Saurabh Anand

Entrepreneur & Investor

[anand mahindra @anandmahindra]

The Indian startup ecosystem is on steroids.

And what excites me most is that this isn’t just about software. It’s about deeptech. Manufacturing technology. Hardcore hardware. Cutting-edge chemical processes.

A new generation of Indian entrepreneurs is building the capabilities that could allow us to leapfrog entire stages of technological development.

These videos, courtesy @ashleevance & @RuntimeBRT, offer just a glimpse of what’s being cooked up in labs, workshops & factories across India.

And right on cue, Rajan Anandan, former head of Google India, & Saurabh Srivastava, one of India’s pioneering entrepreneurs & institution builders, have released a book calling India a ‘Lift-Off Nation.’

An apt description.

Because I believe the world is about to witness a tidal wave of technological innovation emerging from India.

And it’s being powered by young entrepreneurs who are daring to build things we once assumed could only be built elsewhere.

My salute to them.

#MondayMotivation

[Saurabh Anand @sanand]

When every institution and constitutional authority is being attacked and denigrated, you'd expect rationale unbiased individuals to come together and put some sanity back into the discourse. Instead, look at this.. bunch of self serving charlatans

[Live Law @LiveLawIndia]

A group of 100 alumni, students, faculty members and staff of Harvard University has issued a statement expressing solidarity with Senior Advocate Shadan Farasat and condemning the police brutality, unlawful detentions and violations of constitutional rights of peaceful protesters in Delhi on October 10.
Read more: https://t.co/8bhSGxYCta
#ShadanFarasat #policebrutality #lawyersprotests #Delhi

[Saurabh Anand @sanand]

That appears to be a genuine organic protest devoid of algorithmic amplification

[The Lallantop @TheLallantop]

JPSC, JSSC Protest: Ranchi की सड़कों पर हज़ारों Gen Z सड़कों पर क्यों उतरे?

हाथों में मशाल... और इंसाफ़ की मांग.

रांची की सड़कों पर हजारों Gen Z प्रोटेस्टर्स मशाल लेकर उतरे. JPSC-JSSC आंदोलन के बीच छात्रों ने अपनी मांगों को लेकर एक बार फिर ��रकार तक संदेश पहुंचाने की कोशिश की.

आख़िर मशाल मार्च क्यों निकाला गया? छात्रों ने क्या कहा?

Full Report: https://t.co/6zB81SBGXT

@vikasvermaindia @hemraj____

[Saurabh Anand @sanand]

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[Fox News @FoxNews]

WATCH: SpaceX CEO Elon Musk rings the NASDAQ opening bell as the company officially goes public, setting him up to be the world's first trillionaire.

[Saurabh Anand @sanand]

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[Anthropic @AnthropicAI]

We've raised $65 billion in Series H funding at a $965 billion post-money valuation, led by @AltimeterCap, Dragoneer, @Greenoaks, and @sequoia.

This investment will help us advance our research and expand our capacity to meet growing demand for Claude.

[Saurabh Anand @sanand]

Vibe coding → then sober refactor

[Naval @naval]

Vibe coding is the new product management.

Training and tuning models is the new coding.

[Saurabh Anand @sanand]

रात गहरी थी, अल्फ़ाज़ नहीं,
पूरा चाँद राज़दान बन गया।

[Astropics @astro4pics]

Tonight is the Full Snow Moon!

[Prof. Shamika Ravi @ShamikaRavi]

Big (er) News: India's Infant Mortality Rate has dropped to a record low as per the latest SRS report from RGI.
IMR in 2023: 25
IMR in 2013: 40

This is extremely heartening!

[Saurabh Anand @sanand]

Scathing and unapologetically clear - brilliant take by @BDUTT

https://t.co/LkPLRcryYT

[Saurabh Anand @sanand]

'Apple-polishing'

There wouldn't ever be a more appropriate example of this idiom

[Reuters @Reuters]

Apple CEO Tim Cook gifted US President Donald Trump a US-made engraved souvenir with a 24-karat gold base, as the company presented Apple's announcement of an additional $100 billion investment in US manufacturing https://t.co/AdUAI3G88B

[Saurabh Anand @sanand]

🇮🇳 👩‍🚀 🫡

[ISRO Spaceflight @ISROSpaceflight]

🚨 𝗜𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗮 𝗵𝗮𝘀 𝗶𝘁𝘀 𝘀𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗱 𝗮𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗼𝗻𝗮𝘂𝘁 𝗶𝗻 𝘀𝗽𝗮𝗰𝗲 𝗮𝗳𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝟰𝟭 𝘆𝗲𝗮𝗿𝘀!! 👨‍🚀

Grp. Cpt. Shubhanshu Shukla has officially become the 2nd Indian national to travel to space! 🇮🇳

1. Rakesh Sharma (Soyuz T-11, 1984)
2. Shubhanshu Shukla (Axiom-4, 2025)*

[Chandra R. Srikanth @chandrarsrikant]

India's popular Unified Payments Interface (UPI) is inching closer to surpassing global payments giant Visa's daily transaction volume, which will make it the largest retail interbank payment settlement platform in the world.

UPI, the world's largest retail real-time payments system, recorded 644 million transactions on June 1 and 650 million the next day.

Visa processed an average of 639 million daily transactions during FY24. It does not share daily transaction data.

