Pushpendra Chauhan, CFA

Curious, Capitalist,Senior Investment Analyst @morningstarinc.
Passionate about philosophy, finance, and technology.

[Pushpendra Chauhan, CFA @Pushpendra198]

Imagine an online school where top scientists lecture a million kids at zero marginal cost. Add rigorous testing, diplomas. Goodbye college !

@naval

[Pushpendra Chauhan, CFA @Pushpendra198]

@paulg Happy to see you, Paul!

[Pushpendra Chauhan, CFA @Pushpendra198]

Next level overacting chal the bhai. Koi nahi dekhta😂

[Cockroach Janta Party - CJP @Cockroachisback]

Decades down the line, children will open their history books and come across this Image.

The first thought that will strike their minds is, “Why were the police stopping these people from waving Tiranga?”

Won’t you feel ashamed to look them in the eyes and tell them, “They were jailed, too. For what? For upholding the pride of our nation - Tiranga”?

When those who raise the national flag are treated as criminals, it is not patriotism that is in danger, but democracy itself.

This is how dictatorship begins.

[Deepinder Goyal @deepigoyal]

@chiraggoyal28 If you add our employees, warehouse workers, and all their families, Eternal directly supports the livelihoods of well over 1% Indians 💁‍♂️.. getting this to 5% by 2030 would be damn cool.

[Pushpendra Chauhan, CFA @Pushpendra198]

Every time i starts thinking highly of Mr. Gandhi he comes up something of this sort. Very pathetic!

[Rahul Gandhi @RahulGandhi]

Welcome to India, Elon.

Wait till you discover the other guy.

[Pushpendra Chauhan, CFA @Pushpendra198]

@poojaofficial5 If it would have been for my parents assuming they struggle to get on upper berth, I would have paid straight away!

[Pushpendra Chauhan, CFA @Pushpendra198]

Gem of a read!

[Indranil Roy @Indrani1_Roy]

I finished my PhD from Georgia Tech with a 4.0 CGPA and best dissertation of the year award. I also got some best paper awards for my research there. But that was not my best learnings.

I can distinctly point to 4 moments which were.

[Pushpendra Chauhan, CFA @Pushpendra198]

Mumbai, the city of contrast!

[Aporia @aporia9n]

I think ambitious people should treat life in “seasons” rather than trying to balance everything every day.

A few years massively overallocated to work. A period getting seriously fit. A year or two nomading. Then family takes priority for a while. Then maybe at 35 you go completely insane again and spend four years building a new company, and so on.

The mistake is thinking every metric needs to stay green all the time. Most great outcomes (building a company, writing sth serious, training for an event) need uninterrupted runs, not daily moderation. Sometimes work should suffer cause you’re travelling, sometimes your social life should suffer cause you’re building, sometimes career progression should slow cause family matters more. That’s fine.

And tbh it probably makes life more fun too. You get actual chapters and completely different versions of yourself instead of spending 40 years maintaining the same perfectly optimised routine. A few intense years in one city, a weird nomad phase, an obsession that takes over your life, then something completely different. Probably much more memorable than one very long well-optimised Tuesday.

It's why I encourage everyone to think of balance in years, not days. A good life can look horribly unbalanced on some random Tuesday and still be very balanced over 10 years.

[Pushpendra Chauhan, CFA @Pushpendra198]

Not the tweet of a person who is looking for a solution. This is the tweet of a person looking for escalation!

[Abhijeet Dipke @abhijeet_dipke]

Strict actions.

[Pushpendra Chauhan, CFA @Pushpendra198]

@vikaskhemani @SEBI_India Have always been an admirer of your thought process and the way you approach things. Really happy to see this, many congratulations, Vikas. Wishing you the best!

[Tim Ferriss @tferriss]

Ninety-nine percent of people in the world are convinced they are incapable of achieving great things, so they aim for the mediocre.

The level of competition is thus fiercest for “realistic” goals, paradoxically making them the most time- and energy-consuming.

If you are insecure, guess what? The rest of the world is, too.

Do not overestimate the competition and underestimate yourself. You are better than you think.

Unreasonable and unrealistic goals are easier to achieve for yet another reason.

Having an unusually large goal is an adrenaline infusion that provides the endurance to overcome the inevitable trials and tribulations that go along with any goal. Realistic goals, goals restricted to the average ambition level, are uninspiring and will only fuel you through the first or second problem, at which point you throw in the towel.

