Amar Rajpal

[Lex Fridman @lexfridman]

NVIDIA letting Jensen go is a huge mistake, for America and for humanity. It's Apple firing Steve Jobs all over again, but much bigger, given the role of AI in defining the future of our world.

I've been keeping quiet on this out of respect for Jensen's family and team, who I've met and who are amazing humans, and because I personally hate infidelity. So my heart goes out to them in this difficult personal family moment.

But I can also say that Jensen is human, and makes mistakes like all of us do. Not that I matter at all, but I've known Jensen for a long time and have gotten the chance to spend a lot of time with him, behind the scenes, away from mics and cameras. I have seen him show kindness, humility, care to everyone around him, including strangers, including from the poorest most struggling parts of society, treating all the same with the same thoughtfulness and attention, because they are fellow humans and not because he has something to gain from them. That shows rare character, to maintain humility and humanity through all of it.

Another data point is what people who know him well have said privately to me about Jensen over the years. I've never had anyone tell me anything but how awesome he is or how much they love him. Probably over a thousand people at this point. This includes hundreds of engineers, CEOs, colleagues, friends, etc.

Also, since there was some spy talk. Jensen is as proud an American as it gets. I'm in shock frankly at all of this, including the mass hysteria around it. I love America, and I think NVIDIA letting Jensen go is terrible for America.

I stand with Jensen.

Love you all ❤️

[The Kaipullai @thekaipullai]

Two weeks back Jenson Huang was the king.

Everyone with any AI aspirations had to kneel before him. He was literally the Zod

If Jenson Huang can go from being an absolute Hero to a total Zero in two weeks

Who the hell are we?

[Naval @naval]

You’d think we’d have learned from Steve Jobs and Travis Kalanick that one does not just simply replace the founder…

[Richard Cooper @Rich_Cooper]

If you're gonna put men and women in a work environment, where women are going to clearly see who is at the top of the pecking order, and the man at the top is a plugged in dork with power, fame and fortune.

They are gonna fuck eventually.

Personally, I don't care where the CEO puts his dick or if he's married or not. The outrage is gay.

It's like getting mad at the sun for being hot or water for being wet.

This is human nature.

Let Jenson get on with the business of running NVDA.

[Vishal Bhargava @VishalBhargava5]

The two things that PM Modi, after a good start, seems to have completely surrendered on in recent years

1) Corruption out of control
2) Digital India becoming Digital Red Tape India

[Vishal Bhargava @VishalBhargava5]

See the number of comments by ordinary citizens on the harassment for something so simple as a PUC for a car.
This is the sort of harassment that makes law-abiding citizens into law-breakers.
If processes are like this, India certainly doesn't need anymore "digitisation."

[Sahil Bloom @SahilBloom]

This is so good.

[Vishal Bhargava @VishalBhargava5]

Mumbai needs more Fire Stations than ever. Given the number of high-rise buildings coming up, its criminal to reduce them. Every plot cannot be used for building homes. A city is not just about homes but everything that makes the life of a resident work.

[Harsh Goenka @hvgoenka]

Sri Lanka has abolished pensions for its parliamentarians. Public office is a responsibility, not a lifelong entitlement. Taxpayer money must serve the people, especially with pressing needs in healthcare and education.
Time to rethink political privileges in India?

[Prakash Dadlani @prakdadlani]

Indians punish entrepreneurs for taking risks.

Look at what's happening with Deepinder Goyal and Temple.

He reportedly invested $20 million of his own money into this venture and stepped away from running Zomato to build something new.

Think about that for a second.

He is putting his own money, time and reputation on the line.

The investors know what they're getting into.

People spending ₹85,000 on the product can decide for themselves whether it's worth buying.

Nobody is forcing anyone.

Will the product succeed? Maybe. Maybe not.

But that's what building something new looks like.

Even if Temple doesn't work out, the research, technology and talent created along the way could lead to something valuable.

That's how new industries are built.

Yet, instead of encouraging people who take big risks, we spend our time pulling them down.

You can question the science. You can criticise the product. You can disagree with the business.

That's fair.

But why discourage someone for trying?

India needs more people willing to take big bets, invest their own money and build things that have never been built before.

One man helped change how an entire country orders food online. Today, he's trying to build something new.

I'd rather encourage people like him than mock them for taking a chance.

Cheer the builders. Believe in Bharat.

