Tanaya

Building APAC region @mixpanel. Ex @tradegecko (acquired by Intuit)

[Tanaya @tanayas11]

Just started reading Chip Wars. Saw a few videos on how chips are made and improved over time. If humans can build this, they can sure crack the code to reduce price of tokens. All in on AI.

[Tanaya @tanayas11]

Used @letsblinkit for the first time ever today. Just 8 mins from order to delivery 😱 Barely had time to find my wallet to put together the cash 😂 At best we get next day delivery in Singapore so yes mind is blown.

[Tanaya @tanayas11]

Totally believe in 1, 2 and 3.

[George Mack @george__mack]

How to spot high agency people:

1. Weird teenage hobbies - Teenage years are the hardest time to go against social pressures. If they can go against the crowd as a teenager, they can go against the crowd as an adult.

2. Energy distortion field - If you meet with them when you're tired and defeated, you leave the room ready to run a marathon on a treadmill with max incline. Low agency people do the opposite.

3. Golden question - If you're in a 3rd world prison cell and had to call someone to get you out, who would you call? That's the highest agency person you know.

4. You can never guess their opinions - The boxer that writes poetry. The advertiser obsessed with the history of war. The beauty queen who reads Nietzsche. If their beliefs don't line up with their stereotypes, they've exercised agency.

5. Immigrant mentality - If they've moved from their hometown, that's a good sign. If they've moved from their home country, that's an even greater sign.

It takes agency to spot you're in the wrong place, resourcefulness to operationalise a move and a growth mindset to start from zero in a new location.

6. They send you niche content - Low agency people look at the social engagement of content before deeming its quality. High agency people just look at the content. They spot upcoming trends very early.

7. Mean to your face but nice behind your back - The social incentives are to be nice to people's faces and gossip behind their backs. To do the opposite requires agency because they're swimming against the social tide.

[Tanaya @tanayas11]

100% something I see in few Indian SaaS startups who “think” they have a cost advantage and therefore have no price integrity and end up at these numbers. Makes no sense if you are playing on cost advantage.

[Dev Khare @dkhare]

Too many India-based SaaS startups bloated up (even pre-pandemic and even now) at $30-50k ARR/FTE, negating any cost advantage from operating from India. US at-scale SaaS at $300k average. $50mm ARR company could be 750-1500 people from India and 300-400 people from the US. Big difference in agility, margins, management bandwidth, degrees of freedom. Need to do much better in India.
Graph from @MeritechCapital report.

[Tanaya @tanayas11]

What a pleasure hosting Bhavik Kaul, Ishan Kansal, Nitesh Sinha, Vipul Allawadhi at the @mixpanel and @CRED_club get together discussing experiences building 0-1 and scaling products at Zepto, PayU, Hike, Kutumb, and CRED. Legendary stories shared by these builders ❤️

[Tanaya @tanayas11]

Spark is here on @mixpanel !

[Chinmay Barve @cbarve]

Three months ago, we launched our new brand and shared our vision of “Analytics for Everyone”. Today, we are taking a big leap towards that vision using generative AI.

Signup for the beta and start chatting with your data. #ItStartsWithASpark https://t.co/HO2k95jP2T

[Tanaya @tanayas11]

@TheKenWeb while I go for a third renewal with you guys, I just want to congratulate the whole team on the deep and thoughtful stories about the Indian and SE Asian startup community and the especially brilliant graphics. Please continue what you are doing !! 🙌🏽

[Tanaya @tanayas11]

Full house in Bangalore with ⁦product peeps and ⁦@mixpanel⁩ 🎉 ⁦@heerunyah⁩

[Tanaya @tanayas11]

Electrifying atmosphere at Chinnaswamy last night! Sad to see RCB not able to defend a 200+ score. Ahhhh I had forgotten how much I love cricket ❤️ #IPL23

[Tanaya @tanayas11]

Only in Singapore ❤️

[Tanaya @tanayas11]

Banking is flawed unfortunately. Every single bank is the world can close down if there is a run on the bank since banks only keep a fraction of their assets as reserves as required legally. #SVB

[Tanaya @tanayas11]

@1nishitshah To get attention of the person they are doing this to ? It clearly worked 😅

[Tanaya @tanayas11]

😍

[Gil Bouhnick @GilBouhnick]

Doing analytics is like a therapy.

I can do @mixpanel reports for hours. 🏖️⛱️

[Tanaya @tanayas11]

@1nishitshah @SereneHo99 @rahul_agnom Deep thinking happens in cafes for me. Ice cold cappuccino + EarPods + my Mac = groundbreaking work 😄

[Tanaya @tanayas11]

@1nishitshah @peakbengaluru Come back soon.

[Tanaya @tanayas11]

@lexfridman Sapiens in a week! 🤣

[Aaron Levie @levie]

It’s important to remember that for every product you love, there was a passionate group of people that spent an excruciating amount of time debating every single detail to get it right. This is hard and rare, which is why you don’t love most products.

[Tanaya @tanayas11]

@Janilokal It's sarcasm for people with kids 😂

[Tanaya @tanayas11]

Good friction. Really interesting concept!

[Ali Abouelatta @abouelatta_ali]

This is one of the 🤯🤯🤯 experiments we ran on the Duolingo Retention team :

[Ashana @ashana_way]

@mixpanel’s DREAM TEAM 💥