Rahul V

Market Research x Data Storytelling | Entrepreneurial Generalist | Applied Astrology & Graphology

[Rahul V @rahuldecodes]

@SandeepMall Shopping malls need to be renamed to 'sightseeing/photoshoot malls'. For actual buying there's at least one app on everyone's phone now.

[Rahul V @rahuldecodes]

@Reddit, are you shutting down your website because every two seconds of browsing the site freezes and asks me to download your app, that too from the app store. Looks like it's also going to be exclusive to iPhone users. With traffic is already going south, this looks stupid.

[Rahul V @rahuldecodes]

The more you clarify, the more questions will pop up.

[Deepinder Goyal @deepigoyal]

Also, just for the record.

In my entire history of building Zomato, Eternal, and now Temple – we have never asked anyone to post anything online, for money or otherwise.

I type all my posts myself. Everything you see is pure "building in public".

A lot of founder friends have asked me so many times to engage with some agency or the other to manage the narrative and infuse supporting posts. I always refuse.

Exception: we sometimes ask our internal teams to repost our posts if and when they want. Compliance is up to them, nobody is tracked and vilified for not doing it.

Yours to believe it or not. But that's the way I prefer building in public.

Again, Happy Diwali! 🪔

[Rahul V @rahuldecodes]

Health is the real wealth but people only ask health- specific questions when they are in an ICU hanging by a thread, so no surprises here.

[Astro Sharmistha @AstroSharmistha]

Dhanteras is dedicated to Dhanwantari Devata not Lakshmi Mata. Today is the day dedicated to the iternal physician, making the promise to give our health top priority. Sabko Dhanatrayodashi ki shubh kamanay.

[Rahul V @rahuldecodes]

@ShashiUniyal95 Sunlight

[Rahul V @rahuldecodes]

Guess how much @rajshamani paid Sam to come on his show?

[Rahul V @rahuldecodes]

@GabbbarSingh What whitespace you feel there will be (nontech), with AI taking over everything? If any

[Rahul V @rahuldecodes]

@theliverdoc The only purpose of life is that it has no purpose.

[Rahul V @rahuldecodes]

Just when I was thinking, how to get more funds to expand my business, Zepto sent me this.

Thank you @ZeptoNow 😤 !

[Rahul V @rahuldecodes]

So whose job is it to support them? It could be the government, which can’t even count them, or the companies saving money with AI (though why would they, after all making more money isn’t a crime), or maybe this is simply how every new technology has played out, and people will figure their own way through it, like they always have.

Only time will tell.

[Rahul V @rahuldecodes]

If governments can run schemes like 'Ladli Behna Yojana', why can’t we have an "AI Job-Loss Yojana" for people whose work is being taken over by artificial intelligence?

[Rahul V @rahuldecodes]

Now, someone could say, fine, just support every unemployed person, but then it’s not an AI scheme anymore; it’s an unemployment allowance, which India has never really had for its educated urban youth. And they’re spread across cities and colleges, not sitting in one constituency, so no party is in a hurry to fight for them.

[Rahul V @rahuldecodes]

Now, I’m not saying a doctor should lose his job every time a patient doesn’t make it, because medicine isn’t sales, the body doesn’t always react the way it should, and a surgeon who’s scared of every possible result won’t be much help to anyone. And yes, that form doesn’t save a doctor if he actually messes up.

But just imagine going into your next appraisal with a paper your manager signed back in January, saying he knows the results may not be good and you can’t be blamed for it. Honestly, I’d take that deal without thinking twice ;)

[Rahul V @rahuldecodes]

Think about almost any job - if a marketing campaign flops, someone gets questioned about it in the next review, if a developer’s code keeps breaking, it shows up in his appraisal, and if a salesperson misses his targets two quarters in a row, his job is at risk. So in most employments, when things go wrong, it’s on you.

[Rahul V @rahuldecodes]

Suppose, if your relative needs a serious surgery today and someone hands you a form at the counter, you’re not going to sit there reading every line, you just sign it, because not signing means no surgery at all!

[Rahul V @rahuldecodes]

@KobeissiLetter Humans have to invest in this company so that they can be wiped off from this planet.

[Rahul V @rahuldecodes]

@ravihanda Suppose someone steals your wallet, escapes on a bike, gets caught. Do they get to deduct petrol expenses before returning it?

[Rahul V @rahuldecodes]

ChatGPT has started showing ads and the first one I saw was for an ad blocker 🙃