Devendra Meel

Chief Business Officer @Zeptonow All views are very obviously just mine.

[🚨The Celebration Police🚨 @PLCPolice]

Arsenal celebrating like they’ve won the league

[Arsenal @Arsenal]

This belongs to all of us.

[Premier League @premierleague]

The wait is over.

@Arsenal are Premier League champions.

[Mukul Kesavan @mukulkesavan]

Bloody time difference. What can I do with raging joy at 2 in the morning. 1-1 to the Arsenal!
https://t.co/JR3DqcV3J1

[Arsenal @Arsenal]

The Arsenal. Your Premier League champions.

[Devendra Meel @Devendra_Meel]

The 22-year wait is over 💪❤️

[Devendra Meel @Devendra_Meel]

Poetic🤭

[Peter Girnus 🦅 @gothburz]

Last quarter I rolled out Microsoft Copilot to 4,000 employees.

$30 per seat per month.

$1.4 million annually.

I called it "digital transformation."

The board loved that phrase.

They approved it in eleven minutes.

No one asked what it would actually do.

Including me.

I told everyone it would "10x productivity."

That's not a real number.

But it sounds like one.

HR asked how we'd measure the 10x.

I said we'd "leverage analytics dashboards."

They stopped asking.

Three months later I checked the usage reports.

47 people had opened it.

12 had used it more than once.

One of them was me.

I used it to summarize an email I could have read in 30 seconds.

It took 45 seconds.

Plus the time it took to fix the hallucinations.

But I called it a "pilot success."

Success means the pilot didn't visibly fail.

The CFO asked about ROI.

I showed him a graph.

The graph went up and to the right.

It measured "AI enablement."

I made that metric up.

He nodded approvingly.

We're "AI-enabled" now.

I don't know what that means.

But it's in our investor deck.

A senior developer asked why we didn't use Claude or ChatGPT.

I said we needed "enterprise-grade security."

He asked what that meant.

I said "compliance."

He asked which compliance.

I said "all of them."

He looked skeptical.

I scheduled him for a "career development conversation."

He stopped asking questions.

Microsoft sent a case study team.

They wanted to feature us as a success story.

I told them we "saved 40,000 hours."

I calculated that number by multiplying employees by a number I made up.

They didn't verify it.

They never do.

Now we're on Microsoft's website.

"Global enterprise achieves 40,000 hours of productivity gains with Copilot."

The CEO shared it on LinkedIn.

He got 3,000 likes.

He's never used Copilot.

None of the executives have.

We have an exemption.

"Strategic focus requires minimal digital distraction."

I wrote that policy.

The licenses renew next month.

I'm requesting an expansion.

5,000 more seats.

We haven't used the first 4,000.

But this time we'll "drive adoption."

Adoption means mandatory training.

Training means a 45-minute webinar no one watches.

But completion will be tracked.

Completion is a metric.

Metrics go in dashboards.

Dashboards go in board presentations.

Board presentations get me promoted.

I'll be SVP by Q3.

I still don't know what Copilot does.

But I know what it's for.

It's for showing we're "investing in AI."

Investment means spending.

Spending means commitment.

Commitment means we're serious about the future.

The future is whatever I say it is.

As long as the graph goes up and to the right.

[Aadit Palicha @aadit_palicha]

Congratulations to @lkeshre and the incredible Groww team on their IPO!

We have been inspired by the quality of your execution and product since our early days. In fact, Groww has always been an example I use of a world-class product company built in India when talking to foreign VCs.

It also happens to be the first IPO of an Indian Y Combinator startup - an extra sweet milestone for the ecosystem :)

[Pratik Poddar @pratikpoddar]

Beautiful note by Warren Buffett in his final letter to shareholders! Worth reading a few times!

[Devendra Meel @Devendra_Meel]

@IndiaQuotient @anandlunia @sinhamadhukar @Goyal4Gagan @kanika_agarrwal @sahilmkkr @mohmit2706 @MadhavMalani11 @ShahKanupriya Congrats @sahilmkkr well deserved, upwards🚀

[Devendra Meel @Devendra_Meel]

@Vanshi_agr @aadit_palicha Thanks - a lot more to come 🚀

[Devendra Meel @Devendra_Meel]

“no line anywhere in the world leads to a Bumrah. He is an outlier, a dot all by itself in the corner on that line graph of Indian pace; impossible to have imagined into being until he arrived, impossible to replicate once he's gone” https://t.co/MTLqzChHpR

[Devendra Meel @Devendra_Meel]

@lcbisu Congratulations 🚀🙌

[Devendra Meel @Devendra_Meel]

Twitter is great again.

[Devendra Meel @Devendra_Meel]

@manasjsaloi @gshewakr Quite exhaustive :)

main goal is to pass on value to customers in terms of savings at the last leg of the purchase journey. Also, this is a non intrusive way to shape customer behavior - for example, recommending a gym goer to swap to healthy chips instead of regular chips.

[Devendra Meel @Devendra_Meel]

@Vanshi_agr WIP, will be live in sometime

[Devendra Meel @Devendra_Meel]

@ganeshsonawane @ZeptoNow Thanks @ganeshsonawane this gesture means a lot - may your tribe grow❤️

[Devendra Meel @Devendra_Meel]

Touché

[शिक्षित बेरोज़गार @kaul_vivek]

“I used to think that if there was reincarnation, I wanted to come back as the President or the Pope or as a .400 baseball hitter. But now I would want to come back as the bond market. You can intimidate everybody.” -- James Carville.

[Devendra Meel @Devendra_Meel]

Execution at Zepto speed 🚀

[Aadit Palicha @aadit_palicha]

Zepto Café has hit 100K orders/day. That's closing in on a $100M Ann. GMV with a ~50% steady-state GM.

It hasn't been easy to get Café the ground and many challenges are still work-in-progress, but I believe this is the beginning of a revolution in India's QSR industry.