Vinaychandra Bharadwaj

Founder,CEO Spenza- 1️⃣x Entrepreneur,🔟x 0➡️1 Product, Telecom, Fintech, IIMB,CS

[Hensen Juang @basedjensen]

AI safety people discovering that a system can emit petabytes of logs: “this is an unprecedented observability problem. we may need fleets of agents to reason over all this data.”

old infra guys:

brother, we were processing PB-scale telco CDRs, signaling traces and network logs on a Tuesday with Hadoop.

dump it into HDFS. partition by day/site/whatever poor bastard needed the report. write some Hive that compiles into an offensively large MapReduce job. let YARN distribute the suffering. wait for the shuffle. discover one reducer has 40% of the keys. swear at data skew. fix it. run it again.

if a node dies, Hadoop runs the task somewhere else.

if twelve nodes die, Hadoop gets more enthusiastic about it.

our “agentic observability platform” was Grafana, grep, awk, a shell script written in 2012, and one senior engineer staring at reducer 317 stuck at 99% saying “that’s not fucking normal.”

PB of logs is not scary.

we had standards.

[Avinash Raghava 🇮🇳 @avinashraghava]

Having had the privilege of meeting many remarkable people through community building, I’ve come to believe that some relationships are written in sand. A conversation, a coffee, a polite “let’s stay in touch.” Most disappear with the tide...

But every once in a while, someone keeps showing up until sand turns to stone. That has been @gshubham14 for me.

When we first spoke, what struck me wasn’t that he had built Affinity. In fact, he never mentioned it once. It was the humility, the curiosity, and the complete absence of needing to prove anything.

Over time, he became a trusted sounding board and, quietly, one of the key threads holding AIBoomi together.

Success sits lightly on some people. With Shubham, that lightness makes everyone around him better.

This one’s for a dear friend who turned sand into stone: https://t.co/mxKAwnWqJW

#PayItFWD #Community #People

[Vinaychandra Bharadwaj @VinaychandraB]

@jspujji GEO

[Vinaychandra Bharadwaj @VinaychandraB]

@bhatnaturally My guess is that due to labor/ environmental laws and to save costs the airport is “ shutdown” every night!

[Vinaychandra Bharadwaj @VinaychandraB]

My guess is that due to labor/ environmental laws and to save costs the airport is “ shutdown” every night!

[bhatnaturally  🇮🇳 @bhatnaturally]

Not that I am a globe trotter but noticed that international flights out of US, Europe & Dubai leave during the day, early evening etc. In India such flights are mostly late in the night or red eye. Why so?

[Sridhar DP @sridhar_dp]

@krishnabgowda @bbmpcommr @blrcitytraffic
Dear Sir, the stretch from Banashankari to NICE Road has turned into a civic & traffic nightmare. Residents & commuters are suffering daily. Requesting your urgent intervention for a complete overhaul.A brief thread on critical bottlenecks 👇 (1/5)

[anamitra @anamitra]

Shoutout to @airfrance for delivering us safely to our destination while our luggage is on its own solo European adventure. Special thanks for shutting down the phone lines promptly at 5:30pm. Living the dream, just without any clothes.✈️🧳

[Sridhar Vembu @svembu]

The economic and demographic effects of corruption.

Cost of land in our urban areas is far higher than what our GDP per capita would dictate. The ratio of land value to per capita GDP is probably higher in India than anywhere else. As an example, land prices in Chennai or Bengaluru rival that of cities like New York which has a vastly higher per capita GDP.

The key reason?

First, vast sums of political corruption money is parked in real estate. This raises real estate prices and high real estate prices affect everything downstream.

Second, corruption in building approvals and the like - the famous DTCP - raises construction costs, on top of already higher real estate costs.

Third, corruption in private school regulatory compliance enforcement raises school fees.

Fourth, corruption in private hospital regulatory compliance enforcement raises health care costs.

Fifth, household goods need sales outlets and those pay higher rents due to high real estate prices and construction costs.

So housing, education, healthcare and household goods - all of these now cost higher.

As a direct consequence, the economic burden on the average person gets worse. Young people, facing all these costs, postpone marriage, and postpone children or have fewer children.

That directly affects our demographics.

While this issue exists in many parts of India, Tamil Nadu, being the most urbanized of the bigger states, is particularly hit hard.

So corruption is becoming an existential threat to our society.

If you worry about the super-low birth rate in Tamil Nadu, way below replacement, understand that corruption raising our cost of living is one of the major causes, not the only cause, but a big one in our context.

[Ilya Sutskever @ilyasut]

if you value intelligence above all other human qualities, you’re gonna have a bad time

[churumuri @churumuri]

'Business Standard' gets a new Editor: Vikas Dhoot. @bsindia @tragicosmicomic

[Avinash Raghava 🇮🇳 @avinashraghava]

Pleased to welcome @AIBoomi's Governing Council for ’26–27, comprising Baskar Subramanian, @dkhare, @KhadimBatti, @Rishit_Desai, @me_nder, @gshubham14, alongside myself.

Different journeys. Shared conviction.

Each council reshapes what this community can become, bringing fresh perspective, sharper questions, and the courage to challenge what got us here.

