Every founder you admire has quietly survived moments that would make most people quit.
There’s no playbook for sleepless nights, hiring mistakes, or explaining to your family why you missed another weekend.
It looks like freedom, but most days you answer to your own ambition, your own doubts, and the pressure to make something real. You learn that the hardest part isn’t the setbacks, it’s staying honest with yourself about what’s working and what isn’t when nobody else will tell you.
Most people think founders are built for risk. The truth is, founders are built for uncertainty. That’s the part nobody prepares you for.
@BeingPractical True! In large orgs, talkers blend into noise, but doers stand out by delivering results. Execution-focused cultures thrive when they recognize and reward doers—a reminder to focus on actions, not just words
When building startups: Hope is Not a Strategy.
The only thing one can hope for in startup life is to raise capital, cause most of the time VCs are clueless even when they are seeming to be smart.
Rest everything - is relentless execution at all times to build, move and scale.
Today, if you are interested in installing some solar panels but don't have the roof space necessary because you live in an apartment or a rented house, there's no solution. Despite the subsidies, only about 10% of urban households have rooftop solar. That means many people are conscious about being sustainable but can't do anything.
@sundaygrids is taking an interesting approach to solve this problem. They setup solar power plants in other locations and allow people to reserve a part of the capacity in the plant. This generates credits, which can be used to reduce the power bill, even though the plant is in a different place. They are now live across India.
Various governments are now coming up with regulations to encourage third-party solar models. I think this is a cool way to make solar accessible to the masses.
We've invested in @sundaygrids through @Rainmatterin. 1/2
@BeingPractical Pravin, I've followed your journey since Paytm Money. Your customer-centric approach is inspiring. Now, with your new venture, you're excelling again 🚀 "Once an entrepreneur, always an entrepreneur"
Excited to unveil India's first crowd-supported weather infrastructure, https://t.co/qE9kkfoisG. A proprietary network of 650+ on-ground weather stations, it is the largest private infrastructure of its kind in our country.
These weather stations, developed by Zomato, provide localised, real-time information on key weather parameters such as temperature, humidity, wind speed, rainfall etc. Currently available across 45 large cities, we are expanding this in other Indian cities very soon.
This rich data holds significant potential in unlocking weather use cases for enterprises and research institutes. Having already collaborated with CAS - IIT Delhi, we expect more institutions and companies to benefit from this and contribute towards the greater good of our economy.
At Zomato, it was crucial for us to have access to precise and real-time weather information to make the right business decisions to serve our customers better. Hence, we took it upon ourselves to develop a solution capable of empowering us on this front.
We are now opening up free access to this (through an API) to all institutions and companies in the country. Wait. What? Free? Really? Yes, we believe that this data is too valuable to keep to ourselves or to monetise; therefore, as a Zomato Giveback, we are opening up access to this data to everyone for public good. Multiple companies and public institutions should use real-time weather data, to boost the productivity of our economy.
Also, a lot of Zomato employees have hosted weather stations at their homes. As we look forward to further expanding this infrastructure, we welcome volunteers who want to provide us space on their premises to install these weather stations and contribute to nation building.