Nirav Doctor

Product Management and Strategy | Innovation in Financial Services | Customer and Employee Experience | SaaS, PaaS | Salesforce | Personal Views

[Nirav Doctor @niravdoctor]

@SenSanders What if we force him to create so much wealth and mint millionaires, so that they don’t need social security? Wait …

[Nirav Doctor @niravdoctor]

Should have used Slack 😉

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

NASA pays $100M for Microsoft 365 licensing across the agency. They standardized every system on Microsoft. They put Microsoft Surfaces on the Orion spacecraft as the crew's personal computing devices.

And the first technical crisis of humanity's return to the Moon was Reid Wiseman radioing Houston to say he has two Microsoft Outlooks and neither one works.

Mission Control's response? "With your go, we can remote in and take a look." The same exact workflow your company's IT helpdesk uses when you submit a ticket on a Monday morning. Except the user is traveling at 4,275 mph, 30,000 miles from Earth, and the Wi-Fi situation is considerably worse.

This spacecraft survived hydrogen leaks, helium leaks, a faulty heat shield, and a broken toilet. Outlook broke anyway. The toilet actually got fixed faster.

The real story here is that Microsoft has achieved something no other software company in history can claim: a support ticket from lunar transit. Their enterprise sales team should frame this. "Battle-tested in space" is a positioning statement most B2B companies would mass murder for, and Microsoft accidentally earned it because Outlook crashes everywhere, including orbit.

Outlook remains the only software in human history that performs identically whether you're in a cubicle in Redmond or aboard a spacecraft bound for the Moon. Universally, reliably broken. And we keep buying it anyway.

[vittorio @IterIntellectus]

this is actually insane

> be tech guy in australia
> adopt cancer riddled rescue dog, months to live
> not_going_to_give_you_up.mp4
> pay $3,000 to sequence her tumor DNA
> feed it to ChatGPT and AlphaFold
> zero background in biology
> identify mutated proteins, match them to drug targets
> design a custom mRNA cancer vaccine from scratch
> genomics professor is “gobsmacked” that some puppy lover did this on his own
> need ethics approval to administer it
> red tape takes longer than designing the vaccine
> 3 months, finally approved
> drive 10 hours to get rosie her first injection
> tumor halves
> coat gets glossy again
> dog is alive and happy
> professor: “if we can do this for a dog, why aren’t we rolling this out to humans?”

one man with a chatbot, and $3,000 just outperformed the entire pharmaceutical discovery pipeline.

we are going to cure so many diseases.
I dont think people realize how good things are going to get

[Joy Bhattacharjya @joybhattacharj]

Einstein's birthday, and Pi Day today. Because March 14 is written as 3.14 in the US, the first 3 numbers in the irrational number Pi.
And what could be more irrational than thinking that, exactly 25 years ago, two batters could last through the whole day and lead India to one of the greatest ever test victories against the Australian juggernaut.
March 14th, Einstein Day, Pi Day, & Dravid and Laxman Day!

[Nirav Doctor @niravdoctor]

SlackCRM: Humans and agents working together to sell as well as serve customers using Slack and Slackbot. Congrats team!

[Marc Benioff @Benioff]

New: Slack CRM.
AI on top, salesforce underneath.
One pane of glass. 🤯

[Nirav Doctor @niravdoctor]

@shl ‘Free’ loaf is a clear winner right?

[Nirav Doctor @niravdoctor]

Wow. I have been fortunate to experience and observe some really caring companies and coworkers, but this one takes the cake!

[Yael Bar tur @yaelbt]

Absolute perfection. Avinatan Or’s boss at @nvidia writes to him, read till the end:

“Avinatan Or, I hope you have a good excuse for not showing up to work at NVIDIA for 738 days.

But every Sunday morning for two years, the head of NVIDIA Israel’s HR, Gideon Rosenberg, sent an email to all employees counting the days you were in captivity and calling everyone to join him for a reminder vigil in front of the Kirya gate, held every Sunday evening. Even the global CEO, Jensen Huang, mentioned your name in every quarterly internal meeting, telling 40,000 employees that their colleague was being held captive by Hamas. How wonderful that you’ve returned home. I heard you have an amazing girlfriend who’s eagerly waiting for you, loving parents, that you work at a place that cares for you, and I also have some pretty good news about what’s happened with your stocks over the past two years.”

[Nirav Doctor @niravdoctor]

See how Salesforce can help address the challenges with compliance in financial services process, do join me and my colleagues for a round table discussion at #df25. Spots are limited, so do reserve your seat early for this session. #compliance #financialsevices #salesforce

[Nirav Doctor @niravdoctor]

@svembu Amazing. Please include security and privacy features too.

[Nirav Doctor @niravdoctor]

An angel saving angels!

[D Prasanth Nair @DPrasanthNair]

In Pune, a daily wage worker admitted his wife to the hospital for delivery. It turned out to be a cesarean section. He didn’t know how much the fee would be and thought he might have to mortgage his house. “Doctor, what child is it?”

“You have been blessed with an angel (a baby girl),” the doctor replied. “How much is the fee?” “When angels are born, I don’t charge any fee,” said the doctor. The man fell at his feet saying, “Sir, you are God.”

Dr. Ganesh Rakh in Pune has been doing this for 10 years—he does not take even a single paisa if a baby girl is born. So far, he has delivered over 1,000 babies for free.

His mother told him once, ‘Become a doctor and protect these angel girls,’” he proudly says.

Dr. Rakh’s Save the Girl Child initiative has transcended borders and inspired change globally.

Stay blessed, Doctor!

[Nirav Doctor @niravdoctor]

Look AI is creating new jobs!

[Raj Singh @mobileraj]

Never a dull moment, via a colleague. The rise of the vibe code clean-up specialist job title :)

[Nirav Doctor @niravdoctor]

Hilarious 😂😂😂.

[Ritesh Banglani @banglani]

Beta Monisha forward deployed engineer bolo. Onsite is so middle class.

[Nirav Doctor @niravdoctor]

@petergyang Hard Rock is pretty good.

[Nirav Doctor @niravdoctor]

UPI is absolutely crushing it. It’s far ahead of the western countries.

[Jyotiraditya M. Scindia @JM_Scindia]

India’s digital powerhouse UPI is now world’s #1 real-time payment system…

Another transformative milestone under PM @narendramodi ji’s leadership. 🇮🇳

#DigitalIndia

[Nirav Doctor @niravdoctor]

Soham redefined what it means to be a 10x engineer 😄

[Nirav Doctor @niravdoctor]

@sabra_the I read 90 minutes at Entebbe as a kid. Very inspiring!

[Nirav Doctor @niravdoctor]

@AravSrinivas Works fine on Gemini directly. So this search may not be using that? 🤔

[Nirav Doctor @niravdoctor]

Incredible. It’s just the beginning!

[Tomasz Tunguz @ttunguz]

Moderna unified the role of CTO and head of people - the new leader determines which jobs are better done by humans or AI.

It's among the first in what will very likely be a series of org chart reimaginings.

[Dr. S. Jaishankar @DrSJaishankar]

The world must show zero tolerance for terrorism.

#OperationSindoor