Siddharth Agarwal

15 years of entrepreneurship in Technologies that helps businesses.

[anand mahindra @anandmahindra]

It’s a special moment for both our families, Uday.

I will never forget the moment when I met a freshly minted MBA who had decided to become an entrepreneur in financial services, and walked into my office to offer our company bill discounting facilities.

From that small beginning in financial intermediation to becoming one of the most respected bankers in the world is nothing short of a magnificent and inspiring journey.

There’s so much more ahead of you….

👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

[Narendra Modi @narendramodi]

#OperationSindoor on the games field.

Outcome is the same - India wins!

Congrats to our cricketers.

[Fundamental Investor ™ 🇮🇳 @FI_InvestIndia]

Repost this if you are have started using @Arattai, encouraging your family and friends to start using the App & proudly part of the Swadeshi Revolution in Bharat 🇮🇳

Let me see how many in my X Family actually with me🔥🔥🔥

#FI

[Siddharth Agarwal @followsid]

@bhogleharsha @imVkohli An era comes to an end truly defined as the Kohli-fied ERA.

[Harsha Bhogle @bhogleharsha]

Thoughts on the retirement from test cricket and the legacy that @imVkohli leaves. There will be an emptiness for a while. What do you think was his primary contribution? Happy to hear considered thoughts.

https://t.co/TTrLUDv0mF

[DKG @iamdkg1]

It Feels like an extreme method, easy for us to say. BCCI cannot not refrain from ICC tournaments. We have to find alternative methods.Root cause of the issue is the Book..You know what I am saying.
#ReasiTerrorAttack
#NoMoreCricketWithPak
#AllEyesOnReasi

[Bhavish Aggarwal @bhash]

On @Linkedin, @Microsoft and their wokeness.

As an Indian institution, Ola is for genuine actions on diversity. We run one of the largest women only automotive plants. Not 1 out of 10 lines, or a small section, but the whole plant! Almost 5000 women now and will grow to tens of thousands in the coming years. And regarding gender inclusivity, we don’t need lectures from western companies on how to be inclusive. Our culture didn’t need pronouns to be inclusive for thousands of years. On a personal note, I had visited Ayodhya last year and learnt about how transgenders had been accorded special respect in our culture from ancient times! Here’s a short video from our national broadcaster DD on this - https://t.co/TGxfSjtM0F.

On the other hand, the pronouns issue I wrote about is a woke political ideology of entitlement which doesn’t belong in India. I wouldn’t have waded into this debate but clearly Linkedin has presumed Indians need to have pronouns in our life, and that we can’t criticise it. They will bully us into agreeing with them or cancel us out. And if they can do this to me, I’m sure the average user stands no chance. As a founder and CEO, this western DEI system has a major impact on my business as it grows an entitlement mindset in our professional lives and I will fight it.

This situation brings me to the need for us to build our own Indian tech platforms. I’m not against global tech companies. But as an Indian citizen, I feel concerned that my life will be governed by western Big Tech monopolies and we will be culturally subsumed as the above experience shows. This is not about Ola or any of my companies. Ola is too small to make any impact against this. I want to confront this forced ideology as a free thinking Indian and do what I can in my capacity. So here are the actions I’m taking. Putting my money where my mouth is.
⁃While we can’t do anything about Linkedin’s monopoly overnight, I’m making a commitment to work with the Indian developer community to build a DPI social media framework. DPIs like UPI, ONDC, Aadhaar etc are a uniquely Indian idea and is even more needed in the world of social media. The only “community guidelines” should be the Indian law. No corporate person should be able to decide what will be banned. Data should be owned by the creators instead of being owned by the corporates who make money using our data and then lecture us on “community guidelines”!
⁃Since LinkedIn is owned by Microsoft and Ola is a big customer of Azure, we’ve decided to move our entire workload out of Azure to our own @Krutrim cloud within the next week. It is a challenge as all developers know, but my team is so charged up about doing this.
⁃Any other developer who wants to move out of Azure, we will offer a full year of free cloud usage. As long as you don’t go back to Azure after that! Mail us on [email protected]. Offer is perpetually open!

Read more here: https://t.co/M27jpJHPWT

[Siddharth Agarwal @followsid]

@svembu @tsrangarajan Somewhere it did but we see signs of reversal. The ecosystem was lacking until 2012 for product companies to thrive . It’s conducive now with focus on consumer products but there is a monumental shift to acceptance of enterprise products. Let’s focus to double down lost time .

[Sridhar Vembu @svembu]

What's happening with popular apps in India, such as Bharat Matrimony, Naukri and others getting delisted on Google Play Store is classic monopoly abuse. With the dominant position of Android in India, it is important our regulators and courts get involved to level the playing field.

[Satyam Surana @SatyamSurana]

What a Hero!Make him famous!
A young Student of Rocket Science at Purdue University, USA, gave a befitting reply to the so called historians who tried to show half baked propaganda filled documentary about Ram Mandir. This chap spoke&shut them up!

We need more like you brother!

[Siddharth Agarwal @followsid]

@bhogleharsha That’s where we lost the match. Needed someone to push the matters then just absorb !

