Anand Rao

[Anand Rao @andy_rao]

@hvgoenka Heartiest Congratulations @hvgoenka

[Anand Rao @andy_rao]

Great to know that industry leaders are looking beyond the hype, and asking the most relevant questions.

[Nikesh Arora @nikesharora]

Just finished north of 200 meetings in Europe with customers and technologists. The conversations were primarily around AI, common questions include:
1. Are there examples of organizations who have been able to demonstrate production level systems and do those developments show a return in lower cost, efficiency or better top line?
2. What do you think about agents? How will we discover, govern and stop agents if need be. Perhaps the biggest security concern ATM.
3. The frontier AI models are expensive, what's the business case at these token prices to embed AI in our customer facing products? Where will token prices be in the future.
4. What are the longer term implications of Mythos like models? Do we need to update cyber infrastructure or all IT infrastructure?
5. What do you think of Chinese opensource models? Are they secure and what is the downside of using them if they can be secured and they are cheaper?

The parts that surprised me were:
1. The pausing of Mythos and Fable 5 caused more consternation and concern in Europe both short term and raised longer term concerns on single model reliance or reliance or models not in ones control. I hadn't seen it from their POV.
2. Sovereignity which was always a topic and still is, is getting more nuanced - they want data residency, data localization and local resources, but there seems to be more willingness to accept global services on clouds. Classified systems continue to be an issue.

Net net - we need to ensure we continue to build trust both on our Frontier models and their consistent availability, we need to get the right economics in place and spend more time in Europe communicating and building presence if we want AI adoption to keep pace with the US.

[Harsh Goenka @hvgoenka]

An Indian engineer helped make history!

When a US Army helicopter recently crashed off the waters of Hormuz, an autonomous rescue boat named Corsair navigated through darkness, located two stranded pilots, and brought them safely ashore, without a single human onboard.

Behind this breakthrough was Vibhav Altekar, a young Indian technologist from Maharashtra, whose AI and autonomous systems helped turn science fiction into reality.

[Galvantrix @Galvantrix]

We're excited to welcome Sahithi Mallem as our new Product Manager! 🎉
With an engineering background and an MBA from IIM Bangalore, she'll be leading our @Salesforce AppExchange portfolio,and championing AI-powered solutions to deliver real customer value.
Welcome, Sahithi! 🚀

[Galvantrix @Galvantrix]

Finance teams shouldn’t be checking every line item manually.

With AI and autonomous finance, expense systems are becoming more proactive, predictive, and intelligent.

#ExpenseManagement #DigitalTransformation #Automation

[Galvantrix @Galvantrix]

Welcome to the series: Reimagining Expense Management

Expense management is no longer just reimbursements. It’s about control, compliance, and visibility.
Smart ExpenseSense is redefining how enterprises manage expenses.

#ExpenseManagement #DigitalTransformation #Automation

[Galvantrix @Galvantrix]

Expense management now drives cash flow visibility, compliance, and forecasting across enterprises. It’s no longer administrative — it’s strategic finance.

#ExpenseManagement #DigitalTransformation #Automation #Galvantrix #Salesforce #Cloud

[Galvantrix @Galvantrix]

Galvantrix is now back on X with exciting updates on our AppExchange products and solutions. Keep tuned.

[Anand Rao @andy_rao]

Expense management system - an easy way to reduce costs .

[Galvantrix @Galvantrix]

Welcome to the series: Reimagining Expense Management

Expense management is no longer just reimbursements. It’s about control, compliance, and visibility.
Smart ExpenseSense is redefining how enterprises manage expenses.

#ExpenseManagement #DigitalTransformation #Automation

[Anand Rao @andy_rao]

Believe in luck. Work real hard and you will get more of it.

[Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb]

And if you try 200 times you have 200% chance of success, no?

[Anand Rao @andy_rao]

Keeping up with Claude developments will need Claude!!

[Anand Rao @andy_rao]

Pushing the limits of Space on the Ground (and Water)!

[Anand Rao @andy_rao]

Singapore policy- no one to be left behind!

[Ministry of Defence @mindefsg]

Singapore sent repatriation flights to Riyadh (10 Mar) and Jeddah (12 Mar) in Saudi Arabia. From securing diplomatic clearances to in-flight support, every detail was carefully worked out while keeping a close watch on the evolving situation in the Middle East.

[Anand Rao @andy_rao]

This will definitely happen, sooner rather than later. Suez Canal was built over a century ago; China is planning to build a canal across Thailand to bypass the Strait of Malacca. Current technology will make it happen.History will redefine geography @hvgoenka

[Harsh Goenka @hvgoenka]

What if the Strait Of Hormuz was skipped and the oil transported by rail…

[Anand Rao @andy_rao]

The quest for supremacy in space has begun. Visionaries like @elonmusk will lead the way.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Over 500 rocket landings now

[Anand Rao @andy_rao]

@raghav_chadha Thank you for raising this issue. There MUST be a distinction between authentic juices and juice drinks. Additionally, such companies should not be allowed to use a name that can be misleading. This problem is endemic in other Asian countries too.

[Raghav Chadha @raghav_chadha]

You think you’re drinking Fruit Juice? THINK AGAIN.
Big food brands are selling sugar water with shiny ‘fresh fruit’ pictures on the front. And hiding the truth in tiny fine print at the back of packet which reads ‘Pictures for marketing purposes only’. SERIOUSLY?

Today in Parliament, I called this out.

Because these misleading branding and false advertisement are pushing millions, especially kids, into diabetes and lifestyle diseases.

Time to expose the truth behind your juice box.

[Anand Rao @andy_rao]

This is not vision - it is ‘Teravison’

[Dustin @r0ck3t23]

Elon Musk just posted three numbers that should terrify every semiconductor company on Earth. A terawatt of chips. A terawatt of solar. Ten million tons to orbit per year.

That is not a product roadmap. That is a species-level engineering ultimatum.

Musk: “Build a terawatt of chips, a terawatt of solar, and 10 million tons to orbit per year.”

A terawatt is roughly the entire power generation capacity of the United States. He is not asking for a bigger factory.

He is asking for a second grid.

The name alone tells you the scale. Terafab. Not gigafab. Tera. A thousand times the prefix. A thousand times the ambition.

Every chip company on the planet currently begs TSMC for allocation.

They wait in line. They negotiate quarters in advance for a fractional increase in supply.

Musk looked at that line and started building the factory that makes it extinct.

Vertical integration from lithography to packaging. Design to deployment. Under one roof in Texas.

But the factory is not the point. The destination is.

Most of this output is not staying on the ground. That is where SpaceX turns from a rocket company into the supply chain for orbital compute.

You build the chips. You build the solar. You launch them into the vacuum where the Sun never sets and nothing on Earth can compete.

The companies optimizing their server racks in Nevada are solving last decade’s problem with last decade’s ceiling.

Musk is fusing Tesla, SpaceX, and xAI into a single organism. One builds the energy. One builds the delivery system. One builds the thing they are both feeding.

Nobody has ever welded three companies together into a vertical stack like this. Because nobody has ever tried to do what he is actually attempting.

Which is not building a chip factory. It is building the industrial base for a civilization that does not end at the atmosphere.

And this is what separates Musk from every other CEO alive. He does not manage companies. He runs them like engineering floors where the only thing that matters is whether you can build.

No committees. No twelve layers of approval. No political career tracks disguised as leadership.

You either ship or you leave.

That is why the most talented engineers on the planet keep walking through his doors. Not because the hours are easy. Because the mission is real and the bureaucracy is gone.

Every other company on Earth makes you fight the org chart before you fight the problem.

Musk deleted the org chart.

Musk: “Join us on this journey.”

That is the most understated recruiting pitch for the most ambitious project a human being has ever publicly committed to.

And he said it the same way he says everything. Like it is already done.

[Anand Rao @andy_rao]

Winners in wars are always the arms companies. A small minority benefits immensely from the pains of the vast majority.

[Harsh Goenka @hvgoenka]

Who is winning the Iran war?
Iran is battered but still hitting back.
The U.S. is militarily dominant but strategically stretched.
Europe, India and Japan are all hurt by oil and Hormuz risk.
Russia gains from U.S. distraction.
China is benefiting through leverage and energy trade.

Real scorecard:
No true winner. Lots of losers. And that’s the pattern of war.

[Anand Rao @andy_rao]

This is wonderful news. Robotics must be an integral part of the strategy for deep cleaning at scale. The need of the hour is to educate the municipal corporations to deploy them, to build the skills needed to operate effectively, and maintain them efficiently. @anandmahindra

[anand mahindra @anandmahindra]

Indian deep-tech startup Genrobotics has secured an ₹80 crore contract with Singapore’s water authority to deploy 44 robots for cleaning & inspecting sewer networks over the next two years. The company beat over 600 global firms following an 18-month evaluation.

This was particularly satisfying news for me because I invested in them in 2020.

And I invested because I was moved by the fact that their motive for starting the company was to create the ‘Bandicoot,’ for ridding the country of manual scavenging.

This was not a goal that would deliver them a fast path to an IPO and sky-high valuations & make them extraordinarily rich.

But it was a goal that would have a dramatic social impact.
Our municipalities were not just robbing workmen of their dignity, but putting their lives at risk. The Bandicoot robot would rectify that.

So, to paraphrase Robert Frost: They took the path “…less traveled by / And that has made all the difference”

In other words, they created a purpose-led company

And the news of their win in Singapore was gratifying because it signals that purpose and profits are not at odds with each other.

(Since that win, they also have won a ₹17 crore tender from the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) for the deployment of its advanced Bandicoot Mobility+ robotic sewer cleaning systems.)

Startups like Genrobotics that are created with a higher Purpose, are my #MondayMotivation

[anand mahindra @anandmahindra]

Indian deep-tech startup Genrobotics has secured an ₹80 crore contract with Singapore’s water authority to deploy 44 robots for cleaning & inspecting sewer networks over the next two years. The company beat over 600 global firms following an 18-month evaluation.

This was particularly satisfying news for me because I invested in them in 2020.

And I invested because I was moved by the fact that their motive for starting the company was to create the ‘Bandicoot,’ for ridding the country of manual scavenging.

This was not a goal that would deliver them a fast path to an IPO and sky-high valuations & make them extraordinarily rich.

But it was a goal that would have a dramatic social impact.
Our municipalities were not just robbing workmen of their dignity, but putting their lives at risk. The Bandicoot robot would rectify that.

So, to paraphrase Robert Frost: They took the path “…less traveled by / And that has made all the difference”

In other words, they created a purpose-led company

And the news of their win in Singapore was gratifying because it signals that purpose and profits are not at odds with each other.

(Since that win, they also have won a ₹17 crore tender from the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) for the deployment of its advanced Bandicoot Mobility+ robotic sewer cleaning systems.)

Startups like Genrobotics that are created with a higher Purpose, are my #MondayMotivation