Ashneer Grover(Parody)

@manujosephsan I like how you have waited till Sena is out of power to write this..

Another first for an Indian VC @peakxvpartners @akm1410 economictimes.indiatimes.com/industry/cons-…

rare miss for @peakxvpartners fka Sequoia where a fraud has happened in Indian startup ecosystem without their involvement..

@meetrahuldev @Rahul_J_Mathur my guess is they are putting up a loan on the tenant's name( with or without their knowledge/consent) and paying the owner upfront..don't think owners would want to part ways with deposit though..

@Rahul_J_Mathur *provided the landlord agrees - any data points about what % of property owners agree to this?

I’ve rented 3 homes in the last 5 years. I’ve always been lucky - the deposit has never been more than 3 months rent, I’ve never had a problem recovering my deposit. But, I’ve heard dozens of horror stories from friends, co-workers & others: 6-9 months of rent as deposit, idiotic reasons given for deductions during deposit refund & much more… In India, most of my friends got financial help from their parents to pay the deposit for their 1st rental house. Almost all of my friends who rent continue to complain about deposits. 💡When I stayed in the UK (pre-2020), all of my friends used a product called “Fronted” which provided a 0-deposit facility to move into rental accommodation… When I came back to India, I always wondered why such a product didn’t exist (**) 4 years later, Ankur Yadav said hi to me at an event in Gurgaon. In the 1st conversation itself - he & his co-founder Navan Jaiswal came across as the right people to solve the deposit problem for tenants in India. 💸This week, Ankur & Navan’s company CirclePe announced its $1M Pre-Seed round led by OTP Ventures with participation from Utsav Somani’s iSeed fund. ➡️CirclePe allows credit worth tenants in India to move into any home of their choice with a zero-deposit credit facility (provided the landlord agrees). If you see their Instagram page, they are already advertising such homes in NCR & have major B2B partnerships aligned. This is a product which India needs & I’m glad to be a small investor in CirclePe; wishing the team the very best 🙏 Call to action: Please check below for their open roles + my detailed investment memo + disclaimer ⤵️

@anmolm_ worst place for sweet( meetha) folks..

I'm in a bad place rn (GGN)

@WeekendInvestng how will this help DLF sell more apartments?

Election results will be out in less than a week now. They can change the future path of our country In fact when i see it from a poor mans' perspective... 8500 per month in the account is a very large amount for many people.... If in case the populace rejects that lolipop, it would be a big reveal of the common man thinking that they are able to prioritize the nation above own much needed welfare. just my thoughts. Don't shoot the messenger

@anmolm_ thread/podcast bois aren't getting paid it seems..

We've had one venture-backed IPO this week already (Go Digit), and another one next week (Awfis), but tech twitter chatter around them is basically non-existent

@WeekendInvestng @VishalBhargava5 Gated societies are to experience mismanagement, organized loot and community suffering on whatsapp groups on a hyperlocal level for residents by a "few among us" in the context of politics and administration.. clearly lacking in stand alone houses..

The single biggest advantage that nobody talks about of living in a society/gated community is you meet a lot of new people some of whom you will make friends with... something which is not possible in stand alone houses usually. @VishalBhargava5

@deedydas Deedy comes from english word DD ( Due diligence) which @MenloVentures failed to do when they hired a content creator for an AI investing role..

Nvidia comes from the Latin word “invidia”, meaning envy, something everyone who doesn’t own the stock is feeling.

@vivekanandahr .. at a factory in Shenzen*

We have started working on a no plastic variant on our infinity platform :)

@protosphinx @protosphinx bhai's mood rn for hardware founders :

Hardware Ecosystem Update: I will be investing in a few hardware startups (seed cheques). This is from my personal stash - so I'll be very prudent. That means it needs to go exactly where it will help. Eventually will form a fund but cart/horse properly first. The goal is to help a few founders and see what the challenges are first hand. Slowly. The first two founders are: @KaranGoyalbuild who is building high iq drones @PritnRandom who is building axial flux motors If you want to learn more about them to support them then please do reach out (to them/me). Aside - if somebody (with experience) is interested in running a hardware only fund then reach out please. Funding is not the issue - but cadence, discipline and process is (@neilshroff is part of the process & is putting together a framework). Plus this has to be an anti-VC approach. Again, no short cuts and nothing will change overnight. Note: The best way to raise capital for your idea is to make your product/prototype and show it to people here on twitter. Don't waste your time pitching. If you are doing something cool people automatically tune in. I've said it a 100 times - be a product first person. I don't want to hear from you. I want to hear ABOUT you. There's a difference.

