varun paruchuri

Baller for life!

[Joy Bhattacharjya @joybhattacharj]

Exactly 32 years ago, the Shawshank Redemption was released in the US, and it was a theatrical flop, recovering just $16 million in its first run.
But like Andy Dufresne, the film came back. Word of mouth made sure it dominated the video rental market, its re-release made $73 million dollars and it is still gets huge audiences. Today, it is regarded as a classic, the highest rated film on IMDB and preserved in the Library of Congress as a film of cultural significance.
“Remember, Red, hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies.”

[Aditya Kulkarni @bizaditya]

modern parenting in a metro can feel like a very well furnished prison.

I know how that sounds. 3/4BHK (and EMI), cook, car, two incomes. Nobody is coming to feel sorry for anyone. But it still feels heavy.

my parents raised me where almost all neighbouring families knew my name. there was always some neighbour who cared to feed me lunch when mom was late. summers in grandparents' place. nobody was paid for any of it. that was the village. it was free and it was everywhere.

then folks (who are now in their late 30s/40s) moved to Bengaluru/Gurugram/Pune for work, kept the kids, and lost the village.

so now two adults run an operation that a dozen used to share. and the way you run it is : you buy the village back.

nanny, daycare, a school that picks up at 7 30 am and drops the kid back by 3-4pm, the extra bedroom for the grandparent/nanny.

get the drift? a kid in a metro costs more precisely because every hour of care that used to be free is now a line item.

the part I keep chewing on is the double income. it is not greed. it is the only way the math even works. but it comes with its own bill - two people on 9pm calls, family time under attack, and a mental load that no amount of hired help absorbs.

the alternative is one parent pauses. that pause usually lands on the mom. not because anyone sat down and chose it, but because the salary gap, the maternity leave, and the fifteen "who will pick up" moments a week all point the same direction. I don't think that is a choice families are making. it is a default the city hands them.

and the third option - grandparents move in - means two 68 year olds give up their friends, their evening walks, their own city, to be free labour in one they didn't pick.

every version costs someone. money, a career, presence, or a parent's retirement. there is no configuration where nobody pays. we just get to pick who.

Families raising kids in the cities are today one of the most under-served segments of society - they have all the comforts without the care young families need.

[Akshay Jogani @kshayjogani]

Most people mocking Vineeta Singh have never built anything with someone else's money on a clock.

VC money changes the problem. You're not just building a good business, you're building one inside a fund's ten-year life, so scale and time have to be solved together. One usually gets paid for out of the other. That shows up as losses. It's a known cost of the model, not a scandal.

Comparing it to a shop that has compounded on its own cash since the 1950s with no outside capital and no deadline. Maybe a great business but completely different instrument and timeline.
Also, Paharganj had hundreds of men selling food off bicycles back then. We know this one name because it lasted seventy years. Everyone else in that cohort is gone and nobody tweets about them.

And honestly, the tone is the so disappointing . We need more people willing to try this, and we've turned the ones who did into content.

If we want India to build more consumer brands, more manufacturing companies and more ambitious businesses, failure has to be survivable. Right now we've made failure a spectator sport, and then we wonder why talented people would rather take a salary than build something of their own.

[varun paruchuri @thevarunp]

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[Harsha Bhogle @bhogleharsha]

Andariki #Ugadi subhakankshalu.

[Amit Purohit @purohita87]

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Completed a very satisfactory 50* this week 🤞 50 months in this entrepreneurial journey building a sports tech organisation with the vision of driving sports fan engagement in 🇮🇳 As luck would have it, just like any batter who is approaching his / her maiden (1/n)

[Startup Archive @StartupArchive_]

The advice from Paul Graham that helped Airbnb find product/market fit

“He basically said: ‘It’s better to have 100 customers that love you than a million customers that just sort of like you.’”

In the clip below, Airbnb cofounder Brian Chesky explains:

“If you have 100 people who absolutely love your product, they’ll tell 100 people, and they’ll tell 100 people, and this thing will grow virally. In fact, almost all movements in history have grown this way—there are deeply passionate followers and they grow it.”

He contrasts this with the general wisdom in Silicon Valley of: “I need to build this app. It needs have this viral coefficient. I need to get millions of people to use it. And they need to like it enough to share it.”

