Mayank

Co-Founder & Director: Ecoprosus | Sustainability Advocate | Smart living | Travel Enthusiast

[Mayank @MayankKela]

@pushkarhate @314yush Thats the Irony

[Mayank @MayankKela]

@unbhakt10 @314yush If calling spade a spade is criticising then sure.

[Mayank @MayankKela]

Had similar exp at Digital Ind week 2022. Had a stall 2 show our prod hwevr hrs b4 evnt security askd us 2 leave. Struggled for hrs in heat w/o any water I smehw made it hwevr thr wr so mny founders who coudn't. There were empty stalls. No 1 2 explain wht thr prod or cmpanies do.

[Priyanshu Ratnakar @0xratnakar]

the impact ai summit in delhi was a perfect demonstration of why india keeps losing in tech

and i’m tired of pretending it wasn’t a disaster.

let me paint the actual picture:

> cash-only payments at a “digital india” upi ??
> pm visit → main hall cleared for hours, everyone else just stood around doing nothing
> exhibitors locked out of their own stalls
> 3-hour queue just to enter
> a founder’s product got stolen during the summit
> no wifi at an ai event.
> can’t take your keys if you came via car/bike
> no laptop/camera at tech event
> people were asked to sit on the ground
> speaker lineup with consultants/bureaucrats who’ve never shipped a real product
> the registration system crashed multiple times. people who registered weeks in advance couldn’t get in.

vips walked past massive queues while founders and builders stood outside in the heat. 🤡

and 27 countries witnessed all of this live

networking areas? no space to stand.

many demos didn’t work because there was no stable internet. 5g??

this is what happens when optics matter more than execution.
when innovation becomes photo-op

the sad part is india has insane talent.

founders building world class products.
engineers and researchers doing real work.

leave India for a sec, im at network school and the youngest crowd is all Indians.

but we keep shooting ourselves in the foot with performative nonsense.

the west isn’t winning because they’re smarter.
they’re winning because they care about details.

because they respect builders.
because their tech summits actually work.

same story when @sama came to india last time.
boomer uncles asked the dumbest questions.
and when he said it’s hard for india to build foundational models, we took it on our ego.

rn, every founder who attended left embarrassed.

imagine international delegate left with stories about our “infrastructure.”

many friends and young builder lost a little more faith.

this wasn’t just bad planning.
it was a signal of what we value.
and clearly, it’s security theater and photo-ops over builders.

we can do better.
we have the talent.
we have the market.
we have the potential.

what we don’t have is execution and respect for the people building the future.

maybe one day we will do better. till then if you’re a founder, ignore the noise. keep building.

[Mayank @MayankKela]

@nsitharaman Wish you could also learn something from this great man, mam. RIP

[Mayank @MayankKela]

@elonmusk Yeah, they colonised just 106 countries to give freedom to the citizens of these countries. Their museums are the testimony to your tweet

[Mayank @MayankKela]

@luffyspeaking @ANI Chal chutiye. Aankhey toh khul nahin rahi yeh doosro ko rah dikhayega.

[Mayank @MayankKela]

Urgent help required. We are struggling!

[swaminathan @Swamiin2024]

@ManishGambhir9 @RChadha9 @ManishYadavBJP @Rao_InderjitS
@MCManesar
@MunCorpGurugram
@DC_Gurugram

Sirs, when will the Millenium City Gurgaon sector 88 get a Sewer Line and a Water supply Line.

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cc. @HardeepSPuri
Sir, request your intervention please.

[Mayank @MayankKela]

@TheGlobal_Index Animism

[Mayank @MayankKela]

Where are China numbers in 2022?

[Gabbar @GabbbarSingh]

Why did Chinese tourism drop so starkly?

Well In 2018, with the election of President Ibrahim Mohamed Solih of the Maldivian Democratic Party (MDP) who is Pro-India, irked China. Plus Covid struck. And an economy which is so heavily dependent on Tourism, there is no way they can anger China. The new govt wants to lure the Chinese back.

Hence they played the India Out campaign. It’s ultimately about see-sawing between India & China.

With China opening its border and letting people fly, the Chinese will return, and displace India. It’s just a tourism dick measuring contest.

[Mayank @MayankKela]

@stats_feed We need to have world class musuems in India, we are one of the oldest civilizations and have so much to document about, yet nowhere in this list. I have always felt this when travelling abroad.

[Harsh Goenka @hvgoenka]

None of my businessmen friends have paid to get tickets for the #WorldcupFinal, they have all managed to get a ‘pass’. And that’s where the irony lies- it’s the rich who don’t want to pay!

