@adxtyahq Mahindra and Tata Passenger EVs aren't "startups" lol
PhonePe is still majority owned by Walmart.
And for the other 2 in the top 5, BYJU's and Dream11 ...
@laalsaalan FWIW, the NDA won big in the Tamil Nadu in 2014, where Raman did live. The NDA won 37/39 seats in Tamil Nadu via the AIADMK.
The NDA has since gotten obliterated in TN after Jayalalithaa died in 2016.
@manan_b27898@rajmkk@business The gini coefficient for India is calculated using household consumption expenditure, not income earned. This is because of the large informal economy for which there's no reliable data on income earned.
@rajmkk@business There’s a lot of caveats with GINI. The way it’s measured in India is very different from other countries. In India its consumption based not earnings based. A person can earn 100x more but consume only 10x more and in such cases GINI counts them as 10x richer
@SandaliJain25 Remove drinks and the prices are nowhere close.
Alcohol is really expensive in India because of sin taxes, especially when you get imported liquor, which is most drinks at nicer restaurants.
Imported liquor has an effective tax of 300-400%
@janwhyy Just go through the passport pages and look at the Visa stamps, put each stamp by country and date in a spreadsheet and sort it.
Alternatively, have GPT/Claude go through your email and do this for you.
@aravind I think we’d eventually get a USB variant which will support very high power and standardise sockets in practice. Many places already have USB Type A/C wall sockets, but it can only power small appliances.
@Fintech03 Indian products that do have users (Flipkart, PayTm). They also do not need to win on merit (ShareChat).
IMO, India needs to create truly global consumer companies, not X for India. It's dependent on the scale and behaviour of the local consumer base and will happen eventually.
@Fintech03 While MapMyIndia was early to found a maps company, the product IIRC only released in the mid 2000s and MapQuest was launched before it.
And Google wasn't the first engine. People thought the search market was already crowded and mature in 1997.
@augustdeploying @ananbatra@bhardwajshash No, what? I, along with a lot of Hindi speakers took 5 years of Sanskrit in school. None of them could speak Sanskrit conversationally.
@ihailmyindia Using “chaiwala” as an insult is an abhorrent and elitist thing to do, and they don’t realise this.
Especially stupid when the vast majority of the country isn’t the upper middle class or above.