Brian argues that this is the wrong way to think about building a great product. And once the Airbnb team stopped worrying about millions of people, it was totally freeing.

"Until then, I was like: 'how am I going to get a million people to use this if I can't even get my mom and my sister to do it?'"

At this moment, the Airbnb founding team decided that they would do things that don't scale to get 100 people to love them:

“Getting 100 people to love you means you need to meet them and understand their problem. We would fly during Y Combinator from Mountain View to New York and we would go door to door and meet with everyone of our hosts and literally live with them.”

As Brian explains, this was a huge inflection point for the company.

“And once you have 100 people, you just focus on figuring out how to scale that. It’s a totally different intellectual problem to scale something 100 people love than to figure out [how to get 1 million people who like you to love you]. And that was the turning point for us.”

[Amit Purohit @purohita87]

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@bhogleharsha

[Derek O'Brien | ডেরেক ও'ব্রায়েন @derekobrienmp]

What a glorious moment for Indian sport. If there’s one video you must watch today, it’s this. The disbelief in the commentators voice at 2.28 mins… "Is that India") 😇
4 x 400 men’s relay, amongst the best in the universe. Yahiya, Jacob, Ajmal, Rajesh. Love 💙u guys 🇮🇳

[Ultimate Sports Quiz @TheUSQuiz]

Can you guess the answer?

#USQ #USQ2023 #UltimateSportsQuiz

[Fantasypaedia @Fantasypaedia]

Fixture Swings: GW3 - GW8

In this thread, we cover:

✅ Teams to Target
❌ Teams to Avoid
🔍 Assets to Consider

Please RT if you like it ♻️

#FPL #GW3

[Ultimate Sports Quiz @TheUSQuiz]

We strongly believe that our country needs more individuals like Arjun. Together with teammate R Shyamsundar, Arjun Anantakrishnan excelled in the Ultimate Sports Quiz 2022, making it to the semi-finals and pushing the game to the edge. Their admirable demeanor and graciousness in acknowledging rivals' answers were truly commendable. Best wishes Arjun !

[Ultimate Sports Quiz @TheUSQuiz]

Brett Lee sang and featured in a music video along with which leading Indian playback singer in 2006?

#USQ2023 #ultimatesportsquiz #USQ #BrettLee #australia #music #babe

[Ultimate Sports Quiz @TheUSQuiz]

Borussia Dortmund has an impressive record with eight league championships, five DFB-Pokals, a UEFA Champions League title, an Intercontinental Cup, and a UEFA Cup Winners' Cup

#borussiadortmund #USQ2023 #USQ #ultimatesportsquiz #soccer #bundesliga

[VUSport Official @VUSportOfficial]

Lot of chatter around Hardik's 6 which denied Tilak Verma his 2nd 50 of the series!

To be fair to Hardik, Tilak had ample opportunities to score one earlier but on the flip side, it wouldn't have hurt Hardik to see another 2 balls!

Which side are you leaning on?

#INDvsWI

[Ultimate Sports Quiz @TheUSQuiz]

Happy Birthday to the maestro behind the mic, whose voice paints sporting memories into mesmerizing masterstrokes!

#USQ2023 #USQ #HarshaBhogle #UltimateSportsQuiz

[Ultimate Sports Quiz @TheUSQuiz]

Welcome to the Sportscramble challenge 6! Test how fast you can guess the name of the cricketer. Let's go.

#UltimateSportsQuiz #USQ #USQ2023

[Joy Bhattacharjya @joybhattacharj]

Leander Paes is fifty today. Though his 13 grand slam doubles titles, won in 3 different decades make for a glittering career, what makes him really special is how he played when he donned the tricolour, whether it was at the Olympics or the Davis Cup

[VUSport Official @VUSportOfficial]

@mufaddal_vohra India may not be playing cricket till 12th July but we have got you covered!

Watch the World Champion Messi play live exclusively on the VUSport app for free at 5:30 pm.

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[Ultimate Sports Quiz @TheUSQuiz]

In which year did Rafael Nadal win his maiden French Open title, defeating Mariano Puerta of Argentina? 🏆🎾

#USQ #USQ2023 #UltimateSportsQuiz #FrenchOpen #RolandGarros #RafaelNadal