Abhimanyu Saxena
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Building @Scaler_Official and @scaler_sst . Teacher, programmer, cook and meme dealer in the same order.
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The tech industry in the country desperately needs an overhaul of the engineering education infrastructure (AKA engineering colleges) to stay relevant globally.
We just announced Scaler School of Technology, as our attempt to solve this massive issue. Let me explain, The Why?
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Shark tank india is so shitty, I'm seriously contemplating making an authentic series on startup building. Not for bullying, but to actually help founders build high impact companies.
To check whether world even need this,
this will happen, if this tweet gets 10k likes! Promise!
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In the middle of going gaga over few UPSC toppers let’s take a min to think about millions of aspirants who were convinced to invest 2-8 years of their most productive years of youth into memorising things that will have little practical application in their earning potential.
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Recently met a young chap, unemployed, depressed who believed that his career is ruined because of reservation.
I asked him none of the companies hiring in Bangalore have reservations, he said he couldn’t get to a good college, because of reservation and hence won’t get the job.
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Released in public interest
These 36 kids bouncing around Indira nagar and Koramangala and creating noise on Twitter and fancy cafés are not the real Bangalore startup Spartans.
The real value is being created by non glam folks who often are not even on Twitter 🙂
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I want a city with weather of Bangalore, but infra and vibe of Hyderabad!
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Most of us will have some friends who were the most promising individuals during the college, but ended up wasting 5-10 years preparing for UPSC, and eventually ended up with extremely subpar careers compared to their caliber during college. Who to blame for the lost potential?
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The richest man in India are always the person closest to the political power.
The richest man in US are usually the once who are anti political power.
Tells a lot about how much we need to evolve as a country.
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People looking down on 9-5 job, and day dreaming need to understand that world is run by people doing 9-5 job.
In the early years of career, doing a job is one of the best way to grow as a person and professionally, don’t pass on it, just because it makes you look cool.
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I lost my degree certificate back in 2012, and because of my procrastination never got the duplicate one.
Just realised that it’s 10 year since and I actually never needed it for anything 😂
When did you need your degree certificate last?
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Back in 2015, while pitching to a VC fund, they spent almost half of the meeting asking us why we didn’t go to IITs, and whether we have anyone in the team from the IITs.
We turned down every subsequent meeting request from them. Yesterday I heard they are shutting down.
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Seriously, what exactly is the point of UN Security Council? 🤔
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How hard would it be to just freaking build electric cars in India, instead of begging Elon Musk to set shop in India?
What are the challenges?
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I find it funny that all state politician are begging Elon musk to set shop in India, but would barely create any policy to support Indian EV industry. 🤣
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@KarthikS2206
Glad for the kid! Just hope someone guide him to get better at communications as well! 😊
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Rapido is only functional mode of public transport in Bangalore right now.
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India is in dire need of quality tech journalism. Neither the pessimistic click baity pricks nor the boot licking sycophants. Someone who understands depth of tech and ask hard questions to the technocrats!
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Unless you’re born rich, hard work (in the right direction) is the only path to prosperity.
Go woke, go broke 🤷
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Majority of these will settle with below average income potential(subpar access to healthcare and education for their families)
I feel there is a whole ministry needed for the resettlement of UPSC aspirants who couldn’t clear the colonial exam. I wouldn’t say they failed though!
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1cr salary in San Francisco is almost same as 15 lakh salary in Bangalore.
Why do IITs force our talented kids to work for such meagre salary in US?
Daal main kuch kaala hai Daya!! 😁
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What a powerful speech at UN from an Indian representative after decades!
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Back in 2014 when I was just another software engineer, I messaged
@vijayshekhar
on Quora for some help and he responded.
Many years later I wrote to Sam Altman, seeking some help, and he responded.
Key is take your shot! Knock every door, and some would open. Only door that
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Whats up with 16yo writing investor and startup mentor in their bio 🤯
Bhaut peeche rah gaye yar life main 😂
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We announced our series B round today.
