Prateek Jain

VC @fundamentumvc Failed Entrepreneur @stayglad_app, Trying to learn - how to learn

[Shashi Tharoor @ShashiTharoor]

An Open Letter to the Jantar Mantar protestors:

My dear young friends,

I address you today not as a politician or an MP, but as someone deeply troubled by what is happening to your generation of young Indians.

This is personal for me. I was born to a middle-class family: my father was a salaried newspaper employee, my mother a homemaker, with three children to educate on one income. For a family like ours, merit was not a slogan. Scholarships, fair examinations, honest results — these were the only way one salary could carry three children's dreams.

I went to school in Mumbai and Kolkata, to college here in Delhi, topped the University and earned admission into IIM — and chose instead to follow my passion for international affairs, in America, on a scholarship. Nothing was inherited; everything was earned by hard work and yes, Exams.

So I know that a fair, merit-based system is the only ladder for young people from lower and middle-income families to climb up. When that ladder is broken — papers leaked, examinations cancelled, trust destroyed — the children of the rich and powerful do not suffer. They have other ladders. It is your dreams, and your families' sacrifices (and tragically, in some homes, young lives themselves) that are betrayed.

To the young people gathered at Jantar Mantar, and those raising your voices peacefully across India: this country hears you. Your anger is not indiscipline — it is the anguish of a generation that did everything right and was still betrayed . You are not alone.

And to the millions of young Indians watching quietly: your generation is not a problem to be managed. You are the answer to India's future. Do not lose hope. This ladder will be rebuilt — by you, and by every Indian who stands with you.

To Shri Sonam Wangchuk-ji, my heartfelt appeal: please end your fast. You have awakened the conscience of the nation; that is what a fast is meant to do. India needs your voice for the long road ahead.

With Parliament in session again from Monday, we will have an opportunity to raise the students’ issues in the highest forum of our democracy. That’s where the problem should be addressed, not by fasting unto death. Please heed my plea.

And finally, to the Government: I respectfully urge you to reach out and engage in the dialogue our democracy owes its young citizens. That is not weakness; that is statesmanship.

[Prateek Jain @pkj88]

@SaSarthaksingh I hear you brother!! Please send them over to @FundamentumIII

[The Fundamentum Partnership - Fund III @FundamentumIII]

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@Rishabh_RevQ Agree! There seems to be no clue of how things are going. Just random alphabets XAB etc

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@HR_starryeyes Is this a paid promotion? Are you an influencer now ?

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[Shikhar @shikhars_]

These photos are from my neighbourhood. People have given up since there is no action by the govt since 3 years.

If anyone on Twitter can get the govt to take action, I will buy you an iPhone.

[arnav @arnav_kumar]

Bangalore school kids are livestreaming the torrid state of the roads they endure daily.
Streaming from their buses while being bounced around like popcorn.

Soon, on a rainy day, some kids will livestream their 4 hour traffic jam ordeal

If this doesn’t spark the Bangalore roads revolution, nothing will.

If we are comfortable failing our kids, we are good as dead.

“ All revolutions are carried out by the youth.” – Mikhail Bakunin

[Prateek Jain @pkj88]

Digital payments lack compassion for the gig economy workers #keep_the_change

[Pratik Poddar @pratikpoddar]

Heartfelt thanks to @SriMandir_App team and @prashantsachan for organising a great Snan experience at MahaKumbh for my parents! You are doing God's work, literally! 🤗

[Prateek Jain @pkj88]

all the best @skipiit

[Subhendu Panigrahi @skipiit]

Hi Everyone,
@bryan_johnson is in India. And longevity is the new buzzword.

Only one of these statements is true.

In 2020, I realised my body was older than I could’ve comprehended. And that's where my story begins.

In July 2020, I got COVID. A full body check-up that year revealed a few things –

High cholesterol
High triglycerides
Low B12 (126 pg/ml)
Low D3
And pre-diabetic.

I took the first steps – reduced my alcohol consumption and focused on nutritious meals.

Despite the LOW FODMAP diet, my stomach issues escalated.

Another round of tests (endoscopy and ultrasound) told me that I was a walking store of diseases.

A bacterial infection H. Pylori.
Ulcer.
Fatty liver.
GERD.
Villous atrophy.

The standard protocol for H Pylori infection is to take 14 days of antibiotics, four antibiotics every day. I did that. And I felt better for some time.

Until I lost 11 KGs in 1 month is not. While having 3 large meals and 2 snacks. No calorie deficit of any kind.

I did another round of tests to rule out Tuberculosis and the deadly C word.

The tests came out negative and my gut was in very good shape. The doctor said it was in my head.

Anti-depressants were an option (took them for 3 days) but I still felt miserable.

I needed answers.

This was when I came across systems biology (I was clear that it was the future of health care).

Did a metabolomics test and -

Mitochondrial dysfunction
Lactate of pyruvate ratio was 338 (it should be 10-20)
IBS diarrhoea.
Low platelet levels and a rate of decline of 10K X 10^3/ uL per month
The traditional sickcare model was failing me.

So I went back to studying. And got in touch with a functional medicine expert in India.

For the first time in 18 months, I was equipped with more data and a personalised protocol that looked VERY different from 4 nutritionists and 5 doctors I worked with.

Cut to 2023, my biomarkers were in the optimal range (and continue to be today).

I stopped taking most of my supplements.

My stomach was healed.
My absorption started to get better.
My B12 – 432 pg/ml.
The “personal” spilled into work. And this time, it wasn’t a sabbatical but the second stint of life.

I met my co-founders @gehani and @sanmaya , and we set out to find a deeper thesis on what it will take to build a world-class longevity startup out of India.

In the last few months, we’ve run pilots with real users by getting them to do blood tests on 150+ biomarkers and working closely with them to understand their issues. Majority of the users?

Diabetes.

Gut issues.
Auto-immune conditions.
Cardio-vascular issues.
It told us one thing – 30s are the new 50s.

Today, we’re designing a system for a long life. Only for the people who know they want to live a long life and are here to find out how.

Thanks to @bryan_johnson, the world is ready for this!

P.S. He is in India this week and speaking in Mumbai today with @deepigoyal.

Not a better day than this to launch FOXO and make Indians live longer and unlock Life++.

[DeVC @DeVC_Global]

“70% to 80% of our content creation work is done through GenAI tools which we built in-house.. It doesn’t replace the writers or creators, but it makes them 10X better.”

At last Friday’s DugOut, Lal Chand Bisu (Co-Founder of Kuku FM) shared a set of nuanced insights -

[Prateek Jain @pkj88]

@harsh88shah People want to measure their net weight 😝

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@sethiankit @ndsnas I always tell them to leave me alone and they do

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#deconstruct_skincare is killing it. Number 1 on #Amazon Serum category! @Malini_as

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@vamzikrizzna Nitish Kumar for PM #JaiBihar

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@Akshay001 Hence ‘Vocally Self Critical’ is one of the important qualities to look in a leader. Most successful leaders are the one who have ‘strong opinion loosely held’

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@ashitapatodia Happy to Help!

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Happy Panchami Vasanth @vasanthkamath