@JuliaHB1 Sad a senior journalist either canโt do basic maths or tweeting when cognitive abilities are diminished.
It says 190%. If the CT is 190% as compared to PY, then it is almost double. Where does it say it is a 190% INCREASE ?
@EtihadHelp we missed the connection flight on Etihad due to a delay in American Airlines. The next best option given to us was a week away and we were asked to stay in the Chicago airport for a week. This is not acceptable. No hotel or transportation was provided.
The morning after the 2024 election I left Twitter & curled into a fetal position.
Now I'm back, having lost a ton of followers but trying to regain some traction because fuck Elon's algorithm & fuck Trump.
Thank you for your attention to this matter.
The lady at the charity shop today told me that she wishes people would clear out their children's old toys in the lead up to Christmas rather than after because she always sees a number of parents in the days before Christmas looking for toys for their little ones who might be strapped for cash. She said there's very rarely anything in just before, but that they get inundated with toys in the days after.
And it really made me think about it in a way I never would have before.
If you know your child is going to get lots of presents from Father Christmas this year, by clearing out your cupboards a few days early, you could make another child's Christmas a lot more special too.
Saw this & thought I'd repost.
Crystal Palace have become the first club to open a dedicated support centre for players after theyโve been released from the academy. ๐
The idea is to limit the risk of mental health issues for released young men. ๐
The three-year aftercare package will support released academy players in making a way of life, outside of football.
Not only are the Eagles smashing it on the pitch, they are smashing it off the pitch. Great initiative. ๐ฆ
Someone on Reddit asked what does Zerodha do differently, how are we profitable, why don't IPO etc. This is what I replied:
Hmmm... so you forget that we have spent 15 years getting here. And maybe another 10 years, before Zerodha, I was involved in the markets in some form. So, 25 years in all. Things in business compound over time, especially if you like or love what you are doing and if you are lucky to be in the right place and time.
When we started Zerodha, we started off as a partnership firm because the exchange deposit requirement was lower, Rs 90 lks compared to Rs 1.5 cr. The start was mainly enabled thanks to the NSE Now trading platform, which came free of cost if you were an NSE broker. For the backoffice piece, sending contract notes, maintaining ledgers, etc., we signed up with a vendor who basically gave it at almost 0 cost. This was provided that we tested out his platform.
So the money we have spent on Zerodha is maybe ~Rs 10lks, and that is all the money that has gone into the business till date. Rs 2.5 lks for our website, Rs 5lks for our office interiors (we had an office before), and Rs 2.5 lks for miscellaneous. So, we came from an extremely middle-class background and had no rich uncles. ๐ Dad was a bank manager, and Mom taught Veena.
Our rise coincides with India's rise. We were present at the right place and time with the right products and initiatives. Any gyan any founder gives, eventually comes down to getting timing right, and this has got everything to do with luck. ๐ I was just reading about Jensen Huang from Nvidia, he survived in the business for 30 years until he hit the right place and time. For a long time, people might have questioned what he was doing until very recently. ๐
Now that there is no pressure to give any exit to any investor, we can continue doing what is right for the customer, sometimes even at the cost of the business. For example, our no spam or no tracking policy. I believe that the philosophy with which we run Zerodha will be our real moat as a business. It is very tough to stick to it as a public company.