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Thoughts on Investing suggestions and working the compound interest magic.
Earlier you start investing the better. Age is your best friend in compounding.
If you have a lump sum to invest for a longer period of time it’s better than a SIP.
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I was 29 when we started Zetwerk. My wife Sharanya and I had just returned from the US to build our lives in India. Last month, we welcomed our daughter. Last week, we took the company public. It is yet to sink in.
When I moved back, my father, a professor, was sceptical. I had walked away from the traditional Indian dream of a job abroad. But our story is also that of today's India, where my cofounders and I, 20-somethings from small towns, without family connections, can raise capital, build a business, take it global and take it public, all within a decade.
The world today is on the cusp of enormous progress: defence modernisation, energy transition, space exploration and AI buildout. Much of this progress faces a common bottleneck: building physical things in the real world.
But the manufacturing systems of the past won't build the future. Manufacturing must modernise to catch up with the industries it serves.
At Zetwerk, we always believed there is enough depth in Indian manufacturing whether it is within the small workshop in Peenya which is great at tooling or it is in the new plants we have set up to drive scaled production. Our approach combines real-world engineering with a digital stack to unify ~7000 suppliers, 25+ owned facilities, 1000+ customers and 3000+ employees into a single layer that operates with the predictability of a world-class factory, standardising quality and delivery. We call it the Universal Factory.
Our ambition is to build a world-class industrial institution bringing together two distinct worlds: software and hardware.
Think of your day today. You may have made coffee, worn headphones, taken the metro or a flight, or opened your laptop. There is a little bit of Zetwerk in all of these.
We want our customers placing complex, multimillion-dollar orders to have an experience that is "boringly predictable" - simple, transparent and reliable. We have over ₹15,900 crore in revenue, more than 80% repeat customers and a manufacturing order book of ₹13,000 crore. We've come a long way, but also have a long way to go.
On IPO day, my father stood beside me as we rang the bell at the National Stock Exchange. He is not sceptical any more :)
Someone wise once said “You make your own reality. And once you've done it, everyone's of the opinion it was all so obvious”. That is how the future works. Before something transformative exists, people call it improbable. Afterwards, they call it inevitable. This is the spirit in which we are building Zetwerk: with a relentless commitment to the future.
Great industrial institutions that came before us, like GE, L&T and Tata, helped make the modern world possible. Today, Indian manufacturing is having its moment, and we intend to build what comes next. A big thank you to our investors, customers, employees, their families, our bankers and partners who helped us get here.
We are committed to building a world-class industrial institution out of India.
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Andy Mukherjee is wrong about PLI in a weird way.
He took an iPhone apart in a Hong Kong market, held up the parts India imports: display, camera, battery, boards.
And called the whole scheme a costly dead end.
What he refuses to see:
-Those exact parts are going to made in India soon.
-What he is dismissive of - assembly - is what component manufacture possible.
-Because a parts maker needs a customer.
-Nobody builds a display or battery plant in a country with no phone assembly lines..
-PLI built those lines.
Look at this graphic below - all the highlighted parts are already approved for manufacturing in India (how? see next tweet)
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SHAMEFUL SCENES AT THE WORLD WRESTLING CHAMPIONSHIPS! 🤦
USA’s Morgan Turner 🇺🇸 has been disqualified after eye pokes left Russia’s Elizaveta Smirnova 🇷🇺 unable to continue in the tournament.
This is NOT how wrestling should be contested.
UWW & USA Wrestling must take strict action against such conduct.
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Less than 30 years ago, we had to beg and pay Israel a lot of $$$ for the 155mm shells during Kargil. And now…
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I was arrested and jailed for 5 days just for sharing a meme on Fb & I had to take bail from the Supreme Court and Today infront of media you are giving gyan . Whole country know You’re a Hypocrite & a Dangerous Woman.
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Mobile PLI stats as follows:
Government incentive paid: Rs 19,000 Cr.
Direct tax collected: Rs 25,000 Cr.
GST collected: Rs 3,00,000 Cr.
Electronics manufacturing employs 25 Lakh people; mobile manufacturing alone employs 12 Lakh.
Cope harder!!
