Harsh Srivastava

Technologist

[Harsh Srivastava @Harshriv]

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[Harsh Srivastava @Harshriv]

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[World of Statistics @stats_feed]

🇮🇳 List of Indian inventions and discoveries:

Diamond cutting and polishing
Preliminary concept of gravity
Microwave communication
Trigonometric functions
Technical standards
Fibonacci numbers
Cotton cultivation
Local government
Diamond mining
Blindfold chess
Glassblowing
English bond
Table tennis
Lunar water
Chaturanga
Squat toilet
Badminton
Meditation
Indigo dye
Cashmere
Shampoo
Stepwell
Button
Sugar
Yoga
Zero
FTP

[Narendra Modi @narendramodi]

Glimpses from a very special day in Ayodhya!

[Narendra Modi @narendramodi]

र���मज्योति! #RamJyoti

[Harsh Srivastava @Harshriv]

@GitaBhagavad_ Jai Shri Ram 🙏🕉🚩

[Shri Ram Janmbhoomi Teerth Kshetra @ShriRamTeerth]

भए प्रगट कृपाला!

[Narendra Modi @narendramodi]

आज हमारे राम आ गए हैं!

[Narendra Modi @narendramodi]

अयोध्या धाम में श्री राम लला की प्राण-प्रतिष्ठा का अलौकिक क्षण हर किसी को भाव-विभोर करने वाला है। इस दिव्य कार्यक्रम का हिस्सा बनना मेरा परम सौभाग्��� है। जय सियाराम! https://t.co/GAuJXuB63A

[Harsh Srivastava @Harshriv]

ब्रह्मांड सारा झुक गया, मुद्रा में विनय प्रणाम की।
चहुं ओर से ध्वनी आ रही, श्री राम जय श्री राम ��ी। 🙏🏻🚩🕉

#RamMandirPranPrathistha

[Harsh Srivastava @Harshriv]

Blessed to be present on these auspicious hours to witness the arrival of Prabhu Shri Ram in Punya Ayodhya Dham.🙏

A moment of immense joy and fulfillment as we welcome a new era of our civilisational rise with the consecration of the marvelous Ram Mandir.🪔

जय जय श्री राम 🚩🕉

[Harsh Srivastava @Harshriv]

🚀 Exciting times at #Insurjo24!

🌟 As a part of @TheProductfolks ' Insurjo warm-up series, unveiling mini teardown for given problem statement to formulate a product strategy that improves the engagement and retention of end customers on the Meesho app.💡

#InsurjoWithTPF

[Brett Adcock @adcock_brett]

The year is 2043.

The biggest companies on the planet are all in Deep Tech.

→ AI
→ Space
→ Fusion
→ Robotics
→ Genetics

Here's my 10-step playbook to start a deep tech company:

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In a major accomplishment for the government led by Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath , Uttar Pradesh has emerged as the second-largest economy of India

[Harsh Srivastava @Harshriv]

Just hopped onto Insurjo '24! 🎉

Joining a FREE Product Management Cohort by @TheProductfolks.

Excited to learn from product leaders like Marty Cagan, Ravi Mehta, Anuj Rathi, and many more!

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[Balaji @balajis]

INVESTING IN INDIA IS IMPROVING INDIA

If you see a startup growing, does that mean it doesn't have any flaws? That it's the best in the world? That you're going to use it for everything right away?

No, of course not. But you might start using it, and putting money into it, and talking about it to your friends. And that's how I think about India — an ancient civilization that's simultaneously like a startup country, as you can see from the graph below.

That's why I'm investing in India and Indians: because I see the growth potential, because it helps build up Bharat, and because a strong and self-sufficient India is good for the world. Now, let me address a few common arguments.

1) Civilizational Reincarnation. First, note that I used the phrase "ancient civilization" above. Of course I'm well aware that the Indus Valley civilization is one of the oldest in human history. But India is still analogous to a tech startup, because the country experienced a civilizational rebirth in 1991 after liberalization, just as China did in 1978. Whenever we use the term "leapfrogging" we acknowledge this. Why could India jump straight over landlines straight to mobile, or from cash to UPI? Because it was reborn recently, after centuries of colonialism and occupation. And reincarnation is something we are familiar with.

