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ItтАЩs been a minute.
2015тАУ2018
- Exited FreeCharge. Spent time learning and investing.
- Pondered about: Why can't trust be rewarded? Started with $1M of personal capital.
- Launched CRED to reward people for paying credit card bills on time.
2019тАУ2025
- Built a system run by a team that values ownership, judgment, and craft.
- Grew from 0 to 17M members by aligning incentives with behaviour.
- Built several products during COVID lockdowns.
- Raised $900M+ from global investors. Did 4 ESOP buybacks.
- Made Indiranagar and IPL ads slightly more interesting.
- Received a full stack of regulatory licences.
- Lost 35 kilos.
- Scaled from 0 to ~$325M ( ~тВ╣3,200 crore) in annual revenue across payments, lending, insurance, commerce, wealth, and credit cards.
2026
- First profitable quarter (yet occasionally asked what our business model is)
- Raised another $900M from Meta in primary and secondary capital.
- Announcing our 5th ESOP buyback.
Today
CRED is ready for its next phase. I am stepping back and @miten steps in as interim CEO, partnered with an incredibly talented team. He has been heading strategy and finance and suffering me since 2020. IтАЩm stepping away from the operating role and will continue as a shareholder. My commitment doesnтАЩt change. Just the role.
Extremely grateful to our members, partners, regulators, and investors who made this possible. And to our board, Shailendra, Micky, Saurabh for their extraordinary conviction.
Team CRED, IтАЩll still expect you to be a 10x version of yourselves.
As for me, IтАЩll be joining Meta to lead WhatsApp globally.
Meta comes in as a minority investor in CRED. No access to member data.
While itтАЩs come very far, the delta between WhatsApp today and its full potential is massive. I look forward to working with Mark, Chris, and the leadership across Meta for the next step in WhatsAppтАЩs journey. Will, thank you for scaling something the world relies on quietly, and for making this transition smooth.
Onwards.
West Bengal | The newly elected BJP government in West Bengal, with Finance Minister Swapan Dasgupta, to present the state's first full Budget for FY 2026-27 in the Assembly. The Budget file has been made from traditional Bengali mats and jute.
(Pic Source: State Finance Department)
Google which is cash surplus, just announced an additional capital raise of $80 bn.
Google annual profit is $160 bn, last quarter $62 bn, and market cap $4.5 trillion. That is close to total profits and market cap of all Indian listed companies put together.
ItтАЩs a wake up call to all companies to invest into the future, whatever the present maybe.
Now that IPL is done and dusted, time for India to focus on business of business.
IGR Founder Palki Sharma (@palkisu) speaks about why she decided to start IGR, the challenges of building a newsroom, the opportunity to create a global media platform from scratch, and her favourite books!
Catch the full conversation:
https://t.co/cFuP5j3sw5
Quick commerce operator like @ZeptoNow@letsblinkit@Swiggy are loosing trust in terms of quality and price. I believe the era of local shopkeeper will come back soon. @fssaiindia
India is secular only because it is a Hindu majority country. This is the greatness of Hinduism. If Rama and Krishna are not your Itihas─Б purush─Б, your national heroes, you are not a perfect Muslim. - Dr KK Muhammed, suspended for discovering the Ram temple under Babri Mosque.
Defence Research & Development Laboratory (DRDL), the Hyderabad-based laboratory of the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) have successfully conducted an extensive long-duration test of its Actively Cooled Full Scale Scramjet Combustor, achieving a run time of over 1200 seconds at its state-of-the-art Scramjet Connect Pipe Test (SCPT) Facility today.
(Source: DRDO)