Don't fall for Twitter bullshit. A salaried job is a perfectly valid way to achieve your dreams. Hard work is hard work.
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Anupam Gupta
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Non Telugu folks like me, don’t wait for Hindi version of #Pushpa (or any movie). Always watch in original language + subtitles. In this case, #AlluArjun voice is just another feel.
If we beat this, I think we'll send a loud message to the world. The world hasn't seen a united India. When it does, a lot will change. Forever. I'm long.
Reminder: watch #PushpaOnPrime in the original Telugu. Read the subtitles. The effect is much better than Hindi. That last half hour especially. #ThaggedheLe 🔥
Imagine a Byju's but for sports. Startup that gets kids the fuck out of a race for IIT IIM and in a stadium to play.
RKD buying Premchand Roychand's bungalow is such a magnificent Bombay Mumbai story. This city really is about money and dreams.
This is a good time to appreciate 24x7 electricity in Mumbai. Stuff we take for granted. #powercut
Please watch #JaiBhim. Please. Especially Bollywood folks stuck in North Indian small village. Boss aisa cinema banao pls.
I’m trying to understand how switched so easily from a flashy lead role in #SooraraiPottru to this very understated lawyer in #JaiBhim. Major respect.
You *have* to pause and appreciate the journey from an obscure UP town to having Berkshire, Softbank on his board. No IIT, no IIM. Pure grit. Hats off
#SarkaruVaariPaata has #MaheshBabu𓃵 return to excellent form. This time it's bank NPAs. Such great fun.
Stock markets: pays 2021 price for 2025 earnings
Mumbai: pays 2021 price for 1985 infra
No one talks about KANK and MNIK but both are right up there in my all time fav movies right next to Chak De and Swades. Huge performances.
HDFC Bank's market cap proves that customer service doesn't matter for an investor. Borrow at 3%, lend at 4%, golf course at 5pm. 3-4-5 rule. Simple.
Salaried people have a lot of things easy in life that non-salaried folks don’t. Never leave your job for random chutiapa. Never.
Bandra folks, the smart trade is to sell your Rs6cr 3BHK, invest in RBI floating bonds, retire to Gurgaon on rent with the interest. You'll still have left over money to start your own business and a corpus safely parked in sovereign debt.
Udhav Thackeray-ji and (Pardeshi, Chahal) led Mumbai through each and every day of the first two waves of COVID. History has recorded that.
6yrs completed in one of my SIPs, IRR of 1.5%. I can understand people's frustration with mutual funds.
What all has been thrown at him and yet, this is the level at which he operates. The data and clarity here. Respect.
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PARTY PATHAN KE GHAR PAR RAKHOGE TOH MEHMAN NAWAZI KE LIYE - stop it just give me the tickets already #PathaanTrailer
Pathaan is great but my all time fav movies are still: Chak De, Swades, MNIK, KANK (post 2000) and pre 2000: Baazigar, Darr, KHKN, Dil Se.
"quit your job to do what you love" must be the purest horse shit sold in recent times. And it's been sold really well.
Unused Cred coins must now be more than the GDP of Bangladesh and Pakistan combined.
A delivery boy isn't a career, isn't a salaried job, has no safety net. But it earns money. It fills the gap that India's system (Govt + pvt) has failed to fill. We're a poor country that has (largely) failed our youth.
Govt allows home deliveries of non-essential items. Jiomart launches. Govt clears direct foreign listing of Indian companies. Jio mulls overseas listing. Gotta love coincidences.
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And 👆 is a 100% serious tweet that I mean seriously from my heart and fully believe in.🎯
Startup founders buying huge homes after selling their stake is the best. After years of preaching rent > buy, they discover own > all.
Mumbai folks, please ignore “cases coming down”. Our health infra is still overwhelmed. I beg you: please stay home. Your non-essential stepping out is a cop’s headache that he doesn’t need. Please stay home.
I am not exaggerating when I say this: Bhai's entry in Pathaan was right up there, next to that scene in Infinity Wars. That was the level of cheer in the audience.
Seth built Jio during India's economic slowdown at a capex of some US$30bn.
Seth just sold a tiny piece(s) of Jio during lockdown at a valuation of some US$65bn.
All of this in under a decade.
In India everything is a business opportunity till you actually open your shop and realize you can’t scale or make profits.
