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#Micro-transactions: What started as 1K paid transaction per month in January 21 is now 5K transactions per DAY. Something special happening at @askpankhuri

The next wave of internet users in India would not look like the first. 🌍 They would come from small towns, engage in native languages, and need products built specifically for how they live and transact. @Janilokal and @vipulc_ saw this before most, and built @getlokalapp around it. What began as a hyperlocal content platform has grown into a house of 𝗕𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗮𝘁-𝗳𝗶𝗿𝘀𝘁 𝗱𝗶𝗴𝗶𝘁𝗮𝗹 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗱𝘂𝗰𝘁𝘀 spanning 𝟭𝟬 𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗴𝗼𝗿𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝟲𝟬+ 𝗮𝗽𝗽𝘀, from 𝗷𝗼𝗯𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗺𝗼𝗻𝗶𝗮𝗹𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝗮𝗴𝗿𝗶𝗰𝘂𝗹𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝗮𝗱𝘃𝗶𝘀𝗼𝗿𝘆 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘄𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗻𝗲𝘀𝘀. 🚀 Today, the business is profitable, powered by micro-transactions priced at INR 5–10 that created a sachetised digital model, and uses AI to launch new product categories every 15 days without scaling human inefficiency. Congratulations to Jani and Vipul on being featured in 𝗘𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗲𝗽𝗿𝗲𝗻𝗲𝘂𝗿 𝗠𝗮𝗴𝗮𝘇𝗶𝗻𝗲'𝘀 𝟯𝟱 𝗨𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿 𝟯𝟱 𝗦𝗽𝗲𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹. 🏆 We are proud to back founders who build for Bharat with this depth of conviction and execution. #Entrepreneur35under35 @EntrepreneurInd

Confidence starts with a conversation. This #WomensDay, celebrating women who express themselves and build meaningful connections every day. 💜 #FRNDApp #WomensDay2026

AI is amazing for small-TAM custom software. Indeed, the smaller the market, the more amazing it is. Because small markets typically don’t support the costs of software development.

@gautamps25 @sharechatapp @GeneralAutonomy Since 2015 😇 Our office is our temple! Our team is our priest. Our user is our god. And our work is our worship.

AI can now generate images more beautiful than anything most humans could make. Sam Altman just explained why nobody cares. Altman: “The value that people put on that effectively rounds to zero.” Not less valuable. Zero. A flawlessly generated AI image, technically superior to almost anything a human could produce, valued at nothing. When visual perfection becomes instantly available to everyone, it stops being scarce. And when it stops being scarce, it stops being valuable. The scarcity that gave art its worth was never the beauty. It was the human who made it. Altman: “Without the person effectively signing their name to it, we seem to not care.” That sentence is the entire shift compressed into one line. We don’t consume art. We consume the person behind it. The struggle. The intention. The specific human consciousness that decided this particular thing should exist. AI can replicate the output. It cannot replicate the origin. Altman points out that if an artist uses AI as a tool but still has something they were trying to express, the work retains its value. The human intention is the product. The image is just how it arrives. Remove the person and the beauty becomes noise. This is what nobody building AI art tools fully absorbed. They optimized for the output and assumed the output was what people valued. It wasn’t. It was never the pixels. It was always the person. AI isn’t going to replace human artists. It’s going to do something more disorienting. It’s going to make technical skill irrelevant and force the entire market to pay for something that was always there but never had to be named. Presence. Intention. Proof that a human consciousness cared enough to make this particular thing. Abundance makes perfection free. Meaning becomes the only scarcity worth paying for. And meaning can’t be automated. Because meaning requires a consciousness choosing to say something specific to someone specific for reasons that matter. The artists who survive won’t be the most technically gifted. They’ll be the most undeniably human. AI gave the world infinite art and proved that what we actually want is irreplaceable.

Grateful to our Limited Partners for giving us the opportunity to continue to pursue our mission of enabling outlier founders to build the companies of the future 🚀 Excited for the decade ahead …

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Enough of this nonsense! Presenting PARAM: India's most powerful indigenous robot dog. Not assembled, not bought, BUILT IN INDIA, built by INDIANS. For our nation, for our century, for our world! Jai Hind! 🇮🇳 @narendramodi @adgpi @AshwiniVaishnaw @GoI_MeitY @startupindia

@paulg Value would move towards uniqueness/human crafted etc . NFTs might make a comeback

Prediction: In the AI age, taste will become even more important. When anyone can make anything, the big differentiator is what you choose to make. paulgraham.com/taste.html

even with a plethora of social apps, loneliness is surging across the world. next billion users are looking for safe digital third spaces to talk to others in their indic languages, build communities and for interaction entertainment, rooted in empathy interact group, which is at the forefront of this category, is building a house of apps - intelligent and inclusive, making diverse types of interactions easier for every user @hvchhangani @_frndapp @nsrnk6 thanks to @Aish_19_Anand & @CNBCTV18News for telling our story

With X allowing more than 140 characters and chatgpt free in India , my X feedback has become long rants on every thing without much substance.

Takes like this tell you about people that the only negotiation they did in their life was for their salaries with their employer .

This is the logical solution but the counter is only rich are allowed to participate in capital markets and get even more richer and the middle class is being left out .

Don’t make retail investors fools. If you are truly concerned about retail participation in F&O, then ask SEBI to increase the lot size to ₹1 crore with a 20% margin. That alone would push most retail investors out of F&O. Also, set STT to zero on both the F&O and cash segments. The reality is that the real interest lies in collecting more tax, not in protecting retail investors. That’s the fact. @nsitharaman @nsitharamanoffc

Real money gaming ban, STT increase should be seen as an extension of the same policy . GOI is playing the guardian role for the little guy 🤣

As a new manager, my biggest regret is how I handled underperforming employees. I gave them the benefit of the doubt for too long and my team suffered as a result. Sometimes, my best people left instead. Here are 3 tests I now use to act more decisively:

We’re proud to share that our Co-founder & CPO, @hvchhangani will be returning to IIT Kanpur to deliver a keynote on the skills, mindset, failures, and learnings behind scaling a homegrown social interaction platform. Grateful to the IIT Kanpur community for the invitation.

Smoothest transition i have ever seen twitter.com/chixxsays/stat…

Come have a 1:1 chat with our team on 3rd Feb. Whether you're actively building, just getting started, or exploring ideas, we'd love to meet you. Looking forward! luma.com/nzhp8q1v