MY FUCKING ALARMS D I D N O T GO OFF THIS MORNING AND I AM COMPETELY FUCKED. @apple FUCKING FIX THIS. I MIGHT BE FIRED. I WOKE UP AND THE ALARMS WERE SILENTLY GOING OFF.
The IPL isn’t just a tournament anymore — it’s an economic engine.
Opening weekend of Indian Premier League 2026 delivered:
✈️ Bengaluru travel surge
📈 +43% flight searches
🏨 +27% accommodation demand
AND a massive:
📺 515 MILLION viewers
⏱️ 32.6 BILLION minutes watched
Cricket is now driving tourism + media at scale.
This is what a modern sports property looks like.
🔗 Full story: https://t.co/aos74mPyQC
@IPL@BCCI@lonsaikia@bookingcom@YatraOfficial@JioStar #IPL #SportsBusiness #FanEngagement #Media #Travel #cricexec
One thing I have seen during my travels. Whenever there is an IPL/World Cup, or any Cricket, you go to any public place, people have Cricbuzz open on their phones. It’s become the defacto app to follow cricket. Searching for Cricbuzz is a muscle memory.
Proud to announce that The Times Of India Group, Aditya Birla Group, Bolt Ventures, and Blackstone are acquiring Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB), the reigning IPL and WPL champion. Time to Play Bold. 🔴🟡
Meet the new owners of RCB! Under the new ownership structure, Aryaman Vikram Birla,Director, Aditya Birla Group, will serve as Chairman and Satyan Gajwani of The Times of India Group will serve as Vice Chairman of the franchise. https://t.co/dV6q0Zv4LP #RCB#IPL#WPL #AdityaBirlaGroup #TimesOfIndiaGroup #Blackstone #CricketBusiness @AdityaBirlaGrp@AryamanBirla@satyan@blackstone
TK executes like none other, battle tested like very few. He's a force that can't be held down, and it will be the next Steve Jobs story to see his return to revolutionizing transportation once again.
The road to $1 Million just passed through the office of a media legend! We’re joined by @satyan , who is looking for that infectious energy from entrepreneurs 🚀
Watch the Semifinals 1 episode by checking out the 🔗 on our page!
For @stateofplayclub, I write about Google's fifteen-year play in cricket:
> Starts with the 2010 IPL "webcast"
> ICC sponsorships (2025-)
> A deal between @satyan & @nealmohan for 🇺🇸 matches on YouTube at the T20 WC ft @Jomboy_
> An eye on the 2027 rights auctions (ICC & IPL)
Tony Fadell has more receipts for this philosophy than anyone alive.
The iPod launched with one function: play music. No FM radio, no voice recorder, no wireless sync. Apple’s board wanted all of it. Jobs and Fadell killed every single one. The iPod sold 100 million units in six years.
The Nest Thermostat shipped with a display that only showed the temperature. Honeywell’s competing thermostats had 12 buttons and 6 menu screens. Nest had a single rotating dial. Google bought the company for $3.2B.
“If you can’t explain why it matters, it doesn’t ship” sounds like a platitude until you realize what it actually requires. It requires a PM to walk into a room where an engineer spent three weeks building something and say “this adds complexity without solving the problem, we’re cutting it.” That conversation destroys most PMs. They default to shipping everything because saying yes is free and saying no costs political capital.
The reason most products feel bloated is because saying yes is the path of least resistance. Nobody gets fired for adding a feature. People get fired for killing one that a VP wanted.
Fadell’s Nest rule forces the opposite incentive structure. The burden of proof sits on the feature, not on the person cutting it. That one inversion changes everything about how a team prioritizes.
Most PMs treat the roadmap like a to-do list. The best PMs treat it like a murder board. Every item is guilty until proven innocent.
That’s the actual job.
A first from Willow Originals, American Cricket, premiering Sunday February 8, 8pm EST.
Only on https://t.co/BzgRU9zkSD 🇺🇸
@Saurabh_Netra | @usacricket | @MLCricket
1/ Exciting news for Cricket🏏 in America today from @willowtv!
• a new partnership with @Youtube to show Team USA’s ICC T20 World Cup matches FREE in the US and Canada
• a creator-led alternate telecast on @JomboyMedia for select matches
• an all-new Willow by Cricbuzz experience on every screen
Details below👇