Gaurav Chauhan

@piersightspace @PixxelSpace @sat_sure @DhruvaSpace Superspeed 🚀🚀

Being a spacetech company founded just two years back, we didn’t think we would be here this soon, but glad we are! PierSight, as part of the winning consortium (@PixxelSpace , @sat_sure , @DhruvaSpace ), has formally signed a concession agreement to develop India’s first Earth observation constellation under a public-private partnership model. Over the course of the next four years, we will design, build, and launch two SAR satellites out of the total twelve satellites that are supposed to be a part of this constellation. In parallel, we continue building satellites dedicated for 24x7 maritime surveillance. We are ecstatic to contribute our SAR expertise to this significant mission for India’s space sector, and extend our gratitude to @GoenkaPk , @INSPACeIND , the Government of India, and our partners for their trust.

@elonmusk Exactly! This will be called Tesla Dhaba in India 😎

There should be more things like this

In 10 years, most white collar jobs will morph into one or more of: 1. Prepping / labeling data for AI 2. Crafting AI inputs / prompts 3. Reviewing AI outputs The skills needed to succeed in this world will be (a) editorial (the ability to critically evaluate and refine information), (b) synthesis (making connections and deriving insights from model outputs and insights), (c) strategic (understanding the broader context and implications), and (d) communication (effectively collaborating with both humans and AI systems).

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"Most people get interested when everyone else is. The time to be interested is when no one else is. You can't buy what is popular and do well." — Warren Buffett

@HardeepSPuri An absolute honour @HardeepSPuri sir, to receive the award and listening to your vision towards Viksit Bharat and growing efforts towards sustainable energy leadership from India.

Interacted with a distinguished gathering of wealth creators at the Family Office Excellence Awards which celebrate the trailblazers of wealth stewardship and impact in India. The increasing influence of family offices in driving economic transformation can be gauged by the fact that the number of family offices has grown to over 300 from just 45 in 2018. Family offices play an important role in fostering a supportive environment. From funding startups that create jobs to supporting large-scale infrastructure projects, and taking up philanthropic initiatives, family offices are driving innovation and dynamism in our economy. Since 2014, they have backed over 200 startups, focusing on areas like fintech, e-commerce, and enterprise technology - sectors critical to India’s innovation journey under the leadership of PM @narendramodi Ji. We are working to ensure ease of doing business through streamlined regulations, simplified tax structures, and policies that encourage long-term investments. Additionally, India envisions family offices as bridges for global collaboration, bringing in foreign investment & fostering cross-border partnerships to position India as a global powerhouse. Today, India is moving towards a stronger knowledge economy. In the last five years, Indian entrepreneurs filed more than 1,400 patents in deeptech. India now has the third-largest start-up ecosystem in the world, with more than 1 lakh start-ups and nearly 120 unicorns, and is also emerging as the world’s largest source of affordable intellectual power. We have over 1,700 Global Capability Centres currently operating in India employing more than 2 million highly skilled Indian professionals. As per a report by Nasscom, the Indian GCC industry is set to touch $100 billion by 2030 and generate over 2.5 million jobs. @CNBCTV18News #FamilyOfficeExcellenceAwards

"You are the upper bound on how much people in your company care." This one really stuck with me.

Truly remarkable feat to achieve for Indian EV forces, and this is just the major effects in last 4-5 years! After Ola Electric and Ather, next line is building with more tech and supply chain issues getting sorted. @log9materials @batxenergies_

To sum up: moving fast without breaking things up! Blitzscaling ++🚀🚀

Learnings from @WalkMeInc acquisition by @SAP 1. apps are still complex for most users 2. blended automation will be built by agent/RPA companies and not by DAP providers. 3. GTM scale is run time of an enterprise app just like they focussed on SAP ecosystem.

@MrinaliniArora Is there Jury in Oscars 😉

@_gurugaurav Oscars ki Jury mein politicians ni hain? Aise kaise 🙄

Whenever I watch a politician's interview, I find myself thinking: "Ye to badiya banda hai yaar" they're certainly skilled actors.