One in four iPhones is made in India, but imported parts and costly subsidies complicate the success story. @andymukherjee70 takes apart an iPhone to explain why copying China's manufacturing model may not pay off 🎥
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Because of this woman, I spent two years in jail simply for posting a meme. And now, she has the audacity to preach about freedom of speech. She clearly needs a lesson in Articles 14, 19, and 21 of the Indian Constitution. When she was Chief Minister, students, social media users, vloggers, and YouTubers were sent to jail for daring to speak out. Now that the people of West Bengal have rejected her, she suddenly wants to lecture everyone about democracy and freedom of speech. The hypocrisy is unbelievable.
The freedom of speech and expression is being taken away from lakhs of citizens across the country.
This BJP government does not care about Article 14, Article 19 and Article 21 of our great Constitution. This government wants to deprive all citizens, including elected representatives, of their right to express themselves freely.
We extend our support to students, youth, social media users, vloggers, YouTubers, and independent digital platforms. We demand that they must be allowed to express themselves freely. Full strength to them as we, all together, fight this dangerous trend of censorship.
Instead of indulging in atrocities against citizens on social media, this government should focus on taking care of the North East along with ensuring the safety and security of all people across the country.
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Purdue University's IDEAS Lab built an autonomous drone that tracks runners through dense forests completely without GPS or cloud networks.
By running 3D LiDAR mapping and obstacle-avoidance AI entirely on-chip, it can weave under tree canopies and predict target movement through blind spots in real time.
Massive implications for next-gen search & rescue and edge AI.
Rajdeep was shamelessly defending NewsClick just three days ago, claiming it was falsely targeted.
CNN’s latest report has exposed this :
1. An email trail involving Neville Roy Singham, NewsClick founder Prabir Purkayastha and Vijay Prashad shows links with a network promoting Chinese propaganda.
2. The emails reveal instructions to journalists to portray Arunachal Pradesh as part of China.
3. Attempts to push narratives favourable to the Chinese Communist Party at the expense of India’s national interests.
Yes. Read that again. This is the “small news website“ Rajdeep is defending. And people like him have the audacity to call everyone else “Godi Media”!
I was constrained to remind my fellow anchors today of how a small news website @newsclickin was falsely targeted as ‘foreign funded’ Chinese operation and its editor Prabir Purkayasta wrongly jailed for several months. News channels fell for the falsehood and some actively pushed it. Sorry for the noisy debate but happens once in a while when one is really angry. 🙏 #DemocraticNewsroom
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5-7yrs from now, India will not be subject to the global Crude Oil blackmail game. 🛢🛢🛢
Just visited Adani’s 30 GW Khavda park in Kutch, billed as the world’s largest renewable plant. Still, it will potentially grow 10x in size from here. Battery, wind, solar.
World Class !!
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I'm in Rajasthan right now and I'd rather look out the window than read the 150 page Goldman Sachs report I brought with me. 450 million people have arrived in India in one generation and the country still functions. Follow for more of this, link in bio.
#india
Who owns this firm?
This is on 55 acre of Hebbal Land !!
Supreme Court allows BMRCL to go ahead with Blue Line
deccanherald.com/india/karna…
Present to you another example of - anyone South Indian ain’t a Tamilian or Madrasi #RashmikaMandanna #kodava
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The time when Latent Got Fcking Insane🔥🔥🔥
Modi ji on India's Got Latent.🔥
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There is an American tech YouTuber called Jerry Rigs Everything. Most of his videos are about him taking apart devices, understanding how they work etc.
He has 10.2 million subscribers
In 2005 his wife had a horse riding accident as a result of which she was paralyzed waist down. She now required a wheel chair to move about
All high quality outdoor wheelchairs that he tested costed upwards of $20,000
Considering he was a tech Youtuber with some fame he could have simply called one company to get one for free.
He didn't do that
Like he does on his channel, he took apart a wheelchair, understood its components and then built one on his own
He then decided to sell them in public for $999. He called it the Paradox
Thanks to him, most of us can have access to high mobility, all terrain wheelchairs.
This is what tech Youtubers abroad do. They actually make a difference
Meanwhile Our guys haven't yet gone past, "Arre Bhai, Yeh dekho Apple ka agla amazing phone, Isme aapko milta hai 3 camera aur ek screen. See how I am drooling on this packaging and colour" with some pathetically click baity thumbnails































