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@kushalbhagia @AcaiTheoryIndia How is that profitable lol. Are icepacks that cheap

@a6mhr @AcaiTheoryIndia yes! it comes chilled

Super kicked to lead the first round in @AcaiTheoryIndia ! Rishav and Akash blew us away with their customer insights and their get-shit-done attitude & we ended up doing our first investment in QSR! Try out their Acai Bowl the next time you pass by Indiranagar - it's amazing!

@deepakshenoy How much is businesses trying to outlive war driven issues vs. capex?

Credit growth of banks at 16%. This is a big jump, only higher in 2023 because of the HDFC merger.

@tr1ckastley Indiranagar HSR speakeasy pickleball?

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@PranavDixit @priyasamagod Dude you are expecting kiranas to offer Visa/Mastercard and pay the MDR? These guys were completely cash-based until UPI came along only because its free. This is not a UPI issue but a low card penetration issue. Just carry cash or order online.

@priyasamagod the solution, of course, is for a country's payment systems to be a lot more inclusive. Heck, use UPI all you want, let people use it with international credit cards.

@lastplacecomics One of my all time fav webcomics. Everything from the tired cells to the pleading mother to the brain’s herald is so fucking funny

🧬Cells at overwork🧬

@AttackOnChitin This is so true. It’s baffling how all the AI nerds keep talking about creating a new permanent underclass and then do the pikachu face when people inevitably push back. AI is probably the tech with the worst PR since nuclear and it’s all because of the industry itself.

@b50 Metro Line 2B (2 stations on that stretch) will boost it further

NM-Mithibai stretch has transformed into a massive education hub with student housing (from budget to luxury) and a thriving F&B scene. You won't read about it but it's a story best witnessed on the ground. Huge transformation and hats off to SVKM.

@IndianTintin_ Well yeah ofc, any political system must be

@a6mhr I am not saying authoritarianism is better. I am saying democracy must be seen as the means to an end rather than an end in itself.

India is not clean like China but it is democratic says this lady. Reminded me of this: "I gather you yellow-skinned men(Chinese), despite your triumphs in sewage, drinking water, and Olympic gold medals, still don't have democracy. Some politician on the radio was saying that's why we Indians are going to beat you: we may not have sewage, drinking water, and Olympic gold medals but we do have democracy. If I were making a country, I'd get the sewage pipes first, then the democracy..." Balram Halwai, 'The White Tiger', Aravind Adiga.

@opheliamoding @butleriano This is a well-explored topic in the Indian startup ecosystem. Its more commonly analysed from a consumer spending POV but the cultural angle is real too. sajithpai.com/india1-avocado…

@butleriano my ~rough intuition is that India has actually about a Canada-sized advanced economy, Anglophone, culturally Western etc. society (in that i think probably ~30 million Indians live like that. a tiny minority but Not Nothing re: influencing the Anglosphere)

India is more of a core Anglophone society than Australia tbh. Average university educated Briton or North American could not tell you the name of a single Australian writer but they could tell you about Kipling, Rushdie and maybe Tagore.

@NeverTr74704466 @mattyglesias The toll income will compensate for that

@mattyglesias Now this is the creative policymaking we need! I think the only roadblock would be that as a major oil producer, Iran is probably not on board with climate change goals.

No chat app so far has fixed the issue of group chats being flooded with 00s of individual b'day wishes. We need a way for everyone to wish that doesn't involve a hundred diff notifs

All these Japanese posts are making me imagine what’d happen if the Great Firewall fell and we could interact freely with Chinese poasters

@LunkyFallow More like investors/founders are greedy people who understand fear and hope are a great way of making money. And that tbh is an eternal human vice

15 years ago, a 'product' like Astro Talk would be laughed out of investor offices. Let alone, an ad during the IPL feat a working woman being reassured by an astrologer on a screen. Today, it has a $300 mn valuation. Do we no longer even pretend to be rational as people?

@bhangbhangducx I think it works with money because without knowing the value of the currency it’s vague enough to not be overanalyzed. It just needs to be a large/small enough number to have the desired impact on the audience.

but if you followed this writing advice you would miss some better moments. Ned finding out that Robert owes 3 million stags to Tywin Lannister. The cost of the messenger's transport to Caladan in Dune. Every Witcher scene where they haggle over money.

@kukreja_abhinav Alpha Wave is goated

maybe the most insane (appreciative) barbell portfolio of all time. respect.

@paraschopra A quarter of the way in and its amazing. The planet seems heavily inspired by Bengal. He mentions Calcutta/Benares a few times, the geography seems very similar to the Ganga Delta, Keats (esp its slums) sounds like Calcutta, and Simmons had another book set entirely in Calcutta.

Drop everything and read this #book. Seriously, this sci-fi is leagues apart from any other sci-fi book that I’ve read (except perhaps Ursula’s writings). Immensely imaginative, the book has several interconnected stories, each equally mind blowing. And all those stories come together in a fluid meta-story. Few of the stories were so powerful that I had trouble sleeping as I kept thinking about them. I picked the book after seeing it infinitely recommended on hacker news and it did not disappoint. It’s sad that the author recently passed away, but I’m excited to read rest of the books in the Hyperion series.

@Sahilinfra2 Is NMIA also closer to the industrial areas? I assume most of the freight transport needs would be from Bhiwandi side

Navi Mumbai International airport All set to commence cargo operations from east side entrance Fedex is creating a regional Hub at the airport. Besides all major freighters wil b shifting to NMIA from May due to airside upgrades planned at CSMIA 📷 skyshots studio

@Nithin0dha @TheKenWeb Acquired for India!

India has a rich business history. Almost none of it has been documented. This apathy applies broadly, but especially to business, finance, and markets, and it's something I've found genuinely frustrating for a long time. So I'm really happy that the team at @TheKenWeb decided to take this on. I've been bugging them about it for years. The way I consume content has changed a lot since AI. The internet is flooded with generated slop, and it's made me much more deliberate. I actively seek out things where the effort and craft are obvious. Their new podcast, Intermission, belongs in that category. The care, intention, and craft of the people behind it are immediately apparent. Real curiosity, real effort, real craftsmanship. That matters more now than ever; the internet is drowning in AI-generated slop, and it's making high-quality, effortful work stand out more, not less. The first episode is on Asian Paints, and it's absolutely brilliant. Rohin, Seetha, and the rest of the Ken team have clearly poured a lot into it. One thing that stood out: Asian Paints had a deliberate strategy of hiring people at below-market salaries, and how genuinely they took care of those people once there was a real cultural fit and alignment with the company's long-term vision. The episode is free and live on YouTube and Spotify. Worth your time. Link in the comments. (Disclosure: Zerodha had a small role in making this happen, which I'm glad about, because I think it's important for the history of Indian business to be documented and freely available.)