Student of Policy and Development. Teach empathy to early stage entrepreneurs. Previously worked in impact investments and capacity development.
The Hague, The Netherlands
Joined January 2010
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4) This sector and stage agnostic curriculum designed, is a result of 1) multiple failed attempts 2) having spoken and mentored few 100 startups 3) trying to help make the first few sales of many of my portfolio companies 4) 1000s of customer interactions with early adopters
✨ Day 2⃣:
Experts Mr. @Sombodhi Ghosh & Mr. Mainak Bhattacharya (@mainak_mb) discussing about product market fit with the cohort.
#ShelterTechAccelerator #Bootcamp
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If you haven't seen Anthropic's AI in Education report, it is a must read for higher ed profs. A few highlights: 🧵
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I was sent this chart and found the implication, if true, important.
Many people derided the reduction in force that happened at Twitter/X and the firing of 80% of the company. But it turned out that the company wasn’t only no worse for wear, but are seeing record usage since streamlining their workforce and OpEx.
Well if the chart below is true, it is a path that many other companies will have to take.
If you’re a public company, I don’t see how you can defend yourself from activists as AI tools proliferate. You have two choices:
1) double your work product and quantity of code shipped and product value as you keep headcount steady.
OR
2) reduce your R&D/OpEx by 50% and have half the team + AI tools do the work that the entire team used to do before.
FWIW, I don’t see how companies can empower their employees with tools and claim they have doubled their productivity unless revenue also doubles.
So the latter (#2) seems like the most obvious path that shareholders will push for. In no small part because of the SBC- based dilution they would also save if this happened.
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I know everyone's tired of ChatGPT screenshots, but this is legit GOLD.
Prompt:
"Write a paragraph explaining my leave of absence tomorrow at work, due to 'not feeling the vibes', in the style of Shashi Taroor"
@ShashiTharoor
Standard practice to do fail check but advance kill criteria takes strategy a notch further behavioralscientist.org/anni…
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This is wonderful to learn about. Meghalaya government spends amongst the highest amounts per capita in India on healthcare and is well placed to offer such care. I look forward to reading more about this seminal effort.
On Dec 15, 2022, Meghalaya's Minister of Health Shri James Sangma and the Department of Health and Family Welfare launched new guidelines titled 'Understanding Comprehensive Primary Health Care: The Meghalaya Way' to strengthen and reorient the state's health system. #Thread
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CJI: If we do not act in matters of personal liberty and grant relief then what are we doing here? What is SC doing and is it not a breach under Article 136. #SupremeCourt exists to hear to the cry of such petitioners. We burn the midnight oil for such cases and see there is more
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Open Credit Enablement Network (#OCEN) is revolutionizing the credit playground and making it more accessible! With the smallest loan starting at just Rs 160, you can get approved in less than 10 minutes. #IndiaStack
Learn more at economictimes.indiatimes.com… via @EconomicTimes
"We have given loans worth Rs 15 crore. What we are most proud of is the size of the smallest loan: Rs 160 for a 90-day period. The average loan size is Rs 40,000 & the largest is Rs 10 lakh. Money in the account is credited in less than 10 mins": @hrushmehta on #OCEN @TheCredAll
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Some of you might've come across something like "career advice: best route is not a straight line", or some variation, with this gif.
I'd like to invite you to this 🧵 on tweets that make you feel intelligent without actually gaining any knowledge.
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In 1996, I spent a year in France on a college exchange program. As a poor Indian student, I was entirely dependent on my scholarship: 1200 francs a month.
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(1/n) A good differentiator for a VC fund in India could simply be the preparation the Analysts / Associates do before their first call with a founder. For a founder I am advising, I shadowed 3 calls - 1 with a fund, 1 with an angel network and 1 with a family office.
Talk about last mile value delivery
This sushi restaurant in Japan is using bodybuilders to deliver food to its customers reut.rs/2Z6wBtu
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This is the amateur's advantage and a natural way to avoid the expert problem in writing/teaching.
The "world's best" can help the outstanding advance even further.
But they aren't always so capable at helping the deficient get up to functional.
The latter is a bigger market.
People who've worked to learn a skill are usually the best at teaching that skill.
Ex. Someone who is not "creatively inclined," but has learned how to be creative would be better at teaching others about creativity than the a naturally creative person.
h/t @DocAyomide
Falls on deaf ears but hey let's say it one more time. #AngelInvesting is almost a full time job
