Mahesh Murthy

I help build bold businesses. Marketer @Pinstorm. Investor @ExseedSpace @AngelSpark @Chumbak @RedBus_in @CarWale @GoDoolally @Seedfund. Traveler @ large.

[Mahesh Murthy @maheshmurthy]

Want to waste an hour and twenty four minutes...? Here's me talking about working with @JeffBezos , doing ads, building satellites, and what dying in your 90s might mean https://t.co/l5gRKyIRia

[The Better India @thebetterindia]

In 2008, IIM Bangalore alumnus Arun Pai was frustrated by a question many of us have asked:
Why are our cities so dirty?

Like most people, he assumed someone else was responsible.
The government.
The municipality.
The system.
Then he did something unusual.

Instead of blaming others, he decided to understand the problem himself.

For 24 hours, he sat beside one of Bengaluru's worst garbage dumps on Church Street and simply watched.

Who was dumping waste?
Why did the garbage keep returning?
What was everyone missing?

What he discovered challenged almost every assumption people had about the problem.

Within days, a garbage spot that had existed for nearly two decades was cleaned up.

That experiment became The Ugly Indian — a citizen-led movement that has since inspired thousands of public space transformations across India.

As he puts it: "I am the problem."

Not as an admission of guilt, but as a starting point for change.

In a world where outrage is easy and responsibility is optional, that idea feels more relevant than ever.

What's one public problem in your city that you wish more citizens would take ownership of?

@theuglyindian

#CivicSense #CommunityAction #PositiveChange #CleanIndia #SocialImpact

[Civic Responsibility, Community Cleanliness, Citizen-Led Change, Public Space Transformation, Urban Cleanliness India]

[Ramesh Srivats @rameshsrivats]

Of course. User name problem only comes when you have users.

[Mahesh Murthy @maheshmurthy]

@ShuklaNive Such an asshole

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I hadn't ordered from @keetaglobal_uae #keeta #UAE in a while. Maybe it's a clever campaign to remind me, by charging me for no order whatsoever. I had to contact them - when they said "oops it was a random system error" and promising a refund at some point

[Pavel Durov @durov]

Indian telecom Reliance is sabotaging access to Telegram for millions of users OUTSIDE India (including the UAE) via a rogue method called BGP hijacking.

The sabotage seems intentional, as Reliance has ignored multiple reports.

This may be part of a competitive war, as Reliance is partially owned by Meta — the company behind WhatsApp.

Network operators are advised to reject unauthorized BGP announcements from Reliance (AS18101) to prevent route hijacks and ensure stable Internet access for their users.

Such abuse of global Internet routing is alarming. I wouldn’t be surprised if Reliance/WhatsApp were also behind the recent lobbying effort to ban Telegram in India.

[Mahesh Murthy @maheshmurthy]

@Prakhar0016 Fake

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@Prakhar0016 Fake

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@Prakhar0016 Fake

[Mahesh Murthy @maheshmurthy]

@Prakhar0016 We never offer jobs like this

[Mahesh Murthy @maheshmurthy]

@Prakhar0016 No fake

[Mahesh Murthy @maheshmurthy]

@Prakhar0016 @Pinstorm fake

[Mahesh Murthy @maheshmurthy]

Udta rupaiyya

#USD #INR

[Mahesh Murthy @maheshmurthy]

@airindia @ChristianFunke7 You keep asking for the booking details and doing nothing @airindia

[Mahesh Murthy @maheshmurthy]

Hello @airindia this happened to a friend - is it true your #Bali staff think that European citizens need visas to visit other European countries? #crazy

[Christian Funke @ChristianFunke7]

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Almost got denied boarding on an Air India from Bali (DPS) to Frankfurt (FRA).

Reason: “As a Swiss citizen, you need a visa for Germany.”

[Mahesh Murthy @maheshmurthy]

They said this was going to be the Indian century. Perhaps this is not what they meant.

