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Startups. Myth making. Bangalore. Optimist. Newsletter: Author of 2 books @harpercollinsin .

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8 months

Spent some time watching @Nithin0dha past interviews. Here's what I could glean. Statutory warning: Paraphrasing here. This is what worked for Zerodha. YMMV. - Word of mouth to acquire customers, advertising spend is zero - Collaborate with startups (40-50% ownership) vs…

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Bhaskar Bhat, MD, Titan Co Joined: 2002. Revenue: Rs 727 cr. Profit: Rs 13 cr. Retiring: 2019. Revenue: 19960 cr Profit: Rs 1388 cr. 27x in revenues. 100x in profits. And a stellar reputation on top of that. Something for startup founders to look up to.

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2 years

Whoever you are, please take a bow. 👏👏👏

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3 years

⚡️ Many of you won't recognize the man in this photo.

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6 years

So Cambridge Analytica in India. Let’s see what we have here. Long thread coming up.

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2 years

Wow. @dhanushkraja killing it in The Grey Man.

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3 years

Got my Covid test results after 14 days of quarantine and it shows negative. First order of business was to cuddle this dumpling and take him on a bike ride. Very grateful this day.

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Gave in to peer pressure and bought a new car. Mostly for work commute. Pre-owned, but still.

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3 years

Landlords in Bangalore will sit on a property for a year and lose 10x money on it than reduce the rent by 10% for an office space.

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2 years

Always do a vibe check before you join any startup. If you see the slightest hint of toxicity (especially at the founder level), don't join. The money is almost never worth it.

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3 years

🔥🔥🔥 Another win for Bengaluru. Welcome @Tesla .

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3 years

My first book is here! Put in a lot of hours into this one 🤞

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3 years

#Xiaomi by @therealjpk traces the eventful journey of Xiaomi – a small startup that blossomed into one of the biggest electronics companies in the world. To learn the secret behind its success, pre-order your copy here:

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⚡️Work update: I'm joining @CoinSwitchKuber to work on communications and content. Super excited about the team and mission. Much to learn and much to do! @ashish343 , @NairSharan , @rozelle_l 👋🏽 1/2

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2 years

The company that I currently look up to is @Razorpay . Don't know any inside stories but killer execution and product.

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5 years

Hey @Truecaller , how much money you make selling my data? Can I have some of that to buy a new watch from a spammy site? (I registered on True Caller as Arun Raj)

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3 years

If you have a home loan go to your bank and renegotiate interest rates NOW. If you are paying anything above 7% you're overpaying.

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3 years

NFTs blowing up in 3...2...1!

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3 years

Growing up in India, we missed the momentum of the early internet and the innovation that came with it. Crypto feels like a second chance. The momentum and access is insane.

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3 years

The guy on my right is only slightly more famous.

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Post a pic of you next to someone who is slightly more famous than you.

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3 years

Dating app for astronomers: Hubble.

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3 years

🔥🔥🔥 Caption this.

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4 years

Indian companies can now directly list overseas without first listing in India. Great for startups

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Lok Sabha passes Companies (amendment) Bill 2020

Bill to pave way for direct listing of securities of Indian companies in bourses overseas

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3 years

The only reason I make any money on the stock market is that I forget to sell 😂

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5 years

I've always admired 3M, the company which makes adhesives and abrasives and such. Yesterday I learned that they have a rule that at least 40% of their revenue must come from products launched in the last 7 years. Wow.

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3 years

Salesforce has acquired Slack for $28 billion. 🔥 Slack has 12 million DAU. That's a valuation of $2333.3 per user. 🔥 It has 142,000 paying customers. That's $197,183 / paying customer. 🔥 Assuming it closes 2020 somewhere in the range of $1 bn revenue. That's 28x.

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4 years

🎧 Many years ago I came to Bangalore on a KSRTC bus with some clothes in a small bag. I bunked with a senior from college. Later started working graveyard shift at a callcenter.

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4 years

👉This has helped me: Work with people who respect the craft and not those who gravitate towards power and designations. It takes too much time and mental energy to align to power and doesn't deliver long term. Craft is like a flywheel.

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4 years

🔥Professional update: I've joined the Freshworks for Startups team which partners with startups and helps them along their journey with great business software that handles everything from customer experience to employee engagement, and sales and marketing. RT if helpful 🙏🏽

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3 years

Cousin makes this kind of stuff by hand for a living. And I struggle with doodles 😭

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4 years

It's the sound of the economy tanking 😓

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4 years

🔥🔥If the story about @getpostman talking to investors to raise at $2 billion valuation is true, it is really a marker of an orbit shift for Indian SaaS. Thread 👇🏽

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3 years

Created a Python program that posts to Twitter. I know it is basic but feels like a breakthrough. Like how when I learned to balance on a bike. Simple joys of life.

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3 years

Here's a confession. I had little to no knowledge of this thing called product marketing until about three years ago 😳! Turns out, it's one of the most important teams behind successful startups.

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3 years

What was the biggest life lesson college taught you?

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6 months

This 👇🏽

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2 years

Any Web3 founders, BUIDLers in Bangalore want to do a meetup? Planning something super exciting. Tag / DM/ RT for good karma 🙏🙂

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3 years

First investment in an IPO ever and that's on Zomato 🤞. This IPO also rewires how investors get into the market. Many fintech apps have Zomato on offer. That's hundreds of millions of users. Many of us are first IPO buyers.

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4 years

Just passed through Malleshwaram market and let's face it. Social distancing is not going to work in India.

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3 years

Digital India’s low trust problem is at its worst. Some real stories. Indian army, LIC, a grieving widow, nothing is spared. Mrs. Raghavan (name changed) picked up the call on her landline.

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1 year

It will work if all brands follow this

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2 years

Turned 37 today. Been a good ride so far. #grateful

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5 months

Best 18 minutes you'll spend. Kurt Vonnegut on storytelling. The sheer mastery and eloquence 🔥! Watch the final few seconds when he exits the stage and your week is made!

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3 years

What an amazing journey! @Freshworks is now a publicly-traded company on the @nasdaq ! #freshworksipo #freshworks

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10 months

Sorry you had to go through this. I came to Bangalore several years ago. The city was welcoming. I also learned Kannada. It's home now. For every example like this, you can show a few examples of discrimination in Gurgaon or any other city. Do what works for you, Aryan.

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No wonder I left Bangalore to build my startup from Gurgaon Have personally faced discrimination in Bangalore :) What’s the point of calling yourself silicon valley Founders should really reconsider moving to blr

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4 years

The number of Twitter users from India giving muft ka advise to Amreeka. The mind boggles.

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3 years

Today was 3 yo's birthday. All he wanted was bisibele bath for lunch.

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4 years

Saw documentary The Truth About Alcohol. Here's what's actionable. 1. If you must, drink red wine. Has ❤ benefits. 2. The darker the spirit, the worse the hangover. Gin, Vodka better. 3. Eat before you drink. Helps slow alcohol absorption. Also, it's Friday.

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4 years

50% of marketing is stalking only

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6 years

That's it for now. More bigly stuff soonly.

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3 years

Tried many tools from Asana to Trello to note taking apps and good old pen and paper. The biggest learning is that the tool seldom matters. It's the discipline and habit to use and update the tool that gets you results.

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4 years

Seriously thinking if we're going to work from home more and more, why not move to the suburbs with clean air, open spaces and fewer people?

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4 years

Just got advertised about a minimalist toothbrush. "Just needs to be recharged 3 times a year." You know what's minimalist? Toothbrush that doesn't need to be recharged. A normal toothbrush.

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4 years

Going by how many people from Sastra Engineering College are hired at @FreshworksInc and other SaaS companies, I'm tempted to call the college SaaStra.

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1 year

True story of how I engineered my luck: At the office vending machine, I paid for one chips packet and got two. Someone's chips packet was stuck in the machine and I ordered the same thing. So the machine pushed out two.

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4 years

Happy Onam everyone 🙏🙂

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6 years

In India, Cambridge Analytica has worked both with Congress and the BJP, as per reports. @factordaily sources have confirmed this. More proof later in the thread.

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3 years

My book will soon be out in Vietnamese 😅 ()

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5 years

A practical guide to fixing your social media addiction. Here's a thread from what I've learned.

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3 years

The new Bookworm is amazing!

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3 years

When I see "serious" entrepreneurs, my instinct is to run. A $100 bn + company, the world's 2nd largest smartphone maker, Freshworks, and several other startups infuse the idea of "play" in their work. Here's a thread.

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2 years

I've spent most of my new years since adulthood getting drunk. Tonight I'm just gonna go for a long run and think of all the people I'm grateful to. The last two years I've learned not to take anything for granted 🙂🙏

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1 year

Not a big fan of influencer marketing for customer acquisition in general. Very poor CAC and attribution. Want to hear a different pov from someone who is not shilling. Anyone?

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3 years

🔥 Brilliant! Trust is the operative word here. By focusing on trust right from the start CRED has built an incredibly valuable network.

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Excited to announce CRED mint. Our first community product built on trust. You can now earn up-to 9% interest, while investing in other trustworthy CRED members.

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6 years

Cambridge Analytica is accused of harvesting Facebook data of over 50 million users without permission and using it to target voters: This New York Times story has the details:

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6 years

This @Channel4 expose tells you the extent to which they can influence elections:

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2 years

Happy Dussehra! Survived another day without sugar. At 67.4 kgs, I'm lighter than I've ever been in more than a decade. Weight loss doesn't have a lot to do with workouts. More to do with your diet.

