Ashutosh Kumar Shandilya

Founder, TechBairn Research

[Ashutosh Kumar Shandilya @ashutoshkr26]

Honored and Humbled to be featured on the cover page of @BWBusinessworld Magazine with fellow Edupreneur.

We are made in India for the world🇮🇳

"It's not India's Decade, It's
India's Century'.

[Naval @naval]

Free people make free choices. Free choices mean you get unequal outcomes.

You can have freedom, or you can have equal outcomes. You can’t have both.

[feyisayo 💸 @feyiszn]

The longer I work in corporate, the more I realize People get rewarded for being Visible, not Valuable

[Kunal Shah @kunalb11]

Any incredibly hard thing pursued diligently has an ability to feel like purpose. Those who chase hard problems often never struggle to find purpose in life.

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

“No matter how isolated you are and how lonely you feel, if you do your work truly and conscientiously, unknown friends will come and seek you.” — Carl Jung

[Dmitrii Kovanikov @ChShersh]

Coding is solved. But engineering isn’t.

[Naval @naval]

It's the Age of Builders.

(sorry financiers and talkers)

[Naval @naval]

The only truly wasted time is time spent wishing you were somewhere else.

[Szymanski @Szymansk_ii]

Next time you think of giving up, remember this photo of Elon in 2008.

[Darren Rovell @darrenrovell]

Elon musk became a...

Millionaire at 27.

Billionaire at 41.

Trillionaire at 54.

[Robert Sterling @RobertMSterling]

> you’ll never start a rocket company
> you’ll never build your own engines
> you’ll never be able to use off-the-shelf parts
> you’ll never survive three launch failures
> you’ll never reach orbit
> you’ll never win NASA’s trust
> you’ll never launch cargo to the ISS
> you’ll never compete with Boeing
> you’ll never compete with Lockheed
> you’ll never make rockets reusable
> you’ll never land a rocket vertically
> you’ll never land one on a drone ship
> you’ll never reuse a booster
> you’ll never fly the same booster 10 times
> you’ll never fly the same booster 20 times
> you’ll never fly the same booster 30 times
> you’ll never recover and reuse the fairing
> you’ll never lower launch costs
> you’ll never launch every month
> you’ll never launch every week
> you’ll never launch multiple times a week
> you’ll never carry astronauts
> you’ll never replace Roscosmos
> you’ll never fly civilians to orbit
> you’ll never manufacture satellites at scale
> you’ll never build the biggest constellation ever
> you’ll never make satellite internet work
> you’ll never make satellite internet fast
> you’ll never make satellite internet affordable
> you’ll never serve rural customers
> you’ll never serve aircraft and ships
> you’ll never build a methane rocket engine
> you’ll never make full-flow staged combustion work
> you’ll never build the most powerful rocket ever
> you’ll never build a rocket bigger than Saturn V
> you’ll never build it out of stainless steel
> you’ll never launch Starship
> you’ll never separate Super Heavy and Starship
> you’ll never relight Raptor in space
> you’ll never bring Super Heavy back
> you’ll never catch a booster with Mechazilla tower arms
> you’ll never launch 85% of mass to orbit worldwide
> you’ll never change the economics of space
> you’ll never force the entire industry to copy you
> you’ll never win
> you’ll never IPO

Congratulations to @elonmusk and the SpaceX team. You did what countless people said was impossible, and you did it time and time again.

Today is your day. You deserve this. May it be a glorious one.

[Suhail @Suhail]

My favorite @elonmusk quote that I often send friends:

Do not fear losing. “You will lose,” Musk says. “It will hurt the first fifty times. When you get used to losing, you will play each game with less emotion.” You will be more fearless, take more risks.

[Harsh Goenka @hvgoenka]

Sunil Mittal giving a communication signal to a village. Sajjan Jindal giving India the steel to stand tall. Pankaj Patel sending medicine to a mother who had given up hope. Roshni Nadar training a girl from a small town to work in a global company. Nandan Nilekani giving a farmer his first digital identity. Deepinder Goyal creating a livelihood for a million delivery partners. Kumar Birla planting an Indian flag in boardrooms across five continents. Sanjiv Bajaj giving a family their first real safety net. Sridhar Vembu building world-class software from a quiet village in Tamil Nadu.

