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Arundhati Bhattacharya, Salesforce India CEO and 40 year veteran of State Bank of India, on change management at banks and working with fintechs
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🙏 still way more work to do, but 1. relentless focus on efficiency and profitability in the past couple years; 2. re-acceleration of growth; 3. Never trading at a high multiple in the first place 🙃
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When the word "API" is used in financial services, it most often means "actual person intervening" and not "application programming interface."
Implication: API works from 9 AM to 5PM; weekends & bank holidays not included - subject to 25 days paid leave & 15 days sick leave.
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search + ratings will give way to curated lists!
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Two Chinese streamers sold 18 billion RMB (about $3B) worth of goods in a half-day livestream yesterday.
That's almost as much as Twitter's annual revenue ($3.72B).
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After we found product market fit in Dec 2012, we nearly ran out of money because we were so scared to ask customers to pay. It took two gracious customers, a cocky sales advisor and a lot of fernet to learn the true value of our product. A 🧵 with 📸 1/18
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At the civic games lab and SMART we have few openings that we are actively recruiting for:
1. Program Manager/Researcher with a specialisation on environmental studies, public policy and urban systems. For a project on urban air pollution.
Short term contractual gig - 5 months
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New Peloton CEO emails employees
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How to lose $35 billion of market cap in less than 2 years
Peloton CEO John Foley is stepping down after investors voiced grave concerns in a presentation to the company
The wild part? The presentation is PUBLIC...and oh boy is it ugly for $PTON management
My breakdown ⬇️
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Few VCs even see themselves in such positions and even fewer are capable enough to pull something like this off...incredible DNA
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Anyone interested in VC needs to read The Power Law by @scmallaby. From the early days of Arthur Rock to the impact of Tiger Global, it's a definitive account of the history, the people and the lessons that underpin venture capital. My review 
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^Found in context of 'Caste' by who used it to talk about 'dominant' caste traits. Great read
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cc thanks for putting this together from the US context! curious if you have a pov for Indian SaaS/ enterprise/tech. would love to exchange notes
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I've been asked this alot wrt B2B fintech infra companies. author here suggests its a 'feature' not a 'bug' but wdyt? DMs open
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#TIL we are using the term "alpha" all wrong (at least in the workplace context) - based on wolf pack dynamics by Richard McIntyre it "is a quiet confidence, quiet self-assurance. You know what you need to do; you know what’s best for your pack."
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The chief enemy of good decisions is a lack of sufficient perspectives on a problem.
-Alain de Botton
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1. New companies and old comparisons
The IPO market challenged our minds. New companies and new business models listed, and challenged our minds that were used to "consistent compounder frameworks." The easiest thing to do was making comparisons about how one food delivery...
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"Ease of doing business" in the streets.
"Please sign on every page" in the sheets.
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Magical compounding
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Wat a classic metric to track for impact.
That's why I am of the opinion of a quantifiable metric to track for impact
People talking about impact w/o a quantifiable metric is like going to a date w/o a counterpart😜🙈
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Meet the fintech infra powered by in the words of real users
youtu.be/PcRdyKlZV2Q
Inspired by "Sometimes impact and innovation travels faster than light"
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Google reported strong earnings yesterday but between advertising, search, and cloud computing, , a fintech API maker from India found a mention on account of its recent work with Google Pay.
In today's story for I write about how API makers are ...
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Shiv Chatterjee of @DMIFinance: When data is walled and siloed, tools are also fragmented. The platform flourishes when you have a common language to enable it—just like how TCP/IP enabled the Internet, and how MS Word enabled writers to focus on their stories, and not on tools.
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+1 on the fun part :)
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Fintech is a fascinating industry.
So much to build, so much to fix, so much is broken , so much can’t be touched, so many regulations, so many things out of control yet so much fun.
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At , we are conducting open house sessions with finance leaders. If you are heading the finance function or business finance or working with CFO's office, this is for you.
Interested folks can share the details on this google form - lnkd.in/gigvNkMx
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The potential of daydreaming isn't recognized by societies obsessed with productivity. But some of our most significant insights come when we stop trying to be purposeful and instead respect the creative potential of reverie.
- The school of life, Alan De Botton
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Short thread on the strategy questions you need to answer for B2B products:
(a strategy primer in 10 tweets)
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Fantastic (and fun!) thread
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Get a cup of coffee.
In this thread, I'll help you understand Markov Chains.
In life, and in investing, we often come across situations where luck/chance plays a major role.
And Markov Chains are often a great way to model and analyze such situations.
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Zoom calls that end 10 min ahead of the next one, leaving time to document next steps, ensure accountability and enable the real work to happen...*takes breath*...are the best we can hope for rn #COVIDSecondWave
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At Setu, we’re lucky to have benefitted from those who paved the way for us, mentored us, and coached us. To pay it forward, we’re opening up mentorship opportunities for women curious about working in fintech.
Wondering if working on fintech would be a good career change?
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Billpay can be a powerful tool to drive repeat user behaviour on your app when coupled with perks or ease of payment. Check out our webinar to know more 👇
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Folks, if you're looking to embed bill payments inside your mobile/web app, come join our session where I will demystify how BBPS works! You can get access to 10+ bill payment categories + 10,000+ billers in one single API. twitter.com/Setu_API/statu…
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1 - Welcome to #ThreadTalk, muslin edition. Muslin has been all over my feed, so let me cut to the chase:
The finest fabric in human history was perfected by the Bengali people but tragically lost in the wake of imperialism & economic ruin at the hands of the English.
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