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Ananay Batra retweeted
none of the legendary companies were built as “Cursor for X” or some variation of an existing business each had a fundamentally distinct market thesis and business model
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good riddance
#WATCH | Delhi: On the Bikaner House Exhibition and photo removal controversy, Raihan Vadra, son of Congress MP Priyanka Gandhi Vadra and Robert Vadra, says, "Yesterday, my show was supposed to open at 7 pm. The show was called 'No Idea is Fine'. 24 hours before it was to open, I was first approached by the Bikaner House management and told that some of the images are against their policy. I said, 'Let me know which ones; let's have a discussion. I didn't hear back from them till the next day... when the Deputy Resident Commissioner reached out and said that we have to remove all these images, which were street photography images of the youth movements in Delhi over the last year. I said, 'I shared the layout a week earlier; why didn't you bring it up earlier?' They said, 'We couldn't see the layout.' So I said, 'You still had 1 week to tell me you couldn't see the layout. I would have sent it; we could have had the discussion earlier. Now, in 4-5 hours, what am I going to do?' I asked them to give it to me in writing as to why they are removing these photographs, individual reasons; they didn't. Then at 3 pm, the head of Bikaner House, the principal resident commissioner, came, and he also said the same thing. I also said the same thing to him. He said, 'Your policy says political content'. For the most part, I had removed imagery of political parties and of political leaders. Maybe there were a few photographs; I said, 'We could discuss. If they are against your policy, I'll replace them.' He said, "No, none of these 70 images will be put up.' They sent me a notice at 3.30 saying, 'If you don't remove it by 5 PM, the building is sealed, and the exhibition is canceled.' Then we complied. We flipped the photographs. So you could only see the back of the frame. They had a problem with that. We took those down, piled them up on the side. They had a problem with that. We put them in storage. I left two photos of the Indian flag, and they said, 'Take it down.' I said, 'This can't be against your policy. How can it be against your policy?' I said, 'Give it to me in writing that you want me to take down a picture of the Indian flag.' They didn't. So those were there, and then I went home to change. They took one down themselves. So one is remaining, if you had seen it."
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How many generations of this family does the country have to deal with?
#WATCH | Delhi: On the Bikaner House Exhibition and photo removal controversy, Raihan Vadra, son of Congress MP Priyanka Gandhi Vadra and Robert Vadra, says, "Yesterday, my show was supposed to open at 7 pm. The show was called 'No Idea is Fine'. 24 hours before it was to open, I was first approached by the Bikaner House management and told that some of the images are against their policy. I said, 'Let me know which ones; let's have a discussion. I didn't hear back from them till the next day... when the Deputy Resident Commissioner reached out and said that we have to remove all these images, which were street photography images of the youth movements in Delhi over the last year. I said, 'I shared the layout a week earlier; why didn't you bring it up earlier?' They said, 'We couldn't see the layout.' So I said, 'You still had 1 week to tell me you couldn't see the layout. I would have sent it; we could have had the discussion earlier. Now, in 4-5 hours, what am I going to do?' I asked them to give it to me in writing as to why they are removing these photographs, individual reasons; they didn't. Then at 3 pm, the head of Bikaner House, the principal resident commissioner, came, and he also said the same thing. I also said the same thing to him. He said, 'Your policy says political content'. For the most part, I had removed imagery of political parties and of political leaders. Maybe there were a few photographs; I said, 'We could discuss. If they are against your policy, I'll replace them.' He said, "No, none of these 70 images will be put up.' They sent me a notice at 3.30 saying, 'If you don't remove it by 5 PM, the building is sealed, and the exhibition is canceled.' Then we complied. We flipped the photographs. So you could only see the back of the frame. They had a problem with that. We took those down, piled them up on the side. They had a problem with that. We put them in storage. I left two photos of the Indian flag, and they said, 'Take it down.' I said, 'This can't be against your policy. How can it be against your policy?' I said, 'Give it to me in writing that you want me to take down a picture of the Indian flag.' They didn't. So those were there, and then I went home to change. They took one down themselves. So one is remaining, if you had seen it."
