Vikrant S. Ghatkar

Personal Journal | Interests: Healthcare, MedTech, Technology, Finance, Business, Philosophy

[Vikrant S. Ghatkar @VikrantGhatkar]

When you optimise for one thing, you fragilise everything else.

PE optimises for returns and ends up destroying the underlying business.

[Paul Portesi @PaulPortesi]

You never get perspective looking through someone else's lens.

You only get perspective from your perspective not theirs.

They distort what you see with their perspective.

It's about your perspective not theirs.

Be careful of what lens you look through

[Vikrant S. Ghatkar @VikrantGhatkar]

The problem with speed is that, a lot good people end up doing bad things very fast.

Slow down, add cognitive bumps

[Vikrant S. Ghatkar @VikrantGhatkar]

Make right things easier and wrong thing harder

[Paul Portesi @PaulPortesi]

You're killing yourself everyday, it's just a matter of how you want to do it.

[Vikrant S. Ghatkar @VikrantGhatkar]

You optimise one thing while making other things fragile.

You want to formalise and put structure around it, but end up changing the essence of the product you built.

[Vikrant S. Ghatkar @VikrantGhatkar]

Audience is the fundamental source of economic value.

[Vikrant S. Ghatkar @VikrantGhatkar]

Lead with warmth, follow with competence.

[tomie @tomieinlove]

@captgouda24 The prostitute comment is quite apt. God made men differ in strength, but Sam Colt made them equal. Likewise, God made men differ in intelligence, but Sam Altman made them equal. We’re now competing on beauty. The concern is not if scaling has hit a wall. It’s if you have.

[Paul Portesi @PaulPortesi]

It's never what you get.

It's never what you acquire.

It's what you willingly give up that really defines your life.

[Vikrant S. Ghatkar @VikrantGhatkar]

Money plays important role in quality development and timelines:

Ordering 5 different types of raw materials and testing each simultaneously

Vs

Ordering one then checking then ordering other (and not even exploring all options)

Delayed timelines, failures, etc.

[Vikrant S. Ghatkar @VikrantGhatkar]

For printer and ink model to be successful,

You have to make printer so good that people will keep using it and consume more ink.

Same with diagnostics equipments - analyzer and reagents.

[Vikrant S. Ghatkar @VikrantGhatkar]

Not very product or business is going to continue forever.
Build it, serve the people, earn the money and move on to the next…

[📎 @Iithosphere]

new banksy artwork, a man blinded by his flag

[Satya Prakash Nayak @SatyaPrNayak]

A heartbreaking story from Keonjhar has shaken Odisha.

Jeetu Munda, a poor villager from Mallipashi, lost his sister two months ago. ₹19,300 remained in her bank account. He reportedly made repeated visits to withdraw the money for urgent needs, but was told the account holder must come in person to sign.

He kept explaining that she had died. No one listened.

Left helpless by an insensitive system, he allegedly brought his sister’s skeletal remains to the bank just to prove the truth.

Think about that.

When rules are bent for corruption, files move fast. But when the poor need dignity, compassion and common sense, the system becomes rigid.

This is not just one man’s tragedy. It is a mirror to governance, banking accountability and how India often treats its most vulnerable citizens.

Odisha deserves answers. Who failed Jeetu Munda? And how many more suffer silently every day?

Humanity should never require proof in bones. #Odisha #Keonjhar #Justice #BankingReform

[Vikrant S. Ghatkar @VikrantGhatkar]

The negotiations between the requirements and the capabilities.

[Vikrant S. Ghatkar @VikrantGhatkar]

In case of drugs the clinical benefit can drive adoption more directly, unlike diagnostics.

Tests often need a clear economic justification; either saving costs downstream or improving outcomes in a measurable way.

[Mardroid 🇱🇧 @Mardroid]

If 300+ people died and 1,000+ got injured in any place in the world.

London, NYC, Dubai, Toronto, Paris or any "major city" everyone would be screaming TERRORISM.

But when that HAPPENS within 10 minutes in an afternoon in Beirut, Lebanon by Israel suddenly the world switches up.

Disgusting.

[Syrian Girl @Partisangirl]

Israel bombed a 4 year old Palestinian girl in her refugee tent murdering her mother.