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Abhiraj Hinge
@HingeAbhiraj
Love all things tech | Growth Investor @ Sequoia Capital
Joined September 2019
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NIFTY’s P/E has corrected back to its 15 year median of ~20x. Can macro headwinds truly pull it down further or is it time to go all in?
#nifty #StockMarkets #nse #nseindia
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“No-code tools for developers strip away the potential to add customised logic to workflows. Low-code tools are the way to go when building for Devs.” - Overheard at lunch. Any contrasting thoughts?
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⚡️We're live on Hacker News!⚡️
Would love to hear your feedback and ideas 👇
news.ycombinator.com/item?id=330210
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The Dev Life
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“Plants are the new pets and pets are the new children”
- Heard over lunch yesterday
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“Burnout” is a particularly modern affliction, feeling simultaneously overwhelmed and paralyzed. I’ve found it’s best to think of burnout not as a disease but as a symptom, with many different etiologies. The big three: permanent on-call, broken steering, and mission doubt.
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Things I thought would be way easier when scaling my second startup to unicorn status (but was actually just as hard):
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Models and portfolios mean different things in Bombay and Bangalore.
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1/ Today, we are announcing that Sequoia India & Sequoia Southeast Asia have collectively raised $2.85B across a new set of funds, including India venture, growth funds and an $850M SEA fund - our first dedicated fund for the region.
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Getting an auto rickshaw in Bangalore rain at an optimal price is peak game theory
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Today, we release our first ever SaaS Benchmarks Report.
In this report, we analyze, anonymized and aggregated data from thousands of SaaS businesses to bring you benchmarks for early stage SaaS companies.
10 Key SaaS Insights:
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Some things that didn’t exist when
Top Gun was released:
World Wide Web
iPhone
Facebook
Google
Amazon
Android
Yahoo
Instagram
Twitter
YouTube
eBay
Netflix
emoji
Hotmail
Wikipedia
Tesla
Bitcoin
Blackberry
Game Boy
iPod
hashtag
Uber
Fitbit
Spotify
SpaceX
Xbox
iPad
Airbnb
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A few amazing folks placed during the Day 1 hiring drive at BITS Pilani were at the unfortunate end of getting their offers rescinded by a $100Mn+ venture backed startup. Incase your firm is hiring for SDE 1 roles, kindly DM 🙏 I'll share the resumes with you.
RT for Karma!🙌
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On this day in 1995: Bill Gates sent an urgent memo to his executives
It was about the Internet.
He called it a “tidal wave”…
… “the most important
development since the PC.”
At the time, just 0.4% of the world’s population was using it.
And on TV, it was joke material:
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Interesting choice of words to capitalise…
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I have this old 2006 BusinessWeek framed as a reminder. The “risky bet” that Wall Street disliked was AWS, which generated revenue of more than $62 billion last year.
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Contradiction between my desire to see Ethereum become an L1 that can survive truly extreme circumstances and my realization that many key apps on Ethereum already rely on far more fragile security assumptions than anything we consider acceptable in Ethereum protocol design.
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Fantastic weekend read:
10 lessons from AWS’s meteoric growth
Hope to read more of these insightful pieces
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Me: Walking 3km can never be faster than driving; BLR Traffic: Hold my beer
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Universal altruism is best seen when a bunch of strangers on the road with a language barrier come together on Holi and climb roofs with rickety ladders to help you retrieve the house key ✨
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Other cities have a vehicle on footpath problem, Bangalore has a pedestrian on road problem
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My thoughts personified.
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Thanks for a supremely fascinating and satisfying explanation of how the mRNA vaccine works using basic computer science terminology . Very highly recommended investment of 30 minutes over the weekend - berthub.eu/articles/posts
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Soft-margin SVM
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Does anyone use ClubHouse here?
Would really love to get an invite!🙈
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I think I’m obsessed. I need help
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Interesting results from @meghanabhange's weekend tinkering with GPT3, with me as the dumb(in both ways 😛) spectator. The bold text is the input provided for training.
I wonder how much further the upcoming language models will push these boundaries?
#NLP #MachineLearning
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Chota byte
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In this lockdown, it's only when your flush breaks down that shit truly hits the ceiling.
#lockdown #Covid_19india
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ET spoke to my co-founder about his tech journey.
This picture is stealing the thunder though 😀
economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/ites/code
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