Grateful to the GC ’25 members completing their term for pushing the frontier forward and leaving the bar higher than they found it.

⭐ @AneeshBReddy | @cbkrish | @skirani

The next chapter won’t be built on momentum alone. It’ll be built on intent.

To our People >> https://t.co/9NhQhpIHMh

And to a year of building what matters, at the epicenter of #AI.

[Brian Halligan @bhalligan]

If Steve Jobs were still alive, I bet Apple would be at a $10trillion market.

[Christopher Clary @clary_co]

Really enjoyed a trip between Bangalore and Mysore today. Very pretty country.

[Sridhar Vembu @svembu]

On Arattai, we have initiated discussions with Sharad Sharma of iSpirt, the group that did the technical work to make UPI happen, to standardize and publish the messaging protocols. I am a huge fan of UPI and hugely respect the work the team did. Sharad is a good friend and he will guide us in this objective.

These systems need to be interoperable like UPI and email and not closed like WhatsApp today. We do not want to be a monopoly ever.

We are committed to that goal and we will work with iSpirt to make this happen.

[Srihari Karanth @sriharikaranth]

Built in 1889, still beautiful in 2025 - The Glass House at Lalbagh, a slice of Bangalore’s legacy.

#bengaluru #karnataka

[Srihari Karanth @sriharikaranth]

Waited forever for this perfect shot - Yellow and Green Lines all in one frame.

#bengaluru #bangalore #NammaMetro #yellowlinemetro

[Nithin Kamath @Nithin0dha]

Here's something awesome 😍

Reshma, Lakshmi, Kirat, and Yamini are four young 8th- and 9th-standard girls from rural and socially disadvantaged communities in Karnataka. They published a scientific research paper in a peer-reviewed international journal on an innovative method for synthesizing copper oxide nanoparticles for water purification, with the help of three researchers from Prayoga. What's even more impressive is that these girls are the first in their families to go to school.

This was done as part of their Anveshana project, which is nurturing India's next generation of researchers from grades 9 to 12. Given our abysmally low R&D spending, we need more such initiatives that inspire young kids to dream big.

@PrayogaIER is a non-profit that, apart from all the R&D effort, does education research and helps make education policies based on the data it collects.

Proud to support through @zerodha. The second image is when a few of us visited Prayoga.

[Pallav Nadhani @pallavn]

Founders and to be founders - come over if you are around. I promise to ask @paraschopra fun and interesting questions, beyond what’s covered in the book ;) #straightTalk

[Vinaychandra Bharadwaj @VinaychandraB]

Great initiative. Love to learn more. I am in bangalore

[Dilip Kumar @kmr_dilip]

If you’re a founder, Rainmatter by Zerodha wants to cheer for your health.
Most founders get advice on how to acquire customers, sell products, and raise capital. I think what is not been said enough is-

Founder’s overall health is the moat of the business. Your mental health is the real runway. Your fitness defines the sustainability. And your anxiety levels determines the stability.

We can’t invest in every startup or founder. But I believe every founder deserves someone in their corner, especially when it comes to their health. I wish something like this existed when I was a founder. Maybe I would’ve felt a little less broken- physically and mentally.

Whether you’re funded by us, someone else, or no one at all. It doesn’t matter. No eligibility here. Just need to be a founder who wants to start prioritising their health.

We want to hangout with you where we workout together with other founders. No pitch decks and no small talk. We will- run, lift, cycle, jog. Do something to grind together with other founders. You just need to show up.

If you’re in, drop your name here. I’ll send you an invite with details. We start this weekend in Bangalore. And will do this in all other cities.

Why we are doing this? Because you are the most valuable IP of your business. Just don’t screw it.

[Sridhar Vembu @svembu]

The urban-rural divide in India arises from this basic economic fact: rural areas run a massive trade deficit vs large urban centers in India. That reflects the degree of value addition in manufacturing and urban-provided services (think health care, finance, accounting, legal) vs the very poor value addition in agriculture. I summarise it as "we sell rice paddy at ₹25/kg and buy smart phones at ₹1 lakh/kg".

This trade deficit means a persistent cash drain from rural to urban centers, and that fuels migration as well as sale of rural land. It also explains the political appeal of cash transfer schemes.

At the national level, we run a persistent large deficit in manufactured products, partially offset with export of services (software, GCCs, BPOs) and these exports are largely urban centric. To a first approximation "we import goods from China and export services to the West" captures this.

When you think deeply, the way we (partially) balance our external account makes our urban-rural problem worse.

Even rural areas, with vast surplus labor (just Tenkasi and Tirunelveli districts alone have about 3-5 lakh women whose primary income is from rolling beedis), are buying goods made in China, made by Chinese labor paid vastly higher than our rural labor. This would be totally unsustainable but our services exports to the West help partially balance our external account.

So the only "internal export" option left for our vast surplus rural labor is to migrate to our booming cities, particularly the ones that export services to the West. The boomingest of booming cities is Bengaluru.

I hope this explains Bengaluru's predicament.

We need an urgent rural manufacturing revolution to save Bengaluru.