If the potential payoff is mediocre or average, so is your effort.

The fishing is best where the fewest go, and the collective insecurity of the world makes it easy for people to hit home runs while everyone else is aiming for base hits.

There is just less competition for bigger goals.

[Pushpendra Chauhan, CFA @Pushpendra198]

What a great read, Nikhil!

[Nikhil Srivastava @snikhil_social]

https://t.co/bH1UIFmhze

[Abhishek AB @ABsay_ek]

You remember the auction room of 2018. Some kid from Patiala, barely old enough to vote, zero first class games to his name, suddenly worth 4.8 crore. It looked like the kind of punt that destroys franchises.
7 years on, that same kid is hitting sixes like his life depends on it. Because it does.

From 2019 to 2022, Prabhsimran played just 6 IPL games. Punjab kept the chequebook open, kept him on roster, kept whispering about potential. But potential without release rots you. You spend nights in hotels carrying water bottles. You watch Gayle & Dhawan do your job. You start believing the auction price was a curse, not a blessing.

He ran to stay human. 7 kilometers, then 8. Every morning. The burning in his lungs was better than the silence of the bench.

Sachin Tendulkar told him something once; He said most boys would kill to sit where he sat. Told him to find contentment there. Sounds like advice for a monk, not a cricketer. But Prabhsimran clung to it.

Then 2023 happened. The Impact Player rule dropped. Purists screamed about death of cricket. For Prabhsimran, it was oxygen. He could swing from ball one without worrying about the collapse.

13th May 2023, Kotla. Delhi Capitals had them against the wall. He walked in & played the innings of his life. First 30 balls: 27 runs. Next 35: 76 runs. No other batter crossed even 20 runs for his team while he scored his 1st IPL century. Delhi missed the playoffs. Prabhsimran found himself.

But that is not why he bats like his life depends on it. You need to meet Sardar Surjit Singh, His father. Kidney failure. Three sessions a week hooked to machines. The house in Patiala is heavy with it. The only time the old man lights up is when his son opens for Punjab. They carry him to the couch before every game. Position the TV. For 3 hours, the sickness vanishes.

Think about that weight. Every boundary is not runs for him, It is medication. Every six is oxygen for an old man. When he says he plays for his father, he means it literally. The single joy in a week of hospital corridors & medical debt.

Come the 2025 auction, Punjab retained 2 players only. Shashank Singh & him. 4 crore for a keeper who had spent 4 years doing mostly nothing. He repaid them with 549 runs at 160 strike rate.

Shreyas Iyer gave him something simple; Freedom. Told him he was senior now. Told him one bad game would not end him. Freedom to fail.

Now he is flying. Strike rate pushing 173 this season. 80* against Mumbai off 39 balls. 51 off 25 against SRH. Each innings bigger than the last: 37, then 43, then 51, then 80*.
The boy who waited is now the man who delivers.

[Pushpendra Chauhan, CFA @Pushpendra198]

The amount of didivend our demography is paying, i doubt in coming time if we will have enough space to keep it!

[Aaraynsh @aaraynsh]

Imagine giving this crowd an expressway to reach one of the most beautiful and peaceful states from Delhi in just 2.5 hours! 😭

[Pushpendra Chauhan, CFA @Pushpendra198]

Mr. Gandhi, more of this please and you will emerge as a leader people will look forward to.

[Congress @INCIndia]

The culture of greed and disrespect towards other living beings is being propagated in India.

The air we breathe, the water we are forced to drink, and the crumbling infrastructure around us are the consequences of this greed.

Yuvraj Mehta’s death is a direct consequence of this culture.

: LoP Shri @RahulGandhi

[Pushpendra Chauhan, CFA @Pushpendra198]

@asmitaakamboj Chalo happy to hear am not the only one who talks to myself😂

[Pushpendra Chauhan, CFA @Pushpendra198]

@sbikh @deepigoyal Happy to see the support for @deepigoyal and @sbikh here. And the way it is building against @raghav_chadha good to see that as well, pretty sure he has his own vested interests in this.

[Pushpendra Chauhan, CFA @Pushpendra198]

Happy to see the fight @deepigoyal is taking on and more happy to see the overwhelming support he is getting. On the contrary hardly seen any views/comments from other quick commerce founders. Looks like they are just riding the bus.

[Pushpendra Chauhan, CFA @Pushpendra198]

@mNachiketA77 Navi Mumbai, it is!