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[Ramya @ramyaramani]

@narayananh Well..they would have been training for months. Hyrox Mumbai could have been a practice run.

[Sridhar Vembu @svembu]

"Nobody knows anything here. The specs, code, tests, PRDs, tickets, resolution of those tickets, reports, etc., everything is made by Claude Code. Nobody on my team likes this. They are being forced to ship as much as they can."

This is sad. I tell our engineers to use AI but never cede our understanding to AI.

As an industry, we are driving too fast in a fancy new car we barely understand how to drive, inviting disaster.

[Ramya @ramyaramani]

@narayananh The branch located near Adyar signal has closed down.

[Ramya @ramyaramani]

What a refreshing change.

[CMOTamilNadu @CMOTamilnadu]

அனைவரின் இல்லங்களும் உள்ளங்களும் மகிழ்ச்சியால் நிறையும் கிருஷ்ண ஜெயந்தி திருநாளில் அனைவருக்கும் எனது மனமார்ந்த நல்வாழ்த்துகளைத் தெரிவித்துக் கொள்கிறேன்.

அநீதிக்கு எதிரான அறம் வெல்லும், எத்தகைய சூழலிலும் கடமை தவறாது செயல்பட வேண்டும், தர்மத்தின் வழியில்
மன உறுதியுடனும் நம்பிக்கையுடனும் வாழ்க்கைப் பயணத்தை முன்னெடுக்க வேண்டும் என்னும் ஸ்ரீகிருஷ்ணரின் உபதேசங்களைப் பின்பற்றி உயரிய வாழ்வியல் நெறிகளுடன் அன்பும் அறமும் தழைத்தோங்கும் நல்லுலகைப் படைத்திடுவோம்.

#CMJosephVijay‌

[AstroCounselKK 🇮🇳 @AstroCounselKK]

Wives of men in uniform..
As I always say ..
When can never repay their and their families sacrifice for us all.

This is something which should be VIRAL ..
Great share by Sir @TinyDhillon ji

[Adam Robinson @RetentionAdam]

$10M ARR is the FU MONEY of SaaS.

Here’s the breakdown:

I think $10m ARR bootstrapped is the new unicorn.

Why?

Because if you can bootstrap $10m ARR in a lean way, all your wildest dreams will come true.

You will be able to do whatever you want with your life.

(I know because I’ve done it)

Not only that, I think bootstrapping $10m ARR is actually way easier than creating a unicorn.

And WAY less risky, with a FAR higher probability-weighted financial (and happiness) outcome.

Here’s 6 reasons why all founders should commit to bootstrapping $10m ARR:

1. You and your co-founder will be making over $1m/yr in salary and dividends.

This is simple math (another benefit of a small, efficient team). You and your co-founder can easily clear $1M each at $10M ARR, and probably more. With VC money, you have to be much, MUCH larger before you can take home that kind of money. It will be years later, if it ever happens.

2. You can sell your business in ONE SECOND for $30-$40m (or more)

I’m sure you’ve all seen the math. Dilute yourself down to 5% on a 15 year run to $1B, and if you didn’t pull out HUGE secondary checks, you actually come out behind. Not only that - there are only a handful of buyers at $1b. There are hundreds - maybe thousands - of EBITDA buyers at $30-$40m.

3. You can hire a CEO to run your company, work 1 hour per week, and clip the coupon

4. You can work 100 hours per week and run yourself into the ground (if that’s your thing)

5. You can go raise $50m and build a unicorn

Your product and GTM will be so tight that if you want to hit a home run at this point, you can absolutely do it. And as a profitable company, you will have leverage to get good terms from growth equity funds. Many will put the money straight in your pocket.

6. You can keep running it lean, get to $25m ARR with 25 people and pay yourself $10-$15m per year.

This is a possibility that literally no one talks about. And again, I think it’s actually much easier and higher probability than creating a VC-backed unicorn. Exit or not, if you get here, game over. You get a decent exit every year!

TAKEAWAY:

If you can bootstrap $10m ARR, the options available to you are SO GOOD.

The harsh reality is that most companies never get there.

Why?

Because you get traction and VCs show up at your door.

They gas you up with hopes and dreams about how your SaaS will be a decacorn.

They give you money that you don’t need, which you promptly turn around and spend.

All the while, it’s actually INTERFERING with the one thing that will make you great, capital or not.

Product-market fit.

If you can find PMF, bootstrapped, then use money from your customers to get to $10m…

…And with PMF, you can…

Do anything you want with your life.

