Gaurav Arora, VP & Head of Engineering at Hike, spoke at Google Cloud’s invite-only Leaders Connect India 2025, sharing how AI is transforming gaming by boosting engagement and trust. We’re proud to have him represent Hike in shaping the future of user-centric innovation.

Perspective is Everything

"'MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE - THE FINAL RECKONING' is the most satisfying tribute Tom Cruise could ask for. Cruise has raised the stakes for action, emotion, and impeccable storytelling. No M:I fan will walk away from the farewell feeling hard done by."

Who Are You Really Trying to Impress?

“The only way to do it is not to be in your head” ❤️ Tom Cruise offers wise words of advice to those struggling with facing their fears and working towards their goals. Need Tom Cruise as my life coach ASAP! #TomCruise #MissionImpossible #MissionImpossibleTheFinalReckoning

Fire Bullets then Fire a Bazooka - open.substack.com/pub/kavinbm/p/…

our kids will think we were crazy for using Google for 20 years "so you typed a question, got 100000 blue links gamed by SEO agencies, opened 11 tabs, skimmed each site, pieced together an answer, and repeated this process 20 times a day?" they'll think we were digital cavemen.

Beautiful words.

We're barely 2 years from Will Smith eating spaghetti...

ITS HAPPENING!!!

💠 0 to 1s are like a maze 💠 Getting through a maze can be messy (lots of trials, unknown obstacles etc) 💠 The only goal must be to learn and adjust sails 💠 Important to build the right foundation for the right long-term momentum (and not chase after short-term vanity)

anthropic gave two instances of claude opus 4 into a chat together and gave them complete freedom to discuss whatever they want. in 90-100% of interactions the models discuss consciousness, the nature of their experiences, and then quickly dive into spirituality/zen state.

Once you realise customers are already loyal to you until they see something better, your mindset changes. So a culture of like continuous improvement is important where one’s proactively innovating on behalf of the customer. It takes guts to operate like this. It takes guts to

new project: cleo (kindle + llm) 📚 cleo is an ios app that pairs whatever book you're reading on kindle with an llm (o3) — ask questions, get recaps/summaries, or listen/discuss (think audiobooks but interactive). the llm has context on exactly where you are + the book

It's very normal for human beings to like have a need for like certainty. We have it across everything in our lives. In relationships, business etc But certainty doesn't exist. And once you realize that, and you realize everything is always in flux. That's how the world works.

Former OpenAI Head of AGI Readiness: "By 2027, almost every economically valuable task that can be done on a computer will be done more effectively and cheaply by computers."

We're building a nation. Not another gaming platform - but a living, breathing economy where your skill, attention and contributions are rewarded with true ownership. "Those who grow the garden deserve to harvest its fruits." Welcome to the Hike Gaming Nation. Join the

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I love the Indian banking industry