Social media has made humanity collectively dumber.

#ICYMI: Is AI going to replace content creators? inshorts Founder Deepit Purkayastha believes AI isn’t here to replace humans—it’s a catalyst for speed, diversity, and creativity. On Lunch Break with Lightspeed, Deepit shared with Romit Mehta how businesses can leverage AI for more

For long, the digital world was seen as a parallel universe—existing separately from the physical one. No longer. Social media doesn’t just reflect culture; it creates it—with real-world consequences. I was taken by the example of a small town - Zibo in China. Its local

We are far too concerned with “optics” vs how things are. The real issue isn’t this - it’s that the state ranks 26th in india in per capita income, is growing slower than national average still and despite this being the 8th such investment summit - little seems to come off it

Who says you can’t build global best in deep tech out of India? Harsha Kumar and I first met Arun Vinayak 3 years ago and I was mind-blown to see a full cargo truck being charged in 15 mins (heck, my phone didn’t charge that quickly!). Today, I felt the same all over

Everyone’s goal in life should be to find things they love as much as the Indian state loves price controls

Have heard too many people being bearish on the India venture opportunity. The problem is that while they may invest in India - their reference point is valley. Comparing what’s happening there vs our market inevitably leads to disappointment. It’s short sighted. On the other

I haven’t heard a more odious take on the ecosystem in a while. Blaming founders absolves the government of its failure to foster any meaningful ecosystem for manufacturing or deep tech in the country. Worse, it belittles the grit of those who build for and in India (including in

Roman Republic jokes aside, imagine telling your ancestors we would one day resurrect species lost to time. They wouldn’t think we were scientists. They would think we were gods

Yes, it’s a secretive tradition going back a millennia but for the first time you can bet on who the next pope would be through crypto 😂

One stat in Urban Company’s DRHP jumped out at me: The top 5% of service professionals earn INR 50,000 / month - coincidentally, the income at which you would be classified as top 5% by income in India. All this while working 40 hours/week on average. The average service

💯 An all time great quote in sports. The attitude and selections to back it up changed the trajectory of Indian test team and gave the sport one of the all time great sides

In 2017, when Shiprocket pivoted to logistics, Vishesh Khurana (Co-founder Shiprocket) knew the business made logical and unit economic sense from day one. A few years later, commerce went digital overnight, and the market shifted in Shiprocket’s favour. Today, it powers over 10 lakh transactions a day.