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Announcing the last of the Escape Velocity grantees from 2022. This time, 4 winners, all girls have won a grant of 50,000 INR to pursue their dreams.
2022 has been phenomenal and both and I are blessed to be able to make a small difference.
#escapevelocitygrants
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Escape Velocity Grants are a no-strings-attached Rs. 50k that and I (along with amazing donors) give to deserving young folks under 25. This grant has successfully funded 70+ folks in art, engineering, research and sports. Apply here -->
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Have you registered? CallHub, in association with and @AskAvalance, will discuss winning strategies for the midterms. Be there for data-driven insights into election strategy.
Register here:
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Join us this Wednesday, September 28 at 1 pm ET for the live webinar, A Recipe to Win the Midterms: The Messaging & Methods to Get Out the Progressive Vote.
Hosted in conjunction with and @AskAvalance.
Register here:
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Mark your calendars!
On September 28, we will be hosting a live webinar with and @AskAvalance to discuss winning strategies for the upcoming midterms.
Register here:
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6/ And if you know anyone <25 who needs money for advancing in life, point them to our grant page:
invertedpassion.com/escape-velocit
and I handpick and screen people every month and give them no-strings-attached Rs 50k grant.
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🥳 Announcing August winners of the Gaur & Chopra Escape Velocity Grants where we award Rs 50,000 to people under 25 for whom this money can change their lives.
Profiles 👇
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High density insight from (nat.org)
Agency, enthusiasm, speed, humility, details, ambition… a strong set of beliefs for the modern age.
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🎉🎉 Announcing June winners for the Gaur and Chopra Escape Velocity Grants.
We are awarding Rs 50,000 to four people under the age of 25 for whom this money can change their lives.
Profiles below 👇
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13/ How to apply for future grants: invertedpassion.com/escape-velocit
Please RT, and share this link widely.
These grants can change young people's lives. That's what inspires us!
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🎉🎉 Announcing the next batch of winners for the Gaur & Chopra Escape Velocity Grants.
We are awarding 10 young folks a no-strings-attached grant of Rs 50,000 to achieve their dreams.
Their profiles in the thread 👇
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Thinking about your career this way allows you to work towards figuring out what you need to do for the role you want.
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You are only limited by your ambition as long as you can deliver those outcomes.
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It does not matter what level of experience you have at the previous step of the “career ladder.” You can play any role you want, CXO, VP, Director, Architect, Lead, Manager.
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Every step on a career ladder is a different role with different outcomes. If you enjoy delivering results in a particular position, you should be in that role as quickly as possible.
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A career ladder is a wrong way to think about your career. The career ladder seems like a linear progression from one step to another, and this is not true! 🧵
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We need Democrats on every news channel across the country talking about abortion rights like this.
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The hardest part in starting a $100m business: picking the right idea to work on.
Pick wrong and you’ll spend years working away with little to no results.
Pick right and you'll have a much better chance to succeed.
Here’s how I’ve decided what ideas to work on…
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When you do more high leverage work in your area, you are making more extensive and more significant value for yourself and the company. (n/n)
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Any work that gives value over a more extended period creates #leverage. Doing things that scale well, anticipating and preventing problems, and creating reusable work, are examples of kinds that work that has high leverage.
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The other way to create 10 times more impact is by working on things that create more leverage.
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There are at least two ways to make 10 times more impact in #startups. If you can lead a team of 10 people to create as much effect as anyone can, you are making 10 times more impact. Typically team lead or a manager creates this kind of impact, which is the typical growth path
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Let’s talk about #career growth in startups. When companies are small, the impact every person makes in a company can be much more significant. (1/n)
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This is webinar is becoming popular because of recent changes in the law. Consider signing up to ask questions on TCPA
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No drumrolls here, just quiet, sincere work done by individuals under the age of 25 towards building theirs and their community's lives.
These are the winners of February no-strings-attached grant of 50,000 Rupees as part of the Gaur and Chopra Escape Velocity Grant.
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The war in Ukraine is having devastating consequences, with millions of civilians forced to leave their homes to find shelter. will provide free calls & texts for organizations to support the people affected by the crisis. Apply: callhub.io/stand-with-ukr #StandWithUkraine
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Freshworks stands with our Ukrainian partners and friends. We wish for the safety of all people in the region and support the world's calls for peace. We are a global Kudumba. #StandwithUkraine. Learn more how you can help here:
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40 years ago 4 x 27 yr olds started Sun Microsystems. We were first to bundle TCP/IP on every system. Used email internally instead of paper memos. Ran production on ERP based on work editor called vi. My has the world changed. Thanks to all of the 235,000 employees + partners.
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Two learning from supporting this grant for the past few months:
1. Potential for change in India with Rs.50K is immense.
2. There are so many people are bubbling with ideas on how to create bigger impact but are cash constrained
Consider co-sponsoring a future grant
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8/ HOW TO APPLY?
In case you know anyone under 25 with potential but is limited by money to achieve their dreams, please point them to our grants.
Here's how to apply: invertedpassion.com/escape-velocit
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What a lovely thread!
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Emotional barriers prevent you from openly communicating with your audience. They significantly affect the quality of your conversations making communication futile. Therefore when communicating, ensure neither you nor the other party is going through the following emotions.
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CallHub design team is the most fun and close-knit team in the company.
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@CallHub is looking for designers!
If you are or know someone who is excellent at design, has a passion for UI & is looking for a great job opportunity, pls DM!
Anyone who knows me knows how much I love working here. We're based in Bengaluru. Any leads would be appreciated 
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1. Encourage summer apprenticeships - we delay the concept of hands on learning till very late in India
2. Focus on building things and stimulate curiosity than on exams. Once they become curious, they will anyway figure out if/which exam to crack and how
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This is the end of the pandemic:
• Vaccines reduce deaths by 90%
• Omicron kills 90% less
• Treatments save 90% of ppl
These 3 reduce COVID fatality rates by 99.9%
And after Omicron, most ppl will have some sort of immunity.
It's time to change our behavior
Details:
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🎉 Announcing December winners of Gaur and Chopra Escape Velocity grants.
We're awarding 6 people under 25 years of age, a sum of Rs 50,000 each.
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