Anshuman Das

Founder & CEO, Muvi

[Anshuman Das @dasanshuman]

@jammypants4 Pushpa was the same

[Anshuman Das @dasanshuman]

@paulg Or join politics

[Anshuman Das @dasanshuman]

@avnishh26 Kohli is a genius and a jerk.

[anand mahindra @anandmahindra]

We still don’t know enough about the full consequences of climate change.

But we do know this: intense heat waves in India are no longer exceptions. They’re becoming a way of life.

These homeowners have responded by changing THEIR way of life.

By changing the way they live, they’ve created homes that are cooler, more sustainable, and productive enough to grow their own food.

That’s the kind of adaptive thinking we’ll increasingly need in the years ahead.

Trailblazers. 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

[Hemant Mohapatra @MohapatraHemant]

Dassault (France) -> Indian Navy, $6b
General atomics (US) -> Indian army, navy, airforce, $4b
Airbus (Europe) -> same, $Bs

All in just last few yrs. We should be selling billions back, but thanks for your curiosity & congrats on your social media points, nation's pride.

[Hemant Mohapatra @MohapatraHemant]

Most are misunderstanding the message from @svembu. This isn't about "hey India is now like Singapore, come back"; this is about hardship and coming back on a mission to have an impact. I came back after 15+ years and wrote about it here (https://t.co/BigeOT00Be). This isn't for 99% of people out there - they should stay back, build their careers, etc. Everyone has that right. This is about a very specific type of individual who wants to go through the difficult nation building phase but didn't have the opportunity ten years ago. We didn't have any s-tier AI research, or climate, or space or robotics work happening here. Today we do, there are career options for those wanting to do real cutting edge work in private sector and academia. There is capital. Government support. There is definitely glory at the end of the suffering. But it was never going to be easy. It's easy to quote things like 'ask not what your country can do for you' etc, but there's a reason that that generation in the US gets so much respect. It's a very specific type of an individual who'll return this call, quietly, without Twitter ragebait on all that's wrong in India. I've met a bunch, there are more coming. You know who you are, DMs always open. Just don't expect flowers.

[Abhinav Agarwal @AbhinavAgarwal]

On top is Godrej's old logo.
Since 1897.
Recognized across India.

At the bottom is the new, redesigned logo, designed by Disco, Godrej’s in-house design studio.

The second image is the logo for Guerrilla Holdings, an Australian company.

If incompetence ever needed a logo.

[Science girl @sciencegirl]

Creative clock installation by Dutch designer Maarten Baas.

[rajamouli ss @ssrajamouli]

For years our stories pushed the limits of our canvas. Today we stretch it further.

Excited to launch A&M MoCap Lab,
India’s largest Motion Capture facility at @AnnapurnaStudios set up in collaboration with @mihiravisualabs and @Animatrik

Looking forward for storytellers to explore its limitless potential in animation, live action, gaming and more.

[Li | Design for Startups @lizengco]

Micro animation is necessary when you want to explain complex ideas.

[Kriti Gupta @kriti_kg]

Asked a founder what it means to be an AI-native company -

‘When I have a problem, I used to find a human solution and then use AI to automate.

Now I find the AI solution first and then have human intervention to perfect it.’

[John Fund @johnfund]

Javier Milei has been president for less than 26 months in Argentina. Here is the record from economist Chris Lingle:
Inflation rate: from 300% to 30% …
Poverty rate: from 52% to 31% …
Budget Deficit: from 15% to 0% …
Public-sector debt: fell from $500 billion to $446 billion & is now 84.65% of GDP, down from 154.6% in 2023 …
Country risk: from 3,000 to 487 …
Central bank reserves: from $20 billion to $47 billion …
¡Motosierra! ... ¡Motosierra! ...

[Anshuman Das @dasanshuman]

Anyone who is complaining about gig workers getting paid less should attach a screenshot showing how much tips they usually give.

[Deepinder Goyal @deepigoyal]

Last one on this topic, and I have been holding this in myself for a while.

For centuries, class divides kept the labor of the poor invisible to the rich. Factory workers toiled behind walls, farmers in distant fields, domestic help in backrooms. The wealthy consumed the fruits of that labor without ever seeing the faces or the fatigue behind it. No direct encounter, no personal guilt.

The gig economy shattered that invisibility, at unprecedented scale.

Suddenly, the poor aren't hidden away. They're at your doorstep: the delivery partner handing over your ₹1000+ biryani, late-night groceries, or quick-commerce essentials. You see them in the rain, heat, traffic, often on borrowed bikes, working 8–10 hours for earnings that give them sustenance. You see their exhaustion, their polite smile masking frustration with life in general.

This is the first time in history at this scale that the working class and consuming class interact face-to-face, transaction after transaction. And that discomfort with our own selves is why we are uncomfortable about the gig economy. We want these people to look our part, so that the guilt we feel while taking orders from them feels less.

We aren't just debating economics. We are confronting guilt. That ₹800 order might equal their entire day's earnings after fuel, bike rent, and app cuts. We tip awkwardly, or avoid eye contact, because the inequality is no longer abstract. It's personal.

Pre-gig era, the rich could enjoy luxury without moral discomfort. Labor was out of sight. Now, every doorbell ring is a reminder of systemic inequality. That's why debates explode. It's not just policy. It's emotional reckoning. Some defend the system (“they choose it”), others demand change (“this isn't progress, its exploitation”).

And here’s the uncomfortable twist: the unsaid ask of clumsy ‘solutions’ isn’t dignity. It is about returning to invisibility.

