Shri Nitin Gadkari ji just said:
“Don’t want E20? Buy pure petrol… but it’s expensive.”
So Team Bharat will BUST THESE MYTHS with facts! 🔥
*Fact 1: Petrol costs just ₹52/litre Ethanol costs ~₹72/litre!
*Fact 2: To make Ethanol “affordable” for blending, the government's "BETA BADHAO YOJNA" gives heavy subsidies to distilleries!
*Fact 3: Indian Ethanol is diverted to petrol thus → forcing INDIA to import industrial Ethanol from the USA!
*Fact 4: Nepal & Bhutan buy pure petrol from India… and sell it cheaper to their citizens!
Isn’t this mind-boggling?
This is nothing short of an #EthanolScam
#BetaBadhaoYojna #E20 #NitinGadkari #PetrolPrice #SugarDaddy
Most founders accidentally train their customers never to pay them.
@MadhavanSF (the "pricing guru" of Silicon Valley - having worked with LinkedIn, Uber, and 30+ unicorns) calls it the 20/80 Pricing Trap
• 20% of your features drive 80% of the willingness to pay
• Founders give that 20% away for free to gain distribution
• You are left trying to monetize the remaining 80% of features - the ones users don't actually value.
The result? You build a charity, not a business.
In this week's episode of The Library of Minds, we discuss the science of monetization and deconstruct how to architect ‘Profitable Growth’ - the core framework from his new book, Scaling Innovation.
03:33 - Netflix vs Blockbuster: The Pricing Decision That Changed Tech
08:06 - Why Most Startups Get Pricing Wrong
11:39 - Freemium vs Paid: When Free Destroys Value
15:38 - Pricing Models Matter More Than Price
16:28 - The AI Pricing Framework: Autonomy vs Attribution
21:49 - The Biggest Pricing Mistake Ever
25:05 - Why Steve Jobs Was a Pricing Genius
26:44 - Behavioral Pricing: How Founders 10× Deals Without Changing Product
31:02 - Data vs Conviction: How Great Founders Make Pricing Decisions
Today I learned about a YouTube channel run by a girl (I think she's a Google employee) who posts daily lunch videos from the Google office in Bangalore.
She's uploaded around 50 videos, each under 2 minutes, and already has about 60k subscribers. Is this even real?
Imagine if @arpit_bhayani started vlogging Google office lunches from the day he joined — he'd probably be one of India's biggest YouTubers by now.
Feels like we're truly in the peak of Kalyug!
@iarjuntandon@Akshat_World I loved the last line 🫡
This isn’t “rent.” The ugly side is capping upside in a trending stock and locking in losses during mean-reversion.
I was Operations Head at Oracle India.
After that, I started my own B2C Business.
In 6 years → 18+ outlets.
Here are 9 hard-hitting lessons from my journey I wish I knew sooner: 🧵👇🏻