@sajithpai Online spend of Indian masses replace existing spends with cheaper & better alternatives.
The only significant existing spend other than on smartphone is on children’s education.
Everything else is long tail.
@sajithpai Isn’t it the same concept as what Ghalib said “jo mazaa intezaar mein hain, wo kahan wisaal-e-yaar mein hain”. The wait of the beloved is better than the meet.
@v_mallya On the brighter side, you can use the clip to teach relative motion to physics students. It’s actually possible to be faster than the train !
It’s great to partner with Siddharth Prakash Singh, Ankur Pandey, Mayank Goel to build platform to bring K12 schools and their parent communities online, with the belief that schools will be gateway to usher in EdTech for the masses.
https://t.co/1Gjj3M953Q
By bet is that payments on WhatsApp’s high frequency platform will very quickly displace the incumbents.
Expecting WhatsApp to come up with “Shagun ka Lifafa” (like Wechat’s red envelope) growth-hack this Diwali to educate remaining india on UPI payments.
@patrick_oshag@david_perell Inside the Gutenberg Parenthesis - with mass distribution of written content - we had renaissance, now with mass distribution of spoken and not-spoken / fake content, wonder what’s in store.
First Pandemic and now NEP, am wondering if this is the best time in many decades (past and future) to be in EdTech...
Reminds me of the famous quote by Lenin “ ... there are decades when nothing happens and then there are weeks when decades happen”
That’s story of EdTech today
@AamAadmiParty@msisodia WhatsApp groups expose phone numbers of female teachers and students to everyone. It will create new problems - although not increasing digital divide is very thoughtful
Pls check https://t.co/9rlhhdXzVI
If helpful, can make available for all Govt schools for free.
AAP is sweeping the Delhi elections on education plank; this impacts how elections are fought in future, triggers school reforms and ushers the "EdTech Decade"
https://t.co/WvUbq28pME