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Monisha Rajpal

@MonishaRajpal

Building for how women actually shop | Founder @suprslay | (The internet wasn’t built for how women think. Fixing that)

Bengaluru South, India Katılım Aralık 2014
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Monisha Rajpal
Monisha Rajpal@MonishaRajpal·
presented @suprslay in front of 300+ people at WhyC yesterday for the first time and… what an eve! As a founder and a mother of a 2 year-old, days like these can get very challenging. I usually have help through the day but yesterday everything decided to fall apart at once :') >my help was on leave >my mom was out of town too >and I had just few hours to prepare So I was doing it ALL. Cooking, cleaning, figuring out childcare last minute and rehearsing my pitch in my head in between. Only to reach the venue and realise… I’m going first :) The green room was intense but a huge shoutout to @hankypanty for lifting the energy. By the time I got on the stage I was weirdly calm. I even ended up even roasting Arjun Vaidya’s outfit in front of everyone and thankfully he took it like a sport. Everything that could’ve gone wrong personally, did. (ig life is unfair?! ) And somehow, it still turned into one of those days you remember for a long time. Big thanks to @0xratnakar, @tushaarmehtaa, @speakingofarpit @ayushsnh029 and the entire @OfflynLife team! The execution was so seamless. building @suprslay one day at a time. And yesterday taught me a soo much. give me a hi if u were there?
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did i just roast Arjun Vaidya’s (Co-founder of V3 Ventures & ex-founder of Dr. Vaidyas) outfit at WhyC by @0xratnakar and @tushaarmehtaa 🙈 question still remains: Are shackets GenZ or millenial??? :p

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Monali
Monali@monali_dambre·
what is this earth without art, just a rock....
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Dr.Sayajirao Gaikwad
Dr.Sayajirao Gaikwad@DietDrsayajirao·
₹60 kesar mango sapling planted in backyard 4 years ago. Harvested 200 mangoes today. A child who watches a mango ripen on a tree learns more about food than a thousand advertisements can teach.
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Vedant Lamba
Vedant Lamba@vedulamba·
By far the sexiest supplement bottle I have ever seen
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Monisha Rajpal
Monisha Rajpal@MonishaRajpal·
@SandeepMall agreed to some extent. it wasn’t just joint family but growing up with mentors around you and kids today are lacking their presence
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Sandeep Mall
Sandeep Mall@SandeepMall·
Most children today don't have an elder cousin, a chacha, a bhua, or a tau at home anymore. The joint family was the original mentorship programme. We dismantled it and now wonder why kids feel lost.
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Aastha Pal
Aastha Pal@aasthaapaasta·
daddy cool
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Neeti Jain
Neeti Jain@Notavailablee18·
What passive income streams do you have?
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Monisha Rajpal
Monisha Rajpal@MonishaRajpal·
as a founder, how does your weekend look like?
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Gurpriya
Gurpriya@GurpriyaSidhu·
Fail more. Get comfortable with failing. If you are only winning, you are not taking audacious bets. Wins build confidence. Failures build character.
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Monisha Rajpal
Monisha Rajpal@MonishaRajpal·
i failed 4 times before building @suprslay if you're on attempt 2 or 3 right now and it feels like you're going backwards let me tell you, you're not. you're collecting the lessons that will make attempt 5 the one that sticks! here's what my failures looked like: attempt 1: started a sanitiser brand during covid. had a manufacturer, had demand, made money and then shut it down because i was just a middleman moving boxes from A to B. zero value add and had zero learning. attempt 2: packaging material for restaurants. did 3 lakh a month in revenue alongside my job. restaurants turned out to be the worst paymasters alive. spent more time chasing payments than building anything so shut it down. attempt 3: built a smart breast pump brand called Oma after having my son. added an app feature to track pumping. i sold 200 units, talked to users but nobody cared about the app. they wanted community so shut it down. attempt 4: started doing AI model catalogs for clothing brands. clients were paying and it was working. but i stopped anyway because i realised i was making shopping worse for women, not better. attempt 5: building @suprslay every single of these failure taught me one thing: 1st time: learned i need to build, not just sell 2nd time: learned i need to control the value chain 3rd time: learned that consumers don't want tech, they want to feel understood 4th time: learned to build for the user, not the client i didn't get here despite the failures, i got here because of them. @suprslay exists because the first four didn't work :)
Gurpriya@GurpriyaSidhu

Fail more. Get comfortable with failing. If you are only winning, you are not taking audacious bets. Wins build confidence. Failures build character.