The average daily volume of UPI was 602 million in May, whereas Visa's average daily transactions in the March quarter – the latest available data – were 674 million.

UPI recorded 630 million daily transactions in the first few days of May but grew to 640-650 million in June.

[Saurabh Anand @sanand]

Someone pls give him a Nobel and ask him to bugger off

[BigBreakingWire @BigBreakingWire]

🚨 Trump on India-Pakistan: “Maybe we could even get them to have a nice dinner together, Marco. Wouldn’t that be nice?” He added, “We reached a historic ceasefire a few days ago—millions could have died in a conflict between India and Pakistan.”

[Asra Nomani @AsraNomani]

“Bahawalpur.”

I still have chills in my heart from when I first heard that town’s name in late January 2002. For the 23 years since, I have reported on how Pakistani intelligence and military leaders have used that city — Bahawalpur — in the southern province of Punjab as a base for its homegrown domestic terrorists.

When I heard India bombed training camps in Pakistan this week in Operation Sindoor, in response to a Pakistani terrorist rampage in India’s Kashmir state, I had one city’s name on my lips: Bahawalpur.

Did India bomb Bahawalpur?

It did. I knew then India was striking actual hubs for Pakistan’s homegrown domestic terrorism.

Why do I know?

My friend, WSJ reporter Danny Pearl, went to Bahawalpur in December 2001 with a notebook and a pen. Gen. Pervez Musharraf had just promised he was shutting down Pakistan’s militant groups after a strike by Pakistan’s terrorists against the Parliament in India, and Danny reported on the militant offices in Bahawalpur.

He literally knocked on their doors. Dear Dr. @yudapearl, this story is a window into Danny’s reporting enterprise. And because people will wonder: Danny was no cowboy. This was a calculated low-risk reporting trip because no journalist had been targeted for kidnapping in Pakistan. Around that time, Danny sent me an email: “I’m anxious to go to Afghanistan, but I’m not anxious to die.”

What did Danny learn?

The militant training camps were open for business in Bahawalpur.

On Jan. 23, 2002, Danny left a home I had rented in Karachi, Pakistan, for an interview.

I learned Danny’s fixer, Asif Farooqi, had arranged an interview for Danny through a man named “Arif.” Danny didn’t know it but Arif was the PR man for a militant group, Harkutul Mujahadeen. What was Arif’s hometown? Bahawalpur.

The police launched a manhunt to find Arif in Bahawalpur. We learned Arif’s family faked a funeral for Arif. Police found him trying to board a bus in Muzaffarabad, across the country by Pakistan’s border with Kashmir.

It is another town India said it bombed terrorist training facilities.

Arif had handed Danny off to Omar Sheikh,a British-Pakistani dropout from the London School of Economics, radicalized in the 1990s in London mosques. He went to Pakistan to train in these militant training camps. Then he kidnapped tourists in India. He was caught and jailed but on Dec. 31, 1999, he was traded for hostages in the hijacking of Indian Airlines Flight 814.

Omar Sheikh was freed with Pakistani terrorist leader Masood Azhar, whose family was allegedly killed this week by India’s air strike in Bahawalpur.

Did Pakistan jail Omar Sheikh and Masood Azhar when they returned to Pakistan with a third terrorist, freed from India’s jails?

No. Pakistan’s military and intelligence gave them safe passage. They used them as weapons against India. But in fact these domestic terrorists have waged war against innocents in Pakistan, like civil society activists, Benazir Bhutto, Punjab Governor Salman Taseer, schoolchildren and countless others.

Their extremism has ruined Pakistan, and Pakistanis can’t blame America for creating the mujahideen to fight the Soviets in the 1980s.

Pakistan has had a duty to dismantle those terrorist bases — for even the safety of its own people. What India is doing is a strategic attack on terrorist bases Pakistani military and intelligence should have eliminated but never did in their obsession to take over Kashmir.

You will see parallels in the propaganda messages against India and Israel. Like Hamas, Pakistani terrorists crossed a border to kill. Now, Pakistani propagandists call themselves victims of their “fascist” “colonizer” neighbor.

It’s the Reverse Uno strategy of moral inversion, just like @stoolpresidente got from the Temple student who won’t take responsibility for promoting the “HATE THE JEWS” sign. Don’t fall for it. Nations, communities and people must own up to their extremism, from Bahawalpur to beyond.

[Saurabh Anand @sanand]

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[MILO @Nero]

By closing USAID, Trump and Musk have toppled the most gigantic global terror organization in history

[Chess.com @chesscom]

CONGRATULATIONS TO GUKESH, THE NEW WORLD CHAMPION 🏆

The 18-year-old Indian star has defeated the reigning champion, Ding Liren, to become the youngest-ever undisputed classical chess world champion. Wow! 🇮🇳

[Saurabh Anand @sanand]

😀

[Deedy @deedydas]

Nobel Physics Prize winner Geoff Hinton's middle name is Everest.

It comes from his great-great-granduncle Sir George Everest, once British surveyor-general of India, after whom Mount Everest was named.

Talk about lofty family expectations.

[Saurabh Anand @sanand]

What an incredible feat!

Elon Musk is everywhere these days.. from making an impact in US elections to making futuristic cars and this amazingly cool rocket.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

The tower has caught the rocket!!

[Dan Primack @danprimack]

🚨 It's official: OpenAI has raised the largest venture capital round of all time.

https://t.co/bUVZNY0z9U