Mandalsa Thaman

[CNBC-TV18 @CNBCTV18News]

On the latest episode of Young Turks Reloaded, meet the AI soonicorn valued at $700 million that’s betting on something big—making voice the default way we interact with technology.

At the centre of it is Wispr Flow. An AI that lets you speak naturally and turns it into perfectly written text, across apps, in real time. Not voice notes. Not dictation. It understands how you think, structures it, and writes the way you would.

For CEO Tanay Kothari, this has been years in the making. It goes back to a moment in a school computer lab, when he was told, “You’re too young to understand coding.” He went home and taught himself anyway.

Because, as he puts it, “No one tells me I can’t do it.”

That instinct—to question what exists and rebuild it better—is what led to Wispr Flow. After experimenting with a hardware device that could turn thoughts into text, Tanay realised the real opportunity wasn’t hardware.

It was fixing voice itself. Making it accurate. Personal. Effortless.

Today, Wispr Flow is growing 40% month-on-month, works across 100+ languages, and is used by millions globally.

The bet? The keyboard is going away.

Watch Full Ep Here:
https://t.co/iAd2BLkMQL

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[Frontier Indica @frontierindica]

Rs 2.7 crore for EU residency, Schengen access, and a Mediterranean base is genuinely cheap. You can't even get a 3BHK in Gurgaon for this price.

[The Grace Of God🤭🕊️ @Kim_Leeeeyah]

The older you get, the more you realize luck is mostly exposure. If you sit in the same place, have the same routine, talking to the same people, nothing new really happens. You have to tackle the world to win. Travel more. Talk to people.

[Sunil Gurjar, CFTe @sunilgurjar01]

“I have seen Radhakishan Damani carry goods from godown to floor shop when he had net worth of more than 1,000 crores”

“He invested about Rs.600 Crores of his own money to start D-Mart.”

- Late Rakesh Jhujhunwala. 2014

[Business Today @business_today]

#MoneyToday | Gold remains a $31 trillion market, still under-allocated in investor portfolios: Report https://t.co/rH08BxMVrQ

[Latha Venkatesh @latha_venkatesh]

Impt announcement from RBI on Friday evening that can strengthen rupee:
-RBI limits NOP-INR positions of banks in the onshore market to $100 mln
-Alert: NOP-INR means net open dollar-rupee positions of banks
-RBI directs banks to bring down their open positions to $100 mln by April 10
-Bankers say banks may be holding long $ positions much more than $100 mln
-Sale of the excess long dollar position can lead to a sharp rise in the rupee on Monday dealers say.

[RedboxGlobal India @REDBOXINDIA]

RBI has told banks to reduce their dollar positions

Banks can now hold only up to $100 million in dollar-rupee exposure

Right now many banks are holding much larger dollar positions

They must cut this down by April 10

[CNBC-TV18 @CNBCTV18Live]

#OnCNBCTV18 | Corporate balance sheets are strong, indicating that there is no immediate need for panic in the market, retail investors have increasingly participated in equities, supporting markets even during periods of #FII selling. India’s long-term growth story remains intact & investor confidence should be maintained, says #MadhuKela of #MKVentures

[Sakshi @thesakshishukla]

the most exhausting thing about being an ambitious woman is the constant internal negotiation. how much to say. how direct to be. how to give the impression that you're not interested in anything beyond work. how to prove that you're in the room because you earned it.

it's a constant never-ending math running in the background.

so how do you stop? I've done this for years. And one day I just decided to drop it. and you know what, nothing changed for me. no doors closed. no deals collapsed.

the only thing that changed was I realised that some people will always find a way to not like me and that's completely okay. my life doesn't end at that.

[Normal Guy @Normal_2610]

India is about to buy 15 crore new ACs in the next 10 years. The power grid cannot handle that.

And we don't even make the most important part of an AC ourselves - the compressor. We buy 40% of them from China.

The Problem - ACs Will Break the Grid

Think of India power grid like a road. Right now, at peak traffic (peak load), the road handles about 240 GW.

Now imagine 15 crore new cars (ACs) joining that road by 2035. These ACs alone will add 180 GW of peak demand. That's 75% of today's entire peak load, just from cooling.

To put it even simpler - India will need to almost double its peak power capacity in 10 years, mostly just because people want to stay cool.

And peak demand is the worst kind of demand. Everyone switches on their AC between 2-6 PM on a hot day. The grid doesn't need this power at 3 AM.

It needs it all at once, in the worst heat, when everyone is desperate. That means you can't just add solar panels, you need grid storage, peaking power plants, and smarter cooling.

The Compressor Problem - China Controls the Heart of Your AC

An AC has many parts. But the compressor is the heart - it's the thing that actually cools. Everything else is just a box around it.

India makes 60 lakh compressors a year. India needs 1 crore. That 40% gap comes from China.