[Siddharth Agarwal @followsid]

@bhogleharsha How many times will we ardent fans be heart broken ! Aren’t we ‘ choking ‘ consistently and play with a fixed pattern. No change in fixed template when it’s not working. Dhoni kept doing it made moves and made us win ! When will we produce the next Dhoni to lead us to a triumph!

[Siddharth Agarwal @followsid]

@hvgoenka Is it time india be tagged ‘ chokers ‘ for consistently faltering winning key moments and big moments . The my simply had no answers when put in. A situation in batting and then bowling. This comes from an ardent die hard 3 decades Indian fan !

[Harsh Goenka @hvgoenka]

Mumbai braces for another toxic winter, led by unregulated construction, traffic, toothless emission controls.
- AQI is at 200-300, higher than Delhi. So what?
-Severe lung damage in kids. So what?
-6 deaths a day to COPD. So what?
- Severe rise in deaths due to bronchitis, asthma, lung cancer. So what?
-Countless people ill. So what?
We are not bothered. It will be alright.
And that’s the SPIRIT OF MUMBAI 😣
#DeathByBreath #HighTime #RaiseYourVoice

[anand mahindra @anandmahindra]

Small. Soft-spoken. Mild-mannered. Humble. Yet he was one of the Tallest men in our country’s history & his words were loud enough to be heard everywhere. We will not forget him. 🙏🏽 #ShastriJayanti

[Praggnanandhaa @rpraggnachess]

Thankyou very much sir!🙏

[Right Singh @rightwingchora]

Meet Moti,the loneliest Elephant in Madhya Pradesh,

please rt this tweet so authority can look into this matter and shift Moti in Elephant conversation & care center in Mathur & an elephant center in Gujarat 🙏🏻

[Sanjeev Bikhchandani @sbikh]

On the Ashoka WhatsApp group there is a discussion on the convocation speech and what kind of convocation speakers we should look for. Most people are posting videos of commencement speakers from US universities.

I posted the following message

👇

A random thought on convocation speeches.

We want a convocation speech that is slick. One that is delivered by a speaker in polished sophisticated English. With the right accent using the right words.

The convocation speaker in my graduating class at IIMA was V Krishnamurthy. Chairman of SAIL. He said all the right things but guess what - thirty four years out I don’t remember a word of what he said and I don’t think what he said made any difference to the lives of any of my classmates. That speech did not change anyone’s behaviour or influence any of the choices we made in our lives.

However I vividly remember remember the speech made by the chief guest at IIMA in the previous year. Being in the junior batch I was not invited to the event so along with several others from my class I watched the function from the first floor of the building on the side.

The chief guest was Dr Verghese Kurien Chairman NDDB.

He was not polite. He was downright rude. He was condescending. He was sarcastic. He was caustic. He was insulting. He spoke a few home truths to the graduating class. He taunted us.

He opened by congratulating the graduating class. He then said that this is not the Indian Institute of Management. This is the Indian Institute of Management for Shampoo Salesmen. And that the entire graduating class could now look forward to a life where they spend their time selling soap and shampoo. For that is the limit of our aspiration and ambition he said. We just wanted to work for Multinational Corporations peddling their wares to Indian consumers. Such a collosal waste of talent he called it. And throughout his speech he repeatedly used the term “shampoo salesmen” derisively to describe the graduates of IIMA.

He challenged us to do something more meaningful with our lives and try and make a difference.

But then he lamented that his words were going to fall on deaf ears and that we would take the safer option.

Now it requires some guts to go as a chief guest to a function and then make a 30 minute speech berating and insulting your hosts. But that was Dr. Verghese Kurien. In your face. Blunt. Calling a spade a spade.

By the end of it our ears were burning.

But guess which speech we remembered.

And Some of us did do something different.

The class of 1989 has produced the most number of entrepreneurs in the history of IIMA.

Sometimes warm fuzzy convocation speeches don’t make lasting impact.

[Bṛhat | बृहत् | Brhat @brhat_in]

At Bṛhat - We say that we are a 'Culture Engine'.

What does this mean, why is it needed.

The short explanation is that for the first time in the history of our glorious civilization, we have hit a phase where we are truly unsure about passing on our values and culture to our children.

Even in the worst of times during the millennium of colonial rule, we did not have this challenge at this magnitude.

The cultural loss of knowledge is the greatest threat to not just India but to the whole world.

It means the erasure of a whole way of seeing, knowing and being. At stake, is nothing less than the future of global civilization.

@Anviksiki explains why we do what we do at the recently concluded Rāmāyaṇa Kalpavṛkṣam.

[Devendra Fadnavis @Dev_Fadnavis]

It was one of the greatest moments of my life !
Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj’s statue got installed 5000 kms away from His homeland, that too at the hands of the Hon’ble Prime Minister of Mauritius Shri @KumarJugnauth Ji, in presence of Hon’ble Alan Ganoo ji and hundreds of Marathi sisters and brothers of Mauritius.
Just imagine the gravity of unparalleled greatness and our great King !!
I thank and appreciate Asant Govind ji and Mauritius Marathi Mandali Federation team for this historic initiative.
#MaharashtraMauritius