Second-time Founders is my favourite gender :
1) no deck until someone asks three times
2) first hire is a lawyer
3) distribution for the product before the product exists
4) "we don't need a big round" and means it this time
5) replies to every customer email personally because they know what ignoring customers cost them last time
6) sleeps 8 hours and ships faster than everyone else
7) the only person in the room who isn't impressed by the term sheet
Second-time founders are the best breed of founders
Lenskart has been a standout performer in vertical ecommerce in India. Just a few years ago, Lenskart was a niche player in a small category, and everyone was betting on the broader medicine delivery segment. Surprisingly Lenskart is public now and the darlings of medical ecommerce have stagnated.
I guess we should've seen it coming, because Pharmeasy temporary, glasses permanent.
Whenever I spoke to my Indian colleagues who were expats in Iran, they always mentioned how warmly Indians are treated there, the moment people hear "India", they greet you with so much love and respect, more warmly than other Asian nationals.
Don't know how will it be now...
Being honest about Israel’s inhumanity is like buying NVidia pre ChatGPT or getting into bitcoin in 2016.
It’s fairly derisked with still a ton of upside — the most talented politicians are getting in.
This image of the mass funeral of 165 girls killed by the US / Israel attack on their school should be the front page of every news outlet
If your go-to news source is ignoring it, they aren't reporting the news - they're filtering it
Horrific and haunting Images of a funeral site of 165 young girls killed in Israeli/US bombing that hit a school in Iran
No matter what the stated purpose is, this is a man made tragedy which leaves nothing behind but suffering and misery for ages to come
#StopTheWar
Forget weddings in India. Pakistani friend in Queens invited us to a "Baby Shower Backyard Barbecue". I went licking lips expecting Pak beef kebabs. But the menu was just chicken, lamb, fish, vegetarian. I asked aunty who said "hindu guest ho toh hum beef nahi paroste"
It's a premium leaf black tea, and not CTC junk that Tata and Unilever dump on Indians. Plus the owner is famous for protecting lives of his Muslim employees and for rehabilitating riot victims during and after the Gujarat Riots. He is the Oskar Schindler of Gujarat.
Finally Md. shoaib,the elderly man who was saved by Deepak, visits his home.
Just look at the trembling hand of Md. Shoaib, Bajrang dal mob was attacking this helpless man.
Shoaib said no one came forward to save me except Deepak.
Deepak truly is a Hero of the Nation