While the usual numbers of valuation and million $$ raised is often what get talked about, I'd talk about The Why.
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Ashamed of ending up watching Animal. Ashamed of people cheering in the movie, including women in theatre.
Ashamed of such a toxic movie being made at the first place.
Save yourself from this shit.
🤦♂️🤦♂️
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Sachin Bansal held 4.5% of Flipkart at the time of exit and 95% of NAVI around IPO.
Some luxuries that only second time successful founders can afford 😀
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I’m kinda amazed by the collective intelligence of democracy. Mandate of the election:
1. Third term to continue growth story of India.
2. Clear message from electorate that don’t even dream of China like dictatorship in India.
3. Pressure on incumbent to stay in check, deliver
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When I was a kid, average kids dream was to be an astronaut, fighter pilot and scientist.
Today most kids dream to be an influencer, professional gamer and youtuber... where did we go wrong? 🤔
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The threats of AI advances that we’re probably not prepared for.
Real picture vs a morphed picture doing rounds on social media today. Guess which one is real and which one is fake?
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An exceptionally important skill missing even in the best engineers is giving and taking feedback in the right way.
If this tweets get 500 likes, I'll make a video on whats the right framework to give and take feedback for techies.
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Let’s break this down.
Software engineering is 80% figuring out what is the precise problem to be solved, and rest 20% is writing code.
This is a huge leap towards trying to cover that that 20%. Now AI can manage 13% of this 20% (2.6%)
AI writing code in my opinion is going
Today we're excited to introduce Devin, the first AI software engineer.
Devin is the new state-of-the-art on the SWE-Bench coding benchmark, has successfully passed practical engineering interviews from leading AI companies, and has even completed real jobs on Upwork.
Devin is
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Which Indian tech startup do you think is making a huge positive impact and contributing a lot to the nation building?
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This is what common man goes through everyday in Mumbai, so that the rich living around Aarey can enjoy a nice view!
The physical and mental abuse that one need to go through just to get to work.
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Wondering how is Zuckerberg feeling right now, and why is that exactly same as how Nokia CEO felt back in 2008?
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Entrepreneurship in India doesn't deserve to be abused the way its happening on Shark Tank India 🤦♂️
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Coders who understand business have a massive unfair advantage over other in current markets.
Learn to code, and understand business!
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I wish google Calendar allowed inviting people with their phone number, and maybe integrate WhatsApp for schedule updates.
Email is soo 90s.
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Companies that don't ask for DEGREE
1. Apple
2. Google
3. Linkedin
4. Microsoft
5. Tesla
6. Uber
If you're applying for a job, which requires you to have a degree, maybe you can apply for a better job :)
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In tech, learning is THE job. If you're not learning at your job, you will get redundent and replaced in no time!
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While I had been deferring my car purchase for Tesla, but not anymore.
You’re not above law of the land and I’m sure indigenous EVs will be as good if not locally better than Tesla soon!
Big L for Elon and Tesla!!
@madhusudhanv96
@PPathole
Tesla will not put a manufacturing plant in any location where we are not allowed first to sell & service cars
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I might be wrong here, but I feel that people who start their introduction with which college they went to, or have this as headline for their social profiles, are into status game, and my interest in knowing them more suddenly goes down.
Do correct me if you think I'm wrong :)
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People who solved Irodov back in school days, what did you find more intellectually stimulating than that?
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For god's sake stay indoor. The situation at hospitals is horrendous, if you catch covid in next 2 weeks most likely you won't get any treatment no matter who you are. Do yourself a favour and stay indoors if you're privileged enough to be able to afford that.
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Why won't dunzo add a feature to get myself dunzoed somewhere? Getting an Ola/Uber is already a nightmare.
PS: I can do it already but the dunzo dude just gets little perplexed whenever I do it 🤣
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Out of 81 unicorns in India, 56 have Scaler alumni working with them.
