Avinash Karn

Does it really matter ??

[Avinash Karn @avinashkarn]

@b50 Not the average price but Contribution Magin should be Rs 300. That means nearly at Price should be ~Rs 600

[pj @BeingPractical]

31 May 2020:
I was on the road, staring at failure at the start of my 40s.

1 June 2020:
6 years back, on this day I started my journey of building Raise (@RaiseTheBarHQ) from zero.

The day before, I held a fancy title of Founder, Managing Director and CEO of a financial services company, was an industry pioneer and a leader, built and scaled a product that redefined how India invested online, that made mutual funds popular, and introduced direct mutual funds to the masses. Built a venture that managed few billions dollars and was possibly valued as much as.

Next day, I had nothing. No titles, No power. No team. No salary, No stocks. Practically made no money from the venture I gave everything to for 3 years to make it a grand success. Founders like me are emotional fools & immature beings who trust easily and take a word as a word, only to realise one day - the world doesn't work the way one thinks it works.

Tried to raise money from venture capital, which I thought would be a easy thing to do but it was not. Almost every VC out there rejected me. Few influential people made raising capital a bit difficult. Many VC & partners who promised term-sheets, stopped responding to emails / chats or just backed out.

All of this happened during peak COVID times. I was staring at failure at the start of my 40s. I had no idea what the future would hold for me. Job was never an option, I am too practical and also much of a straight-talker to survive in a corporate life. I had started up 3 times earlier, and was more or less a failure. Somehow gathered courage to start-up again just because giving up again was never an option.

Times have changed since then!

Today we are a team of ~650+ builders and believers at Raise.

Only thing we care about is building the best consumer experiences across all the products we are building - @DhanHQ @ask_fuzz @Upsurge_club @Stratzy_HQ @FilterCoffeeHQ and few more ventures in insurance, wealth and investing that we are building.

5 years back value of everything was Zero. Today for whatever it means, Raise is a unicorn valued at USD 1.2 Bn. At some point, I was offered good money as some sort of settlement which of course I never took. This is why I say that as founders, some of us are emotional fools who keep taking chances even after losing it all!

Looking back, even after this crazy journey and tons of luck by my side, I am still more of an emotional & introvert founder fool. We are still in our early days of building and are far from where we want to be.

Once again, there's no inspiration or gyan here for anyone. Tu tera dekh le bhai, yahaan mein khud bhagwan ke bharose pe hoon..

I post this just as a reminder to myself - never forget where & how we started from.

More importantly to express my gratitude to all those who stood by me and supported us in my tough times - as co-founders, team members, colleagues, believers, supporters, cheerleaders, well wishers, investors, friends and most importantly as our customers.

Thank you, I wouldn't have made it till here without you 🙏

[Gauranga Das @GaurangaDas]

Office politics make you want to leave everything and move to the mountains?

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[Sandeep Parekh @SandeepParekh]

The post combines one valid intuition with several economic fallacies. Here is what is wrong with it. 🧵

[Avinash Karn @avinashkarn]

CBI should question NTA on how two resource persons from the same city were chosen for #NEET2026 and whether they met at NTA or during the flight. Because both resource arrested resource person are linked to Paper Leak
@NTA_Exams @CBIHeadquarters @EduMinOfIndia @officialkhansir

[Manosai @manosaie]

Beautiful essay on adult friendship

[Avinash Karn @avinashkarn]

@officialkhansir @CBIHeadquarters @EduMinOfIndia

[Avinash Karn @avinashkarn]

It appears that NTA may already have been aware of the alleged #NEET #PaperLeaked leak, official reply before examination itself mentioned that fake papers being circulated, account allegedly circulating NEET questions was also banned by NTA
@NTA_Exams @EduMinOfIndia @PMOIndia

[Avinash Karn @avinashkarn]

It appears that NTA may already have been aware of the alleged #NEET #PaperLeaked leak, official reply before examination itself mentioned that fake papers being circulated, account allegedly circulating NEET questions was also banned by NTA
@NTA_Exams @EduMinOfIndia @PMOIndia

[GarbageBin @GarbageBinGags]

10 year old me 🤣🤣
#mothersday

[Avinash Karn @avinashkarn]

@jalajboy @MithilaStack @jalajboy if you are free tomorrow evening and in the darbhanga city , let us catch up , would love to know more about what you are building

[Ali Spittel @ASpittel]

cron jobs are going through the most epic rebrand

[Turner Novak 🍌🧢 @TurnerNovak]

JUST IN: Workday claims updates to their product have been “too powerful” to be released to the public, has not changed its software since 1986 to protect humanity.

[Avinash Karn @avinashkarn]

@Airtel_Presence non of the payment related apps or WhatsApp working on either mobile data or WiFi ; customer service not helpful, whom should i reach out to ?

[Aditya Dhar @AdityaDharFilms]

Ab Pakistan ka mustakbil, Hindustan tey karega

Trailer Out Now

Book Now for Paid Previews on 18th March only.
🔗- https://t.co/xMHOs70KO6

#DhurandharTheRevenge releases worldwide on 19 March, on Gudi Padwa, Ugadi, and Eid.

Hindi | Telugu | Tamil | Kannada | Malayalam

@RanveerOfficial @rampalarjun @duttsanjay @ActorMadhavan #AkshayeKhanna #SaraArjun @bolbedibol @AdityaDharFilms #JyotiDeshpande @LokeshDharB62 @jiostudios @B62Studios @TSeries @JioHotstar @StarGoldIndia

[Avinash Karn @avinashkarn]

History is written by folks who are brave enough to sail in rough water , congratulations team !!!

[Sanjeev Sanyal @sanjeevsanyal]

Day 18. Land Ahoy!!!!!!

[Alex Chriss @acce]

Excited to share @PayPal's support of @Google's Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP) as the next phase of our expanded partnership announced last fall.

This is a milestone moment making agentic commerce a reality for consumers.

Let's go @sundarpichai! 🚀

[Avinash Karn @avinashkarn]

@mParivahanteam this is how Fraudester attack general public , many folks will fall for it, look at logo and name and message creates sense of urgency. Most android user will click on apk file. Please take action

[Ben Lang @benln]

a16z team shared a bunch of startup ideas for 2026:

[Avinash Karn @avinashkarn]

Ayodhya , Shri Ram Lalla Darshan

[Alex Chriss @acce]

PayPal and @Venmo showed up for our consumers and merchants during Cyber Week - Thanksgiving to Cyber Monday - this year! Our team worked hard to help merchants win every sale and made it easy and rewarding for consumers to check out in-store and online. For the first time ever, consumers could check out directly inside of an agentic chat with @PayPal on @perplexity_ai. Here are some highlights from Cyber Week: