Venkatesh Viswanathan

Hustler || Entrepreneur || Learner || Unlearner; Straddling the world of B2B Commerce & Fintech @Terra91_Intl @Zetwerk; Here to Give & Take!

[Venkatesh Viswanathan @Venk132]

Elated to be a part of @forbes_india & @GreatManagerI 's Top 100 Great People Managers List!

As you continue building, it's only moments like these when you stop and cherish what you've created. And what matters the most is the team that you've built.

Back to building now!

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Dramatic visuals from Mumbai showed the Vande Bharat Express splashing through waterlogged railway tracks after heavy rainfall inundated parts of the city.

Despite the submerged tracks, the train continued its journey, highlighting the impact of the intense monsoon showers on Mumbai's rail network.

[Venkatesh Viswanathan @Venk132]

Itching to get my hands dirty with this!

[Ethan @ethanabuck]

Lego is boring.

Enter BYLT - real construction using real practices. From architect drawn blueprints to finished product... on a tiny scale.

Get your kit or order a la carte from the supply yard 👇

[Srijan Mahajan @srijan_mahajan]

i’ve been guilty of gatekeeping spots with the fear that more people will destroy the place..but @heyprat & i recently realised that its such a beta move to not share the joy a place can give you

so here's an attempt to share places we love starting with our fav ofc

link below

[Venkatesh Viswanathan @Venk132]

The times they are a-changin’

[Sar Haribhakti @sarthakgh]

.@eringriffith: "His start-up, Medvi, a telehealth provider of GLP-1 weight-loss drugs, got 300 customers in its first month. In its second month, it gained 1,000 more. In 2025, Medvi’s first full year in business, the company generated $401 million in sales. Mr. Gallagher then hired his only employee, his younger brother, Elliot. This year, they are on track to do $1.8 billion in sales."

https://t.co/k00K7vlFCb

[Sanjiv Kapoor @TheSanjivKapoor]

It is mind-boggling to think these tunnels under Piccadilly Circus tube station were built in 1906, and the elaborate station complex above it, complete with escalators and deep lifts, in 1928. And it is still in operation today. #London

[Venkatesh Viswanathan @Venk132]

Let’s talk about leading indicators :)

[Pentagon Pizza Report @PenPizzaReport]

Pizzato Pizza, a late night pizzeria nearby the Pentagon, has suddenly surged in traffic.

As of 2:04am ET

[Venkatesh Viswanathan @Venk132]

What did you get done this year? :)

[Blake Scholl 🛫 @bscholl]

2025 wrapped:
✅Break sound barrier
✅Solve sonic boom
✅Legalize supersonic
✅Launch 42MW Superpower turbine
✅Secure 1.21GW launch order
✅Raise $300M new funding

Trying to figure out what to do the rest of December.

[Venkatesh Viswanathan @Venk132]

Massive respect for what @bscholl & team have been building at @boomsupersonic!

While they were at it, solving on bringing back commercial supersonic travel, they casually dropped in a new product that can power the power the AI world!

Boring industries are ripe for innovation

[Blake Scholl 🛫 @bscholl]

A new product, a new customer, a new financing!

Introducing Superpower: a 42MW natural gas turbine optimized for AI datacenters, built on our supersonic technology. Superpower launches with a 1.21GW order from @CrusoeAI Backstory 🧵👇

[Rahul Gonsalves @gonsalves_r]

A brand new children’s library opens at the Bangalore International Centre: curated by @ChampacaBooks. So important to have free, open public spaces.

[Amitabh Kant @amitabhk87]

India’s biggest export earnings can come from Tourism which is totally free from Trumps tariffs.
India, with its natural beauty, history, heritage, culture, and diversity, sees a mere 1.5% share in international tourist arrivals. There has been no concerted branding or marketing campaign for Indian tourism in the past decade.
We need the biggest global branding and marketing campaign to unleash Incredible India’s immense potential. Otherwise, with the 1800 planes Indian airlines are buying, we will just be ferrying Indians flying abroad for holidays.
We must attract global tourists. They will more than make up for 50% tariff levied by Trump on goods.