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Ananay Batra retweeted
The only people who care about "status" are the people who don't have it. Chasing it tells you everything you need to know about people (and stay away from those people).
people need to status max so much more high status people saying "chasing status is bad" is such an effective way of keeping everyone below them literally the only reason why you care about a person you have not met is because they've done something publicly approved rant:
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“In a world of AI slop, the only real moat is taste and thinking for yourself.” - Spencer, 26, Stanford CS dropout, YC W26, building a personal assistant AI agent, lives in a Hayes Valley hacker house, into peptides, sauna socials, and posting about "new media"
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Ananay Batra retweeted
Alex Cooper is MARRIED and PREGNANT, but she's telling other women their husbands are never good enough. She gets to build a family while encouraging her audience to tear theirs apart. These people are genuinely evil.
"Call Her Daddy" host Alex Cooper & actress Sophia Bush: if a woman is questioning whether she can do better than her current husband, "the answer is always yes." "This idea that it's too late or you're too old, or who are you to want more, that's patriarchy. That is crazy."
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Ananay Batra retweeted
Replying to @snuppydogg
Alex Cooper is just a twisted foid version of Andrew Tate.
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Replying to @snuppydogg
Women literally ruin their lives because they doomscroll tiktok hours a day with absolutely no ability to filter
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Ananay Batra retweeted
My greatest fear about marriage is that I'll be working long long days and she'll just be at home marinating her brain in this stuff
"Call Her Daddy" host Alex Cooper & actress Sophia Bush: if a woman is questioning whether she can do better than her current husband, "the answer is always yes." "This idea that it's too late or you're too old, or who are you to want more, that's patriarchy. That is crazy."
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Ananay Batra retweeted
this might be the dumbest thing Tyler Cowen has ever said
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Ananay Batra retweeted
One of my biggest takeaways from You Can See Everything is that prison is literally the only way to make the ultra wealthy feel the consequences of their crimes. If punishment is limited to fines and restitution they will simply lean on their ultra wealthy network and live out their days in a charming seaside bungalow, nominally hundreds of millions of dollars in debt but living a life of luxury that 99% of people who work for a living will never see. I feel sorry for her children but prison is the only way to deter things like this from happening in the future.
this might be the dumbest thing Tyler Cowen has ever said
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Ananay Batra retweeted
Lots of VCs kindof sound like this: "Your basketball team doesn't have a moat, any healthy human can throw the ball into the basket thingy. " People who have not run companies before don't understand how much the team matters more than some imagined structural moat.
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Ananay Batra retweeted
Most investors are still massively undervaluing data. I was also skeptical when I left a data co for Altos in 2025. Today, I’m all in on data. Every software company will become a data company. Most will lose. Many more will win than we think.
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Ananay Batra retweeted
Why are Indian VCs so afraid to take risk and make money? Someone should go to India and take risk and make money. Our story - corememory.com/p/a-new-india…
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Ananay Batra retweeted
open sourced: RL environments for anyone, in any domain.
Introducing rl-env-use: RL environments for anyone, in any domain. Describe a skill in one line. Get a verified environment built from real cases, ready for hillclimbing. 100% open source 🔥
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Ananay Batra retweeted
calling it rn: Zomato/Blinkit is winning the food delivery/q-comm race load up on that Zomato stock folks
🚨 SCOOP: Blinkit Launches Bistro, a Quick Food Delivery App Bistro With this, Blinkit will directly compete against Zepto Cafe
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Ananay Batra retweeted
Fascinating how the chips have fallen in the Swiggy-Zomato casino table. The backstory behind these numbers is equally fascinating. In the halcyon days, there was only one arbiter in the India startup ecosystem - Softbank. Both Swiggy and Zomato campaigned vigorously to earn a mandate from Softbank - the tacit implication was that the startup blessed by Softbank would rule the market by the sheer gravitational force of capital concentration. Softbank chose Swiggy... and backed it with hundreds of millions. Zomato only had a few million in its bank...and no other VC would touch it because what is the point of trying to battle the king/king-maker? This apathy from private investors was the primary reason why Zomato went public! And the rest was history... I suspect that no one, not even Zomato, would have imagined this would be the denouement - a market cap 5X of Swiggy's.
Swiggy's share price is down by 5% today, hitting an all time low. Eternal's market cap is now 5x of Swiggy (Rs 2.96 lakh crore vs 58,000 crore). It was just a little over 2x when Swiggy went for an IPO in Nov 2024.
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you could just clone orpheus tts > fine-tune it with a publicly available indic language corpus > slap your sticker on the model and call yourself a voice ai research lab > raise $$$ (or not?) > profit but you won’t
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