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@GoyalMalini @ambriancarvalho @UnboxingBlr Congratulations @ambriancarvalho - all the best!!

We are growing! Delighted to tell U that @ambriancarvalho is now part of our core team & will steer operations @UnboxingBlr as its COO. Welcome Brian. Its been a delight to work with U. Together we shall take #UnboxingBengaluru to next level #startup #tech #Bangalore #Bengaluru

Restore Hyper Wellness made $135M selling vitamin IVs, red light therapy, and cryotherapy. A physician friend tells me it’s mostly marketing and expensive placebo. Anyone else have a viewpoint?

@IndiGo6E Finally the duty officer got him on another flight, we paid twice for the travel..I am going to a consumer court for this

@bgera Sir, we completely understand your disappointment. Please know only the original hard copy of the student ID card or bonafide certificate is allowed. Looking forward to your understanding on the same. ~Diyashi

Why have you not let my son board the flight with a boarding pass, he has produced a digital id..this is crazy!! @IndiGo6E

@IndiGo6E this has been a harrowing experience, if the student ID is not acceptable..why not charge fare difference when passenger is willing to pay it? why stop boarding? who is going to be responsible for student missing the exam??

@IndiGo6E What do you expect me to understand? Your staff being rude to a student coming through a riot situation in Sohna to board a flight to take an exam? Your staff leave him stranded without any support or guidance at the gate? Pls have someone help him now!!

Doctors possess a remarkable gift, the ability to heal. They possess hearts filled with empathy & compassion & dedicate their lives towards improving the health, wellbeing of their patients. Today & everyday, we celebrate them & their incredible contributions. Thank you Doctors!

Being a VC (of the kind that leads round and sits on boards) feels schizophrenic rn: * 50% of your day you deal with unwinding the excesses of 2020-21 (cost-cutting, RIFs, efficiency) * The other 50% you witness the creation of the same exact situation, the AI Bubble of 2023

On major life decisions, the purpose of seeking advice is not to get answers. It’s to gain perspective. No one knows what's best for you. They can only share what makes sense to them. The most important question to ask is not what you should do. It's what you might be missing.

And we have had this problem for generations, with hospital bills drowning families into poverty..glad that Ayushman Bharat took up this battle

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@TheSwamy Sorry @TheSwamy elections have more to do with rest of Karnataka than Bangalore

#BLRTRAFFIC For the past 40 years, Karnataka has never re-elected the incumbent. Let that sink in - in startup terms its called Customer Churn! So what will ensure a re-election in 5 years? For Bangalore the top 3 priorities are Traffic, Traffic, Traffic. Fixing it with a combination of Short, Medium and Long term initiatives is a near guarantee to help win the vote of the city next time around! Beyond that my asks are quite simple 2) And as a digital first native, can we please use all the amazing digital public infrastructure that were defined in this city - that has the world going gaga. 3) Cleanliness - keep our city clean - educate, encourage, reward & penalize so ensure the right behaviour. What are your top 3 asks?

@StJohns_Blr Deepest condolences, such a wonderful person..so sad to hear..Om Shanti 🙏

We deeply regret the sad demise of Dr. Ashok MV on 10th May 2023 (Professor in Psychiatry and Chief Coordinator of CARE-ADD).

@banglani Better design options were prepared even in the 90s, what got approved is another story..with such good weather and opportunities to make money..why bother with better public infrastructure..they will keep coming anyways no

I took two hours to get home today, so I'm going to celebrate with a thread on how a design choice made in the 90s at point A is leading to traffic pileups at point B, 6 kilometers away, in 2023. Brace yourselves.

@rajeshsawhney Most entrepreneurs fail and go back to buying FDs and LIC polices for security..investing in stock markets was a good way to make wealth..but most Indians have wealth based on property..of course past is not a guide for the future

No one ever became rich doing FDs and LIC policies. Entrepreneurship is the best way to create wealth, second best route is to back the best entrepreneurs as investors.

@ListenNotes @TrungTPhan Both Jerry Yang and David Filo are billionaires, together worth more than what Yahoo! sold..Marissa Meyer was the last CEO..she was one of the early team at Google..go figure how this happens!

@TrungTPhan There must be human beings behind those decisions . who were they? how are they doing right now?

Yahoo! is the Forrest Gump of tech what-ifs. It had a dotcom peak valuation of $125B and ultimately sold to Verizon for $4.8B in 2016. Here are 5 of its wildest whiffs: ▫️1998: Refuses to buy Google for $1m ▫️2002: Google says it will sell to Yahoo for $5B (but Yahoo only offers $3B) ▫️2006: Yahoo offers $1B for Facebook but Zuckerberg turns it down (allegedly, if Yahoo increased bid to $1.1B, the board may have pushed for sale but Yahoo wouldn’t budge) ▫️2008: Microsoft offers to buy Yahoo for $46B (Yahoo says “no”) ▫️2013: Yahoo buys Tumblr for $1.1B and writes it down to $230m in 2016 (instead of Tumblr, it considered buying Netflix for $4B —> now worth $140B)

Exactly why I say 90% of VCs add no value. A few of us do work 80 hrs per week and enable new things to be done that might not get done otherwise, like fusion, public transit ... but more agree than not with you. It's why in 40 yrs I've never called myself a venture capitalist.

investing is an amazing very-part-time job, and (at least for me) a soul-sucking full-time job. BUT those mountains in aspen aren’t gonna ski themselves, that party in saint-tropez isn’t gonna enjoy itself, that kiteboard on necker island needs someone to fly it, etc etc etc.

@sama m.economictimes.com/small-biz/entr… wrote this in 2016, my VC friends did not like it

being a VC is so easy, so high-status, the money is so great, and the lifestyle is so fun.   very dangerous trap that many super talented builders never escape from, until they eventually look back on it all and say “damn i’m so unfulfilled”.