Ravi Jain

@chatturg @Decathlon 😠

Dear @Decathlon you guys have delayed my daughter's Diwali gift and she is really cross with you. Thought I should inform you all.

@IndiaQuotient @anandlunia @sinhamadhukar @Goyal4Gagan @kanika_agarrwal @sahilmkkr @mohmit2706 @MadhavMalani11 @ShahKanupriya Congratulations @Goyal4Gagan !

We have raised a new $129 Mn Fund 5! Since 2013, we’ve held onto one simple belief: Indians can build the best products for Indians. For too long, the narrative was: India is too complex. Indians don’t pay. Indians won’t change. Indians only love imported products. We have always disagreed. The insights, grit, and ingenuity to solve these problems come from founders with a high IndiaQuotient. We will continue to back founders long before their ideas become “sectors.” This has been true from the early days of India social, brands, content, digital lending, India software, agritech, and many more. We were the first investors in ShareChat, Sugar Cosmetics, Lendingkart, Kuku FM, and Vyapar. We want to invest very early. Before you launch. Before you make a deck. Before you get an idea. Before you leave your job. (Okay, not this one!) As we start investing from our Fund 5, here is Our Manifesto: 1. Embrace risk. Be the first one to invest. 2. Play the long game. Make money only through long-term company success. 3. Back the founders at every step. Bridge funding, pro rata or whenever they need us. 4. Cut the fluff. No monthly decks, no big meetings, no wasted founder time. 5. No pressure for up rounds, high dilution, or early liquidity. 6. Focus on PMF. Not on vanity metrics. 7. Be very selective. Every deal is very important to the firm. 8. Always be available. No secretaries, no calendars. 9. Patience. Moral support and empathy in tough times. 10. No conflicts. No competing investments, and if a situation arises, always be transparent. With the new fund, we are also expanding our leadership team with Kanika Agarrwal and Sahil Makkar joining Anand Lunia, Madhukar Sinha, and Gagan Goyal as Partners—to do more deals, bolder and crazier! If you’re a founder with the ambition to build a lasting institution, we want to hear from you. Idea/ deck/ prototype/ beta—it’s never too early to reach out to us. Write to us at [first_name]@indiaquotient.in

Resonate with several points here.

Our designers and engineers spent a couple of years going back to first principles and rethinking what makes a great EV rapid charging station for commercial vehicles in India. Hear straight from them about how they put it all together.

Great to see @FasalOfficial sensors and IoT tech being showcased here. Fasal's irrigation intelligence is transforming agriculture in India and now overseas as well!

Another good read from @gopalkraman's conversation with super talented folks who have built in India. This is for those who are building and scaling tech & engineering teams in India for amazing companies with global aspirations.

Was lovely chatting on the future of full-stack ML systems alongside Bill who led building Tesla's Dojo cluster and @m_ryabinin (Researcher @UseTogetherAI)

TRANSCRIPT: EMERGENCY BRIEFING ON AMERICAN WOKE PHENOMENON Location: Zhongnanhai Compound, Beijing Date: January 16, 2025 Time: 03:00 CST Present: President Xi Jinping, Minister Chen Wei (Cultural Affairs) CHEN: Most esteemed President Xi, I must begin with disturbing statistics. In the past 72 hours, usage of the terms "microaggression," "lived experience," and "emotional labor" has increased by 8,000% on Chinese social media platforms. XI: [adjusting reading glasses] Minister Chen, please speak plainly. What exactly is happening? CHEN: [hands trembling slightly while organizing papers] Sir, three days ago, our youth discovered a social media app called Rednote. The algorithm accidentally began pairing millions of our citizens with American college students who are, as they say, "extremely online." XI: And? CHEN: Sir, yesterday, a 19-year-old factory worker in Guangzhou shut down his entire assembly line because, in his words, "the mandatory overtime represents the intersection of capitalist and temporal hegemonies." XI: [spilling tea] He said what? CHEN: It gets worse, sir. This morning, a Beijing subway car came to a complete halt when a passenger asked another to move their bag. The bag owner refused to move it, declaring that "requests for physical labor from strangers constitute an unexamined manifestation of internalized oppression." XI: [wiping tea from papers] But... that's not... Minister Chen, start from the beginning. What is this "woke?" CHEN: [consulting thick dossier] Sir, our analysts are struggling to provide a precise definition. It appears to be a complex system of social analysis that began with legitimate concerns about historical inequities but has... evolved. XI: Evolved how? CHEN: Sir, one of our top linguistic experts spent six hours on Rednote yesterday. When his wife asked what he wanted for dinner, he accused her of "perpetuating cisheteropatriarchal food-labor expectations." XI: [long pause] I don't understand any of those words. CHEN: Sir, that's exactly the problem. Our citizens are adopting this language faster than we can censor it. This morning, a party official in Shanghai was called out for his "problematic hand gestures" while giving a speech about industrial productivity. XI: What was wrong with his hands? CHEN: According to the complaint, his pointing gesture was "rooted in colonial traditions of directional supremacy." XI: [rubbing temples] Directional...? CHEN: Supremacy, yes sir. We've also seen a troubling rise in what they call "callout culture." A factory in Shenzhen lost four hours of production because workers were staging what they called an "accountability circle." XI: What were they holding each other accountable for? CHEN: Sir, one worker had described the factory's new efficiency standards as "looking good." He was accused of displaying "optical-normative bias" and "ableist language patterns." XI: [standing up, pacing] How many citizens are affected? CHEN: [nervously shuffling papers] Sir, two hours ago, a People's Liberation Army unit refused to do their morning exercises, claiming that synchronized movement reinforces "chrononormative body fascism." XI: [sitting down heavily] What do these Americans hope to achieve with this? CHEN: Sir, that's the most disturbing part. They don't appear to have any specific goals. Last night, a university in Chengdu had to cancel all classes after students began accusing quantum physics of being "epistemologically violent." XI: [long silence] And what do our experts recommend? CHEN: We... we tried having our top propagandists engage with these concepts to develop counter-messaging. But, sir... they've all started adding pronouns to their official party signatures. XI: [face darkening] And the internet firewall? CHEN: Sir, it's not designed to handle this level of... discourse. Yesterday, a teen in Wuhan found a way to embed critical race theory into pictures of cats. XI: [standing again] Minister Chen, what is your recommendation? CHEN: [wiping sweat from brow] Sir, we could try fighting it, but I fear any resistance would be labeled as "problematic." Perhaps our best strategy is to... lean in. XI: Lean... in? CHEN: Yes, sir. For example, we could rebrand the Belt and Road Initiative as a "decolonial transportation equity framework centered on Global South infrastructure sovereignty." XI: [staring out window at Beijing skyline] Would that work? CHEN: Our analysts suggest it might. Though we should probably add that it's also "trauma-informed." XI: Minister Chen, how do you suggest I address the Politburo about this? CHEN: Sir, with respect, I would avoid addressing them directly. That would be an example of "hierarchical communication violence." [Extended silence] XI: [very quietly] Get me President Biden on the phone. CHEN: Sir, about that... This morning he tweeted that phone calls are an "auditory-privileged mode of diplomatic engagement." XI: [burying face in hands] Just... just go. CHEN: Yes, sir. But before I leave, I should note that saying "go" instead of "you may exit this space" could be seen as— XI: OUT! [End of transcript]