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Tarini Sai Padmanabhuni
Tarini Sai Padmanabhuni@tarini_axory·
Don't know if you can read what's on our T-Shirts. But we're 2 kids who beat world benchmarks for audio deepfake detection. Check us out @DetectifAI
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Monisha Rajpal
Monisha Rajpal@MonishaRajpal·
spent this week moving a button from the bottom of the screen to the top. then back to the bottom. then slightly to the left. and this is not even a joke! this is an actual founder’s life
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Monisha Rajpal
Monisha Rajpal@MonishaRajpal·
There is just way too much startup advice on the internet right now Too many threads , too many frameworks , too many tools , too much gpt polished text . There are more people writing about building than actually building .
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Monisha Rajpal
Monisha Rajpal@MonishaRajpal·
@Simridhi_ not for a school though - i might read it and know madam manchali. but will be repelled by this kind of marketing for a school
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sim.eth
sim.eth@Simridhi_·
good hook spotted on the streets of HSR
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Kautuk | Conscious Engines
Kautuk | Conscious Engines@Kautukkundan·
Last week I posted a rant about Indian VCs. Specifically, a red-orange logo firm that passed on multiple research labs and then confidently told me the Chinese are winning in AI. I felt it, a lot of you felt it. So here's what I'm doing about it - I am getting into the system. Over the weekend I leased out a 3000+ sq ft space to convert into a deep AI research incubator in Indiranagar, Bangalore. If you're a pre-seed founder with a deep tech or AI research idea - and you've been burnt by VCs who want traction before they'll give you the time of day - this is for you. Here's what I'm putting on the table: - A place to work, think, and build without distraction - Introductions to investors who actually understand early stage - The best research minds in the same room as you - 3 months to prove your thesis (Important) - And to promising projects - a stipend; so survival isn't the thing eating your focus No pedigree filter. No "come back when you have PMF." No sitting across the table asking why you're doing too many things while doing nothing yourself. My Creds? - Raised $5M + from a16z and others for my first startup as a solo founder - before I turned 24 - Exited to build something meaningful in AI - now running Conscious Engines (@c_engines), focused on small models doing big things - Helped 10+ teams with fundraising and operational mettle in their 0 to 1 journey - I know what 'early' looks like, and I know what it needs. What do I get in return? (candid) - New Friends and mutual contacts - Peer group to review our own work at Conscious Engines - Maybe the ability to put some $ early in on promising projects - Provenance --- To beat the system, sometimes you have to become the system. This will probably be hard. It might not work. But I have more risk appetite than the red-orange logo VCs who inspired this - so that's something. Founders: Join the WhatsApp Community. VCs: DM me. I have privilege. I would like to share it.
Kautuk | Conscious Engines@Kautukkundan

Slight rant - Indian VCs are so weird, delusional and over-confident. A partner from a well-known firm (Red-Orange Logo) recently told me: "Arey yaar, ye Chinese log hi sab kuch lead kar rahe hain models mein." Translation - "The Chinese are leading everything in the model space." Funny thing? Same firm passed on investing in multiple research labs. Honestly, it's not even surprising anymore - it's just the pattern. Indian VCs, by and large, don't want to fund the process of building something. They want to fund the proof that it already worked. No appetite for the messy, uncertain, pre-traction phase where the actual hard stuff happens - the research, the architecture decisions, the "we don't know if this will work yet" phase. They also have the balls to say - "You are doing too many things" That's where companies like DeepSeek got built. That's where labs get built. That's where moats get built. But sure, easier to wait until someone else has de-risked the entire thing, then show up with a term sheet and opinions about geopolitics. The frustrating part isn't even the pass - passes are fine, not every fund has the mandate or the conviction for deep tech. The frustrating part is the confidence. The certainty with which people who opted out of the game will tell you who's winning it. India has the talent. India has the compute access. India has founders who are genuinely trying to build frontier things - not just wrap GPT and call it an AI startup. What it doesn't have enough of is early believers. People willing to back the research before it has a leaderboard score. People willing to be wrong with you before you're right. Until that changes, we'll keep having the same conversation. VCs lamenting that the Chinese are ahead, while quietly having passed on every opportunity to change that. --- I am gonna change it personally, if that's what it takes.

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