[Deepinder Goyal @deepigoyal]

I started Zomato with a spirit of service. Blinkit Ambulance is what that spirit of service looks like today.

In the last 2 years, we have served ~20,000 emergency cases (~42,000 cases in total). We haven't charged a single rupee for any of them. And we want to keep it that way.

With everything free, a growing share of bookings are for routine checkups, hospital visits and hospital-to-home transfers, trips that an Uber or private transport could have handled just as easily. Every such booking keeps a fully equipped emergency ambulance with paramedics off the road when someone's life may depend on it.

So we are making a change from now onwards: Emergency transfers – free, as always. Non-emergency transfers – ₹2,500, charged after the trip. Broadly in line with what private ambulances charge. This money goes to Eternal Foundation, which runs these ambulances and will help us scale them even further.

We hope that this charge will dramatically drop the usage of our Ambulances for non-emergency cases. 10-minute ambulances have saved and can save thousands of lives, and we need to keep them available for emergencies that need them the most.

One more thing. Scaling high quality ambulances is hard. The biggest bottleneck is trained, empathic paramedics. Our training academy is scaling as fast as we can without compromising on quality, and @albinder and team are committed to bringing Blinkit Ambulance to all major cities in India in the next 2-4 years.

Stay well, and I pray you don't need us. @sparsh_sehgal – I wish your grandma a speedy recovery, and I am so glad we were able to be there on time.

[Deepinder Goyal @deepigoyal]

@ChandramDutta don't worry. i will get this going, and the rest will follow.

[Dhruv Rathee @dhruv_rathee]

Trump bhi Jayega
Netanyahu bhi Jayega
Modi bhi Jayega

And ideally, they will all go to jail after losing.

The amount of fraud, corruption and destruction they all have done is unprecedented in modern history.

[Dan Bilzerian @DanBilzerian]

Impeach Trump, release the Epstien files, end the Iran war and decouple from Israel.

[Dilip Kumar @kmr_dilip]

I miss the days when founders sent poorly written emails with interesting ideas. Now I get beautifully written emails with absolutely nothing interesting to say. Dear founders, the single fastest way to make your pitch stand out today might be to stop using AI to write it. AI has democratised the ability to sound intelligent without having anything intelligent to say.

[Indian Tech & Infra @IndianTechGuide]

🚨 "India needs chief ministers who think like CEOs, and states should compete like corporate businesses. Just like China."

- Nikhil Kamath.

[The Kaipullai @thekaipullai]

Most of the "5 star" hotels you see, like Radisson Blu, Conrad, Le Meridien and stuff like that, aren't actually owned by the brand.

They only operate it

The real owners are mostly local businessmen, politicians, benamis of bereaucrats, area strongmen and others like them.

So as glossy as it is on the outside, internal operations are all screwed up.

Penny pinching, delayed or non payments to vendors, absurd skimping on costs, compromising the quality of raw materials, the works.

If you know the internal running of some of these hotels, it is actually a wonder such bangalore like accidents don't happen more often.

If you don't believe me, next time when you have the chance, try visiting the service entry or the back office where the employees work

You will get your answer

[molson 🧠⚙️ @Molson_Hart]

The first 2 seconds can make or break anything:

- video
- songs
- how you’re dressed
- packaging
- the main image
- the entrance
- the title

If you want to improve something, invest disproportionately in the first two seconds

[Sandeep Mall @SandeepMall]

Was listening to some old Osho broadcast where he talks about India Pakistan, China Tibet, US Russia, Israel Egypt disputes. 60 plus years have passed and they all remain.

[Kanthaswamy Balasubramaniam @Kanthaswam80359]

🇮🇳 :-

Group of Politicians buy 2000 Acres land through proxies for ₹35,000 per Acre for a total of ₹ 7 Crore

They then propose to build a highway through that area and convert the land

Cost of land shoots up to ₹ 18 Lakh per Acre

Govt acquires the land for ₹360 Crore with Taxpayer money

₹353 Crores goes into the pockets of select politicians and their cronies

We could have easily acquired the land for ₹1 Lakh per acre and saved the taxpayer ₹340 Crore that could have been used for Education, Healthcare, Public Development

The Farmers would have made some money too

Instead ₹353 Crore of OUR MONEY went into corruption

A CM of a State was buried neck deep in such transactionsI

It is estimated that almost ₹65 Lakh Crore of taxpayer money over the last 20 years has enriched maybe 150,000 select people which could have improved so many lives

What a country 😤😤😤