@CyberGujarat there is a complaint filed with you for over 2 months with no resolution. Acknowledgement number is 21107240016254. I have written to the nodal officer Mr Dharmesh Sharma and have visited the PS twice but this shows still "Under process". Can you help?

Two physicists, Arnab Priya Saha and Aninda Sinha from the Indian Institute of Science, inadvertently discovered a new formula for calculating π while working on string theory. Their findings were published in Physical Review Letters in January 2024. This formula generates an infinitely long sum. What's remarkable is that it depends on a factor λ, which is a freely adjustable parameter. Since there are infinitely many possible values for λ, Saha and Sinha have effectively discovered an infinite number of formulas for π. Interestingly, when λ approaches infinity, the equation corresponds to Madhava's formula discovered more than 600 years ago.

कुछ बात है कि हस्ती मिटती नहीं हमारी. Happy Independence Day!

Data team: "The AB test results are directionally positive, but let's not jump to any—" Product manager:

@bhash Awesome!!

Taking a test ride 😉

Starting today, open source is leading the way. Introducing Llama 3.1: Our most capable models yet. Today we’re releasing a collection of new Llama 3.1 models including our long awaited 405B. These models deliver improved reasoning capabilities, a larger 128K token context window and improved support for 8 languages among other improvements. Llama 3.1 405B rivals leading closed source models on state-of-the-art capabilities across a range of tasks in general knowledge, steerability, math, tool use and multilingual translation. The models are available to download now directly from Meta or @huggingface. With today’s release the ecosystem is also ready to go with 25+ partners rolling out our latest models — including @awscloud, @nvidia, @databricks, @groqinc, @dell, @azure and @googlecloud ready on day one. More details in the full announcement ➡️ go.fb.me/tpuhb6 Download Llama 3.1 models ➡️ go.fb.me/vq04tr With these releases we’re setting the stage for unprecedented new opportunities and we can’t wait to see the innovation our newest models will unlock across all levels of the AI community.

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After #ExitAzure, it’s time for 🇮🇳developers to #ExitGoogleMaps! 1 YEAR FREE access to all developers to Ola Maps on @Krutrim, more than ₹100Cr in free credits! maps.olakrutrim.com We’ve been using western apps to map India for too long and they don’t get our unique challenges: street names, urban changes, complex traffic, non-standard roads etc. Ola Maps tackles these with AI-powered India-specific algorithms, real-time data from millions of vehicles, leveraging and contributing massively to open source (5 million+ edits just last year!) We’re outperforming competitors on  📍 Location accuracy 🔍 Search accuracy ⏱️ Search latency 🚗 ETA accuracy Here’s more details in our tech blog: tech.olakrutrim.com/navigating-ind… @suvonilc will share more details too!

Well put!

🎙️ MEET THE SPEAKERS @ #GlobalIndiaAISummit🎙️ Sambit Sahu, Senior Vice President, Krutrim-Ola will share his insights during the ‘IndiaAI:  India’s Infrastructure Readiness for AI’ session on July 3, 2024, at the Summit. Register now: indiaai.gov.in/globalindiaais… #DigitalIndia #GlobalAISummit @OfficialINDIAai @abhish18 @GPAI_PMIA @Krutrim @olacabs

Done. As committed, Azure spend is now 0. All workloads on @Krutrim cloud. Within a week. Will help others also exit and move to our own Indian stack. More than 2500 devs have signed up!! Will be working with everyone to get onto our cloud services over coming weeks. 🇮🇳💪🏼👍🏼