Co-founder @Pickyourtrail. Co-producer - Diya & Arjun. Contributor for The Hooked by Nir Eyal. consumer behaviour PHD aspirant. 34 countries and counting.
Chennai, India
Joined December 2008
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Lulu - Shenoy Nagar.
Impressive at first look. CMRL saving Chennai once again....🙏
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Muse is already getting more daily US downloads than Threads, WhatsApp and Facebook, and it's only 3,000 behind Instagram
Biggest consumer AI launch since ChatGPT. A new tier 1 consumer app is born
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Good cause. So I am going to be shameless to share it. I got an opportunity to witness and be part of something meaningful today. Some of these organizations are doing genuinely important work could use more support.
Chargebee, along with Madras Round Table-1 (MRT-1) has been working towards contributing to a school infrastructure - specifically, a government school in Pallavaram, Chennai.
I had a chance to speak with the headmaster to understand the constraints these schools operate under.
Last year, we helped build two floors of the school - 8 new classrooms. Today, the school has 1,400 enrolled students. These are kids who need the system to work for them, and this school is trying hard to make it do exactly that.
What's already happening here in the last few years is remarkable.
HCL has built a center of excellence on campus with a state-of-the-art science lab. They continue to maintain it too. It's become a source of pride for the school, and more than 1,000 students from neighbouring government schools visit it regularly. By all accounts, it's one of the best science facilities in the area, visually demonstrating science fundamentals.
Hyundai is now building another school wing, including an auditorium. These are facilities that private school students take for granted and government school students deserve too.
In five years, the school has improved a lot with the help of public-private partnerships like these. Another challenge is that better infrastructure has driven enrollment, and a strong open-door policy means no student from the neighborhood is turned away. That's the right thing to do and it comes with real challenges.
The school currently has 29 classrooms. Last year, they needed 33. Today, the need is 35. Some classes now have 85–90 students. They could use more support.
Why I'm sharing this? Organizations like MRT-1 have been exceptional at identifying these opportunities through fundraising and community services, and working with reliable contractors who deliver projects within a shorter turnaround time - responsibly and without waste. Also, MRT-1 itself is a run by entrepreneurs and this is one of the many social impact projects taken up by the members.
I'm sharing this so more entrepreneurs and companies with CSR funds become aware of schools like this one, and the organizations that support them.
Infrastructure like this changes the everyday reality for thousands of students. Many of you do this work quietly. We'd love that too. If sharing this story results in one more school getting the timely help it needs then it's worth being shameless to spread it.
Reply if you want the contacts and someone from our team (@chargebee) can share them with you, to explore this on your own. Thank you! 🙏
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Taking fundraising advice from Travis is like taking dating advice from a supermodel. It only works if you are Travis or if you're a supermodel.
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The secret to not being awkward is to never force conversation. Don’t try to come up with interesting things to say, don’t talk to people for the sake of talking, don’t voice opinions or ask questions to sound smart. Instead, notice your own curiosity and follow it. If you don’t have any, radiate comfort in your silence.
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Buffett owned 5-10 stocks at a time, Fisher owned 30, Schloss owned 100, Lynch owned 1,000 stocks at a time. They all beat the market. You don't have to follow anyone. You can do it your own way.
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Travel Update | Vietnam
We are deeply saddened by the tragic boat accident near Phu Quoc Island. Our thoughts are with the victims, their families, and everyone affected.
As rescue operations continue, the Ministry of External Affairs and the Indian Embassy are coordinating with Vietnamese authorities. In the coming hours and days, affected families can expect support such as:
▪️Verified updates from the authorities
▪️Consular assistance and emergency helplines
▪️Coordination with local hospitals and officials
▪️Help with documentation and travel-related formalities
▪️Assistance with repatriation, where required
For immediate assistance, the Government of India has activated emergency helplines:
📍Ho Chi Minh City
+84 36 281 7930
+84 91 552 3714
+84 33 452 0414
📍Hanoi
+84 91 308 9165
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The AI Business model trap: LLMs want cash flow to fund the race to AGI or the next model. Enter free consumer AI - they are losing a lot of money on the breadth of models to serve consumers for free! They are caught in the post training data trap, free consumer usage feeds post training needs, it can't be right to stop serving customers for free?
But they need money for the compute:
The monetization challenge is being pointed to Enterprises.
Phase 1 - seemed easy, value capture in coding, the most bottom up motion in enterprise - with low customization per customer. Developers continue to train coding, tasks and eventually will train flawless skills.
Phase 2 is where the challenge lies, showing true enterprise value. The promise of efficiency, accuracy, elimination of resources - that requires a different approach, build depth with harnesses, context, memory, solving for edge cases with deterministic guardrails! Build skill libraries - enter FDEs. Yes,FDEs will train the enterprise Waymos of the world.
The risk - high token pricing for enterprises while consumers for free! Yes for consumer distribution businesses (aka Google, Meta, Apple, etc) it makes sense to hold on the distribution with free AI.
If you want to win enterprise, you should be forward pricing tokens. The cheaper the tokens for enterprises it will allow for experimentation, workflow reimagination - instead CIOs are busy restricting AI use and working on making the use more efficient!
Paradox: They still haven't fully understood and embraced the value of AI in the enterprise.