A friend and epic founder of Boomerang (the Gmail app) - Aye Moah (@ayemoah) - did it.

And she’s coming on Inbound-Led Outbound LIVE to share how.

It’s Tuesday, 3pm ET.

Sign up here: https://t.co/3Tnzq6QvbM

[Lauren Christine @Laurenchristin0]

These shallow, fly-by-night YouTubers. What do they know of spirituality and spiritual wisdom?

Ask me. In my 25 years of medical profession, I’ve seen thousands upon thousands of vulnerable souls crushed under the weight of real pain, sorrow, infirmity, helplessness, anxiety, and every other conceivable suffering. Raw, unfiltered human misery.

I’ve seen death up close. I’ve extracted bullets from the chest of a gunshot victim in my residency days, telling him all the while that he’ll not die. I’ve furiously struggled to push IV fluids into sinking patients that were rushed into the emergency, thumping their hearts as their last breath slipped away. I’ve seen families shatter in grief, only to find the strength to rebuild. I have laughed with my patients, and I have wept with them. I’ve extracted babies from mothers’ wombs and experienced the high of being a small actor in God’s most fascinating miracle. I’ve seen people lose everything - their health, their hope, their will to live, only to rise again, clawing their way back from the abyss.

Spirituality isn’t about sipping coffee with celebrities and parroting wisdom from books. It’s about standing for years together in the putrid trenches of human suffering, feeling the weight of life and death, and still finding meaning in it all. I’ve witnessed more spirituality in a dimly lit hospital corridor at 3 AM than these obtuse YouTubers will in a lifetime of recording podcasts and chasing money.

Hah. I pity them. And I pity the system that venerates such empty shills.

[Ramya @ramyaramani]

@JioCare Any tips on how I can get someone from the service team to respond to my complaint? Been 10 days without internet at my home.Complaints are automatically cancelled saying issue is resolved. 10 days,3 complaints,5 service center visits,numerous calls. #chennai #JioFiber

[Ramya @ramyaramani]

How to select Colors for Data Visualizations? https://t.co/iSw8iKhOgf

[Leonie @helloiamleonie]

Here’s how the LinkedIn Engineering team reduced the error rate from ~10% to ~0.01% when generating structured outputs with LLMs.

Turning natural text into structured outputs is a cool use case for LLMs.
But getting LLMs to do this reliably is quite challenging.

[Matt Dancho (Business Science) @mdancho84]

Machine Learning for Time Series with Python Book.

Here's the code on Github (100% free).

[Ramya @ramyaramani]

Am I the only one who feels that the Water Packet song from #Raayan is similar to Mallipoo song from #VTK? #ARRahman

[Adam Ryan 🤝 @AdamRy_n]

This might be the best Paris 2024 story: Zeng Zhiying made her Olympics debut at 58-years old.

Born in China, she is now representing Chile in table tennis because of an incredible journey.

At age 18, she expected to go to the Olympics for her birth country, China, as one of the best players in the world.

But then table tennis changed out the two-sided paddles, and her game was thrown off.

She never made the team and became incredibly frustrated with the sport. She retired from the game as a player at age 20. Shortly after, she moved to Chile and coached various table tennis teams.

Then, in 2000, she decided to get a “real job” and step away from the game. For 20 years, she didn’t play. Then, in COVID, she bought a table and started playing again.

She made it a goal to make the 2024 Olympics representing Chile. And, at age 58, she did it!

The human brain is crazy powerful, and it can prevent us from continuing something we love or help us persevere through times when the odds are heavily stacked against us.

What an inspiration to follow your dreams.

[Ramya @ramyaramani]

Brilliant finish by S.Korea men’s team in Archery. Near perfect scores. They won the Gold medal. #Olympics2024Paris #archery

[Ramya @ramyaramani]

@JioCare 4 days of no Internet. 10 calls to customer care. 2 visits to service center. 3 calls to service engineer. No resolution. No one knows when the issue will get resolved.

[Ramya @ramyaramani]

@gd_vsmani That's awesome! Hope it works out.

[Ramya @ramyaramani]

@i_sreenivas @actcevents @arrahman Same story. Sent mails to @actcevents. No refund yet.

[Ramya @ramyaramani]

@chennaimotorist I didn't get a refund. Booked through Times Card.

[Ramya @ramyaramani]

@TheBIccountant Voted

[Scott Petersen @scottpetersen]

I've been waiting for this feature to come into the public preview of Microsoft Fabric: Row and Column-Level Security! I can't wait to try it out: https://t.co/NlKrRYMzkI