Ram Srinivasan

Years of savings. Decades of hard work. Poured into one wedding day — to impress relatives who’ll forget it by Monday. The middle class doesn’t have a spending problem. It has a validation problem.

@BangaloreMirror @bellandurutrfps @Tejasvi_Surya @DKShivakumar A big corporate building in a residential area in itself was unacceptable. Now the employees @FinBox_in and @zetwerk have now taken over the road space and walkway to park their bikes... How do authorities allow?

@Wegiveyouhealt1 Dr, just to ensure I understand right. These food increase allergic reactions, and should be avoided?

Foods that are objectively healthy but make people with histamine issues feel like they might...die: vinegar pickles oranges lemons spinach smoked fish meats other fermented foods.

In the near future AI is going to generate data at a faster pace than humans and the next agent will be trained on this generated data ... Will this quickly make us reach diminishing returns where human ingenuity is lost?

Well explained. Thank you doc.

@sriramhere Interesting observation. Would be interesting to know more on both the CNCF equivalent for LLMs and the potential opensource path you see being taken. In the long run, enterprise data security has to be convincingly solved. This plagued cloud initially too.

Neither Elon nor OpenAI can claim to have had intentions not to put profits and commercial interests ahead of building A.I. for the public good. Taking the for-profit route definitely helped accelerate innovation, albeit at the cost of lack of transparency. Open source, probably for the first time, is playing the catch-up game rather than being an innovation catalyst. A central 'home' for LLMs might come up to bring many players together (like CNCF for K8s), but it won't be as impactful as the CNCF. Open source is still relevant in the Generative AI space, but not for the reasons it is usually known for. openai.com/blog/openai-el…

Footage alert! We've been featured in @EconomicTimes today: m.economictimes.com/tech/startups/… #startups #banking #banklockers #Aurm #flatheads #SharkTankIndia

@hyderabaddoctor @FitIndiaOff 6Km and a maximum heart rate in early 70s! .. how do I get there 🤔 I am 44 and a 3 km in 30 mins walk leads to a max heart rate in 130s

Enjoyed a 6-km walk this morning. #walking #fitness @FitIndiaOff

@ganeshb78 Restaurant of my cricket teammate Maninder Singh ! Outcome of his passion for food.

Went to check out the hype about Amritsari in Koramangala. The food is excellent! Tried the chhole kulche and bhature, polished off an aloo paratha and sarson da saag-makke di roti with fresh white butter, and ended with rajma chawal. Delhi uncle approved - by my father in law 👌🏽

Michael Seibel on how to create a great startup pitch In the clip below, former Y Combinator CEO Michael Seibel breaks down the two types of pitches every startup founder needs: a 30-second elevator pitch and a two-minute pitch for investors. “A lot of people practice 10-minute, 30-minute, hour-long, pitches. I think that’s all garbage. I think you can get all of your points across in two minutes. And one thing I like to tell founders is that the more you talk, the more you have an opportunity to say something that people don’t like.” 30-Second Elevator Pitch: You should be able to explain to anyone you come across what your company does in 30 seconds. This should be three sentences: 1. What does your company do? Assume the person you’re talking to knows nothing. This should be a 1-sentence explanation that your mom or dad can understand (e.g. “We’re Airbnb and we allow you to rent out the extra room in your house” NOT “We’re Airbnb and we’re a marketplace for space”). 2. How big is the market? Do a couple hours of research so that you can give investors a rough approximation of the size of the market you’re in (e.g. Airbnb might give the size of online hotel booking market) 3. How much traction do you have? Ideally you can say something like: “We launched in January and we’re growing 30% month over month. We have $ X sales and Y users.” If you’re pre-launch, you need to convince investors that you’re moving quickly (e.g. “the team came together in January. By March we launched our beta. By April we launched our product.”). Two-Minute Pitch: This pitch is for people you’re actually trying to convince of something (e.g. investors, potential employees, etc.). You basically want to simply explain what you do and then ask for money. There are 5 key components: 1. Clear 30 second pitch (everything mentioned above) 2. Unique insight—what do the biggest players in your market not understand? This should be 2 sentences. 3. How do you make money? 4. Team. If your team has done something that has made investors money, you should mention that (e.g. “we’re the founders of PayPal”). If you haven’t, don’t go on about the awards you’ve won or PhDs you hold. What investors want to hear is: how many founders? (hopefully 2-4) how many of the founders are technical? (hopefully 50% or more engineers) How long have you known each other? (ideally you’ve known each other either personally or professionally for at least 6 months) Are you all full-time? 5. The Big Ask ($$$). You have to know what you’re talking about when you ask for money. Are you raising on a convertible note or a SAFE? What’s the cap of the SAFE? How much money are you raising? What’s the minimum check size? If you don’t know these things, investors won’t think you’re serious or that you haven’t done your homework.

@sriramhere You will do what you are destined to!

At times I wonder about taking the path of renunciation. Today’s one of those days…

At Booking .com, I spent lot of time A/B experimenting every single of the product features. 66% of features didn't meet the experiment performance criteria, and did not go live. Sharing my top 5 learnings that will help you experiment better: 🧵

#PeakBangalore ... Stop complaining of Bengaluru traffic folks...we have a long way to go!

@rutuja395 @AkasaAir Wow ... I am gonna carry chutney here on :D

When they don't allow chutney in carry-on and ask you to check in, you get a business class upgrade as well. Thanks @AkasaAir

@suryxks @srikrishnang Yup Air and Elvis movies on Prime

@srikrishnang Air on Prime app.primevideo.com/detail?gti=amz…

TL help! What are the best movies (Tamil, Hindi, Malayalam, Eng) on OTT (Netflix, Prime, Hotstar) after April 2023?

I am associated with Bhavishyath for the past 18 months and I believe in the adage "Don't just feed, but teach a man to fish, to solve his hunger for a lifetime" .. if we want to have long term impact, non-profits like Bhavishyath deliver the kind of impa…lnkd.in/gYbDsw6h

@HariPyt Got the answer we all wanted :)

Thala says he will play. Deiii. Edura vandiyaaaa.

@P2Iyer @bharatsundar @itissubhasree @surnell When?

Getting ready to perform in front of Kanchi Mahaperiyava .. @bharatsundar @itissubhasree @surnell

@sriramhere Dude ... Bangalore doesn't wakeup usually until 7am!

@srama79 As if it doesn’t otherwise

When everyone in Bangalore runs a 10K! Traffic jams up at 5am