Writer,sometimes cricketer,sometimes teacher but full time patriot

Bengaluru, India
Joined April 2014
gyan vardhan retweeted
TrueMeds is set to acquire DealShare for less than $100 Mn, a steep drop from the e-comm startup’s last private val of $1.7 Bn. @entrackr broke the story on DealShare’s sale on last Wed, with Captain Fresh also in the fray. The deal puts the scale of the fall into perspective.
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I have been saying this forever. Just google “90% of vc’s add no value…70% add negative value “ and my name likely pops up.
“ A super high bar for a VC is: do no harm.” @travisk says only 10% of VCs are able to do no harm, and only 1% are actually helpful: “ An operator who's running a company, if they're good, is a grandmaster of chess.”  ”And the VC is a chess enthusiast. They check in on the chess match once every three months and they're trying to make a mark on the world. They have an opinion.” “And you're like, don't go to Jordan and tell him how to dunk, and definitely don't go to him and tell him how to dribble. But it's hard because everybody has an opinion.” “The way to think about it is—you're on the Serengeti. If an antelope limps in the Serengeti, the lion will take it down, even if it's not hungry. Can't even fucking help it. It's just what he does. That's kind of the nature of most VCs.”
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Ather Energy's Q1 FY27 revenue jumped 89% YoY to Rs 1,217 Cr, while losses narrowed 71% to Rs 51 Cr. ▶️ Vehicle sales more than doubled to 88,655 units from 41,083 a year ago. ▶️ Ranked as India's third-largest EV two-wheeler player with a 14.89% market share in July 2026.
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Prosus India posts $781 Mn revenue in FY26; turns adjusted EBITDA positive ▪️The firm said PayU accounts for around 25% of India's online payments industry revenue and manages $682 Mn in assets under management through its lending biz. @Manchanda_mukul entrackr.com/fintrackr/prosu…
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