Nine entrepreneurs. Nation building with India as their longest, proudest project.

[Vijay Shekhar Sharma @vijayshekhar]

# God of Small Things
# God of Big things.
Elon Musk.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

@AJamesMcCarthy Read books, talk to people & iterate rapidly with hardware & software

[Ashutosh Kumar Shandilya @ashutoshkr26]

@PeekTV_in bluffing 😅

[Nithin Kamath @Nithin0dha]

In a landmark judgment on May 22, 2026, the Delhi High Court held Google liable for trademark infringement.

The case was between Hindware and Google. The court held that, by allowing competitors of Hindware to purchase the keyword “Hindware” (a trademarked name) through Google Ads, Google enabled trademark infringement. The court said that “Hindware” is not a generic English word but a specific brand trademark. By allowing competitors to place ads on that keyword, Google is enabling competitors to divert traffic that should have legitimately gone to Hindware.

This has been a big challenge for companies, both big and small. Even today, if you search for Zerodha, you will see search results from competitors. This has been happening for well over a decade.

Although it is hard to quantify, we have lost a lot of business to this. Think about what happens. Whenever someone searches for "Zerodha", the traffic should rightfully come to Zerodha. But what often happens is that the first couple of results on Google Search are ads, leading the customer to a competitor's website. In the process, we lose business that should have come to us.

This is made worse by the fact that we do not advertise.

There is also an even more ironic thing here. A lot of brands, just to capture the traffic that should have come to them organically, end up bidding on their own keywords. Think about it. If you own a business and have a trademarked name for your business, you still have to pay Google just to hopefully make your name too expensive for your competition to run ads on it.

But now, thanks to the Delhi High Court judgment, we have the option of taking legal action whenever we come across instances of other companies squatting on our keyword.

The other brilliant part about this judgment is that it levels the playing field. And this matters even more for startups, who are already starved for resources and have the odds stacked against them. The last thing they need is for competitors to bid on their brand keywords and steal their traffic.

This judgment now opens up a route for legal recourse whenever such deceptive practices occur.

While keyword squatting is most visible in Google web results, it is an even bigger problem when it comes to app stores. Whenever someone searches for your brand, the first couple of results, both above and below your app listing, often tend to be those of your competitors. And in the case of app stores, I think the ads are even more problematic. When a user clicks on an app-store ad, they often end up installing an app. That is a much higher-commitment action than clicking on a competitor’s web search result and then just closing the page. Because the user has installed an application, the conversions, at least anecdotally, tend to be much higher.

Again, brands that do not advertise are at the receiving end of this. So I welcome this ruling and hope this changes the unfair norms we've been living by for so long.

[Naval @naval]

Software went from desktop-first to mobile-first, now going to agent-first.

[TMK @themagaking]

It’s actually interesting that Elon Musk is the richest man in the world and still carries himself like the awkward little kid at lunch who doesn’t know where to sit. Most rich powerful men walk into rooms with entourages acting like superstars wanting everyone to look at them. Elon walks in looking like a fish out of water at the wrong party wondering why he even showed up while probably thinking about self driving algorithms while everyone else is socializing. There’s something weirdly real and endearing about it, like all the fame and attention just feels unnecessary to him.

[Ashutosh Kumar Shandilya @ashutoshkr26]

@RailwaySeva @IRCTCofficial @RailwaySeva @RailMinIndia @AshwiniVaishnaw

[Ashutosh Kumar Shandilya @ashutoshkr26]

Booked a counter reservation ticket physically. Now being told only the original paper copy is valid and a photo/PDF won’t work. This needs modernization. @RailMinIndia @IRCTCofficial @RailwaySeva @AshwiniVaishnaw

[Ashutosh Kumar Shandilya @ashutoshkr26]

@RailwaySeva With India leading in digital payments and services through UPI and Digital India initiatives, railway ticket verification also deserves modernization. A secure digital validation system for counter-booked tickets would make the process far more passenger-friendly.