mahesh vee

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[DHH @dhh]

Google's CEO tells his employees to stop bringing their politics to work and respect coworkers right to just do their job. Let's see if this causes the same media and Twitter meltdown it did when we asked the same. I doubt it! https://t.co/avAP3mqrFV

[mahesh vee @veeworks]

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[Jason Fried @jasonfried]

@acangiano Would love to write a 200 page business book with 199 blank pages and one page that simply says "Make more than you spend".

[mahesh vee @veeworks]

If you expand Build vs Buy and add Borrow you will see the mix will get interesting. Also a company of size is looking at productivity and business of scale is looking at leverage. Both make similar decisions on talent but for fundamentally different reasons. Lots happening tbh

[Amit Ranjan @amitranjan]

The world of #whitecollar work will look very different in 10 yrs

- Cos in general will shrink in size
- Sub 5 (or sub 10) employee cos will proliferate
- DIY will grow; build vs buy decisions will gravitate towards build
- Managed services / outsourcing cos will reduce in size

[mahesh vee @veeworks]

What was interesting when reading this article is how, without or with advancing tech (2009 vs 2024), the realities are remarkably the same when it comes to human labor, wage disparity, and the whole decision matrix. Delta is getting bigger in this case..

[mahesh vee @veeworks]

https://t.co/vFbviizFnG

"AllDone’s story highlights the unseen but ongoing role of human workers on the frontiers of automation, and it demonstrates why it’s too soon to forecast a future of full automation or a world without work."

@IEEESpectrum @bshestakofsky

[mahesh vee @veeworks]

In 2009, along with a few others, I setup a backend operations centre in a rural part of India. We extensively used mturk, crowdflower and an SF-based entity (samasource) to source work and train folks on microtasks (reviews, search, etc). Train and hire model, aggregated.

[Suhail @Suhail]

If you want people to do some task in your app, the best way to achieve that is to remove every distraction. Remove everything: nav menus, other buttons, UI tools, footers, etc.

Every time I watch a session video, users will always find a distracting exit dropping conversion.

Your app at that key moment should be a dimly lit room with a single path through a door, not an apartment building.

[mahesh vee @veeworks]

@ProductHunt Too soon

[mahesh vee @veeworks]

So nailed it.

[anmol maini @anmolm_]

The Bangalore startup ecosystem is like a US pension funded MGNREGA program

[mahesh vee @veeworks]

Wow!

[Jon Erlichman @JonErlichman]

David Bowie’s internet predictions from 1999:

[mahesh vee @veeworks]

@verge This was an interesting interview. Websites are still important but not as much as the social apps IMO. As a Wix personal and professional customer, I see it more as a easy website builder and for web marketing respectively. Like Canva for web. WP is still quite popular.

[mahesh vee @veeworks]

Word. Hardest thing to drive as a culture.

[BUILD OR DIE @BUILD_OR_DIE]

Keith Rabois: "Most people will solve problems that they understand how to solve. Roughly speaking, they will solve B+ problems instead of A+ problems.

A+ problems are high-impact problems for your company but they're difficult--you don't wake up in the morning with a solution to them, so you tend to procrastinate...

If you have a company that's always solving B+ problems, you'll grow and add value, but you'll never create the breakthrough idea because no one is spending 100% of their time banging their head against the wall every day until they solve it."

[mahesh vee @veeworks]

Oh boy!! This was way too real and hilarious!

[Matt Griswold @griswold]

The OpenAI story.

[mahesh vee @veeworks]

@BillSPACman @swoph Haha!

[mahesh vee @veeworks]

Absolutely fabulous compilation. Hits home at so many levels and wants you to be better today.

[Startup Archive @StartupArchive_]

Over the past month, I have shared a piece of startup advice every single day.

But these 13 accumulated more than 1,000,000 views and thousands of comments & shares.

Here they are all in one place:

[mahesh vee @veeworks]

If this is in fact by design and not a specific browser or session issue, reminds of superb research on dark patterns by @aruneshmathur

[Jagriti Chandra @jagritichandra]

Mystery over @IndiGo's clever seat-purchase ploy unraveled. While the seat selection is not compulsory, following are the ways the airline has tried to benefit from confusing travellers through deliberate omission. I explain below (1/n)

[mahesh vee @veeworks]

What a phenomenal story of perseverance and grit @mohit_bolt

[Caleb @caleb_friesen]

Successful hardware startups in India are rare. Without a preexisting ecosystem like China’s, Indian tech businesses are forced to import white-labelled products or spend years in R&D to build something from scratch. This is the story of one company that did the latter 🧵

[mahesh vee @veeworks]

@tylertringas @FounderSummit Sorry to hear that. Try https://t.co/fnafTrziUr for the ediscovery side, great value for money, no sales wall, and the only ediscovery product that’s actually easy to use.

[Sebastiaan de With @sdw]

Apple’s website before and after the return of Steve Jobs.

[Jason Fried @jasonfried]

If you want to feel good, brainstorm it. If you want to appear good, test it. If you want to know if you’re any good, ship it.