@jspujji Gateway X

I raised $3.5M in seed funding for Kahani. After our first investor meeting, my investors said: “That was the best post-investment first meeting we’ve ever had.” My COO built an awesome Notion template which helped us crush it. Want it? RT + Reply “Gateway X” and I’ll DM.

(1/4) Join us in celebrating our recent achievements on a special day, January 16 #NationalStartupDay2024 1) Last week we were honoured by an AI innovation award in the healthcare category at @intel AI Open Innovation Day. #artificialintelligence #machinelearning #AI #aiml

LetsVenture continues to lead startup investment in India, in good times and bad. #angelinvesting #startups

Indian startup investors finally discover that Syndicate leads are just content creators with a mailing list and with skin-in-the-game less than bankers. Will explain the math if I get 100 RTs

Glad to announce our seed round of $1.05M, led by @SilverneedleV, @ianetwork with participation from @letsventurein fund, @shrishtie, and @kunalb11. We at @OnFinance_ai are a Generative AI SaaS, building a foundational LLM, NeoGPT for banking and wealth management firms.

Q: How do you build a great company? In the clip below, Sam Altman walks through 9 things he has seen the best founders do: #1 Get to know your users really well “The best founders do customer support themselves. They go visit their users—in the case of Airbnb they go live with them. You want to get to know your users really really well.” #2 Have a short cycle time & understand compound growth “The cycle here is basically: talk to customer to understand pain point → build product to address that → get product in front of user → see what they do → repeat cycle. This cycle is how you iterate and improve. The law of compound growth being what it is: if you can get 2% better every iteration cycle, your iteration cycle is every four hours rather than every four weeks, and you compound that over the course of a few years, you’ll be in a very very different place. Make it one of your top goals to build one of the fastest iterating companies the world has ever seen.” #3 Make a long-term commitment “Most companies have a 2-3 year time horizon. But companies are almost always a 10 year project if they work. If you think about it that way from the very beginning, you will make very different and much better decisions. I think this is the only arbitrage opportunity left in the market. Almost no one makes a fairly long-term commitment to a new project. But if you do that, you will think in a different way, you will hire different people, and it will work very well.” #4 Stay lean until everything is working really well “In the early days, when you’re experimenting and zig zagging, you’re like a fast little speed boat and want to be able to turn the whole company on a dime. You can’t do that if you’re a big company—cash burn aside, which is another problem. The flexibility of the company basically decreases with the square of the number of employees, so you want to stay really small until you’re sure things are working. Once things are working, then you can get really big.” #5 Resist the urge to hire; especially resist the urge to hire mediocre people “Vinod Khosla has a saying that I love: ‘the team you build is the company you build.’ This is really true and I never appreciated how true this was for a long time. If you build a team of great people and you have a product that people love, you’ll have a 90%+ chance of success. Those are both really hard to do, and they’re independent variables. But don’t ignore the team component. The best CEOs I know spend huge amounts of their time recruiting and retaining good talent.” #6 Relentless execution “You have to keep going, and do things perfectly, and get all of the details right. You have to care too much about every experience that a customer has with your company.” #7 Startups are about not giving up “One of the very best companies in the last YC batch applied 7 times before they got in. This is just a version of what happens in startups all of the time: you get beat down, again, and again, and again. And that last time when you get pushed down and don’t think you have enough energy to get back up—that’s the time it actually works. This is what you sign up for if you’re going to start a startup.” #8 Fiduciary duty to take care of yourself “This is a 10-year marathon and you have a fiduciary duty to your shareholders to take care of yourself. Some people treat startups like an all-nighter: they don’t take care of their health, they don’t sleep, they don’t maintain their personal relationships. It is true that startups are a bad choice for work-life balance. But you have a duty to yourself, your team, and your investors to take care of yourself.” #9 Clear mission “You don’t have to figure this out on Day 1, but all of the most successful startups I’ve been fortunate enough to be a part of pretty quickly—in the first one to two years—figure out a really important mission. It’s this mission that gets people to join them. It drives the founders. It gets the media to write about them. And even if you start off building a project that’s just interesting to you and solves a problem in your life—which is how you should start—remember that you should have a clear mission at some point… That is what will convince people to come help you, and that is how you will build this idea into a huge company with a ton of people that really love your product.” Follow @startuparchive_ for more tactical startup advice!