Dharmesh Ba

@bizaditya @kunksed @paperplane_club Beautifully written :) Would love to jam more on this sometime.

was thinking about this today Dharmesh. Without being specific to paperplane, there are two paths for founders today ( or may be three) - the ambition / opportunity cost of ambition / cost of building is so HIGH that venture capital makes sense and the risk-return profile makes sense for VCs - one builds a story / ambition that is HIGH in pursuit of capital (worst of the three) : or you scale things to justify the capital raise - you go slow but with staying power and find capital that SERVES the ambition, you retain optionality as founders to accelerate when it is the right time. as far as paperplane goes, we have like 15 assumptions/hypothesis which all have to be true for us to be a good business. we have validated about 5 and another 3-4 are may be and the rest we haven't gotten to. still a few iterations away from acceleration. will give you an example which you will relate to : how to not lose customers when first transaction is not as high value as you want it to be but there is a path to it :)

Last 6 months have been wild. AMA anything about career pivoting to becoming a product builder and trying to build a three person remote company (@paperplane_club)

The disconnect between design team and sales team results in this!

@Kenneth Audit should reveal it no?

@dharmeshba Erm how would you have discovered this insight? Talking to customer who felt that they didn’t get a response? Company auditing their call recordings?

Interesting insight ! via @TheKenWeb

@dineshpaii Knowing oneself deeply also leads nuanced writing that doesn’t compete with Internet.

If you're here to find a hook, a formula and farm engagement, this article won't help you, and honestly, there are a hundred people who'll teach you that better than I can. But if you're the person who keeps writing into what feels like an empty room, who has something they're trying to figure out, and uses writing to figure it out, then this is for you.

Feedback heard 👏

@rohanrajpal98 I don’t consider offsets as discounts. Hence.

@dharmeshba How is it not cheaper then? A bit confused

If you have a GST number. Claude will be 18% cheaper for you now.

@rohanrajpal98 I meant the same.

@dharmeshba If you have revenue in India, you can claim the GST you pay to them as input and offset that against the GST you collect. I do this every month. Or maybe you mean something else?

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@patokekar True

@dharmeshba We confuse selling to enterprises like selling to a large organisation at one time ! At the end you just need to sell to few decision makers who are humans and most of whom are on Insta !

I sell for enterprises and my ICPs are not on Insta, hence will stick to LinkedIn ads Meanwhile Insta Reels 👇

@vinod_shankar Congrats ji. For more decades to come. 🚀

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@nikunjtaneja_ Lol

anthropic’s expenses are in dollar terms why would they bill in inr 😭