Founder @GrowthMeets, Growth Marketer
Bangalore
Joined November 2009
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Indigo staff "We don't have FRAGILE label for baggage at Indigo sir, we treat all bags as fragile" at Bangalore Airport.
Regular flyers, is this true?
#indigo #brand #marketing
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Please watch this short video so you know at least a little about what is happening in Gaza
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It's well known that lower income people tend to suffer much worse health. Is poverty at the heart of this disparity, and, if so, could a large cash transfer help close this gap? We examine an RCT that provided 1000 low income participants $1000/month for 3 years. We find…
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Ebay accidentally stopped bidding on $20m of branded keyword searches.
Instead of traffic and sales crashing, all the traffic from paid ads just shifted to organic instead.
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Tamil screen idols typically give larger-than-life performances in “masala” (mixed-genre) films, which feature action, comedy, romance, and a hyper-masculine hero fighting injustice. They can inspire intense devotion, and even wield political power econ.st/3Tt6vOh 👇
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2023 valuations:
Nvidia: $1.2 trillion
Intel: $180 billion
2003 valuations:
Intel: $220 billion
Nvidia: $3 billion
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Legalize skilled immigration
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I gave a talk about startups to 14 and 15 year olds, and their questions afterward were better than I get at top universities. I puzzled over this, then realized why. Their questions were motivated by genuine curiosity, rather than to make some kind of comment or to seem smart.
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An argument against immigration: it enrages Archie Bunkers and thus gives otherwise unelectable politicians a huge source of votes, and these politicians then wreak havoc in many different dimensions once elected.
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How to spot high agency people:
1. Weird teenage hobbies - Teenage years are the hardest time to go against social pressures. If they can go against the crowd as a teenager, they can go against the crowd as an adult.
2. Energy distortion field - If you meet with them when you're tired and defeated, you leave the room ready to run a marathon on a treadmill with max incline. Low agency people do the opposite.
3. Golden question - If you're in a 3rd world prison cell and had to call someone to get you out, who would you call? That's the highest agency person you know.
4. You can never guess their opinions - The boxer that writes poetry. The advertiser obsessed with the history of war. The beauty queen who reads Nietzsche. If their beliefs don't line up with their stereotypes, they've exercised agency.
5. Immigrant mentality - If they've moved from their hometown, that's a good sign. If they've moved from their home country, that's an even greater sign.
It takes agency to spot you're in the wrong place, resourcefulness to operationalise a move and a growth mindset to start from zero in a new location.
6. They send you niche content - Low agency people look at the social engagement of content before deeming its quality. High agency people just look at the content. They spot upcoming trends very early.
7. Mean to your face but nice behind your back - The social incentives are to be nice to people's faces and gossip behind their backs. To do the opposite requires agency because they're swimming against the social tide.
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When I talk to more established startups, one of the first things I want to know, after asking about the growth rate and whether they're profitable, is whether the founders still have board control. I'm more optimistic about the company when the answer is yes.
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The reason to deliberately do hard things is so that when non-self-elected challenges arrive (& they will), you can tell yourself: “I don’t know how this is all going to turn out, but I am certain I can do hard things.” Don’t self injure. But doing hard things is always worthwhile.
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In 1922, a group of scientists went to the Toronto General Hospital where diabetic children were kept in wards, often 50 or more at a time. Most of them were comatose and dying from diabetic ketoacidosis.
These children were essentially in their death beds, awaiting what was at that time, certain death. The scientists moved swiftly and proceeded to inject the children with a new purified extract of insulin.
As they began to inject the last comatose child, the first one to be injected began to wake up. Then one by one, all the children awoke from their diabetic comas. A room that was full of death and gloom suddenly became a place of joy and hope.
In the early 1920s, Frederick Banting and Charles Best discovered insulin under John Macleod at the University of Toronto. With the help of James Collip, insulin was purified, making it available to successfully treat diabetes. Both Banting and Macleod earned Nobel Prizes for their work in 1923.
Banting was 32 when he received the Nobel Prize, and he chose to share half the prize money with Best, who was his assistant and just 24 years old at the time. Banting refused to put his name on the patent and instead sold it to the University of Toronto for $1. He thought it was unethical to profit from a discovery that would save millions of lives. "Insulin belongs to the world, not to me," he said.
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Patrick Collison, Stripe CEO, on why quality matters:
"If Stripe is a monstrously successful business but what we make isn't beautiful and Stripe doesn't embody a culture of incredibly exacting craftsmanship, I'll be much less happy.
My intuition is that more of Stripe's success than one would think is downstream of the fact that people like beautiful things.
Because what does a beautiful thing tell you?
Well, it tells you the person who made it really cared."
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Netflix was a slog.
It took us about 18 months to find the repeatable scalable model we needed. And even after that, it took us 2-1/2 more years to get to 500,000 subscribers. I was so pumped I decided to print out the report where we finally crossed the line.
Netflix DVD-by-mail at it’s peak had nearly 40,000,000 subscribers.
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Reminder that the United States could have been the world leader in 5G technology instead of China if we had just given *one guy* a green card when he needed one
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Smarter people seem to get emotional about things much less quickly. This was consistent across several different stimulus conditions and two studies.
They also had a more blunted emotional stimulus response.
In other words, they got less emotional and they did so more slowly.
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One of the most curious properties of dragonflies is probably that their wings kill bacteria on contact. They do it by ripping apart the bacteria's cell membranes with sharp nanopillars as they move across the surface of the wing
[read more: ow.ly/6KZN50wzlKD]
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Watch as the US economy switches from General Electric, Exxon, AT&T, and Coca-Cola to Apple, Microsoft, Google and Amazon. The trend is so clear and so dramatic.
americanbusinesshistory.org/…