Ban gig work and you don’t solve inequality. You remove livelihoods. These jobs don’t magically reappear as formal, protected employment the next day. They disappear, or they get pushed back into the informal economy where there are even fewer protections and even less accountability. Over-regulate it until the model breaks, and you achieve the same outcome through paperwork instead of slogans: the work evaporates, prices rise, demand collapses, and the people we claim to protect are the first to lose income.

And then what happens?

The rich get their old comfort back. Convenience returns without faces. Guilt dissolves. We go back to clean abstractions and moral posturing from a distance. The poor don’t become safer, they become invisible again: back in cash economies, back in backrooms, back in shadows where regulation rarely reaches and dignity isn’t even debated.

The gig economy just exposed the reality of inequality to the people who previously had the luxury of not seeing it. The doorbell is not the problem. The question is what we do after opening the door.

Visibility is the price of progress. We can either use this discomfort to build something better (which we keep doing continuously as delivery partners are our backbone), or we can ban and over-regulate our way back into ignorance. One of those choices improves lives. The other simply helps the consuming class feel virtuous in the dark.

[Deepinder Goyal @deepigoyal]

One more thing. Our 10 minute delivery promise is enabled by the density of stores around your homes. It’s not enabled by asking delivery partners to drive fast. Delivery partners don’t even have a timer on their app to indicate what was the original time promised to the customer.

After you place your order on Blinkit, it is picked and packed within 2.5 minutes. And then the rider drives an average of under 2kms in about 8 minutes. That's an average of 15kmph.

I understand why everybody thinks why 10 minutes must be risking lives, because it is indeed hard to imagine the sheer complexity of the system design which enables quick deliveries.

Also, if you've ever wanted to know why millions of Indians voluntarily take up platform work and sometimes even prefer it to regular jobs, JUST ASK any rider partner when you get your next food or grocery order.

You will be humbled by how rational and honest they will be with you.

Having said that, no system is perfect, and we are all for making it better than today. However, it is far from what it is being portrayed on social media by people who don't understand how our system works and why.

If I were outside the system, I would also believe that gig workers are being exploited, but that's not true.

[Deepinder Goyal @deepigoyal]

Zomato and Blinkit delivered at a record pace yesterday, unaffected by calls for strikes that many of us heard over the past few days.

Support from local law enforcement helped keep the small number of miscreants in check, enabling 4.5 lakh+ delivery partners across both platforms to deliver more than 75 lakh orders (all-time high) to over 63 lakh customers during the day. This happened without any additional incentives for delivery partners - NYE does see higher incentives than usual days and yesterday was no different than the past NYE days.

I am grateful to local authorities across the country and to our teams on the ground for clear enforcement and swift coordination.

Most importantly, thank you to our delivery partners who showed up despite intimidation, stood their ground, and chose honest work and progress.

One thought for everyone: if a system were fundamentally unfair, it would not consistently attract and retain so many people who choose to work within it. Please don’t get swept up by narratives pushed by vested interests.

The gig economy is one of India’s largest organised job creation engines, and its real impact will compound over time, when delivery partners’ children, supported by stable incomes and education, enter the workforce and help transform our country at scale.

[Spencer @spencercamp]

We need a new AI-powered General Ledger for city, state, and national agencies that automatically uses AI to continuously audit transactions, annotate them, and flag potential fraud.

Right now, it’s just a dumb database of transactions that an auditor needs to manually comb through.

[Sheel Mohnot @pitdesi]

This is very telling

Ranking what voters care about most: top of list:
Cost of living, democracy, housing.

Bottom of list: Trans acceptance, AI, Climate Change

Why do dem leaders spend so much time on the bottom of the list?

[Anshuman Das @dasanshuman]

@Uber_Support My Uber Eats account was hacked and fraudulent orders were placed.
Now Uber is blocking my rides unless I pay charges I did not make.
Please help resolve and restore access. Case raised in app.

[Deedy @deedydas]

This man who grew up in middle class India literally built the only startup outside US/China/Japan that sent rockets to space.

Here's the never-before-shared crazy story of Pawan Chandana:

> be middle class kid growing up in Vizag
> terrible student, get 51 marks in maths
> ambitious dad doesn't give up, puts you in IIT coaching
> fall in love with math and science
> go from worst to best in school
> crack IIT first attempt
> 2007: go to IIT KGP for mechanical engineering
> everyone around you chasing big packages, consulting, going abroad
> you just love rockets
> 2012: join ISRO as scientist straight out of campus
> pays peanuts
> loves it
> doing so well you want to retire here
> but entrepreneurial bug from IIT days never left
> dreams of building a global space company from India
> but no policy allowing private rockets, no funding environment for space
> 2018: quit anyway, ready to survive in rags
> googles "what is equity"
> zero connections
> cold DM Mukesh Bansal on LinkedIn
> he writes a $1.5M check
> COVID hits, seed capital running out
> Series A is a brutal struggle
> no fund invests
> founders of renewable company Greenko invests
> 2021: PM Modi opens up space sector to private players
> become first company to sign MoU with ISRO
> get largest check in Indian DeepTech, $51M
> Nov 18, 2022: launch Vikram-S: India's first suborbital private rocket
> reaches 90km
> Prime Minister Modi inaugurates your new facility
> grow to 1000 employees
> build India's largest private rocket factory at 200,000 sq ft
> valued at $527M
> first orbital launch, Vikram-1, planned in 2026
> will be one of ~5 companies globally regularly launching to orbit
> next: reusable spaceships
> Open Space for All

We talk a lot about Elon Musk and SpaceX, but imagine having NO prior wealth. Being in a developing country. Constantly saying no to money. Being unable to raise any venture funding multiple times. Being called crazy by everyone. And still having the perseverance to dream beyond the stars.

I'd call Pawan's story inspirational, but honestly it's more than that. It's beyond what I can fathom.