When I moved back to India a decade ago (after 15 yrs abroad), almost every startup idea was a copycat “X for India”.

X = Uber, Groupon, Tinder, CRM, etc. etc.

This Saturday morning, 4 hours spent with:
* A founder building entirely new types of schools
* A founder building…

Longevity escape velocity will first be achieved by network states, before corporations or nations

How? Join me Balaji Zero /dd VitaDAO 💛 Max Unfried 📍Token2049 Dubai and many others at the groundbreaking DeSci49 Summit in Dubai's Museum of the Future next week

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Just because its a crypto bull market and you have been in crypto through the bear market does not necessarily mean you deserve to raise capital.

This entitled behaviour is building a new narrative around introducing tokens when what you should be focused on is building a great…

Today's been our highest 24H vol day :)

billy boy soon

TIL that RCB Royal Challengers Bengaluru - in true Bangalore fashion - makes team decisions based on “AI models” 🤷‍♂️

Many sensible insights in this 🧵

Total solar eclipse from an airplane looks wild

In the 70s ads were put in newspapers congratulating Indians who would be travelling abroad

Tomorrow, we are hosting two successful founders (in conjunction with 1947 Rise series on founders mental health and physical well-being).

Raghunandan G co-founded TaxiForSure and now Zolve

Prashant Pitti has embarked on a new venture, after previously taking EaseMyTrip.com…

This is an Antler India founder Pulkit Goyal :) He is looking for a cofounder since he wants someone who is as missionary as he is about healthcare for everyone. Help him find a co-founder. And if you want to invest in him, ping me ;)

Do you use Notion?

Instagram revenue was just disclosed for the first time in court filings.

2018: $11.3B
2019: $17.9B
2020: $22.0B
2021: $32.4B

It makes more in ad revenue than YouTube (and likely at much higher gross margins!)

Checked out Suno.ai

You can make a song about anything.

Incl. mitochondria

🎶 #GenAI

Accurate

dating is such an interesting yet complex problem to build for
shared some thoughts with Neerja for mid day!

Bangalore, circa April 2024

Soon