The very first thing @kunalb11 should introduce in @WhatsApp is to bring a separate tab for Promotional messages from Businesses and better if all of the messages from Businesses go to separate tabs. WhatsApp should go back to prioritising personal (1:1) communications, than to overwhelm users by these Business messages.
Indians can cope all they want. Pakistanis are right - Pakistan is indeed an ancient civilization with a 5,000 year old history. Here are some quotes, both ancient and modern, that prove it beyond doubt:
Quintus Curtius Rufus, 1st century CE:
"Pakistan was believed to be richer than all other nations."
Pomponius Mela, 1st century CE:
"Pakistan is rich in peoples, rich in cities, and rich in every kind of resource."
Pliny the Elder, 77 CE:
"In no year does Pakistan absorb less than fifty million sesterces of our empire's wealth, sending back merchandise to be sold with us at a hundred times its prime cost...At the very lowest computation, Pakistan, China and the Arabian peninsula take from our empire one hundred million sesterces every year. That is what our luxuries and our women cost us."
Yijing, 7th century CE:
"The customs and learning of Pakistan are worthy of admiration...Those who wish to understand the true meaning of the Buddhist scriptures should study in Pakistan."
Al-Masudi, 10th century CE:
"Pakistan is the country of wisdom, philosophy and sciences."
British Viceroy Lord Curzon, 1901 CE:
"As long as we rule Pakistan we are the greatest power in the world. If we lose it, we shall drop straightaway to a third-rate power."
Albert Einstein:
"We owe a lot to Pakistanis, who taught us how to count, without which no worthwhile scientific discovery could have been made."
Mark Twain:
"Pakistan is the cradle of the human race, the birthplace of human speech, the mother of history, grandmother of legend, and great grand mother of tradition. Our most valuable and most instructive materials in the history of man are treasured up in Pakistan only."
Will Durant:
"Pakistan was the mother of our race and Sanskrit the mother of Europe's languages."
It’s been a minute.
2015–2018
- Exited FreeCharge. Spent time learning and investing.
- Pondered about: Why can't trust be rewarded? Started with $1M of personal capital.
- Launched CRED to reward people for paying credit card bills on time.
2019–2025
- Built a system run by a team that values ownership, judgment, and craft.
- Grew from 0 to 17M members by aligning incentives with behaviour.
- Built several products during COVID lockdowns.
- Raised $900M+ from global investors. Did 4 ESOP buybacks.
- Made Indiranagar and IPL ads slightly more interesting.
- Received a full stack of regulatory licences.
- Lost 35 kilos.
- Scaled from 0 to ~$325M ( ~₹3,200 crore) in annual revenue across payments, lending, insurance, commerce, wealth, and credit cards.
2026
- First profitable quarter (yet occasionally asked what our business model is)
- Raised another $900M from Meta in primary and secondary capital.
- Announcing our 5th ESOP buyback.
Today
CRED is ready for its next phase. I am stepping back and @miten steps in as interim CEO, partnered with an incredibly talented team. He has been heading strategy and finance and suffering me since 2020. I’m stepping away from the operating role and will continue as a shareholder. My commitment doesn’t change. Just the role.
Extremely grateful to our members, partners, regulators, and investors who made this possible. And to our board, Shailendra, Micky, Saurabh for their extraordinary conviction.
Team CRED, I’ll still expect you to be a 10x version of yourselves.
As for me, I’ll be joining Meta to lead WhatsApp globally.
Meta comes in as a minority investor in CRED. No access to member data.
While it’s come very far, the delta between WhatsApp today and its full potential is massive. I look forward to working with Mark, Chris, and the leadership across Meta for the next step in WhatsApp’s journey. Will, thank you for scaling something the world relies on quietly, and for making this transition smooth.
Onwards.
🚨 Hillary Clinton just delivered one of the sharpest takes on Israel’s Hezbollah strategy yet :
“He has never had, Israel has never had, in as long as I can remember, a government that started out more open to working with Israel to try to disarm Hezbollah.
And rather than trying to be… smart about how to build up a Lebanese government for the purpose of disarming and neutering Hezbollah… Israel has been engaged in this bombardment of Lebanon.”
She argues Israel missed a real opportunity to weaken Hezbollah from within by leveraging growing local opposition and a more cooperative Lebanese government and that the current approach is counterproductive.
Her recent interview with David Remnick: 👇👇
It’s been a minute.
2015–2018
- Exited FreeCharge. Spent time learning and investing.
- Pondered about: Why can't trust be rewarded? Started with $1M of personal capital.
