Yesterday, we released the Indus Valley Report 2023. It takes stock of Indus Valley (our moniker for the Indian startup ecosystem), & looks at underlying patterns + trends. In this thread I wanted to stress on a key message we have for the Indian startup ecosystem. Let us go!

Woh, that's a skill 🏂 😂

What idea changed how you view the world? Here's mine: High Agency. The 12 best examples:

"Peter Thiel used to insist at PayPal that every single person could only do exactly one thing. Every single person at the company rebelled because it's so unnatural. At every other company, people want to do multiple things--especially as you get more senior... you feel like

President Barack Obama on the violence in Gaza. Full interview out Tuesday.

GPTs can save a lot of effort:

Satya wins. Reflexes of a startup CEO. Resources of a trillion dollar company. Pulls this together in 48 hours from a cold start. Gets it signed and over the line before markets open.

Can we just make Yann LeCun president of AI and call it a day please?

To all the Indian parents reading this, a few points to note: 1. The job offers above Rs. 1 crores are secured by a handful of students, usually < 10 such students. 2. Mostly these job offers are from the CS department. Maybe a few in Electrical Engineering. 3. These are all US

There is something beautiful about Bill Ackman making an entire university’s faculty look bad so his wife’s oversights don’t look bad by comparison. Truly the highest calling of a husband.

Grateful for the incredible free product mentorship session organized by Amani 🚀 Had an amazing 1-on-1 with Tanuj who guided me through career uncertainties, portfolio enhancement, and much more 🙌 Reach out to amani to book a free session! #productmanagement

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The motherships of Alternate Data, now NPCI is gonna introduce a Payments score of an Individual for better credit underwriting to enable NTC access credit!

Friendly reminder: Your monthly metrics will be down ~7% in February because leap year February is ~7% shorter than January. Please do not contact your data team about it.

Work hard -> feel guilty -> ask why do I work so hard. Don’t work hard -> feel guilty -> ask why am I not working hard.

the AI assistant the AI assistant you want: i want:

"Did you finish writing that PRD?"

i might be bad at sit ups and push ups but my fuck ups are top notch

nobody is atheist at 50x leverage