 🧵 1/8

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You cannot trust online dating app profiles again. Each of these took 5 seconds to make:

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@NeoBactrian It amazes me that, like, you can grow up in, like, America, and like, learn English as like, your only language and like, still be awful at it.

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How much does it cost to train a state-of-the-art foundational LLM? $4M. Facebook's 65B LLaMA trained for 21 days on 2048 Nvidia A100 GPUs. At $3.93/hr on GCP, that's a total of ~$4M. Google's 540B PaLM was trained on 6144 v4 TPUs for 1200hrs. At $3.22/hr is a total of ~$27M

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Back in the day, you needed to be rich to have status. Today, that's waning. In China, they call it Tang Ping. Most are very happy not being rich, just renting, ordering Doordash, having no kids, traveling, playing video games and watching Netflix until they die. 1/3

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I still think about the time at Facebook where an employee popped off because the usual organic bananas weren't available one day... They were replaced with non-organic bananas (with an apology note). In the internal group: "Is Facebook really going to treat us like shit now?"

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$6.4B Indian credit card payment app CRED will probably never make as much money as it raised! - Raised $800m since founding in 2018 - $48m rev with $156m loss in FY22. Spends $4.25 to make $1. - Valued at 133x rev multiple Easy to build brand, hard to build business. 1/6

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At a bar in Tel Aviv, several women ask "You don't look Israeli. Where are you from?” “India” “Wow! We know India’s national anthem. We’ll sing it for you!” I insisted they don’t, to no avail. They start singing in unison. It was in Hindi, but wasn’t the Indian national anthem…

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You ever had a racist experience but it was funny tho

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The most elite job for a Computer Science major used to be Google / FB. Now, in India, its quant shops like Jane Street, Tower, Graviton, AlphaGrep, Quadeye, APT, NK etc. BigTech overhired, lost their exclusivity and can't pay as much – $70-150k or ₹55L-1.2cr IN India! 1/7

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HUGE Immigration News: proposed changes to H-1B, the US immigrant worker visa! Highlights of the 277 doc, in non-legalese —Stop H-1B fraud from Indian IT, increase lottery odds by +60% —Allow entrepreneurship on H-1B! —More! BIG fan of the new rules. Let's break it down— 1/7

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Stable Diffusion 3 launched today and may be the best image gen alternative to Gemini! Ranges from 800M to 8B params and based on the Sora architecture. It crushes writing text in image. It is the first time open-source AI feels state of the art. 🧵 with examples 1/10

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Elon Musk got a 670 verbal, 730 math on the SAT and chose Queen's University over Warerloo because "there were more girls". You don't need to be flawless to win.

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1/11 The Google Search vs ChatGPT debate is fascinating. The conversation so far has been - ChatGPT will replace Search - but, it's too expensive per query + ruins ad revenue - and, Google has better models than ChatGPT but haven't released it. The debate misses a lot 🧵

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One of the superpowers of growing up in India is that you've seen rock-bottom, so small things don't perturb you. I see kids who grow up in the Bay Area and I think, man you really lived your whole life thinking the worst thing that can happen to you is being a SWE at Amazon.

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India needs a way to keep people accountable for bad public behavior: playing music loudly on phones in public no personal space in crowds / lines sneezing into people's faces vandalizing monuments being cruel to staff ogling at women peeing in public spitting paan littering

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Indians don't just top this list, they destroy it.

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Here's a chart showing median household incomes for various ethnicities in the U.S. compared to the U.S. as a whole. The chart-toppers are Indian and Taiwanese Americans.

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Physics Wallah, an edtech unicorn in India, is crushing it! - $1.1B valuation with $100m total raised - $30m rev in FY22. $11m PROFIT! - Projected $120-150m rev in FY23, a <10x multiple on NTM rev. PW proves that the notion that Indian edtech doesnt work is patently false. 1/6

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33yo single IITian working in London moves back to "retire" in Delhi after ~$1.5-2.5M in savings, or ₹12-20cr. His biggest reasons: — Being with parents — House help — Cheaper — Declining social life abroad — Bearish on the UK economy — Getting an arranged marriage in India

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Today, , a Search engine, launched a ChatGPT-like experience on the right hand side on Desktop, and it's awesome! It smartly picks high quality search results and summarizes them with citations. How did they make this? What can't it do? Deep dive 🧵 1/6

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1/9 In 2022, the H-1B US Work Visa acceptance rate was 23% for undergraduates and ~39% for advanced degree holders. If that wasn't bad enough, even after you get accepted, if you're Indian, actually going home isn't possible because there's ZERO appointments!

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India by monthly active users Internet — ~800m Whatsapp — 487.5m Youtube — 467m Facebook — 416.6m Moj — 300m Truecaller — 236m Instagram — 230m Dream11 — 150m Josh — 150m Snapchat — 147m Ludo King — 100m+

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In the last few days, H-1B lottery decisions were made, sealing the fate of many intl workers in the USA. A close friend is an Ivy league grad at a biotech startup who has lived in the US for 7yrs and been in a 5yr relationship. He now has to leave. Is THIS the American dream?