[Varun @varun_mathur]

Dear Mira and Ilya - congratulations on your coup at OpenAI. Since both of you have together never raised a penny as entrepreneurs, let me explain what happens.

Oh, and you *will* need to raise since your venture’s unit economics don’t make sense. Remember, you pay $0.30 every time someone asks a doofus question to ChatGPT. Heck, I sometimes ask the same thing 5 times.

Also, the last deal at $80 billion valuation - is as dead as the Egyptian pharaohs. Glorious to write about and visualize. But super dead, under the sand, not coming back.

Not only that - but you sideswiped your biggest partner, Microsoft. Of course publicly they will say the right thing, but you know and they know it and a random fellow like me knows it - they must be seething mad about it.

Few of your top researchers have already quit, and if there is one thing Sam Altman is especially good at, it is raising and deploying capital. Before the sign with your name and title as “CEO” and “Defacto CEO” gets emblazoned in the OpenAI offices, Sam would have a new company, $1 billion investment and offers out to all your, soon to be ex, top product people and researchers.

So you head into next week having lost your top dealmaker, top researchers, top product visionary, top partner and top investor, and with a business which has terrible unit economics.

And let’s not forget - the two of you are not entrepreneurs. Most people in your board have never held a proper tech job ever. You have never had to face the abject rejection which follows from pitching many investors, going through the process, and getting to close. Getting to close is the toughest. Sometimes investors say yes, but they don’t actually mean it. Sometimes they even sign, and still don’t wire the funds. You will need to live through all of it, the pain and rejection, and feel intense amount of pressure of having to provide for your team members - who pays their mortgages, car loans, kids school tuition - the ones whom you played with at the last company picnic.

After you are exhausted with the realities of the market - you will sell out OpenAI to Microsoft entirely, and be housed as Global Principal Product Managers in building 4 in Seattle, where it rains non-stop. Microsoft will never fire you, Satya will always say the right thing about you - because he is an honorable person.

But deep down in your heart, as you are watching the Netflix movie on OpenAI and Joseph-Gordon Levitt’s wife plays herself as a board member who fired Sam Altman over Google Meet, you will think and realize that you had it all - you could have been at the helm of a $1 trillion company. History will forget you. Sam and Greg and everyone else would have moved on and forgotten about you. e/acc would have built out fundamental OpenAI alternatives in anycase..

[Mayank @MayankKela]

#HappyDiwali

[Ecoprosus @ecoprosus]

May the light shine upon you and your family. We wish that this festive season brings you good health, more wealth, and fulfillment. Happy Diwali
#festiveseason #goodwishes #happydiwali2023 #goodhealth #prosperity #fulfillment #startupgrowth

[Mayank @MayankKela]

@petleepeter @DewdropsInApril @AirFranceFR Thankyou

[Mayank @MayankKela]

@AirFranceFR My wife has been struggling since the last 24 hours to get a response from your team at Munich airport on this issue.

[Rahul RK @rahulr999]

@AirFranceFR Lost Baggage reference number MUCAF42503 - has arrived at Munich but we are unable to contact to help dispatch it to the address
Pl get in touch - no updates with the Central Baggage Team

[Mayank @MayankKela]

Really! What a shame for a national carrier

[Tuhin @rjtuhin]

Is @AirFranceFR living in the 18th century.
With all the tech, they did it yet again.
@Dailymotion_FR
@FRANCE24
@IndiaembFrance

[Mayank @MayankKela]

@BangaloreFrance @FranceinIndia
@AmbAckermann My wife is struggling for last 48+ hours just to get a response from your national carrier @AirFranceFR. Will anyone help! one poor soul is just struggling to get her baggage and stuck. Need help. Anyone? This is just exasperating.

[Mayank @MayankKela]

@AirFranceFR My wife has been struggling since the last 24 hours to get a response from your team at Munich airport on this issue.

[Mayank @MayankKela]

Why wasnt it working earlier?

[Arvind Kejriwal @ArvindKejriwal]

Okhla water treatment plant started…

[🇮🇳 R Chadha 🇮🇳 @RChadha9]

@ManishGambhir9 @vgupta752 @GodrejProp @DC_Gurugram @nishantyadavIAS @dtcphry @gurgaonpolice @DEEPAKKAHUJA @raojaswant @GodrejGroup @godrej_capital @GodrejAppliance @GodrejAndBoyce @cmohry @DevelopNewGgn @TOIGurgaon @sumedhasharma86 @PirojshaGodrejF @mlkhattar Godrej MUST get Structural Audit done for #GodrejIcon
Urgently before a mishap happens.