Siddhartha Gupta

@AnilAgarwal_Ved 😔 om shanti 🙏

Today is the darkest day of my life. My beloved son, Agnivesh, left us far too soon. He was just 49 years old, healthy, full of life, and dreams. Following a skiing accident in the US, he was recovering well in Mount Sinai Hospital, New York. We believed the worst was behind us. But fate had other plans, and a sudden cardiac arrest snatched our son away from us. No words can describe the pain of a parent who must bid goodbye to his child. A son is not meant to leave before his father. This loss has shattered us in ways we are still trying to comprehend. I still remember the day Agni was born in Patna on 3 June, 1976. From a middle-class Bihari family, he grew into a man of strength, compassion, and purpose. The light of his mother’s life, a protective brother, a loyal friend, and a gentle soul who touched everyone he met. Agnivesh was many things - a sportsman, a musician, a leader. He studied at Mayo College, Ajmer, went on to set up one of the finest companies Fujeirah Gold, became Chairman of Hindustan Zinc, and earned the respect of colleagues and friends alike. Yet, beyond all titles and achievements, he remained simple, warm, and deeply human. To me, he was not just my son. He was my friend. My pride. My world. Kiran and I are broken. And yet, in our grief, we remind ourselves that the thousands of young people who work across Vedanta are also our children. Agnivesh believed deeply in building a self-reliant India. He would often say, “Papa, we lack nothing as a nation. Why should we ever be behind?” We shared a dream to ensure that no child sleeps hungry, no child is denied education, every woman stands on her own feet, and every young Indian has meaningful work. I had promised Agni that more than 75% of what we earn would be given back to society. Today, I renew that promise and resolve to live an even simpler life. There was so much life ahead of him. So many dreams yet to be lived. His absence leaves a void for his family and friends. We thank all his friends, colleagues and well-wishers for always being there for him. Beta, you will live on in our hearts, in our work, and in every life you touched. I do not know how to walk this path without you, but I will try carrying your light forward.

No one knows what’s going on, people saying might be sitting here will midnight !! @myogiadityanath @tourismgoi @UPGovt @CMOfficeUP

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Clogged highways …Tourists, families, elders, kids stranded in the dark because no cops in sight ! Escaping Delhi’s toxic air for Agra & Fatehpur Sikri turned into a nightmare, 2 weeks back it was 10 hour to delhi from Jim Corbett … @myogiadityanath @nitin_gadkari

@SCofIndia aqi.in/in/air-quality… 🙏 There cannot be anything more important than breathing at this point in time 🙏 Please intervene. You are our last hope.

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Good advice for management. A better advice for @CimGOI @nsitharaman is to use this as a case study and change ourselves ! Great brand build and effort wasted !

Bira 91 was one of the successful start-up stories of last decade. It is a popular craft beer brand. They were growing so well. Reality is strange than what you can imagine. A procedural goof up has lead to whole company being collapsing and the founder now being forced even to exit by company employees. As Bira was very successful, it wanted to come up with IPO. So it did a small change. It changed the name from B9 beverages private limited to B9 beverages limited. Just removed the word private. All the hell then broke loose. All the states immediately banned the sale of Bira 91 treating the new name as different entity. They demanded fresh legal approvals, label approvals, product registrations and fresh licenses for every single variant. Google and find out. This lead to one problem after another. Once a thriving company looks like may not even survive. I remember once someone asked Hina Nagarajan, former CEO of Diageo India as to why she is retaining the name United Spirits instead of changing it to Diageo India limited. She said that the company checked with best legal brains in the country and name change would lead to huge disruptions for business. Though what happened to Bira is extremely unfair, you've to accept the reality of India. Procedures, compliance and proper documentation are extremely important. The rules are so complex you should never desist from taking expert advice. What you assume need not work in reality and may even go against you.

