Vrinda Singhal

Tech, Startups, Product • Runs an anti-social social club

[Vrinda Singhal @vrinduhh]

pip install motivation

[David Haber @dhaber]

Careers are long. And you never know how life re-intersects…

The karmic boomerang is real. For good (and for bad). Always why you should do the right thing!

[Vrinda Singhal @vrinduhh]

Gentle reminder to self: Go for a run and coffee before making important life decisions. A low-battery prefrontal cortex is not to be trusted.

[Vrinda Singhal @vrinduhh]

@aruneshsingh99 Yay 🎉

[Vrinda Singhal @vrinduhh]

Hey @zerodha would be good to show a quick tip if bonus shares are being sold

[Vrinda Singhal @vrinduhh]

I was today years old when I realized the bonus shares on long term shares are actually considered short and show zero cost of acquisition, your long term profit changes to pure short term profit and long term loss. Guess whose tax PnL calculations have gone for a toss.

[Dilip Kumar @kmr_dilip]

Bro to bro- do not try entrepreneurship if you don't have a high tolerance for uncertainty. For long periods of time, you genuinely won’t know if you’re early, wrong, unlucky, or just stupid. You need to be cheap before you can afford not to be. Because raising money and burning it is easy. Building something people are willing to pay for is hard. You need high self esteem and a low ego and you've to be comfortable being wrong, looking stupid and changing your mind. Most importantly, learn how to lose without becoming a loser. Because you’re going to lose a lot- money, people, deals & time. Just don’t lose your ability to think clearly. And btw, don’t go looking for motivation. It is useless after a while. What you really need is stamina. Both physical & mental.

[Vrinda Singhal @vrinduhh]

@vgoel_ Thanks man 🙌🏻

[Vrinda Singhal @vrinduhh]

Starting up is very similar to solving puzzles in real life, thats the thing I enjoy most about this journey

This viewpoint also really helps take the pressure off

[Aaron Epstein @aaron_epstein]

So much of being a founder is overcoming fear.

Fear of launching
Fear of talking to users
Fear of rejection
Fear of ambiguity
Fear of charging money
Fear of looking dumb
Fear of doing the hard thing

What are you avoiding because of fear? Don't let it control your company.

[Nicolas Dessaigne @dessaigne]

When I was in Paris recently, I had breakfast with a deep tech founder who was debating wether to move to SF. He wanted to improve his odds at fundraising.
That's the wrong framing. Capital matters but the biggest benefit in coming to SF is to raise your ambitions. You are the average of the people you surround yourself with. In SF, the people surrounding you are attempting things that would sound insane in Paris.
I've watched it happen to founder after founder, and it happened to me too. Put yourself somewhere you're no longer the most ambitious person in the room!

[Vrinda Singhal @vrinduhh]

@investwithpaul haha yes, time to reactivate the socials

[Vrinda Singhal @vrinduhh]

What a time to be alive!

[akira @realmcore_]

I cannot fucking believe that everyone is collectively reinventing all of software engineering from first principles

What the fuck

What happened

[Vrinda Singhal @vrinduhh]

Amid Trump, wars, economic breakdown and rampant corruption - such a relief to see positive wave of solidarity and new hope.

[Vrinda Singhal @vrinduhh]

GenZ rising against a fascist government. Abandonment of dishonest media and new age of independent journalism being born. Women leading from the front - bold and unapologetic.

[Vishnu Agarwal @vishnuagarwal64]

We’re told that buying cheap Russian oil was a masterstroke for India's national interest.

But a stunning claim has emerged from US Secretary of the Treasury, Scott Bessent:

Indians never saw cheaper fuel, while a few rich families allegedly profited $16 billion by reselling it.

Is this true...?

1/12

[Kaushik @kaushiks0390]

Who’s pushing Ethanol? – Nitin Gadkari

What’s it made from? – Sugarcane Molasses

How many sugar plants does Gadkari own? – 17

Who supplies Ethanol to the govt for petrol blending? – MANAS & CIAN Agro Industries run by his sons

And what do we get? – Higher taxes on Ethanol-blended petrol

[Vrinda Singhal @vrinduhh]

The global bubble

[Stanly Johny @johnstanly]

So India and Pakistan are rivals. India and China are competitors. India and Russia are strategic partners. Russia is almost an ally of China. China has Pakistan, a former US ally, in its pocket. Pakistan has a booming relationship with Turkey. Turkey, a member of Nato, is a treaty ally of the US. The US has a vibrant strategic, economic and defence partnership with India, while Pakistan, where the man who attacked New York was found and killed by the US, moved away from America's orbit. But the US continues to hyphenate India, a partner, and Pakistan, which is armed by China, its most powerful geopolitical rival, and Turkey, a treaty ally. This is the strategic picture of today's world.

[Vrinda Singhal @vrinduhh]

Well played

[Vrinda Singhal @vrinduhh]

So @airindia gave a paycut to pilots, incentivised (read bribed) commanders to break away from Pilot unions, oppressing first officers by reducing flying hours and pay, got @DGCAIndia to introduce revised rest period policy and developed an industry monopoly - All with one merger