[Deepinder Goyal @deepigoyal]

Every few years, the world reminds us of our place. A threat here, a tariff there. But the message is the same: stay in your lane, India.

Global powers will always bully us, unless we take our destiny in our own hands. And the only way to do that is if we collectively decide to become the world's largest most unapologetic superpower in the world. In economy, in technology, in defense, and most importantly, in ambition.

There is absolutely no other way.

[Z Fellows @zfellows]

"In my experience as CEO, I found that the most important decisions tested my courage far more than my intelligence."

- Ben Horowitz

[Venkatesh Viswanathan @Venk132]

“Never let a good crisis go to waste”

True for geo-politics, true for business!

[Amitabh Kant @amitabhk87]

Trump has provided us a once in a generation opportunity to take the next big leap on reforms.
Crisis must be fully utilised.

[Venkatesh Viswanathan @Venk132]

Gradually we’ll see global trade routes shifting — and India quietly becoming a preferred node.

Speed at ports is a great proxy for reliability and it’s this reliability that will drive volumes over time.

[DEBASHISH NEOGI @DEBU_NEOGI]

Turnaround time of ports is one of the best 😊

[Venkatesh Viswanathan @Venk132]

Couldn’t relate more!

“The work isn’t in get building, it’s in choosing what to build next”

Ever so often we get lost in the busyness, in the ‘here & now’ knowing it won’t take you far.

[Hiten Shah @hnshah]

Being a founder is waking up with a to-do list and realizing most of it won’t change the outcome.

You check things off. You stay busy. But the only thing that really matters is whether your next move shifts the curve.

Not the curve in your deck. The curve in reality. The one that separates what compounds from what disappears.

You’re not managing the business. You’re managing the fallout if the bet doesn’t land.

And the hardest part isn’t the risk. It’s not knowing whether the thing you’re pouring your time into is a multiplier or just a month you’ll never get back.

The longer you do this, the more you realize the work isn’t in the building. It’s in choosing what to build next, knowing you might be wrong, and doing it anyway.

That’s what separates the ones who last from the ones who don’t.

[Venkatesh Viswanathan @Venk132]

This is a good move! Every Indian metro city should adopt this to ensure public transport is looked at holistically!

[Venkatesh Viswanathan @Venk132]

This is a very interesting primer on Iran’s geo- strategy & what defines the country.

[Tomas Pueyo @tomaspueyo]

Can there be an invasion of Iran? Hardly. Two maps explain why, and also why Iran is the way it is today, whether its regime will fall, what other superpowers will do, and in general why Iran is the way it is today

1. Iran is a mountain & desert fortress

[Venkatesh Viswanathan @Venk132]

Interesting that China made BYD world-class by letting Tesla in. Maybe India should take notes!

[Dwarkesh Patel @dwarkesh_sp]

China spent 25 years failing to build a globally competitive domestic car industry through hundreds of billions of dollars of subsidies and forced partnerships. Then they tried something radical.

In 2018, they invited Tesla to build a wholly-owned factory in Shanghai. No joint venture required. Chinese officials called it the "catfish effect" - Tesla would force domestic companies to compete or die.

The impact was brutal. When Tesla's Model 3 launched in 2020, it quickly became China's best-selling EV. BYD's total vehicle sales actually fell 7.7% that year to just 427,000 units.

By competing with the world's best, BYD was forced to address what they were missing: Chinese EVs had great battery tech and software, but the cars weren't appealing. So BYD learned design. Sales exploded. Today BYD sells over 4 million vehicles annually - 10x their 2020 numbers, and more than Tesla globally.

America should do the same thing. In the long run, the only way to win high-tech manufacturing is to actually compete against the very best in the world.

We should encourage BYD and other leading Chinese companies to build factories in America in exchange for the access to the U.S market. This would allow us to build up process knowledge and the the relevant supply chains domestically, and force American companies to catch up.

The alternative is to fall further and further behind.

I talked to Arthur Kroeber @arkroeber, one of the sharpest observers of China’s economy, about this and much more.

Full episode out tomorrow.

[Anthony Pompliano 🌪 @APompliano]

Simple, yet powerful, advice.

(h/t @charlesmiller_7)