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@NammaBESCOM electricity has gone out in Domlur, 560071. Any idea when it’ll be back ?

Hello BLR folks👋 Hunting my replacement, this time with a tight deadline. Details: @prashaaantin is looking for a 3rd flatmate at Shraddha Sunshine, ST Bed, Koramangala (maps.app.goo.gl/yZHQ9mZ5rU6eKg…) from 1st April.

@gauravmunjal @saaquibx Congrats 🙌🏻

Unacademy and upGrad have signed a term sheet for upGrad to acquire Unacademy in a 100% share swap deal. Neither side will disclose the valuation until closing, when the papers are filed and the transaction becomes public. In the last one year, a lot has happened at Unacademy: - We consolidated company operated centres with franchise partners so we could refocus on what we do best, building great online education products - We completed a ₹50 crore ESOP buyback and nearly 40% of former employees have already participated - Airlearn, our first global product, is gaining meaningful traction in the US, UK, Germany and Canada - Our Cash Reserves as of today are more than $100M I will be staying back as Co-Founder and CEO Unacademy - with the Goal to build Great Online Products for Learners in India and Globally. Unacademy helped invent the Modern EdTech Playbook. Along the way we lost some focus and market share, and the sector itself has not seen enough real product innovation in recent years. AI will fundamentally reshape education, and EdTech may become one of its biggest beneficiaries. The opportunity to reimagine learning products has never been greater. I have long admired what @RonnieScrewvala and the upGrad team have built. They have quietly but relentlessly established themselves in the upskilling, lifelong learning and higher education space. If & when we do come together, we share upGrad’s belief that ‘The Whole is bigger than the Sum of Parts’ and altogether we will impact students, learners and working professionals & build great Products from K12 to Forever Learning. The next chapter for education is only beginning.

Agentic payments through a chat interface looks off. How is this a better UX than opening Swiggy and ordering 5 pizzas directly?

@BlrCityPolice Done

@PeteJaison Please DM your contact number for more details.

@BlrCityPolice this guy was drunk and abusing people on the road in ring road near Ejipura signal on the way to Domlur. Please look into it.

Stablecoins for B2B payments in India is hard but not impossible. The real blocker isn’t speed. It’s compliance. More specifically, FIRC documentation under FEMA. No FIRC = no GST claims, no clean audits, no compliance comfort. The solution isn’t replacing banks. It’s designing a hybrid model around them. Full breakdown below open.substack.com/pub/sabermoney…

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@artijourno @PeteJaison deja vu

No UPI, only cash at food counter at India AI Impact Summit 2026. Truly #DigitalIndia 🤦‍♀️ My friend totally frustrated after standing in a long queue messaged me this :)

Rating Indian D2C brands Episode dropping tonight.. @PeteJaison @PavanKamat24 @IStartupDesktop

@gmltony @babubhaskar41

Go to your ChatGPT and send this prompt: “Create an image of how I treat you”. Share your image result. 😂

first it was 1 day, then 1 hour, the 1 minute version is gonna be wild

Google Meet show how late people will be based on meeting history

@dharmeshba Hahaha good one

@PeteJaison Congratulations, your gym is on track to lose 1,460 kg by the end of the year. Perfect time to raise a VC round for the gym.

It’s just day 5 of the new year and somebody has already stolen one of the 20kg dumbbell from the society gym

Starting the year right ❤️ Thank you everyone for being a part of this community and supporting us. @PeteJaison @PavanKamat24 @IStartupDesktop

+100 In Kerala, unionisation had gone to an extreme level that they even introduced something called ‘Noku kooli’, literally meaning - wages for watching - in Malayalam. It basically means that worker unions can demand payment even when they do no physical work, just for being present while goods are loaded or unloaded by the actual business owners. Everyone must be fairly rewarded ofc, and the best way to do this is through skill or output based incentives and NOT through unions.

Checkmate?

Damn Deepinder Goyal is on a spree

@shobhitic So this is what they mean by going on chain eh?

new chain

Peak Bengaluru tech bro moment. Brooooo @IStartupDesktop @PavanKamat24 @PeteJaison