Manu P Toms

🧵Hello everyone! As Ola Electric IPO opens today with the anchor placement, I am doing a thread of my stories on the company over the past five years. @ETPrime_com (1/20)

Quiz teams who went on to stellar careers! @ShashiTharoor and Ramu Damodaran, former diplomat, ambassador & UN Communications director represented St. Stephen's with great success in the 70s. @Ram_Guha must also have teamed up with Shashi at some point in that period. @NandanNilekani & @Jairam_Ramesh were a star turn for IIT Bombay around the same time. And in the first Quiz Time presented by @babubasu in 1985 - former RBI Governor Raghuram Rajan and Jayant Sinha, the former MOS for Finance and Civil Aviation represented IIT Delhi. In that same season @sardesairajdeep represented St. Xavier's Mumbai.

The conflict in the Gulf is putting one of India's most vital economic lifelines at serious risk. @dilasha

Here’s a reminder that civility, decency, and humility are not weaknesses in a democracy, they are strengths. You can fight hard without being cruel. You can stand your ground and still find common ground. You don’t have to tear people down in order to lift others up. Decency is not naïveté. Civility is not surrender. They are strengths and often the surest strategy for lasting success, for individuals and for our nation. In a time when our president traffics in cruelty masquerading as strength, shameless hubris, and the weakness of meanness, our nation needs leaders who show something better: the value of vulnerability, the strength of virtue, and the courage to affirm the dignity of even your opponent—even when they refuse to affirm yours.

@imFmoharkan @CNBCTV18News Congratulations and best wishes Furquan

Career Update: I have joined @CNBCTV18News as Associate Editor. At CNBC TV18, I would be handling the subscription platform — CNBC Access, the subscription platform.

Iran war: What is the Strait of Hormuz and why is it so important for world trade? economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/internati…

SoftBank and Prosus are quietly reshaping their India playbook, moving beyond big late-stage bets to smaller AI-led deals and active operating roles. Is this a strategic reset for the startup cycle? @manutoms tracks the shift. #Startups #VC bit.ly/4bOn2Wb

SoftBank and Prosus are quietly reshaping their India playbook, moving beyond big late-stage bets to smaller AI-led deals and active operating roles. Is this a strategic reset for the startup cycle? @manutoms tracks the shift. #Startups #VC bit.ly/4bOn2Wb

India need bold policy to become an AI power. Biggest issue is inadequate funding and eco system. We need a 50000cr AI/Deep tech Fund over next 3 years. An AI City in Bengaluru. Current AI funding inadequate. Need Help from PM ⁦@narendramodi⁩ ⁦@PiyushGoyal⁩ ⁦

This is probably the single best context about India in the new world, you will hear from a business point of view.

Media Round Table: At the "Times House" complex at Bahadur Shah Zafar Marg, New Delhi, it was a unique but an exciting experience to be a part of a Round Table meet with the Editorial staff of "Economic Times" (ET) with their counterparts from Mumbai and Bengaluru ET offices too joining via video conference. It was an interesting interaction, lasting over an hour, covering a wide range of subjects ranging from  Nuclear Energy, Space, #StartUps, technology, governance reforms, public policy, Jammu & Kashmir... even the flare for literature and poetry. A candid exchange of views and observations, at the end of which I am sure, others too felt as enriched as me.

These consistently underperforming startup stocks have a common element that investors may not fully have factored in. These capital guzzling ventures are deeply loss making, with some now at the risk of fading into insignificance. timesofindia.indiatimes.com/toi-plus/busin…

What Paytm, Ola and FirstCry stumbles say about founder hubris of conglomerate play economictimes.indiatimes.com/prime/technolo…

Paytm, Ola and FirstCry show how the push to build internet conglomerates often stretches founders thin and burns investor capital. Is conglomerate ambition becoming a liability? @manutoms examines the hubris. #Startups #Markets bit.ly/4sEsVuS

Paytm, Ola and FirstCry show how the push to build internet conglomerates often stretches founders thin and burns investor capital. Is conglomerate ambition becoming a liability? @manutoms examines the hubris. #Startups #Markets bit.ly/4sEsVuS

#Indian story of failed #conglomerate culture.Raises a question, is #diversification bad? What Paytm, Ola and FirstCry stumbles say about founder hubris of conglomerate play economictimes.indiatimes.com/prime/technolo… Download Economic Times App - etapp.onelink.me/tOvY/135dde21

What Paytm, Ola and FirstCry stumbles say about founder hubris of conglomerate play economictimes.indiatimes.com/prime/technolo…

He sold tier-II India a 10x startup dream, then vanished. Despite fraud allegations, Rahul Narvekar still turns up at startup events. How did it happen? @sundarbandar and @manutoms examine. #Startups #Business bit.ly/4p95dUE

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Meesho is Aam Aadmi's Amazon, will its IPO be as good for investors? economictimes.indiatimes.com/prime/technolo…

Meesho became the Amazon for the aam aadmi, but can its blockbuster growth story overcome the fact that it still has not turned a profit? Will the IPO deliver? @manutoms explains. #IPO #Startups bit.ly/48fcX2n