Interesting! Are the BIG 4 doing this in India, overcharging govt too? ⁦@DPIITGoI⁩ ⁦@sanjeevsanyal⁩ ⁦@FinMinIndia⁩ ⁦@NITIAayog⁩

@TansuYegen Tryst

Challenge…

@TansuYegen Trust

11:11 You are playing Cricket and he arrives like this.. Sachin Tendulkar ❤️

H-1B uncertainty, India opportunity. With the recent changes to U.S. visa rules have created challenges for professionals and students rethinking their future abroad. At Titan Capital, we’re launching a support program for those ready to build in India: 💰 Seed funding 🎯 Mentorship 🤝 Access to our 500+ founder network If you are building for India and the world, write to us at startups@titancapital.vc with the subject line: H-1B_Building in India. @1kunalbahl @rohitkbansal @shivkapoor21 #TitanCapital #FromSeedToScale #StartupIndia #Entrepreneurship #H1BVISAFEE #H1B

@johnnieO Hey!

@Benioff @salesforce What phenominal results and consistency!

Q2 Results and FY26 Guidance Salesforce Growth:    FY26 $41.3B (guidance) FY25 $37.9B FY24 $34.9B FY23 $31.4B FY22 $26.5B Salesforce Operating Cash Flow: FY26 $15B (guidance) FY25 $13.1B FY24 $10.2B FY23 $7.1B FY22 $6.0B Salesforce Margin: FY26 34.1% (guidance) FY25 33% FY24 30.5% FY23 22.5% FY22 18.7% Salesforce Q2 Results $10.2B Revenue +10% Y/Y 34.3% Non Gaap Operating Margin $0.7B Operating Cash Flow $29.4B in cRPO, +11% Y/Y Over $1.2B Data Cloud & AI ARR, +120% Y/Y Since October, closed 12,500 Agentforce deals, including 6,000 paid Over 40% of Data Cloud and Agentforce Q2 bookings came from existing customer expansion In Q2, closed over 60 deals greater than $1 million that include both Data Cloud and AI Service and Platform were in all Q2 Top 10 Deals On help.salesforce.com, Agentforce has handled over 1.4 million requests Salesforce.com, Inc. - Salesforce Investor Relations (investor.salesforce.com/overview/defau…)

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Back to cycling after a gap of almost ten days. Happy to see Golf Course Extension Road in good shape. This is really now beyond complaining. Between the meetings and optics our administrative machinery is just incapable of doing anything worthwhile to the sinking city of Gurugram. Let's celebrate our monsoons and pathetic civic sense. @DC_Gurugram @gurgaon_live @leenadhankhar @IndianGems_ @IndiaToday @Ashok_Kashmir @Suhelseth @MunCorpGurugram @NayabSainiBJP @cmohry @OfficialGMDA

The book is finally here About 5 years ago, I started sharing my learnings from the ground on social media to help anyone else grappling with problems we had already faced and navigated In this period, the number of people following my content increased manyfold. I also started getting many requests to document my learnings in a more structured and detailed form in a book. Zero To Scale is the result of it And it took a good 2 years and many writing sessions on Sunday evenings ( that is the only time I had) to bring it to life In this book, I’ve covered everything that I possibly could to help anyone build and grow their brand in India. Everything I’ve written is what we ourselves followed at Atomberg for growing our fan business, and now following them again to build our new categories like mixer grinders and water purifiers from scratch Grateful to everyone who took the pain to go through the early drafts and share their feedback/praise, some of which are published here The book is about 40000 words long and I have tried my best to strike the right balance between depth and brevity in each topic I genuinely wish to help Indian entrepreneurs and operators grow faster and better. Even the choice of publisher, Wyzr, is reflective of that. I met the founder, Yashraj, my junior from college and was impressed by the work they had already done and their drive to make an impact in an industry that’s in need of some energy Building distribution, generating demand and building a brand isn’t easy. Even if ever so slightly, I hope this book helps you in that journey The book is already available on Amazon, and should be available in leading book stores and a Q-com portal in the next 2 weeks

World comes to us for their reasons and invite us in for the their reasons... Faster people understand this ..better it is for everyone ! lets work harder on ourselves...cheers nytimes.com/2025/08/08/wor…

Don’t let @UPI_NPCI success get to your head! Govt owns currency, identity and is responsible for inclusion! In case of @ONDC_Official, trust the market to compete and find the right price! Pls focus on education, healthcare, infra and judicial reform🙏 m.economictimes.com/tech/startups/…