Atomberg just showed an indigenous rotary compressor prototype. That's good news. But Mass production won't start until 2027 at the earliest

So today, if China decides to restrict compressor exports tomorrow (like they did with gallium and germanium), India's AC manufacturing stops. This is the cooling equivalent of the semiconductor chokepoint.

District Cooling - The Smart Solution Nobody Is Implementing

Instead of every building running its own AC, what if one giant central plant made chilled water and piped it to all buildings in an area? That's district cooling.

Think of it like this:

Individual ACs = Every house having its own borewell. Expensive, inefficient, everyone drilling their own hole.

District cooling = One municipal water supply. One big efficient plant, shared pipes, everyone benefits.

The numbers are stunning - 50-60% more energy efficient than individual ACs. 20% lower peak electricity demand for cooling. Uses 10-25% less installed capacity than standalone units

Can use treated sewage water instead of potable water (huge for water-stressed India)

GIFT City in Gujarat did this. It works beautifully. But GIFT City was built from scratch - greenfield. They planned the pipes before the buildings.

No state government has mandated district cooling for new building clusters. Retrofitting existing IT corridors in Chennai or Hyderabad means digging up roads to lay chilled water pipes.

Without mandates, land allocation, and "right of way" for pipes - not possible at all.

The Data Centre Double Whammy

Just when you thought ACs were the only problem, data centres are piling on top. Half of a data centre's energy goes to cooling the servers.

As India builds more AI and cloud infrastructure, cooling demand from data centres adds another massive load on top of the AC tsunami.

So the grid is getting hit from two sides simultaneously - consumers wanting to stay cool + servers needing to stay cool.

India cooling demand is about to explode, we don't make the core component, we don't have the grid capacity, and the best solution (district cooling) has zero policy push.

If you accept that 180 GW of new peak load is coming regardless, and district cooling stays stuck in policy limbo, then who benefits from the brute force path?

if India has to just build its way out with more generation, more transmission, more transformers, more cables - which companies in your existing coverage universe (wires & cables, power infra, defence-adjacent industrials) are the direct beneficiaries of a cooling-driven capex supercycle?

Electrification is decadal theme Guys :)

[CNBC-TV18 @CNBCTV18News]

Bayer is not in India’s top markets today. But its global CEO wants that to change by 2030.

@BayerGlobal CEO Bill Anderson told @_RituSingh why India is no longer a back office play, and what it’ll take to get there.

Catch the exclusive conversation at 5:30 PM on CNBC-TV18.

[Essential Mastery @EssentialMastry]

“Study microeconomics, game theory, psychology, persuasion, mathematics, and computers.”

- @naval

[Dhimahi Jain @Dhimahi11]

Collateral-free loans up to ₹10 crore for women entrepreneurs. A woman with a business idea in Delhi no longer needs to own property to get started. That's a quiet revolution. #EkSaalVikasKa

[Attentive investor @stockmarket8058]

Ramesh Damani Reveals: The REAL Way to Spot 10x-100x🔥 Multi-Baggers Before They Explode !

India's Next Multi-Baggers Are Hiding Here – Ramesh Damani's Exact Advice 🇮🇳🔥

Must watch video 📌

[Nithya Shri @Nithya_Shrii]

Don't be afraid to spend money on traveling. Be afraid of growing old and realizing that the only place you ever went was to work.

[Mr PitBull Stories @MrPitbull07]

I worked with a woman named Jennifer for four years at a marketing firm. She was a project manager—competent, reliable, quiet.

One day she gave her two weeks’ notice.

“Where are you going?” our boss asked.

“Law school. I start in three weeks.”

Everyone was stunned. “Law school? When did you apply?”

“Last year. I got accepted in March. I’ve been taking evening classes to finish prerequisites.”

“You’ve been in school this whole time?”

“Yeah. Online program through the state university.”

No one knew. She’d never mentioned it. Never asked for time off for classes.

Never complained about the workload of working full-time while studying.

“Why didn’t you tell anyone?”

She shrugged. “I didn’t want to talk about it until I knew it was really happening. Too many things can go wrong.”

No announcement. No congratulations posts. No “follow my law school journey” content.

Just quiet, determined work.

I saw her five years later. She’s a civil rights attorney now. Still doesn’t post about it. Still doesn’t announce things.

Just does them.

~Anonymous

[Debangana Ghosh @debanganaghosh4]

🚨🆕Unpacking Indian IT's Brahmastra to counter AI: What various companies have done

@chandrarsrikant @moneycontrolcom

[love drops @lovedropx]

Be around people who think everything about you is a big deal: your birthday, favorite food, favorite flowers, you in general - a big deal.

[Samrah @_Chemist1]

Being polite when you’re stressed is real strength. Your manners are your beauty!