2) Underdog Millionaire. Second, observing that something is improving doesn't mean saying that it's already number one. In fact, one of the most important things about India is that Indians think of themselves as underdogs. Not starving "slumdogs" like the regrettable epithet, nor overconfident overdogs, but underrated underdogs — with a chance to win but certainly no guarantee.

That's the message of movies like Super 30 (https://t.co/N6U5UfNZ2H), which couldn't be more different than Black Mirror. Indians know they aren't #1, or even #2, because they aren't. But the diaspora helps show that Indians can be world class, and that India itself could become world class, which is part of why India is now rising to the occasion.

3) Decentralized Diaspora. Third, that brings us to one of India's greatest strengths: its diaspora. In this century China may end up playing the world's best home game, but India is on track to play the world's best away game. So India's development will look different than China's.

For one thing, Indians are willing and able to move anywhere. Westerners mostly aren't willing to move, because they still think their societies are the only places that are "First World". And the Chinese increasingly aren't able to move, because they're restricted from any countries where the Chinese state lacks hard power.

That leaves Indians to fill the gap. As Chinese emigration drops off, Indian emigration picks up to fill the holes in tech talent. As individual Indians become wealthier, more are financially able to emigrate. And as India as a whole becomes stronger, the passport improves, and more people are diplomatically able to emigrate. All this means the age of Indian emigration is just beginning. If China is the centralized state, India is the decentralized diaspora.

4) Special Economic Zones. Putting that all together, that means (a) India is reborn, (b) Indians know they are rising-yet-underdogs, and (c) Indian development is going to be quite different from Chinese development, with much more focus on the diaspora.

So, that's one of the reasons I think so much about special economic zones. Indians thrived in Dubai and Delaware, in Singapore and the Anglosphere — once they got out into a different economic system. And they're now starting to thrive in India itself — once India itself changed its economic system in 1991.

So, it's all about changes to the economic system. And with every investment we make in India or Indians, we build up a feature list of things to change.

Because there are a series of conceptually simple things India can do to be as good a place to do business as Dubai or Singapore. For example, you need to be able to send money into and out of the country for investment without hassle. You need to get a better passport so Indians can attend conferences. You need to rank higher on the economic freedom index (https://t.co/bRMsIKRX6P). And so on.

At India's current rate of improvement, I think much of that will eventually be possible in a place like GIFT City, as a kind of special economic zone, even if not for all of India at once.

Put another way: India's internet connectivity, digital payments, and basic infrastructure has dramatically and visibly improved in the last 10 years. But while it's improving, it doesn't yet have certain "power user" features for international business that Singapore, Dubai, and Delaware do.

Once it does, it'll get even more of my business — and more importantly the world's. But it's already investable, and improving — which is why I'm writing about India, putting money into Indians, and regularly meeting founders on the ground.

5) Investor, not cheerleader. In summary, that's what the quoted tweet gets wrong.

It's not about being a "cheerleader" who has to "stay" in a place to invest in it — imagine if every business had to be funded solely by neighbors down the street.

Instead, it's about being an international investor looking for the best talent around the world — and finding quite a lot of it in India.

Maybe I'll find one of you at the next meetup!

[Yogi Adityanath @myogiadityanath]

यतो धर्मस्ततो जयः!

धर्म व न्याय की विजय के महापर्व 'विजयादशमी' की प्रदेश वासियों, भक्तों और श्रद्धालुओं को हार्दिक बधाई व ढेरों मंगलकामनाएं!

यह महापर्व सबके अंतस में धर्म, सत्य, अच्छाई और न्याय की स्थापना के लिए अथाह प्रेरणा भरे, यही काम���ा है।

जय श्री राम!

[Harsh Srivastava @Harshriv]

आपको और आपके पूरे परिवार को महापर्व दशहरा की हार्दिक शुभकामनाएं 🕉❤️

मर्यादा पुरुषोत्तम प्रभु श्री राम अपने सभी भक्तों को विवेक, समृद्धि, स्वास्थ्य और सफलता प्रदान करें। 😊

जय श्री राम 🚩