Shashank Srivastava

CEO at Exportify,an international logistics solution provider(freight forwarder).Helping businesses deliver and source products globally. [email protected]

[Ryan Petersen @typesfast]

The two most reliable ways to go viral are to 1) criticize India and 2) criticize remote work.

But who amongst us has the courage to criticize remote work in India?

[Arun Krishnan 🇮🇳 @ArunKrishnan_]

Microsoft can switch off access to MSOffice or Windows for everyone, at one directive from the US government. So can Google with Android.

We need to absolutely develop our own tech stack and move towards it.

@svembu

[Sridhar Vembu @svembu]

This is big: all access to Mythos and Fable AI models disabled for everyone outside America.

First thoughts:

1. Technology is the ultimate weapon. National sovereignty, national security, all of it is now about technology.

2. Globalization is dead and Bharat must find her own way ahead.

We must keep these two ideas in mind.

What can our government do right now? Ensure that orgs in India embrace smaller models, both Indian and Chinese open source ones. With a bit of effort, we can make them work. Anyway, why pay money to people who don't even want to sell to you?

We must deepen our R&D. Sarvam has been on it and we have been on it but remember that the latest models cost not only huge GPU budgets to train, the GPUs themselves are restricted. So we can't afford the scale of money (of the order of $100+ billion to even get in the game!) and even if we could come up with the money, we can't get all the GPUs. I would not like to ask the government to fund tens of billions of dollars on this anyway - the money has far better uses.

Zoho has been pursuing alternative R&D approaches that are far, far less expensive but by its nature cutting edge R&D takes time and we are patient. I am confident we will get there.

Any remaining people in India who have delusions about globalization should wake up now.

[Aravind @aravind]

India must issue notice to all Indian sailors to strike and return back to India. Let the world's shipping stall. Let's see how Trump keeps energy moving and China its exports shipping.

I have long been suggesting India create a network for Indian diaspora, of nurses and doctors, shippers and pilots, workers and constructors etc.

Every Indian going out to work from India - record their skills, put them into a database, give them a community to connect to, with GoI giving info and incentives for them there.

Use the power of this network when needed. Tap their skills if they return to India. And utilize their value outside India.

All countries will be much more respectful to India if India can unify its diaspora workers and make them act in national interests like China does.

[Shashank Srivastava @ExportsMadeEasy]

@mayurshetty01 good guidance*

[Shashank Srivastava @ExportsMadeEasy]

@mayurshetty01 DM me for any assistance on exports or imports. Really got guidance helps in quick clearance. Happy to help.

[Shashank Srivastava @ExportsMadeEasy]

@aravind @xportify supports exporters and importers every single day. We are ready to extend help to all. DMs are open.

[Philipp Raasch @PhilippRaasch]

Xiaomi just poached 50 engineers from BMW, Porsche and Mercedes.

Their first car was basically a Porsche clone. With significantly more software. In China, it sold over 400,000 units last year. The auto division turned profitable after 19 months.

Now they've opened an R&D center in Munich. Right in the heart of Germany's auto industry. Reportedly paying significantly more than BMW or Porsche did.

And Xiaomi isn't alone. BYD is building factories in Hungary. Chery assembles cars in Spain. Stellantis is offering its own plants to Chinese partners.

The first wave was imports. It failed.
The second wave is factories, technology, and talent. It's already here.

[Diva Jain @DivaJain2]

Bengaluru woman should be thankful.
She has a job because the Americans leave at 4:30.

[Diva Jain @DivaJain2]

IIT + IIM + Tel Sabun MBAs want India to be AI use case capital of the world while 12th pass Dhandhomaxxer realizes the value of intellectual capital.
The difference between greatness and mediocrity is not education but as Danton said -
"L'audace, l'audace, toujours l'audace!"

[Somnath Mukherjee @somnath1978]

Barring 1/2 areas (SSBN, nuke weapons), this👇 is 100% correct. We have a minimalist (think "minimal credible deterrence", "light combat aircraft", "Chandrayaan cost << Interstellar") culture in hard areas of endeavour. Reflection of a democracy of sub-global-avg people...

[Sanjeev Bikhchandani @sbikh]

An investor risks money. An entrepreneur risks his or her life. An investor has a portfolio of investments. If a few succeed the investor succeeds. An entrepreneur has only one life. If the company goes down the entrepreneur goes down with it.
The risk that an entrepreneur takes and the risk that an investor takes are asymmetric.
Which is why we as investors have huge respect for founders

https://t.co/4uN0mZM7O1

[Rolee Kachru @Rolee_Kachru]

Whoever tries to read Indian foreign policy through Western concepts misses the point. Delhi sees no contradiction between buying oil from Russia and maintaining security cooperation with the United States. It sees no problem in a partnership with Israel alongside a presence in Iran’s Chabahar. It does not hesitate between the Gulf and Iran. It is building a system in which each of them depends on it. This is not balance. It is architecture. Balance can be broken in a day. Architecture holds even when a floor collapses. India is building a structure through which every door passes. This is not diplomacy. It is an architecture of dependence. READ THIS PIECE.

https://t.co/qPjTziee6O

[Niks @Pivot2Centre]

I can’t stress enough how true this is.

I am an average IQ person who had a major speech delay as a kid - to a point that I started to speak at 5yr mark. Tier 2 engineering school, tier 2 MBA school. Nothing exceptional.

But thanks to my Dad and his job, we kept moving. Bihar, Almora, UP, Bhubaneswar, Kolkata, Port Blair, MH. Education and job took me to Ribandar, BLR, Chennai, Mumbai, Delhi, London, Arizona, Toronto.

I never said no to a move - even if it meant signing a bond or taking a minor cut in pay. I ensured I never miss an after office event, industry conference, or say no to someone who is dragging me to meet someone.

I tried to be nice to most people in university. Rarely got brutal with people.

My travel and ability to speak 7 languages has helped me connect with so many people and one thing has led to another; I have been extremely lucky at so many different times thanks to people pulling me up.

Keep moving. Never stop, a moving man will meet his luck!

[Ambassador Sergio Gor @USAmbIndia]

Just had an outstanding dinner with President Trump. We discussed his unwavering determination to bring global stability, the historic achievements of his presidency, the strong future of India-US ties, and so much more! A very memorable evening as history unfolded in real time. 🇺🇸

[Javier Blas @JavierBlas]

China produces ~80% of its urea from coal rather than (as most other nations do) natural gas. The method is insulating Beijing from rising nitrogen fertiliser prices.

I wrote ⤵️ this @Opinion column about the Chinese coal-to-chemicals industry last June. https://t.co/TQg6HHD3J8

[Anything @anything]

BREAKING: Apple is scared of vibe coding

they removed Anything from the App Store so we moved app building to iMessage

good luck removing this one, Apple

[Shashank Srivastava @ExportsMadeEasy]

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[Vishal Bhargava @VishalBhargava5]

Oracle slashes 12,000 jobs in India via an email sent at 6AM.
The problem in an environment of layoffs is that it has a twin impact on housing. 1) Fired employees struggle to service their payments 2) Other employees feel they may be next. So they pause on their purchase

[Somnath Mukherjee @somnath1978]

Wht we get frm the US? Roughly 60-70 bn of trade surplus funding all the oil/fertilizer imports + 200bn IT industry that is the largest sink of hi-paying jobs. Sadly, writing 800 word columns doesnt generate econ value for imports or too many jobs...