#India #inr #usd #depreciation #exchange #currency

[Brivael Le Pogam @brivael]

Elon Musk avait dit un truc qui m'avait marqué sur l'allocation de ressources. En substance : passé un certain niveau de richesse, l'argent n'est plus de la consommation, c'est de l'allocation de capital.

Cette phrase change tout.

L'économie, dans le fond, c'est juste un problème d'allocation. Tu as des ressources finies et des usages infinis. Qui décide où va quoi ?

Imagine une cour de récré. 100 enfants, des paquets de cartes Pokémon distribués au hasard. Tu laisses faire. Très vite, un ordre émerge. Les bons joueurs accumulent les cartes rares, les collectionneurs trient, les négociateurs trouvent des deals. Personne n'a planifié. Et pourtant chaque carte finit dans les mains de celui qui en tire le plus de valeur. Le système maximise le bonheur total de la cour. C'est ça, la main invisible.

Maintenant fais entrer la maîtresse. Elle trouve ça injuste. Léo a 50 cartes, Tom en a 3. Elle confisque, redistribue, impose l'égalité. Trois effets immédiats. Les bons joueurs arrêtent de jouer, à quoi bon. Les mauvais n'ont plus de raison de progresser, ils auront leur part. Les échanges s'effondrent. La cour est égale, et morte. Elle a maximisé l'égalité, elle a détruit le bonheur.

Le problème de la maîtresse, c'est qu'elle ne peut pas avoir l'information que la cour avait collectivement. C'est le problème du calcul économique de Mises, formulé en 1920. L'URSS a essayé de le résoudre pendant 70 ans avec le Gosplan. Résultat : pénuries, queues, effondrement. Pas parce que les Soviétiques étaient bêtes, parce que le problème est mathématiquement insoluble en mode centralisé.

Quand Musk a 200 milliards, il ne les consomme pas, il les alloue. SpaceX, Starlink, Neuralink, xAI. Chaque dollar est un pari sur le futur. Et lui a un track record. PayPal, Tesla, SpaceX. Il a démontré qu'il sait identifier des problèmes immenses et y allouer des ressources avec un rendement spectaculaire.

L'État aussi a un track record. Hôpitaux qui s'effondrent, éducation qui décline, dette qui explose, services publics qui se dégradent malgré des budgets en hausse constante. Le marché identifie les bons allocateurs, la politique identifie les bons communicants.

Le profit n'est pas une finalité, c'est un signal. Il dit : tu as alloué des ressources rares vers un usage que les gens valorisent suffisamment pour payer. Plus le profit est gros, plus la création de valeur est grande. Quand Starlink est rentable, ça veut dire que des millions de gens dans des zones rurales ont enfin internet. Quand un ministère est en déficit, ça veut dire qu'il consomme plus qu'il ne produit. L'un crée, l'autre détruit, et on appelle ça redistribution.

Dans nos sociétés il y a deux catégories d'acteurs. Les entrepreneurs et les bureaucrates. L'entrepreneur prend un risque personnel pour identifier un problème, mobiliser des ressources, créer une solution. S'il se trompe il perd. S'il a raison, ses clients gagnent, ses employés gagnent, ses fournisseurs gagnent, l'État collecte des impôts. Il est la cellule de base du progrès humain.

Le bureaucrate ne prend aucun risque personnel. Son salaire est garanti. Au mieux il maintient une rente existante. Au pire il la détruit par excès de réglementation, mauvaise allocation forcée, incitations perverses qui découragent ceux qui produisent. Mais dans aucun cas il ne crée.

Regarde les 50 dernières années. iPhone, internet civil, SpaceX, Tesla, Google, Amazon, Stripe, mRNA, ChatGPT. Toutes des inventions privées, portées par des entrepreneurs, financées par du capital risque. Pas un seul ministère n'a inventé quoi que ce soit qui ait changé ta vie au quotidien.