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3 years

That rich dad poor dad is still popular among youngsters in India is a miracle.

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3 years

In just a decade, Xiaomi became the 2rd-largest global smartphone seller. For context, Apple is 45 years old, Samsung is 83. In my last thread (), I talked about market conditions that led to Xiaomi’s founding. This one is about its iconic founder Lei Jun.

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2 years

In your early career, focus on opportunities that give you faster feedback. Eg. Make videos, write, go to hackathons, launch a product, run a campaign... Don't get stuck in long projects or jobs that have long feedback cycle even if they pay you more at the start.

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4 years

Little one turned 2 years old this week🙂. Velcro mundu is the best.

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5 years

Funny incident. We post an ad to sell our son's old pram on OLX. We get a call from a prospective buyer in just a few hours.

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1 year

I cry about paying taxes but then everytime I see these things I'm reminded that I got to study engineering at a govt school for Rs 6000 a semester.

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This semester BITS Pilani fees is 2.80Lakhs! And no installment options have been provided unlike last years. I am happy it's the last semester and I am done with this college! God bless the new batches! 🙏

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4 years

Data is the new oil 🙂 #peakbengaluru @peakbengaluru

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3 years

🥳 Someone just saw my book on display at the Delhi Airport. If you see it on the shelves, please do send a picture 🙂🙏. It's been a dream.

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3 years

Teaching my 3yo how to drive on Bangalore roads. Never too early to start.

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3 years

Aggarwal's Y Combinator coaching classes.

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1 year

HDFC Bank changes relationship managers faster than I change my clothes /s

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3 years

If you got so far, you might like my book on Xiaomi. You can pick up a copy here: .

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4 years

When VCs ask you what's your TAM

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4 years

Now why would instagram show me an ad to buy a Porsche? With all that data it has about me.

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6 years

This story in @thewire_in () and this story in @EconomicTimes () shows Cambridge Analytica operates through a company called Ovleno Business Intelligence.

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'How can you win elections with a mobile phone?' - ET BrandEquity

Amrish Tyagi of Ovleno Business Intelligence, the Indian partner of Cambridge Analytica, tells us just how this can be done

brandequity.economictimes.indiatimes.com

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5 years

Three exams on the same day and I only knew about one which I barely studied for. Panic. Despair. Wake up. Thank God it was a dream. 11 years since I wrote an exam but this doesn't go away. Sigh.

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3 years

It is my birthday today. All I want you to do is to preorder my first book 🙂 . Will donate royalties from today's sale to support a cause. #xiaomi #startup

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2 years

And this little fellow turned 4 today 🙂

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6 years

Now, Ovleno Business Intelligence, which claimed on its website that it has worked for BJP, JDU and Congress (see screenshot) is owned by Amrish Kumar Tyagi (son of JDU’s KC Tyagi) and Sharad Tyagi.

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3 years

Much of Xiaomi's success can be traced back to its founder, who nearly gave up on entrepreneurship after several bruising battles. Here’s a look at his career and life. Now, at 51, he’s worth over $25 bn and one of the richest men in the world.

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3 years

This guy in the center? Pretty sure you have it now. Many years apart, this was Xiaomi's co-founder, Lei Jun.

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2 years

This year my book came out. I produced 50+ podcast episodes, wrote 50+ columns, 4-5 long form articles, co authored another book. Here's how I made time 1. Took help from very smart people 2. Didn't spend time watching sports 3. Didn't correct anyone on the net

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4 years

Which edtech startup is relatively unknown in mainstream media but is doing great work?

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3 years

Mysore is the cutest city. Exhibit 75484

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4 years

🏃 is teaching me so many things. Had an aha moment today between the 8th and the 9th kilometre. I'd become sluggish. Bad form and ragged breathing. I was thinking of abandoning the run. But for some reason, my mind pushed me to finish the 10k.

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3 years

Writing long articles is probably like pottery. You wrestle with rough clay and finally have something that means something.

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3 years

Aand we're off to press 🤞🏼. My heart is so full right now.

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4 years

Starting a column on @moneycontrolcom and it's called Hello World.

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5 years

⚡️⚡️Hey everyone! Quick personal + professional update thread ⚡️⚡️

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2 years

Didn't expect this. What a day 😀! Thanks @HarperCollinsIN , @GajaCapital for considering my book. And thanks @onneshaghosh for all the help in bringing it together!

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3 years

Left some signed copies of my book at @bookworm_Kris . I'm smiling because I wrote, "Be excellent to each other." It's the only way to live a happy life.

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A case study on Cambridge Analytica website (see screenshot) shows how it conducted in-depth electorate analysis for the Bihar Assembly Election in 2010.

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Regular Exercise May Help Protect Against Severe Covid

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4 years

Going to go out on a limb and say that TikTok will be back in India within a month.

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