The numbers were 48/73 a month back. There is a race between number of unicorns India produces and # rockstar engineers Scaler does 😉
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At 30, you've only been through 25% of your productive years ( Assuming you start at 20 and work till 60)
You're way too young, just in case anyone felt that you're too old now 😁
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Not a flex, but in the month of March 21 alone, 20 Scaler grads got an offer from Amazon alone, and 100+ joined various startups.
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Decline of the test prep businesses for the government exams, will be good indicator of India’s economic growth.
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We might still succeed or fail, maybe they passed us for right reasons. But wasting 30 minutes to check on college credentials IMHO is absolute waste of founder and VCs time. Hope no VC is doing that anymore.
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Video uploaded on NDTV’s YouTube channel 6 hours back, about 15k views
Video uploaded by Ravish six hours back, about 1.5m views.
NDTV has 15m subscribers on YT, and Ravish already has 6m. How long before Ravish alone has wider reach than the whole channel?
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People with very high expectations have low resilience. And unfortunately resilience matters for success.
There is no way to learn resilience except for going through suffering and I hope that suffering happens to you.
Greatness is not intelligence, greatness comes from
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Traffic lights that can change basis number of vehicles on a side doesn’t sound like too hard a problem.
Why haven’t any city put cameras with image recognition to detect traffic volume and control the traffic lights?
Am I missing some obvious and real problem in doing his?
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Cumulative annual salary of Scaler graduates is more than 600cr INR as of today.
If you factor in Scaler's expenses on teaching and infra, Scaler enables addition of >100m USD into India's economy every year.
Next goal, enabling addition of a billion USD to Indian GDP annually.
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I predict 1.5m concurrent viewers watching
#INDvsPAK
match today.
This might be first time in the world where a live streaming platform would tackle this.
If you wonder how,
@akisaxena
was very very kind to share the magic behind it all of this with us on Scaler pod's latest!
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Online betting and astrology companies thriving in India, in a way reflects average Indian customer.
A bit concerning, as a large percentage of population which is drifted towards betting and superstitions is not positive indicator for the quality of human capital.
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When I was 16 I used to dream of becoming a fighter pilot, famous painter or a successful entrepreneur.
Kids in 2022,want to become,YouTuber, Gamer and a VC!
Funny how jobs we didn’t even know 15 years back are most aspirational jobs today.
What would be dreams of kids in 2035?
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With the pace at which Google India is hiring technical recruiters, the race to get top tech talent, for Indian startups is only going to get tougher.
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I envy Mr Murthy to be at a position where he can say the truth, without being bothered about how people will perceive it.
I think ultimately that’s the real reward for consistent success over many decades! Makes you disliked by many, but you don’t give a damn!
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I never used credit card, until 2020. My credit score was always 890-900.
Someone force gave me a credit card with a huge limit, which I used a bit.
Paid every due timely, but my credit score dipped to 850 or so.
What is this sorcery? 😳
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An easy way to boost GDP of India could be just changing the syllabus of government jobs entrance exams to skills which make one capable to get jobs in the industry.
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It indeed feels like we’re living in dystopian world, where minister of a country asks a tech bro for help against the dictator of one of the largest countries.
And it’s granted!
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@Tim_Clif
How did you assume I’m not helping him?
Asking him to focus on learning stuff that would get him a job, instead of cribbing and sobbing is misleading? I fail to understand the rationale my good sir!
PS: I don’t engage with anon troll accounts, so won’t be responding further.
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Picture one: search density of keyword “computer science”
Picture 2: search density of keyword “upsc”
Most large states with the darker shade in picture two, have lower per capita gdp than that of India, while states with darker shades in picture one are lifting up the average
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If you think what was shown in Silicon Valley was fiction, you’re very wrong.
If you think what’s shown in Pitchers S2 is reality, you’re very very very wrong! 🤷🏻♂️
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A common fallacy I’ve observed amongst us techbros.