La France est devenue le laboratoire mondial de la dérive bureaucratique. 57% du PIB en dépenses publiques, record absolu. Une administration tentaculaire, une fiscalité qui pénalise la création de richesse. Résultat : décrochage face aux États-Unis, à l'Allemagne, à la Suisse. Fuite des cerveaux. Désindustrialisation. Dette qui explose.

Et le pire c'est que la mauvaise allocation s'auto-renforce. Plus l'État prélève, moins les entrepreneurs créent. Moins ils créent, moins il y a de base fiscale. Plus l'État s'endette et taxe. Boucle de rétroaction négative parfaite. La maîtresse pense qu'elle aide, et chaque année la cour produit moins.

Dans nos sociétés, ce sont les entrepreneurs, toujours, qui font avancer la civilisation. Les bureaucrates au mieux maintiennent une rente, au pire la détruisent. Aucune société n'a jamais progressé en taxant ses créateurs pour subventionner ses gestionnaires.

La question n'est jamais qui a combien. C'est qui alloue le mieux la prochaine unité de ressource pour maximiser le futur de l'humanité. La réponse depuis 200 ans n'a jamais changé. Ce ne sont pas les fonctionnaires.

[Moeed Pirzada @MoeedNj]

When a Zionist called George Galloway a racist in Oxford - Every second worth watching & feeling..!

[Mahesh Murthy @maheshmurthy]

Fat good, carbs bad.

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

India ran the most important cardiovascular study of the 20th century by accident, and then immediately forgot about it.

In 1967, Dr. S.L. Malhotra published a study in the British Heart Journal examining heart disease rates among 1.5 million Indian railway employees. The population was extraordinarily useful for research purposes: same employer, same healthcare access, comparable income and working conditions, spread across the entire country.

The only meaningful variable was geography. Which meant diet.

North Indian railway workers: Punjab, Rajasthan, UP, ate a diet built around ghee and dairy fat. They consumed up to 19 times more fat than their southern counterparts. The fat was primarily saturated: clarified butter, milk fat, the short-chain saturated fatty acids that Ancel Keys had recently been telling the Western world were arterial death.

South Indian railway workers ate a diet based on rice, sambar, and seed oils: groundnut oil and sesame oil, primarily. They ate considerably less fat overall. By the standards of dietary advice being formulated in the 1960s, they should have been the healthy ones.

Heart disease mortality in South India: 135 per 100,000.

Heart disease mortality in North India: 20 per 100,000.
Seven times higher in the population eating seed oils.

Among railway sweepers specifically, the lowest-paid, most physically active workers, the gap was even wider. Heart disease was fifteen times more common in the South Indian sweeper population than in the North Indian sweeper population.

Malhotra controlled for everything he could reach: smoking, where Northerners actually smoked more. Activity levels, where the relationship was inconsistent. Socioeconomic status, where executives died more often than sweepers regardless of region. He found no variable that explained the gap except the type of fat in the diet.

He published the data. In a peer-reviewed journal. In 1967.

The study was cited periodically, acknowledged as methodologically interesting, and then set aside.

The decade in which Malhotra published was the decade in which Ancel Keys's fat hypothesis was being converted into policy. The American Heart Association was issuing guidance recommending polyunsaturated vegetable oils as replacements for saturated animal fats. The food industry was producing seed oils at industrial scale. The infrastructure of seed oil promotion was being built, expensively and with great institutional momentum.

A study showing that populations eating animal fat had a fraction of the heart disease of populations eating seed oils was not, in that context, a study that anyone particularly wanted to follow up.

Nobody followed up.

Almost sixty years later, the finding stands unrefuted in the literature.

It is not in the dietary guidelines.

[Mahesh Murthy @maheshmurthy]

So how should ad and marketing firms cope with AI? Don't know about others - but we're all in at @Pinstorm I think we'll soon see one-person global agencies. Here's a short piece I wrote for The Marketing Society.

https://t.co/vGx6k7R9ic

#AI #Marketing #Advertising #Brand #Ads