Astral

YOMO

[a16z @a16z]

You can just do things.

[Muthukrishnan Dhandapani @dmuthuk]

India now has 12 business families with wealth exceeding ₹1 lakh crore each, according to a joint report by 360 ONE and CRISIL Intelligence.

The families are:

Adani (Adani Enterprises)
Ambani (Reliance)
Mittal (Bharti)
Dilip Shanghvi (Sun Pharma)
Mistry (Shapoorji Pallonji)
Shiv Nadar (HCL)
Jindal (JSW),
Damani (DMart)
Birla (Aditya Birla Group)
Agarwal (Vedanta)
Premji (Wipro)
Mehta (Torrent)

A decade ago, this club barely existed.

[Patrick Bet-David @patrickbetdavid]

People don't do business with the smartest person in the room.

They do business with the person they like, trust, and respect.

[Paul Graham @paulg]

I tried asking myself what I'd learned after 40, and it turned out to be a lot of the most important stuff I know. At least 90% of what I know about startups, because I was 40 when we started YC. Plus everything I know about parenting and most of what I know about writing.

[DAN KOE @thedankoe]

If you even slightly entertain the thought of failure, you give your mind a chance to start noticing reasons to fail. But if the only option on your mind is to win, then the world seems to conspire in your favor, because your mind will notice opportunities it wouldn't have before. Become delusionally optimistic, not because it's realistic, but because it's effective. It drastically increases your chances of success.

[Raj Shamani @rajshamani]

One of the biggest divides in society today is cognitive. The top 1% protect their attention, block out focus time, and execute long-term targets. The rest of the world is trapped in a cycle of algorithm-driven dopamine.

[Robert Greene @RobertGreene]

The brain is designed to learn through constant repetition and active, hands-on involvement.

Through such practice and persistence, any skill can be mastered.

[Raj Shamani @rajshamani]

Consistency terrifies people who rely on bursts of motivation. Anyone can put in a massive 14-hour effort once a month, but showing up with steady execution every single day makes you impossible to compete against.

[Paras Chopra @paraschopra]

Why are Indian companies not developing frontier models?

The answer is in economics, not talent. The biggest hurdle for an Indian company trying to develop frontier model is that right from the get go, it has to compete with Anthropic and OpenAI free plans + all Chinese open weight models.

Chinese models mostly flourished due to the demand from their domestic market which OpenAI/Anthropic couldn’t meet as they’re unavailable in China. This unmet demand created space for innovation.

China knows this story well, but here in India, we like unfettered, globalized free market, and that requires an upstart to compete with established companies from across the world.

If India is serious about the AI race, it needs to create a massive guaranteed market for domestic AI or else it’ll be economically irrational for any funder to underwrite a product in a highly competitive, already established market.

[Astral @astralgenz]

@nealmohan @YouTube @YouTubeCreators fix you ai first

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

“The purpose of knowledge is action, not knowledge.”

— Aristotle

[Astral @astralgenz]

@alexandr_wang Hey @MetaAI, as a creator managing several Instagram pages, Meta AI has become a big part of my content production.
But there’s one issue — AI-generated video quality is very low.
Could you please add a high-quality export option for creators? It would help us a lot. 🙏

[Astral @astralgenz]

Hey @MetaAI, as a creator managing Instagram pages, Meta AI has become a big part of my content production. But there’s one issue.AI-generated video quality is very low.
Could you please add a high-quality export option for creators? It would help us a lot. 🙏 @alexandr_wang

[Astral @astralgenz]

@prasenx Testing Free Trial for 2 months 😁

[Astral @astralgenz]

@JeffBezos Great work, sir. Moments like these remind us how far human ambition can take civilization. 👍

[Astral @astralgenz]

Every day I realize building a business isn’t about having a “perfect idea”.
It’s about starting, making mistakes, and improving faster than others.

Action creates clarity.
Overthinking creates fear.

🚀 My rule now: Do → Learn → Improve → Repeat

#Entrepreneurship #business

[Astral @astralgenz]

Progress isn’t linear some days I feel stuck, but small steps add up. What keeps you going when things get tough? 💪

[Deepinder Goyal @deepigoyal]

Every few years, the world reminds us of our place. A threat here, a tariff there. But the message is the same: stay in your lane, India.

Global powers will always bully us, unless we take our destiny in our own hands. And the only way to do that is if we collectively decide to become the world's largest most unapologetic superpower in the world. In economy, in technology, in defense, and most importantly, in ambition.

There is absolutely no other way.

[Astral @astralgenz]

@BeingPolitical1 @Tesla_India 49 lack