Jane Street beyond making $1B against Indian options traders and financing wars has a coding quirk JS is the largest industrial user of OCaml, a niche programming language that's fast + catches errors due to type safety JS employees can't use this anywhere ensuring retention

My favourite 100%:

Jeff Bezos spent about $60M on his wedding, which is about 0.2% of his net worth If the top 1% Indian spent that % of their wealth on their kids' weddings, it would be $1,000 If Bezos spent the %age of wealth that Indians spend on their weddings, his wedding would be $50B

100K creators in India have more than 1M followers See regular "news" that a creator with 1M+ followers earns 8 Cr/year or $1M If we assume this is true, they alone earn a minimum of $100B, which is 7x total marketing spend and 3% of India's GDP Clearly very few make this

Apple's newest, unexpected category for creating new dominant products is movies It may not be churning innovation with new iPhones, but it has made a terrific film in the form of F1

Finding a lot of my batchmates from IITB/IIMA confused or lost in their careers Think it's because they've been top performers winning tough, but linear games Professional world is now being regularly disrupted, where reinvention and non-linearity wins Chaos is the new ladder

Wonder why India doesn't have its luxury brands given the depth of high quality products we could create Prada imitating Kolhapuri chappals is a signal that there is a brand to be built around khadi, sarees, silk, leather or more India has deep crafstmanship that can go global

$10B is a life-changing amount of money for a large team of AI researchers, but it is 0.5% of Meta's market cap Barely needle moving for Meta to take a punt on a large team for a new, potentially lucrative technology Wildly asymmetric opinions on the same amount of money

China exports $143B of clean energy in the form of electric vehicles, lithium ion batteries and solar panels US exports $165B of fossil fuels in the form of coal, natural gas and oil The two superpowers are also in a contest on the future of what matters most, energy

Pune has quietly become India's top industrial real estate market Net absorption has 3x from 4M sq ft in 2019 to 11M sq ft by 2024, ahead of Delhi-NCR and Mumbai City is set to have 140M sq ft of Grade A industrial stock by 2030 Pune is edging into the Big 4 Indian cities

The outbound model in VC works at larger ticket sizes of 20-30Cr when companies are 1,000+ and a team can cover those companies At pre-seed where ticket sizes are 1-5 Cr, companies are 20,000+ and it would require a giant team Inbound only way to scale a VC for first cheques

Mahindra's CEO saw pay increase 96% to 48 Cr in 1 year In 1 year, M&M market cap grew by 12%, M&M entry level salaries grew by 11%, Nifty grew by 4% Becoming a leader is what truly compounds your wealth disproportionately, simply investing won't cut it