Natarajan

Product Manager at a Series A startup. Love long distance cycling. Musings on Product, Tech & Markets. Alumnus of @IIMBangalore

[Indian Tech & Infra @IndianTechGuide]

📍Kalsubai Peak, Maharashtra 🇮🇳

[Natarajan @natram88]

#ChennaiRains2023 #CycloneMichuang

[Natarajan @natram88]

Dear @chennaicorp This is my friend's house at Sayee Nagar, Virugambakkam. A tree has fallen on their compound and an electricity post has also crashed on their balcony. Request your kind support

[Arvind Chandrasekharan @avihari1921]

Hi peeps this is for me! Kindly help. Power cannot be resumed without clearing this. Please help

[Arvind Chandrasekharan @avihari1921]

Hi peeps this is for me! Kindly help. Power cannot be resumed without clearing this. Please help

[Orange Book 🍊📖 @orangebook]

People who are good at remaining calm under pressure are just people who went through a lot of stressful situations, and who learned how to take responsibility instead of acting like a victim.

[Vijay Shekhar Sharma @vijayshekhar]

Superb context of @IndiGo6E’s Food & Beverage revenues as shared by @grovermanu :

*Indigo F&B sales* revenue (FY'23): Rs 762 Cr
*Barbeque Nation* revenue (FY'22): Rs 761 Cr

🛫 Indigo's In-flight sales, mainly Food & Beverages, soared to Rs 762 Cr for FY'23, even surpassing Barbeque Nation's entire FY'22 revenue.

Let's decode its impact for the airline 💡

*Customer Experience Perspective:*

• Total F&B revenue = Rs 760 Cr
• Avg. order value = Rs 250
• Passengers ordering/year ≈ 3.04 Cr
• Passengers ordering/day ≈ 83,000
• Daily Indigo flights = 1,800
• Passengers ordering food/flight ≈ 46
• Avg. Passengers in an Indigo flight = 160
~30% of passengers consume F&B items in a flight.

*Financial Perspective:*

• Assumed Gross Margin on F&B ≈ 70%
• Profit from F&B sales ≈ Rs 532 Cr

Indigo's F&B sales profit is even higher than Jubilant FoodWorks total profit for FY'23 (356 Cr)

While many airlines face survival challenges, Indigo thrives with over Rs 500 Cr profit solely from F&B sales.
~LB view

[Orange Book 🍊📖 @orangebook]

Real friends never take it personally when you are too busy to hang out, they don’t feel entitled to your time,

they are mature enough to understand that life has ups and downs, the only thing they might ask is how they can help you.

[Adam Grant @AdamMGrant]

Public service announcement for managers and coaches: you can't judge effort by results.

Inconsistent performance doesn't mean people aren't trying their best. It often means they're doing their best in the face of turbulence.

In humans, variability is a feature, not a bug.

[Chetty Arun @ChettyArun]

We Just wrapped up an incredible hackathon at @Razorpay. It was an internal org-wide hackathon.

Here's a glimpse of what all happened last week:

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[Balaji @balajis]

India’s new parliament was built in under 2.5 years and cost less than $125M.

An ancient civilization is ascending once again, returning to its rightful place on the world stage.

India is back.

[Vaibhav Domkundwar @vaibhavbetter]

Fierce loyalty trumps everything in the journey of entrepreneurship.

[Daily Stoic @dailystoic]

"If you are ever tempted to look for outside approval, realize that you have compromised your integrity. If you need a witness, be your own." — Epictetus

[Sachin Bansal @_sachinbansal]

Leadership is about making effective decisions for a given goal while making the most out of limited resources at hand. Resources like time, money, people, etc that you have are always limited. So, as a leader in order to make something better you will likely end up making something worse. In order to spend more (time or money) on one area of business, you will spend less time on another one.

And you have to be ok to live with consequences of such decision. If someone thinks that being a leader is a fun job then they are not fit to be one.

[Orange Book 🍊📖 @orangebook]

If you have time to worry about things you cannot control anyway, you are distracted.

Peace of mind comes from being focused on the right things.

[Nathan Baugh @nathanbaugh27]

Up’s opening scene is notoriously sad.

Pixar decided to rip your heart out in the first 4 minutes of the movie.

But what makes it such an effective hook? Why is it the perfect opening?

Here’s a quick breakdown:

[Natarajan @natram88]

@gcmouli Awesome @gcmouli Subscribed :) Looking forward to it!

[Vaibhav Domkundwar @vaibhavbetter]

Meta’s hard learned lessons are lessons for everyone irrespective of stage - leaner is better! https://t.co/EYgAGBqtqQ

[Muthukrishnan Dhandapani @dmuthuk]

RBI's role in financial stability is vastly underrated. Every single depositor of banks in this country believes his money is safe. And it has always been safe. Banks have failed. But no depositor has ever lost. RBI is the best central bank in the world.

[Orange Book 🍊📖 @orangebook]

You just need a few thoughtful friends who genuinely want the best for you. They make a world of difference.

[Orange Book 🍊📖 @orangebook]

You get anxious when you feel like you are wasting your time, at school, at work, in a relationship.

You get confident when you feel like with every passing year, life gets better,

because you invested in useful skills, in practical knowledge, in loyal friends, in yourself.