Sand_E

Scaled 2 tech companies across Asia-ANZ. HR M&A. Personally into VC - FoodTech/ HRTech / SaaS. (older life - 99 Oscar NDA IAF) 🇮🇳 🇸🇬 🇦🇺

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Money - a thread 🧵. “#Money doesn’t buy happiness, but at least you can suffer in comfort” - unknown

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Finfluencers in today’s world.

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Their professionals just walk 247 metres from one job to the next.

The crazy results of this hyper-local model:

* 100x Growth: Rocketed from 400 to 40,000 daily orders in a single year.
* Double Efficiency: 15,000 workers crush 40k jobs a day across 140 neighborhoods.

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This Indian startup went from 0 to a $360M valuation in just 15 months and the secret is a single number - 247 metres

While other older apps send service workers driving across town, Snabbit locks them into tight neighborhood blocks.

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#PSGARS

226 - @Arsenal remain the team with the most games in European Cup/#UEFA #Champions League history to never lift the trophy (226). Agony.
@PSG_English winners of the Champions League final

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@elfcosmetics cofounder Scott-Vincent Borba gets ordained as a Roman Catholic priest

From beauty boss to holy boss. 🙌

What a transition from highlighter to holy water.

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So damn true

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GitHub has been compromised

[GitHub @github]

We are investigating unauthorized access to GitHub’s internal repositories. While we currently have no evidence of impact to customer information stored outside of GitHub’s internal repositories (such as our customers’ enterprises, organizations, and repositories), we are closely monitoring our infrastructure for follow-on activity.

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If you haven’t been able to find the book you’re looking for, that means you are in the

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Jose Mourinho @Benfica this season

▪️ 23 wins
▪️ 11 draws
▪️ 0 defeats

News that he is going back to @realmadrid

The man is a genius maniac truly. Love or hate him - can’t ignore him

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Hmmm

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If you torture data long enough - it will confess to anything

Some wise man said this and it’s so true

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@dmuthuk In the forces we don’t discriminate based on state or language. His Punjabi is more fluent than his Tamil. He carries an Indian pride more than state affiliation.

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Possibly the southernmost beach in the world

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Beautiful #adelaide

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@priestlyclass I was tasked to fly from Hyderabad to Delhi especially carrying a specific type of plant that she wanted. And then Raj Mata got to know of the flight and ordered biryani from a specific restaurant well known at that point in time. Imagine what the airforce was used for

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7- It will ask you questions based on your older saved documents. Respond & clarify
8- Voila, start using this for every element you want to write and keep training the model.
Will help you write better and avoid AI system failures

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For those of you who use #AI to write extensively , hers's a hack.
1- go to #Wikipedia
2- search " signs of AI writing" - there is a page on how AI writes and how systems configure
3- Copy that page blindly - dont bother reading
4- Transfer to word / g doc

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5- Upload it to your AI space @perplexity_ai @claudeai @ChatGPTapp
6- give this command "Read this file. It contains every pattern of AI writing I wish to avoid. Apply these as rules to everything you write for me. Dont start writing yet & ask clarifying questions first.

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Oh man. This is so damn hilarious and depressing at the same time.

[Peter Girnus 🦅 @gothburz]

Last quarter I rolled out Microsoft Copilot to 4,000 employees.

$30 per seat per month.

$1.4 million annually.

I called it "digital transformation."

The board loved that phrase.

They approved it in eleven minutes.

No one asked what it would actually do.

Including me.

I told everyone it would "10x productivity."

That's not a real number.

But it sounds like one.

HR asked how we'd measure the 10x.

I said we'd "leverage analytics dashboards."

They stopped asking.

Three months later I checked the usage reports.

47 people had opened it.

12 had used it more than once.

One of them was me.

I used it to summarize an email I could have read in 30 seconds.

It took 45 seconds.

Plus the time it took to fix the hallucinations.

But I called it a "pilot success."

Success means the pilot didn't visibly fail.

The CFO asked about ROI.

I showed him a graph.

The graph went up and to the right.

It measured "AI enablement."

I made that metric up.

He nodded approvingly.

We're "AI-enabled" now.

I don't know what that means.

But it's in our investor deck.

A senior developer asked why we didn't use Claude or ChatGPT.

I said we needed "enterprise-grade security."

He asked what that meant.

I said "compliance."

He asked which compliance.

I said "all of them."

He looked skeptical.

I scheduled him for a "career development conversation."

He stopped asking questions.

Microsoft sent a case study team.

They wanted to feature us as a success story.

I told them we "saved 40,000 hours."

I calculated that number by multiplying employees by a number I made up.

They didn't verify it.

They never do.

Now we're on Microsoft's website.

"Global enterprise achieves 40,000 hours of productivity gains with Copilot."

The CEO shared it on LinkedIn.

He got 3,000 likes.

He's never used Copilot.

None of the executives have.

We have an exemption.

"Strategic focus requires minimal digital distraction."

I wrote that policy.

The licenses renew next month.

I'm requesting an expansion.

5,000 more seats.

We haven't used the first 4,000.

But this time we'll "drive adoption."

Adoption means mandatory training.

Training means a 45-minute webinar no one watches.

But completion will be tracked.

Completion is a metric.

Metrics go in dashboards.

Dashboards go in board presentations.

Board presentations get me promoted.

I'll be SVP by Q3.

I still don't know what Copilot does.

But I know what it's for.

It's for showing we're "investing in AI."

Investment means spending.

Spending means commitment.

Commitment means we're serious about the future.

The future is whatever I say it is.

As long as the graph goes up and to the right.