VJ

Rookie Entrepreneur

[VJ @vijay0550]

@kiranshaw Hi Kiran, we’re building exactly this in India through Sevenco. Our app just went live in Mumbai, and we’re hiring drivers to help make roads safer by reducing drunk driving. We’d be grateful for any mentorship, introductions or guidance as we scale across India.

[VJ @vijay0550]

@vijayshekhar @nikesharora @makingmusic Lol

[VJ @vijay0550]

@TheWTFund The courage to stay calm and make clear decisions when things go wrong

[VJ @vijay0550]

@TheWTFund Applied yesterday and I can’t wait to hear back from you guyss!!!!

[VJ @vijay0550]

@thevirdas Hey @thevirdas just curious, would you be open to invest in my startup, i think we had make a great team. Lmk if you are up for it i will hit you up in dm

[Leaders 𝕏 Junction @LeadersJunction]

This advice will completely change the way you look at things‼️

[zarsace @Zarsace]

Dyson is a $3 billion a year company and is owned entirely by 1 person. Unreal

[VJ @vijay0550]

Wow

[anand mahindra @anandmahindra]

It was a privilege of my generation to have worked in industry alongside RNT

One of my most enjoyable memories of him?

At the Auto Expo in Delhi, almost 20 years ago.

I was at our company pavilion.

We heard a buzz at the entry & saw RNT come in with his colleagues—unplanned, unexpected.

When I went up to welcome him, he chuckled and said:

“I just came in to check out the competition!”

I will miss him greatly.

[Harsh Goenka @hvgoenka]

This is so true…..

[VJ @vijay0550]

@ayushhh_10 hahah

[Vir Das @thevirdas]

So...no one else suspects that all the 'alpha' dudes giving financial advice on podcasts don't really have any money? And it's all a marketing ploy to get some? Consulting jobs, brand partnerships etc. Which is a hustle I respect, and advice I avoid. Because it's kind of like taking swim lessons from a dude who's yelling at you screaming "move your arms, move your arms" but he's in a goddam boat. And he's trying to teach you how to swim so he can block the hole in the back. Look I’m an artist with zero business acumen and will probably die penniless. But I just feel like people with real money don't go on podcasts and tell you how to make it because they recognise that everyone works hard, but most of it was dumb luck and timing.
Just me?

[Orange Book 🍊📖 @orangebook]

Always have a few goals that are too difficult for the current you. It will force you to grow as a person, and you will no longer have time to feel anxious, you will already be too busy improving yourself.

[VJ @vijay0550]

There's no better feeling than traveling back home after accomplishing something in a different city, and certain songs just hit different during that time.

[VJ @vijay0550]

❤️❤️❤️

[ESPN MMA @espnmma]

The full retirement speech from Mighty Mouse 👏

(via @ONEChampionship)

[VJ @vijay0550]

You will be missed DJ! @MightyMouse

[Demetrious Johnson @MightyMouse]

poetry in motion. 😌

[Kritika Kapoor @Kritikaaaa_10]

Kids are grown up now !!! Met through a random tweet on working on an NFT project and now here we are.

[FinFloww @FinFloww]

If a business is thriving due to reasons beyond price, you can steal market share by lowering prices.

But if a business thrives solely because of low prices, and you can offer a better experience and products at the same price, customers will naturally gravitate towards you.

[Kritika Kapoor @Kritikaaaa_10]

Had a wholesome day discussing about China(people,culture,apps,businesses,mindset) and huge opportunities that we miss out amidst the flash of social media and hyped up things.
Let me know some unpublicised things about China that you guys know 👀

[VJ @vijay0550]

@ayushhh_10 Hello fam. It’s been a long time

[VJ @vijay0550]

It’s already out there, real time translation glasses

[Kunal Shah @kunalb11]

The future of translation may not involve an app that requires people to pause for translations. Instead, it could be glasses that display subtitles in the user's preferred language, regardless of the language spoken by others.

[VJ @vijay0550]

Factss.

[Anuj Gurwara @AnujGurwara]

RANT - after watching this distressing video and the ones of that illegal structure falling on people.

Read at your own risk.

India has - more than ever before - become a nation where only those with access to wealth and power are able to lead comfortable lives within the bubbles they construct for themselves.

Everyone else is a statistic and a temporary headline in the event of a tragedy.

Every common person is only racing from birth to death, navigating through one obstacle after another.

For most people, death can literally happen any time - bad roads, flooding, unsafe electrical poles, fights in the neighbourhood, road rage, animals loose in the streets, contaminated foods, botched medical practices, unauthorised structures falling on their heads, broken infrastructure crashing down during or after construction - or just mobs baying for your blood because you are different.

Regulations are a joke. There is no value for human life. The infrastructure and ecosystem is not designed for those without privilege.

Worse still, the overburdened justice system is not reliable.

The era of leaders is over. Politicians have taken over from the mafia. Most who get into politics don’t do so to serve the masses. They do so to get away from them and elevate themselves above the commoners.

Politics is the most profitable taxpayer funded, tax-free business there is.

Movie stars live in ivory towers right in the middle of a garbage dump. Some of them make more money than most Hollywood actors but live less than 1/10th of their lifestyles when in India.

Surrounded by security, assistants and servants - politicians, celebrities and the 1% secure their own bubbles by hook or crook, evade taxes, exploit every legal & financial loophole and avoid accountability.

Yet, we worship them and place them on a pedestal because we want access to the power they hold.

Because we want to be able to know someone when we are in a police station, a hospital or in court. We want to use a reference to get admission, get a job or just get pension.

The collective self esteem of a billion people is at an all time low and being lowered still to suit the political ambition of a few hundred people desperately holding on to power.

The rich won’t protest societal injustice because they can escape into their bubbles whenever needed and pay their way into convenience.

The middle class doesn’t have the time to protest because they’ve been pushed into being on survival mode all day every day. Time lost is money lost.

The poor can’t protest beyond a point because hunger is real and the above two classes won’t allow them to.

Our children are growing up in an environment of corrupted education and contaminated nutrition. Their physical and intellectual growth is stunted when compared to developed countries.

India’s children swing between malnourishment and obesity. An entire generation ahead will feel the effects of of this sheer neglect of childhood.

We don’t care about our young and our elderly. Women are not safe anywhere. Our teenagers are hooked up to dopamine all day - youth in cities, towns and villages are addicted to porn, violent games and on the hunt for get-rich-quick schemes. I blame the system that doesn’t empower them otherwise.

We are squeezed dry to pay direct and indirect taxes, endlessly waiting for our lives to upgrade a little bit.

Buying a vehicle or a home now is literally a process of extracting blood money. Most of India is one medical bill away from poverty.

We haven’t lost count of human tragedies and disasters. We will queue up in the thousands on bridges and hillsides to offer our prayers to the Gods who look on silently at the destruction our own fellow humans have caused in their name.

This post will be forgotten in a few hours too. You and I will both get busy because life goes on and we must move forward with it.

Let’s get back to election gossip, IPL and Orry. Let’s forget about all this. For just one more day.

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