If I were them:
1. Cut token pricing now, else send enterprises to secure opensource and end up with friction filled routing layers.
2. Show me how enterprises can use their context, training and data as their competitive advantage.
3. Build tools for rapid edge case learning and reducing false positives.
@HarryStebbings
@sama @DarioAmodei @demishassabis
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Elon just created 4,400 millionaires in a single day.
400 of them are now worth over $100 million.
These aren't VCs. They're SpaceX employees, and the list includes welders, technicians, and cafeteria staff, because for two decades the company paid every level of the workforce in stock instead of higher salaries.
Juan Hernandez immigrated from Mexico and took a $28 an hour contractor welding job in 2015. He says he didn't even know what SpaceX was. The company gave him a $10,000 equity grant and let him buy more shares through payroll deductions. That stake is now worth $880,000.
Trevor Hise's parents wanted him to take a stable job at General Electric. He picked SpaceX instead, stayed 12 years, and accumulated over 100,000 shares. At the $135 listing price that's $13.5 million. He's 37 and semiretired. His words: "The magnitude of this has been ridiculous."
The most telling detail came before the listing. Over 100 employees quietly banded together and negotiated a group wealth management deal covering up to $5 billion, because none of them had ever needed a wealth manager before.
Software IPOs have minted millionaires for 30 years. This is the first one where the money went to the factory floor.
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The problem with brutal honesty is that nobody specifies the ratio. It is inevitably too much brutal and too little honesty.
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You have no experience.
You’ve never started a company.
You’ve never had a full time job.
Nike is going to kill you.
You’re a kid.
You don’t have technical skills.
You shouldn’t build hardware.
Apple is going to kill you.
You can’t build hardware.
You can’t measure heart rate non-invasively.
Athletes don’t care about recovery.
Under Armour is going to kill you.
It won’t be accurate.
You don’t listen.
You’re an ineffective leader.
You can’t recruit great talent.
You’re going to have to pay every athlete.
You can’t measure sleep non-invasively.
It’s too expensive to research.
Athletes are a small market.
The product costs too much to make.
The product costs too much to sell.
Your valuation is too high.
Consumers aren’t going to want it.
Hardware is too hard.
You should measure steps.
Fitbit is going to kill you.
You can’t build a marketing engine.
You can’t raise enough money.
You need a real CEO.
Google is going to kill you.
You can’t be a subscription.
You can’t build a brand.
You can’t do consumer in Boston.
Your valuation is too high.
You shouldn’t make accessories.
You shouldn’t make apparel.
Lululemon is going to kill you.
You can’t predict Covid.
Stay in your niche.
You are going to run out of money.
You can’t build a health platform.
Amazon is going to kill you.
You can’t measure blood pressure.
You can’t get medical approvals.
The market is too small.
You don’t understand AI.
The market is too competitive.
It won’t work internationally.
The supply chain is too complicated.
You can’t build an AI.
You can’t raise enough money.
It’s too competitive.
Healthcare isn’t going to want it.
…
Just keep going ✌️
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Big for airlines & passengers
Dubai Civil Aviation Authority indefinitely bans all foreign airlines from landing at the two airports in Dubai
Says it is doing so for the safety of airlines, crew, passengers, employees and the public
Adds airlines will be updated about the removal of suspension
@CNBCTV18Live
@CNBCTV18News #IranWar
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July 2013. An email from @allenpenn said I am Uber India’s first employee.
I walked out of my home with no office, no team, no drivers, no playbook. Just the city of Bangalore and most importantly, a directive from Travis saying, “Go build it.”
That moment changed my life. Not because of Uber. Because of how Travis taught me to see the world.
He’s one of my top five heroes. Not in a poster-on-the-wall way but in a rewired-how-my-brain-works way.
Before Travis, obstacles were just obstacles. After working with him, obstacles became the whole point.
The harder the problem, the clearer the signal: no one else has solved it yet.
That’s not a motivational quote. That’s an operating system he installed in me.
The confidence I have today to build Basil with @HR_starryeyes didn’t come from an MBA or a book. It came from watching Travis take on entire industries and governments and simply say: “We’re doing this anyway. We won't take no for an answer”.
Yep he left Uber.
But Builders don’t retire. They reload.
Travis was always building. Always thinking. Always in the arena. The world just couldn’t see it.
Now with Atoms, everyone can.
But here’s what I really want: I want @travisk to talk more. Write more. Share more.
Because there are thousands of founders in India and around the world, sitting in small rooms, staring at impossible problems. They need to hear from someone who didn’t just build a company, but changed how a generation thinks about building.
He shaped me. I know he can shape many more.
Welcome back, TK. Write and share more!
Atoms.
Http://atoms.co/vision
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A huge, huge part of a founder's job is to simply inject (1) energy / optimism (2) clarity (3) urgency into EVERYTHING they are involved in. Every email, every meeting, every walk & talk, every slack thread, every whatsapp chatter.
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Thinking of writing a film in which Govinda plays a startup founder who defrauds everyone and runs away with the money.
Cluely No. 1.
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Life,career,health,relations,everything has almost a same pattern of ups and downs ...
It’s very important to stay patient and trust in what you are doing and just keep doing it !!!
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youtu.be/TBa5X5LSgWU?si=jGS6… #WomensDay Greetings to you. Here is a conversation i recorded for this day.
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This rally.
No words.
India’s new badminton sensation Lakshya Sen is in the #AllEngland2026 finals.