Tony Mathews

Wise-cracking, united following, mustang craving, personal opinion having, optimist. If awesome had a twitter page, this would be it. SZR to GCR 🚀

[Manchester United @ManUtd]

Sir Matt Busby Player of the Year ✅
United Players' Player of the Year ✅
FWA Footballer of the Year ✅
Premier League Player of the Season ✅

That's our Bruno 🐐

[Manchester United @ManUtd]

No-one does it like him.

Bruno Fernandes is the Premier League Player of the Year 🤩❤️

[🥷🏼™ @UTDNosa1]

I’ve just seen the TOUGHEST Bruno edit ever 😤🔥

[Deepinder Goyal @deepigoyal]

We just completed a successful flight for our tech demonstrator, Lat One v0.2.

Lat Aerospace is building ultra-short takeoff and landing aircraft using blown wing technology. Think fixed-wing performance with near-helicopter access.

A couple of months ago, v0.1 achieved uSTOL but crashed shortly after. That was expected. v0.2 was about completing the full mission, and it did. The blown wing concept worked in reality. Closed-loop control got validated. We'd predicted a cruise speed of 30-32 m/s and cruised comfortably at 33. No thermal issues despite a burning afternoon. The quick-detach wings held through aggressive turns. Was in the air for over 6 minutes. Smooth touchdown, and ready to fly again.

But the thing that makes me the happiest isn't any of that. It's that our CFD studies, aerodynamic models, SIL simulations, and flight logs all match, almost perfectly. That's what real engineering looks like. I am so proud of our team.

A long way to go, and we are getting there.

@lataerospace @surobhidas

[Tony Mathews @tmatt13]

Has the 🐐 in any sport done this?

[Bleacher Report @BleacherReport]

FATHER-SON PICK AND ROLL 🔥

Bron and Bronny continue to make history 🙌

[Tony Mathews @tmatt13]

Hope to see the day India does away with the mindset that when you hire someone you’re giving them a ‘hike’.

What does what a different company paid someone matter?

The vacancy you have has a salary bracket - pay it. If someone asks for more than that, totally fair to decline

[Srijan R Shetty @srijanshetty]

The internet is divided and quiet obviously the tpot wants to back the 'underdog' - the employee.

Every individual should optimise for themselves - that is the incentive structure of the money game that we opt into.

Personally, I would atleast try to have a chat with the individual. If there is no middle ground, then the new offer is the one they should take - it's what's in their best interest.

I'm of the opinion that good hikes should be reserved for the people who build the company by staying, and should not be doled out to new hires. You can do this if you don't hire out of scarcity but for building a great team.

But let's indulge the devil. Assume the employer in spite matches the offer. They hire you, but they are disingenuous:

You are hired on a pedestal, at this juncture your performance must match the hefty price tag, and invariably it's going to be hard to justify a 80% hike.

If you don't perform in the first few months your manage with be frustrated and consider you a bad performer, so future hikes might be non-existent or you might be placed in PIP, affecting future prospects.

In long term relationships, starting out sour isn't the best strategy.

But then again, if you are the mythical 100x engineer and are baller enough, asking for whatever you want isn't out of bounds because people will line up to hire you.

And if you are that engineer, I'm hiring :)

[Tony Mathews @tmatt13]

That’s why they need a “first principles thinker”, so that person can come and explain to them what it means

[Akshita @keylimepie2000]

They were clearly not thinking from first principles when they wrote this:

They do not want a "balance" person but they want them to go the gym. People who goto the gym are leading a balanced life FYI.

Healthy workaholic and Deadline anxiety mean opposite things. Please google "Deadline anxiety".

[Tony Mathews @tmatt13]

Completely missing the point of ‘why’ YT creators are thought of as more trustworthy than classic ads 👌🏾

[YouTube India @YouTubeIndia]

87% Indians agree YouTube creators are the most trusted for product recommendations. Start advertising on YouTube today and drive real business impact this cricket season.

[rvivek @rvivek]

10-minute delivery in India isn't magic. It's really good engineering.

@albinder and @letsblinkit built tech that most people never see.

We went deep on how it works.

[Deepinder Goyal @deepigoyal]

If you used to work at Zomato, whether you chose to move on, or I was the one who asked you to leave, this is for you.

I know that for many of you, Zomato didn't have the environment, or the leadership you needed at the time. But I know for sure, that you loved being at Zomato, and it is quite possible that you never felt like home anywhere else since you left.

We have over four hundred people at Eternal today in their second or third stints. Many of them are doing their best work now. Maybe because they've grown, but also because the company has grown. We are more organised, a little less chaotic, and hopefully, I've learned a few things along the way too.

If you haven't reached out because you think the door is closed, or because you think I'm holding onto the past, I'm not. I want you back.

There is so much to build at Eternal. We are today, a family of companies. Zomato, Blinkit Quick-Commerce, Blinkit Ambulances, District, Hyperpure, Nugget, and Feeding India. We need people who already know what good looks like here, and who care enough to fight for it. There is no better person for that than someone who has been here, left, grown, and wants to come back.

You might say that Eternal is not going to be the same, because I am not the CEO anymore. But ask yourself a question. Did titles ever matter at Eternal? I am still very much here, and I'd love for you to be a part of this next phase of Eternal.

