> be John Ternus
> 1997. engineering degree. nobody cares
> first job: VR headsets at a dead startup
> join Apple in 2001. first project: a monitor
> spend 25 years in the shadows
> iPad. AirPods. iPhone 12. Apple Silicon. all him
> never had the corner office. refused it twice
> Tim Cook took Apple from $350B to $4 TRILLION
> today Apple named you CEO
> engineer who made your stuff just became the boss
Tim Cook turned $350B into $4T. now it's Ternus's turn.
what does a guy who actually builds things do with the most valuable company on earth?
>kill someone out of negligence
>pay the victim’s family 5,00,000
>fine the contractor 6,00,00,000
>make ~99% margin out of someone’s death
>make this information public because people are retarded
कैमरा और माइक हाथों में लेते ही….
कुछ लोग खुद को क्रांतिकारी भगतसिंह समझने लग जाते है…
वो ट्रेफ़िक पुलिस वाला अपना काम कर रहा है…
सुबह छ बजे से लेकर शाम आठ बजे तक ड्यूटी कर रहा है…
और ये मोहतरमा पहुँच गई…
वो ठेका खुला क्यों है…
वहाँ लाइट क्यों जल रही है…
आप मोबाइल से क्यों चालान काटते हो…
आपका साथी बैठा क्यों हैं…
Fun fact: OpenAI handles 800 million users on ChatGPT with just one PostgreSQL primary and 50 read replicas 🤯
Today, OpenAI published an engineering blog explaining how they scaled their Postgres setup to support a massive 800 million users using a single primary and 50 multi-region replicas.
They dive into details around their scaling approach, the PgBouncer proxy, cache locking, and cascading read replicas. It is genuinely neat and impressive.
I just published a video on my YouTube channel where I dissect the blog and break down the nuances.
Give it a watch - it is short and fun.
@imsoumyarendra@IndianExpress If someone clocks in from 8 AM to 12 PM and expects to earn well from food delivery, they’re in a dilemma. There are incentives tied to completing a specific number of deliveries. If someone’s goal is to earn less just to write an article, then there’s nothing to argue about.
@imsoumyarendra@IndianExpress We might be forgetting a few things here like this is unskilled, part-time work, and it definitely pays less than even unskilled journalism. You can’t compare merely 23 deliveries made at your own convenience while assuming the number of orders would be linear throughout the day.
Facts below (1/5):
In 2025, average earnings per hour (EPH), excluding tips, for a delivery partner on Zomato were ₹102.
In 2024, this number was ₹92. That’s a ~10.9% year-on-year increase. Over a longer horizon also, EPH has shown steady growth.
Most delivery partners work for a few hours and only a few days in a month. But if someone were to work for 10 hours/day, 26 days/month, this translates to ~₹26,500/month in gross earnings. After accounting for fuel and maintenance (~20%), the net earnings for the partner are ~₹21,000/month.
Note: Earnings per hour are calculated on total hours logged in, including the time when the partner might be waiting to receive an order. Earnings per “busy hour” will be higher but that’s not the right metric to look at.
On top of this - delivery partners earn 100% of tips given by customers. The average tip per hour in 2025 on Zomato was INR 2.6 and in 2024 was INR 2.4 per hour. Tips are transferred instantly, with zero deductions. We absorb the payment gateway processing cost ourselves. About 5% of the orders get tipped on Zomato; 2.5% on Blinkit.
🚨Can you IMAGINE?
BJP's Delhi government is sprinkling water right next to the govt pollution monitoring station so that the readings don't rise.
No proper monitoring, no pollution-problem solved.
I was a founding member of TinyOwl - a hot food delivery startup in 2014.
We've raised $ 20 Mn+. Expanded 5 cities. 1000+ Employees. 50,000+ orders daily.
Meanwhile, a tiny startup in Bangalore was struggling with less than $1M in funding. They're doing maybe 1/10th of our volume.
Internally, we joke about acquiring them. "We could kill them easily."
That tiny startup? It was Swiggy. The rest is history.
The thing is, aspiring founders always ask me the same question:
"I have this startup idea, but I'm not sure if it will work. Is it good?"
A month passes. Someone else launches the same idea. They get another idea. Another month passes. Someone else launches that, too.
And all they say is, "Oh yeah, I thought of that same idea!"
My food delivery experience taught me this: Ideas are worth 20 rupees a kilo.
The difference isn't in the thinking. It's in the doing.
If you're sitting on an idea right now, what's one small action you could take TODAY?
One customer call. One rough prototype. One embarrassing pitch.
There is a market for everything. Every market needs multiple players.
So the only advice is -
Execute fast. Execute now. Execute always.
PS: What idea have you been sitting on that deserves action today?
@FrontlineKamran Ye Gareeb to hein hi ,Chutiye bhi hein .. Collective IQ Nation ki 72 he ... Neither they are able to read what's on screen not they are able to comprehend it.
@Rnawaz31888 Before blaming others for your actions, it’s better to thank your ‘father of the nation,’ your role models like Hafeez Saeed or that Kasab guy. If you truly believe in your words and feel so self-righteous (blah blah), then condemn your country’s actions instead.