@startcasm @i_Udita Didi does everything apart from working for Salt..

@i_Udita 😂😂😂

💡Feeling the Funding Pinch in 2024? Funding for Indian startups dropped by 40% in Q1 2024! 📉 I guest-wrote an article for @FinancialExpress exploring these shifts and what they mean for us founders. Curious? Check it out! 👉 shorturl.at/fg1RQ

@ArkadeepDas9 @sugandhanisa she works on "policy" for a streaming company founded by another tech bro, but atleast they are woke..

@sugandhanisa Lol calling sam altman average techbro when he spearheaded one of the landmark innovations of this decade. What have you done madam ?

This Altman fellow truly is your average techbro who is really just in it to fulfil some weird and creepy fantasies from some past loser-life while using big words to act like there’s some actual mission he’s behind. This is so disturbing.

@deedydas Deedy is a collector it seems..

The AI girlfriend epidemic is bigger than I thought it was. 8 of the top 50 most used Gen AI apps in the world are mostly AI companionship: Character Janitor CrushOn Yodayo Candy SpicyChat Chub DreamGF With loneliness rising, this will fill the gap, whether we like it or not.

@deedydas meanwhile DD in this group:

It’s crazy that a small group of Indians that play cricket casually in SF has - the guy who led GPT-4o one of Elon’s former right hand men at X an MD at a multi-billion venture firm a founder of a ~billion dollar company All under 35 and we hardly talk about work.

@IT_Kabootar Haan bhai, equity aur upside tum rkh lo and let them eat sh8t and work their a7ss off to make you rich.. We call it Lala mentality..

Can team members be TAUGHT to have FOUNDERS mentality? If yes, how? Don't give ESOP gyaan please.

@startcasm @upadhyay_harsh1 Lol Donation wala doctor

@upadhyay_harsh1 Scammer toh woh khud bhi hai. Kis baat ka doctor? Donation me doctor hota bhi hai

Just came to know this account belongs to Dr Ritesh Malik. His account was hacked today only.

@protosphinx Sphinx bhai is gearing to get into Politics, or maybe launch a network state..

MPs and MLAs replaced the old feudal lords. The mechanism came from erstwhile British parliament obviously. Then they added their district collector and DM nonsense because why not. Ask anyone what an MP or MLA supposed to do and most won’t know. Actually nobody knows. Roads ? No. Infra ? Electricity ? Jobs ? No they’re not supposed to do any of that. Then what are they supposed to do ? The common high school high iq civics level repartee is oh they’re supposed to represent the people of that area. That is also not true since the party that the MP belongs to has its own agenda and manifesto. You represent people for sure but honestly there’s nothing you can do with that. So you must apply 100 kinds of patchworks to justify their role when in reality you’re just voting for a President - or what a president should be (not the executive only power laden American kind) and that’s ok. Meanwhile DM MP MLA Mayor - all high iq people converge on a city with conflicting powers to make it as unlivable as possible while owning none of the problems. Reforms will begin only when this is reconciled.

@BeingPractical Maybe they can learn a few tricks from DLF and put a news paper ad of how their IPO is fully subscribed before launch to create some FOMO..

Bit gutsy of Go Digit to price is IPO much below its private market valuation. This could end up setting an example for many startups going public to calibrate valuations on road to IPO.

@siddharthshahx what are they? Teenagers?

Most founders do not like hearing a quick & direct no

@Inc42 Producer's son returns to production house after debut film funded by daddy bombs..

FrontRow’s cofounder Ishaan Preet Singh has rejoined venture capital (VC) firm Lightspeed India as an investor. A thread🧵: (1/4)