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ChatGPT will soon drop a new feature – Prompt Palettes! They're pre-written text prompts to perform tasks like - format raw text to markdown - summarize text - be a programming assistant - add text from a link as context How it works and EXACT prompts 🧵 1/6

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Pakistanis in Norway are the WILDEST subculture ever. In the 1970s, many Pakistanis came to Norway as foreign workers. Now, they are a small but influential 40k strong community, including ..the founders of famous viral dance group Quick Style! 🧵 1/6

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Being a short guy is by far the MOST overlooked social taboo. —~1.7% women are open to shorter men, 3-6" gap preferred —<=5'6" is 10%ile in the US, with ~0 prospects —6' is 90%ile, but the majority preference Very short men are subject to ridicule and often depressed. 🧵 1/5

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India and Israel are so similar: • Religion plays a huge role • Professional achievement is a North Star. • Family is number 1. Community is essential. • Huge success in technical fields But we differ too: Israelis challenge authority and are more wired to take risks! 1/2

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I had the worst flight experience of my life last night, with Indigo. My 10PM Calcutta—Bangalore flight left at 4:41AM, after 6 delays totaling 7hrs. I missed an international flight. "Always on-time" is false advertising from @IndiGo6E . I’d avoid flying them again. 🧵 1/6

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Most people today move to a new city for work and are lonely. We're never formally taught the art of making friends in a new city. Here's 10 things that worked for me: 1/11

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The investment thesis on 35+yo married IITians in Bay Area tech is so strong. They: Will work 60hrs+ a week Have experience Rarely vacation There’s nothing else to do Don’t need “hobbies” Barely drink Have immigrant hustle You might not like to live this way, but they will win.

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If all the IIT civil engineers didn't end up at McKinsey after IIM, do you think we would've figured out how to make a flat sidewalk in Bangalore?

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Big news from @Tesla ! Their once proprietary charging connector is now open as the NACS. This means more public stations can charge Teslas and non-Teslas can use the supercharging network! Huge.

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68% of students who met the "qualified" for the most elite engineering institute in India come from a reserved quota. ~17k of this ~44k will be selected. Meritocracy is truly on the decline.

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What IIT-JEE Advanced results tell The performance of SC/ST Category has outshined that of General Category in IIT-JEE Advanced exam this year, according to

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2 years

1/12 10 Advantages of living in India over the US! Although I've recently been critical of poor takes on India vs the US, having lived extensively in both, I truly do believe India offers a wide array of benefits.

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@RjeyTech I can’t imagine being a tech-forward car company who is so out of touch that they say “Let me know who this kid is” about MKBHD, perhaps the biggest tech YouTuber there is. It’s unsurprising that their tech is bad

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1 year

Huge hurricane in San Francisco in the last hour!! - A huge truck to overturn on the Bay Bridge - Broken glass falling out of the Salesforce Tower - Fallen trees obstructing traffic - Power outages across the city - Huge waves overflowing Embarcadero 🧵 Videos + Pics 1/5

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Is there any other sport which can 33M concurrent views! Span 3 days Spike weather lookups globally Fans sleeping at the station End at 2AM local 41yo winning captain Anyone’s game til the LAST second Everyone should experience the heartstopping beauty of cricket 🧵Best Vids

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Big personal news! After a remarkable 4+yrs on the founding team at Glean, I'm so excited to join the world of venture capital at Menlo Ventures! I'm going to be investing in Seed, A and B rounds in AI, SaaS and Infra. Reach out! Here’s why I did it:

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2 years

Quick guide to the India demographic 2022 – Population: 1400m Internet: 658m – 47% Smartphone: 493m – 35% Urban: 493m – 35% Digital Payments: 260m – 18% eCommerce: 190m – 13% Domestic flyers /yr: 144m – 10% Taxpayers: 60m – 4% iPhone buyers /yr: 5m – <0.5% In the US...

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11 months

India's research output has no global standing. It simply isn't set up to make deep technical contributions to the world. India's top taking university, IISc, ranks #161 in the Nature index for high quality research. The US has 37 and China has a surprising 33 in the top 100!

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10 months

I know a lot of people in India and other countries often look down on Americans at large as “stupid”, but at the most elite tier, they are some of the most ferociously smart and hard-working people on the planet.

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2 years

Most engineers who make $250k out of college at FB or Google doing 30hrs/week could probably solve a dynamic programming problem but couldn’t ship their own static blog in a week.

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M.Eng in Computer Engineering from an Ivy League school interviewing since August has gotten only 1 interview. This is the unfortunate plight of doing your Masters in the US for most international students. Please read the offer document carefully before investing.

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1 year

BigTech Layoffs Facebook: 11,000 (13%) Amazon: 18,000 (6% corp) Microsoft: 10,000 (5%) Google: 12,000 (6.5%) With Google announcing layoffs several hours ago, every major BigTech company has had layoffs except Apple. If you’ve been affected, stay strong. 1/3

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2 months

I find it abhorrent when Hollywood takes an awesome book like 3 Body Problem and injects diversity in race and gender for "global appeal". Despite having a primarily Asian cast, everyone watched Squid Game — people watch good shows! 🧵 Here's how they should've looked:

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Growing up, Paul Graham’s principles of using less words gave me a lot of solace. In a British colony like India at a Catholic school, we were taught the opposite: Use fancy words. Prefer verbosity. Signal your class. This distracted so many people from: Just. Knowing. Stuff.

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