If you feel like you have unfinished business here, please don't overthink it. Write to me at [email protected]. The Gurgaon pollution is still a bug, but being at Eternal is the feature. Let's talk and find a role that fits your life as it is today.

[Gaurav Gupta @grvgpta]

Can you imagine a team without titles?

It’s true at Gabit.

Titles create boundaries, they make people question if something is their job or someone else’s.

Here, everyone thinks like a founder, acts like a problem-solver, and steps in wherever the team needs them.

[Ankur💻🎧💪 @TheAnkurTyagi]

16 years of refusing to learn excel shortcuts are finally about to pay off.

[Pessimists Archive @PessimistsArc]

You either die a disruptor, or live long enough to see yourself become an incumbent

[Deepinder Goyal @deepigoyal]

Delivery partners are not overworked on our platforms. (2/5)

In 2025, the average delivery partner on Zomato worked 38 days in the year and 7 hours per working day, reflecting true gig style participation rather than fixed schedules. Only 2.3% of partners worked more than 250 days in the year. Demanding full-time employee benefits like PF, or guaranteed salaries for gig roles doesn’t align with what the model is built for.

Delivery partners are not assigned shifts or geographies. They determine when to log in and log out, and their area of work in a specific city. Partners also have the freedom to add or remove a desired work area based on their preferences. Once a partner opts into a gig, the only expectation is availability for the duration of that gig; beyond this, there are no participation requirements.

This shows that gig work is a reliable source of secondary income for delivery partners which is available to them all 365 days of the year. It is used as a flexible, stop-gap earning option, not a long-term lock-in.

Flexibility isn't incidental to the gig model, it is the whole point.

[Deepinder Goyal @deepigoyal]

Facts below (1/5):

In 2025, average earnings per hour (EPH), excluding tips, for a delivery partner on Zomato were ₹102.
In 2024, this number was ₹92. That’s a ~10.9% year-on-year increase. Over a longer horizon also, EPH has shown steady growth.

Most delivery partners work for a few hours and only a few days in a month. But if someone were to work for 10 hours/day, 26 days/month, this translates to ~₹26,500/month in gross earnings. After accounting for fuel and maintenance (~20%), the net earnings for the partner are ~₹21,000/month.

Note: Earnings per hour are calculated on total hours logged in, including the time when the partner might be waiting to receive an order. Earnings per “busy hour” will be higher but that’s not the right metric to look at.

On top of this - delivery partners earn 100% of tips given by customers. The average tip per hour in 2025 on Zomato was INR 2.6 and in 2024 was INR 2.4 per hour. Tips are transferred instantly, with zero deductions. We absorb the payment gateway processing cost ourselves. About 5% of the orders get tipped on Zomato; 2.5% on Blinkit.

[Moses Kagan @moseskagan]

There's a famous story about a journalist who says to a billionaire: "I don't understand why you kept going... if I had got to $10MM, I would have stopped"

And the billionaire goes: "That's why you didn't get to $10MM"

[Deepinder Goyal @deepigoyal]

The Gravity Aging Hypothesis opens a world of questions.

Is the miracle of exercise just that it temporarily fixes our hydraulic system?

Is Alzheimer's partly a vascular story we ignored because it unfolds too slowly for humans to perceive?

In hypertension, what if the body isn’t malfunctioning at all – what if it’s the brain demanding more pressure because gravity has been choking its blood supply for decades?

Is depression partly a vascular problem? What happens to mood regulation if the perfusion of the midbrain is gravity-dependent?

How much of “meditation,” “breathwork,” and “yoga benefits” are just improved cerebral perfusion?
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And also...

Are we ever going to be able to live on Mars?

If gravity is aging us, what does the future of human habitats look like, on Earth or anywhere else?

Can we live for 500 years, like bats live for 10x their expected lifespan?

What else is hiding in plain sight?

This list runs very long...

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I really hope that all these questions spark global research, something which is beyond my ability or my resources to achieve.

At my end, I am going to continue doing my bit to develop this school of thought as much as I can.

Including promoting the f out of this tweet so that scientists across the world take notice, and take this further, beyond what I will ever be able to do.

[Deepinder Goyal @deepigoyal]

Once upon a time, people believed the Earth was flat. And then they didn’t. Then they believed the sun revolved around the Earth. Until they didn’t.

Humanity has built rockets, sequenced genomes, and cloned cells. Yet, in all our brilliance, we may have missed something glaringly simple.

At Continue, we’ve been chasing a crazy insight into why we age; a pattern that’s been hiding in plain sight for eternity. We’ve tried desperately to disprove it. We couldn’t.

Two years later, clues from biology, physics, evolution, and medicine are all pointing in the same direction.

In 48 hours, I’ll share what we’ve found and how one element of our environment may hold the key to slowing human aging.

Stay tuned.

[Deepinder Goyal @deepigoyal]

Zomato Healthy mode is now available in 7 cities. Already contributing to 5% of platform orders.

Thank you all for sharing feedback. We’re keeping a close eye on your inputs and baking (not frying) it into the product.

[Tony Mathews @tmatt13]

The best player in the prem 🐐