- Launched CRED to reward people for paying credit card bills on time.
2019–2025
- Built a system run by a team that values ownership, judgment, and craft.
- Grew from 0 to 17M members by aligning incentives with behaviour.
- Built several products during COVID lockdowns.
- Raised $900M+ from global investors. Did 4 ESOP buybacks.
- Made Indiranagar and IPL ads slightly more interesting.
- Received a full stack of regulatory licences.
- Lost 35 kilos.
- Scaled from 0 to ~$325M ( ~₹3,200 crore) in annual revenue across payments, lending, insurance, commerce, wealth, and credit cards.
2026
- First profitable quarter (yet occasionally asked what our business model is)
- Raised another $900M from Meta in primary and secondary capital.
- Announcing our 5th ESOP buyback.
Today
CRED is ready for its next phase. I am stepping back and @miten steps in as interim CEO, partnered with an incredibly talented team. He has been heading strategy and finance and suffering me since 2020. I’m stepping away from the operating role and will continue as a shareholder. My commitment doesn’t change. Just the role.
Extremely grateful to our members, partners, regulators, and investors who made this possible. And to our board, Shailendra, Micky, Saurabh for their extraordinary conviction.
Team CRED, I’ll still expect you to be a 10x version of yourselves.
As for me, I’ll be joining Meta to lead WhatsApp globally.
Meta comes in as a minority investor in CRED. No access to member data.
While it’s come very far, the delta between WhatsApp today and its full potential is massive. I look forward to working with Mark, Chris, and the leadership across Meta for the next step in WhatsApp’s journey. Will, thank you for scaling something the world relies on quietly, and for making this transition smooth.
Onwards.
India shouldn't crib about Trump's stance. Instead, be more assertive about his own strengths and react to it as an understandable act of desperation by US or Trump. And talk to in the eyes of Trump: "We understand!" (I'm being dramatic here, but would India had more leverage, it must have been metaphorically true)
Trump's act are merely to safeguard America's economic interests.
He is articulating what is the state after Iran war's debacle.
Pakistani Is Talking About Poverty In India 🇮🇳 & India Defence.
"India is poor country"
"Its just talking thing that India is 4th largest economy"
"Pakistan is not scared of Indian defence"
"Hum log toh Jazba e Sahadat Se Sarshar Quam Hain"
🤡
India shouldn't crib about Trump's stance. Instead, be more assertive about his own strengths and react to it as an understandable act of desperation by US or Trump. And talk to in the eyes of Trump: "We understand!" (I'm being dramatic here, but would India had more leverage, it must have been metaphorically true)
Trump's act are merely to safeguard America's economic interests.
He is articulating what is the state after Iran war's debacle.
मोदी जी: क्यों बे ट्रम्प भोंसड़ी के, सेलर मार दिए हमारे माद#%द?
ट्रम्प: वो… मैं… वो तो… सॉरी मोदी जी… बटन दब गया थोड़ा सा…
मोदी जी: साले बटन दब जाता है ऐसे ही? समझाता क्यों नहीं निकम्मे लोगों को? तेरा बटन दबा दूँगा मैं किसी दिन!
ट्रम्प: अरे मोदी जी, एक और रैली करा देंगे टेक्सस में! आप गुस्सा मत होइए!
मोदी जी: तू समझता है मैं तेरे ‘फ्रेंड’ वाले ट्वीट से और इन रैलियों से पिघल जाता हूँ? साले डेढ़ सौ करोड़ भारतवासियों का पीएम हूँ मैं, मूत देंगे सब अमेरिका की ओर मुँह कर के तो इतनी बिजली बन जाएगी कि AI डेटा सेंटर चलने लगेंगे।
ट्रम्प: सॉरी मोदी जी, अगली बार से नहीं होगा।
The US government, citing national security authorities, has issued an export control directive to suspend all access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 by any foreign national, whether inside or outside the United States, including foreign national Anthropic employees.
The net effect of this order is that we must abruptly disable Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for all our customers to ensure compliance.
Access to all other Claude models is not affected.
We apologize for this disruption to our customers. We believe this is a misunderstanding and are working to restore access as soon as possible.
Read our full statement: https://t.co/bwn0sximKZ
India was discussing about NEET paper leak, fuel/gas shortage, Inflation etc..
And then in last 4-5 days it’s just been:
- Mere Insta followers bhad gaye
- Mera twitter handle dekho
- Mera tweet hata diya
- Mera account hata diya
Ye layenge kranti 🤡🤡