#AIstrategy #AIadvisory #digitalmarketing, co-founder emerging tech firm @intermindsol & AI strategy consulting firm @CortiaAI. Ayurveda evangelist
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Arya Patnaik retweeted
.@NikeshArora grew Palo Alto Networks from $18 billion to $250+ billion in market value. Before that, he spent 10 years helping grow Google’s revenue from $2 billion to $62 billion.
When he joined Palo Alto, he thought cybersecurity was two words. 8 years and 35 acquisitions later, the company has more than 70 products.
His approach: buy the winning team and put its founder in charge. If a startup beat his team with fewer resources, why make its founder report to the person who lost?
Nikesh explains why he makes founders agree to a product roadmap before signing a deal, why he wanted Google to buy Netflix, and how Egon Durban kept him bidding for a cricket team at 6 in the morning.
0:00 The Oculus deal he almost did with Egon Durban
8:45 "I thought cybersecurity was two words"
11:44 Why he buys instead of builds
14:33 Why the acquired founder becomes the boss
16:21 Why he only buys number one or number two
19:30 The 30-day test before every acquisition
33:38 Egon Durban and the 29-round cricket auction
42:32 Why nothing at work stresses him out
44:28 Selling Google ads without knowing the price
49:42 Coming to America with $200
51:58 Raising kids who didn't grow up poor
54:46 Why AI hacking has been good for Palo Alto
Includes paid partnerships.
Arya Patnaik retweeted
This is f*cking insane. Former OpenAI CTO, Mira Murati:
"The models we work with today are turn-based. You talk, they talk, then they go off and think, and while they're thinking they're deaf and blind.
The next ones never stop listening. They take in audio, text and video all the time and answer in 20-millisecond chunks."
In just 2 minutes, she shows why the chatbot you type into is about to look like a fax machine.
Prompt Box → Chatbot → Agents → AI That Works Next To You In Real Time
A turn-based model waits for you to finish typing, then goes quiet while it thinks.
An interaction model sees and hears what you're doing, and can cut in the moment you start going the wrong way.
Anyone can type a prompt. Almost nobody is ready to work with an AI that never stops paying attention
Watch the full 2 minutes. This is worth your time.
Bookmark it, like it, save it, I don't care... this is the best thing you'll see on X today.
US charges three men over $129m scheme that faked CEOs’ voices with AI thenextweb.com/news/us-charg…
AI is exposing how fragile the web really is. What you can do to stay safe edition.cnn.com/2026/10/26/t…
New data centers may not create substantial number of jobs. They look for reliable electricity, fiber connections, available land and friendly local regulations. Those places may already be growing, so new jobs might have appeared even without data centers
Arya Patnaik retweeted
Does CFO to CEO transition work in IT industry?
Last major example was TCS where CFO to CEO transition was not that successful.
Now Birlasoft appoints a CFO as CEO. Will it work?
Amy other examples of successful CEO who are CFOs in IT Service industry?
Arya Patnaik retweeted
OpenAI is working on ChatGPT for Business with analytics, impressions, mentions, and much more - via @juokaz hat tip @lilyraynyc
seroundtable.com/chatgpt-too…
A number of Democrats campaigned for new rules and regulations for artificial intelligence (AI) and data centres, and the party has since won control of both houses of congress as well as key contests in states that have been part of the AI data centre race.
AI shopping agents will make their presence felt this holiday season
Do you sell online? Are you ready for the holiday shopping season?
Are your Terms & Conditions ready for AI shopping agents?
#AIShopping #AgenticCommerce #Ecommerce #RetailAI #AIStrategy #DigitalCommerce #Cortia
Arya Patnaik retweeted
What comes after automated banking? Agentic AI.
Discover how intelligent AI agents could transform core banking through autonomous decisions, smarter workflows, and streamlined financial operations.
Read more: interminddigital.com/insight…
#AgenticAI #FinTech #CoreBanking
🤖 Made with AI
Robots developed by Chinese humanoid maker Unitree Robotics can now paint pictures and play chess without any prior training, relying on frontier AI models to navigate complex physical tasks, according to founder and CEO Wang Xingxing.
India has officially overtaken US as the largest market for ChatGPT. The number of weekly active users of ChatGPT grew by 20% (from 1 billion to 1.2 billion) over the last two months.
NPCI has set up a wholly owned technology subsidiary called NPCI Tech Solutions Limited (NTSL) as its technology and innovation arm.
The unit will focus on areas such as AI, blockchain, digital financial infrastructure and global capability centre services.
Telecom Regulatory Authority of India launched the Network Anubhav platform, enabling consumers to compare mobile and broadband network performance. This is a big leap over existing speed test websites. Loved the cellular coverage map
Persistent AI Agents: How to Get Started (and What to Watch Out For) socialmediaexaminer.com/pers…
Treat RaaS AI robots as human contract staff.
What happens when autonomous robots start acquiring enterprise knowledge in a Robots-as-a-Service model?
#PhysicalAI #Robotics #RobotsAsAService #EnterpriseAI #OrganizationalIntelligence #AIstrategy #Cortia
Telecom operators have three years from January 1, 2027, to retire their old TDM-era interconnection and move all voice and SMS traffic to Internet Protocol (IP) links, under new rules notified by TRAI. We have come a full circle from the days of IP Telephony ban in 1995
How AI Is Reshaping the Stock Market knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/…
Arya Patnaik retweeted
open your competitor's homepage. right click. view page source. ctrl+f "GTM-"
that's their google tag manager ID. copy it
now paste this into your browser: googletagmanager. com/gtm.js?id= and add their ID on the end
a wall of code opens. it's public. it has to be, every visitor's browser downloads it. it's the file that runs their entire tracking setup
now ctrl+f "AW-"
every google ads conversion they track. if tere are 6 of them, they're optimising for 6 different things. most teams can't even tell you which one matters
now ctrl+f "event"
their conversion names, typed by their own marketers. "demo_booked." "trial_started." "sql_qualified." you're reading their funnel in the order they built it
now ctrl+f "value"
sometimes a number sits right next to the conversion. 250. 800. 1500. that's what a demo is worth to them. they typed their unit economics into a public file
now combine all four:
-the GTM ID gets you into the container
-AW- tells you how many things google is chasing for them
-the event names give you their funnel
-the values give you what each step is worth
their tracking, their funnel and their numbers. from one file they can't hide. every head of growth reading this just opened their own container
now take their demo value. if they pay $800 for a demo and you know yours is worth $2,000, you can outbid them on every keyword you both want and still win
(9 years inside google. tracking is the first thing we open on every audit → link in bio)