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garu is a total rockstar. Not seen this type of performance ever. Really looking forward to Pt2 #ThaggedheLe
FDs won’t make you rich? Ok. Neither will stocks nor mutual funds. Only two things will make you rich - your brains and your guts.
First: Accept luck. Where and when you're born will decide most of your life. Don't mix luck and skill.
Gather around folks, get your coffee, this is going to be a very long thread of all my learnings in money and personal finance in one year of pandemic. This is what I need to urgently become to be more prepared for the next catastrophe. I think this should work for you too.
HDFCB Infinia credit card delivers more value to me than almost all the fintech startup products I use. This is not a paid tweet.
Sympathies to you man. Must be tough to struggle in a race which people like BeerB have already won long ago.
Chinmayi - you're the best. You don't have to take rubbish like this seriously.
Mumbai is a 24x7 city, great people, strong work ethic, many engg colleges. And yet we lost out on startups. Why? Real estate is only one reason. What else? expensive talent?
People underestimate the value of a Bollywood super star. In this day and age, to command our hearts and make us completely forget our drudgery and suspend disbelief for 3hrs. That is a super power. Today only one human being has it. That super star is . Dil Se.
Big big moment for me! My first solo book, The Wisest Owl, launches today in stores and on Kindle. Links in the last tweet. A thread on the book..
India's newly rich (especially salaried) need to be comfy with their wealth. Staying behind 'middle class' banner is looking funny now.
I have a lot to say to the people who mocked 5pm. But I won't. This is wartime. This is catastrophe. We stand together as one. #WhateverItTakes
6 years, 12 hours ago, we were conned, people died, and a few months later UP elections were won.
Bandra has more bakeries and cafes than Europe. If you throw a croissant you'll hit an espresso.
Took RaGa to accept vaccines from abroad, it took MMS to open up vaccines for 18+. Yeah no I know, just coincidences, I'm a libtard right? What would I know? This was always Govt plans. The original stance was only to confuse the enemies.
In Bandra, one does not say "I'm in class 9", one says "I'm in Fall 2025 batch"
Credit Card unboxing video? Really? What next? Reaction videos for reward point redemption?
CAs shouldn’t exist, right? Tax and audit is nothing but coding. Coding seekho, startup karo, karodo kamao. Why get stuck in an outdated course? Yes? No? Ok.
#Rishabh Pant is on fire again behind the stumps, can we please have a separate audio track for him?
If you wonder what corpus is enough to leave your job, ask yourself this- I love cricket, do I have enough money to fly to London right the fuck now and not answer anything to anyone? If the answer is yes, that's your corpus. If no, then go back to work and stop reading rubbish… Show more
Dear restaurants please go back to physical menus and waiters and servers. Yaar bass karo bakwas QR code and self order FFS. 🙏
It's 2021, we've got 50+ unicorns, a few decacorns, billions in investment, employment in lakhs....and some people still think India's startups are Ponzi schemes because no profits, no cashflows. Right ok bye.
All investing is coding. There will be more computer engineers on Dalal Street than CAs + MBAs. Coding above all. Life is code. Resistance is futile.
In the past decade, startups have done more to formalize informal labour (delivery, carpenter, plumber, driver, etc) than all of Govt laws. And yet start-ups are Ponzi scheme. Right. Ok. #maafkaro
Funny how no one is talking about how Dharavi is actually doing better now. Remember when it was called offensive things like “time bomb”.
You have more chances of winning a blockbuster IPO allotment than winning Rs25 cashback on Cred.
Dmart stock price at Rs3394 today. IPO at Rs299, just four years ago. Just putting this here for no real reason.
I hope all these Olympic players are well taken care of. This solid performance in a Covid year is just wow. Startups how about sponsorships?
Sorry, why are we having the IPL? We're shutting down entire cities. What is the point of IPL?
75 lakh people, Rs10,000cr invested in crypto in India: CoinDCX CEO on CNBC. Interesting. 75L is huge. 75L is like the monthly retail traders+investors in India cc
Got a call from Maruti regarding my enquiry for Celerio. Had to tell him it’s 2022 and I’d enquired in 2014. 🙏
What bullshit from Central Govt. After throwing every Covid appropriate behaviour to the wind (political rallies, religious events), we're told state governments are irresponsible. At at time when we should stand together, this petty fight. Horrible.
IPL might get more viewers than football in India but just delivered the FWC at scale in India with a great product. Just another RIL thing. 100% execution.