Rahul Sachdev

CEO Compliance & Risks | Advisor & Investor | ChicagoBooth MBA | Interested in B2B Software, AI, Investing, World Affairs, Cricket & Arsenal

[Arsenal @Arsenal]

This belongs to all of us.

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Congrats 🍾 to all the Gooners! The 22 year long wait is over!!

[Arsenal @Arsenal]

The Arsenal. Your Premier League champions.

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@grok @TeleCricket @timwig cc: @TeleCricket

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@grok @TeleCricket @timwig @grok So why is English press now complaining about India having greater influence on Cricket’s administration?

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@cricket_badger @grok cc @cricket_badger

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@cricket_badger @grok @grok did that make Cricket boring?

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@JFDPilot97q9 @piersmorgan Go ahead. 90% of the money in Cricket will disappear

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

The Anjali Sardana story is one of the most absurd startup trajectories I’ve seen this year.

She’s 23. Georgetown biology grad. Worked at Bain Capital and 8VC as a private equity investor. Could have stayed on the guaranteed path to seven figures by 30.

Instead she flew to India in early 2025 and noticed something: 190 million Indian households need domestic help. Somewhere between 20 and 90 million people work as house cleaners, cooks, and laundry workers. And the entire market runs on word of mouth, building guards, and WhatsApp groups.

Zero infrastructure. Zero quality control. Zero income stability for workers.

She launched Pronto in Gurugram with a single hub in Sector 56. She and her team literally slept on the office floor to make sure the first 170 daily bookings got fulfilled. Workers arrive within 10 minutes. Every “Pro” goes through a 5-day in-person training program, background checks, and a final exam. For every 300 applicants, 50 make the cut.

Nine months later: 18,000 bookings per day. Over 3,000 active Pros. 10+ cities. The top 1% of customers use Pronto 23+ times per month. Median time between first and second booking: two days.

The funding trajectory tells the whole story. $2M seed at $12.5M valuation. $11M Series A at $45M three months later. $25M Series B at $100M six months after that. $40M total raised. Sardana still owns 40%.

The market math is what makes investors salivate. India’s domestic help sector generates tens of billions in annual wages, almost entirely in cash, with no formal contracts, no labor protections, and no platform taking a cut. General Catalyst’s Rahul Garg sized it at a $35B wage pool across 35 million semi-skilled workers. Pronto’s customer acquisition cost: Rs 400 (about $5).

And she runs a largely variable-cost model. No dark stores. No massive capex. Referrals are her biggest growth channel because her workers actually like working there enough to recruit their friends.

She left the guaranteed path to wealth to go sleep on an office floor in Gurgaon and solve a matching problem in a $35B informal labor market.

That’s what actual conviction looks like.

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Honored to Lead Compliance & Risks Into the Next Era of AI Innovation https://t.co/dbv042TuLh via @LinkedIn

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@AFTVMedia 1-2. Arsenal will win. Played much better. Very unlucky!

[Lionesses @Lionesses]

WE'RE BACK-TO-BACK EUROPEAN CHAMPIONS!! 🏆

[Fabrizio Romano @FabrizioRomano]

🚨❤️🤍 BREAKING: Viktor Gyökeres to Arsenal, here we go! Verbal agreement in place between all parties involved.

Sporting accept last bid from Arsenal for €63.5m plus €10m, agent will reduce his commission.

Gyökeres will sign five year deal at #AFC. He ONLY wanted Arsenal. 🇸🇪

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@TheBarmyArmy Don Bradman

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@AFTVMedia No. We need backups for Saliba and Gabbie

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@AFTVMedia Rodrygo

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Glad to see the acknowledgment from Brandon McCullum. FWIW Headingley wasn’t much better. https://t.co/1q5Lkwrj08

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I would love to hear @MichaelVaughan's views on flat English pitches in the current #ENGvsIND series. How's that good for test cricket? 🦗🦗🦗

[Michael Vaughan @MichaelVaughan]

If we are going to see these pitches ... I have an answer to how it could work ... Give the Teams 3 innings !!! 😜😜 #INDvENG