A book about Blinkit, now on Blinkit.
I have no idea how @albinder finds time for writing books alongside all that he has to do, but this is an excellent read about the challenges of starting up, building, breaking, and rebuilding for retail in India.
A few hundred signed copies available on Blinkit.
Just crossed 100k applications for the 100 introductory Temple devices.
To the 100 who get one: you're the founding cohort. We'll be grateful for what you teach us.
To the rest: we're building as fast as we can without compromising what @temple needs to be.
Follow @temple for updates.
After you apply, we will get in touch with the selected few who we think will provide us the most critical feedback, and help us shape Temple’s future.
You could also get a chance to invest in the next round of funding for Temple.
Hello world. The first 100 Temples are ready to ship. We're now inviting athletes, scientists, founders, doctors, creators, and individuals who care deeply about their physical and cognitive health to be the founding users of Temple.
Apply for early access at https://t.co/XxGR9Hpq58
Hello everyone, here are the highlights from Eternal's last quarter –
- Eternal’s Q4FY26 Consolidated Adjusted Revenue grew 64% YoY (like-for-like) to 17,680 crore
- B2C NOV grew 54% YoY (4% QoQ) to INR 26,880 crore
- Consolidated Adjusted EBITDA increased 160% YoY to INR 429 crore while increasing 18% QoQ (vs INR 364 crore in Q3FY26)
- Blinkit NOV growth remains strong at 95.4% YoY (8.2% QoQ)
- Food Delivery NOV growth at 18.8% YoY (-0.9% QoQ) - continues to improve for the third quarter in a row, inching closer to our long-term expectation of 20%+ YoY
- Going-out NOV grew 42% YoY for the full year FY26
- Hyperpure’s overall Adjusted EBITDA margin improving to 0.5% resulting in absolute Adjusted EBITDA profit of INR 5 crore
- 109 million Indians completed transactions worth over $10 billion through Blinkit, District, and Zomato in FY26
- Delivery Partner Welfare: ~₹200 crore in government benefits unlocked in FY26; expanding to 1 lakh gig & contract workers by FY27
- Greening India: 1M saplings distributed to 3,000 farmers across 6 states; 600K+ planted over ~5,000 acres (free of cost)
- EV Adoption: EV delivery partners grew from 52K (Mar 2025) to 100K+ (Mar 2026)
- Plastic Waste: 15,000 MT recycled in FY26; 60,000+ MT recycled since inception (100% plastic neutral initiative)
- Feeding India: 1.4 lakh+ children fed daily across 2,300+ centres in 150+ cities
That’s all for now. To our customers, delivery partners, business partners, policymakers, and team members: your support is what moves us forward.
If there’s anything we can do better, we are always listening. Please feel free to share any questions or feedback at [email protected]
Full report here – https://t.co/r88GCLeggt
@gareebscientist@temple 😃
Yeah, it holds no matter what. The medical grade "Grips" we use to hold Temple to the skin during hard workouts and ocean swims was a harder problem to solve than building the device itself.
Yesterday, a small prototype aircraft of a brand new design from LAT Aerospace crashed into a wheat field near Saifai during a ground roll test. Strong winds caused loss of control, and immediate crash.
We’ve reached out to the farmer whose crop was damaged and have already ensured full compensation for their loss.
We’re early in development. Crashes are part of building aircraft. We’ll learn from this, tighten our test protocols, and keep going.
We just completed a successful flight for our tech demonstrator, Lat One v0.2.
Lat Aerospace is building ultra-short takeoff and landing aircraft using blown wing technology. Think fixed-wing performance with near-helicopter access.
A couple of months ago, v0.1 achieved uSTOL but crashed shortly after. That was expected. v0.2 was about completing the full mission, and it did. The blown wing concept worked in reality. Closed-loop control got validated. We'd predicted a cruise speed of 30-32 m/s and cruised comfortably at 33. No thermal issues despite a burning afternoon. The quick-detach wings held through aggressive turns. Was in the air for over 6 minutes. Smooth touchdown, and ready to fly again.
But the thing that makes me the happiest isn't any of that. It's that our CFD studies, aerodynamic models, SIL simulations, and flight logs all match, almost perfectly. That's what real engineering looks like. I am so proud of our team.
A long way to go, and we are getting there.
@lataerospace@surobhidas
Temple has raised its first round. Friends and family. $54m. Post-money valuation of ~$190m.
Every investor in this round is a founder friend or early-stage Zomato investor who wanted in, whether or not Temple ever makes it to market.
But here's what gives me goosebumps – more than 30 Temple employees participated in the round, at par valuation. No discount. Their own money. That's the kind of belief you can't buy.
We are assembling a dream team to build the ultimate wearable for elite performance athletes. Want in? Look up my last post.
We're recruiting at @temple.
At Temple, we are building the ultimate wearable for elite performance athletes. A device that measures what no other wearable in the world measures, with a level of precision that doesn't exist yet.
To build it, we need people who are obsessive about both the craft and the category. Engineers who are also athletes. People who will wear what they build, and hate it until it's perfect.
Roles we're hiring for:
🟠 Analog Systems Engineers, Electronics Design Engineers
🟠 Embedded Systems Engineers — low-level HW bring-up, embedded signal and image processing, embedded AI
🟠 Design and Validation Engineers — sensors, actuators, battery, antenna, optics
🟠 CMF Engineers, Adhesive Materials Engineers
🟠 Sensor Algorithms Engineers — estimation theory, sensor fusion
🟠 Deep Learning Engineers — ML model development for physiological metrics
🟠 Computational Neuroscientists
🟠 BCI Engineers — real-time EEG/EMG acquisition and processing
🟠 Neural Decoding Researchers — brain activity to semantic mapping
🟠 Computer Vision Engineers — facial microexpression, subvocal muscle detection
🟠 Neuroimaging ML Engineers — multimodal sensor fusion
🟠 Last but not the least, product managers who work through Figma without needing a designer to hold their hand
Important – we are building for people who push their bodies to the edge. We want to be those people, not just serve them. So only people who take fitness seriously, and have body fat <16% (men) and 26% (women) should apply. If you're not there yet but will commit to getting there in three months, you can apply too; but you'll be on probation until you are.
Write to [email protected] with your core skill as the subject line.
Come find your tribe.
LAT Aerospace has acquired Sharang Shakti, an early-stage defence robotics startup based in Gurgaon.
This is our first move toward building indigenous defence capabilities alongside our long-term mission of developing next-generation civil aviation platforms from India.
Civil aviation and defence are often viewed as separate sectors. But the core technology stack is shared across autonomy, perception, sensing, navigation, guidance, and control systems.
By bringing Sharang Shakti into LAT, we are building these capabilities in-house, from first principles, with the intent to deploy them across both defence and civil programs over time.
Slowly but surely.
A quick update on [email protected]
Over the last week, we received over 8,000 emails. About 4,000 from people who have been part of the Eternal journey at some point. Rest from people who haven't worked here but want to. Thank you so much for this. I didn't expect this at all.
Most of these emails are stories, and are full of emotions and honesty. There's a lot of context and history in them. And a lot of our current team has no context on people who left five, ten, fifteen years ago. Eternal is in its late teens right now. The only person who can truly read these emails and know who to respond to is me. And it is not humanly possible for me to read through 8,000 emails, and pick and choose the right ones to respond to, quickly.
We are still going through every single one. It will take time.
But if you worked with me directly, and you wrote in, and you are waiting for a reply, here is what will work quickly: find my number and WhatsApp me. Looking forward to reconnect :)