Because we’re expert at programming and built a successful company, doesn’t make us expert in every damn field in the world.
Retain humility, if you intend to keep growing 🙂
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Hiring cheap developers is a usually a very costly affair, if you're running a tech company.
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If you have same price and time for flight available, with all airlines, which airline would you NOT book for?
For me it’s definitely SpiceJet.
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Apart from fixing higher education for tech, there is a big opportunity to fix higher education for medical.
Per capita number of doctors in India is one of the world’s lowest, while thousands try to get medical education from outside India.
Definitely something broken here.
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When evaluating whether to join or not join a startup, ask yourself would you will invest in this startup if you had capital.
If answer is no, most likely you shouldn't be joining.
If answer is yes, negotiate for the equity rather than the fixed salary.
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My way of practicing detachment is closing chrome tabs accumulated over months without checking what they are about!
If something is important enough, it will find its way back! 😂
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Legit wondering how do Mr Modi manage to hop around India at this age, while I fall dead by the end of the day hopping around Bangalore at half his age.
Like he got body doubles turning up across different cities and events or what? 😂
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Anyone making VR company for pilgrimage? I’m hell sure it’ll make lot of money in India, lot of oldies for who it’s difficult to travel, but deeply desire to be able to do the pilgrimage.
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One thing I love about US is how entrepreneurs can show middle finger to politicians and not be bothered about it.
Is this because big tech is as powerful as government in US?
Or because US is more accepting to differences of opinion? I believe the former.
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Move over unicorns, we need a term for companies at 100m+ revenue and positive EBTIDA.
Ideas for what should they be called?
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Average American is way dumber than what you would imagine.
Average Chinese is way smarter than what you would imagine.
Rise of Asia is eminent, just seeing the average quality of Human Resources.
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Tech bros talk about meta verse and move to Bangalore in the same breath.
Bhai how? 😀
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If you aspire to do anything meaningful in life, develop a thick skin first.
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How the f do these new age babas come up with this bullshit? Try doing this first bro! 😂
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If you want to see how grim the situation of unemployment in our country is, try posting a blue collar job, you’ll be bombarded by calls from people desperate to just do any job for any money!
It’s a ticking time bomb for the country, desperation for job -> petty crimes.
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The events in Bihar clearly shows why India need more skills development and less test prep.
So many running for a job in railway, while everyone I speak to in pvt sector is struggling to hire talent.
#Bihar
#IndianRailway
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People who use credit card and have economic discipline, why would you not set auto debit but instead use Cred?
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What should be the ideal test to admit people into computer science course at top engineering college?
It kinda confuses me that as a 12th class student in order to study CS at a top college I must learn organic chemistry in depth first!
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What have they done to my country 😭
Before trying to justify, remember that this could be your loving grandfather, father or yourself one day if we let them spread the hate for their political gains!
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Do you remember Limewire? The p2p download tool for pirated music?
Do you know that person who built limewire, also owns Tower Research, the rockstar algo trading hedge fund?
Dripped out techbros!
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@sentientlabrdor
I beg to disagree here.
The world doesn’t end at the few seats they might be competing for. The world out there is not zero sum. if someone else got something it doesn’t mean they can’t get anything else.
The victim hood, keeps them in the same vicious loop forever, and only
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Been taking interviews for Scaler School of Technology, and I feel many of these 17-18 year old have better clarity of thoughts and awareness than many graduates whose interviews I've taken.
My running thesis is that average indian colleges reduce quality of human resources
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Why do HRs and Hiring managers raise eye brows if expected hike percentage is high.
If the absolute number is outrageous for the skills person possess, done hire, but why should someone be punished for being in a massively underpaid job? And there are many such in our country.
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Most highly successful people I’ve met, who come from non privileged backgrounds in India, had great academics, weren’t involved in student politics, we’re usually away from substance abuse and abusive behaviours.
Boring but in my limited circles that does seem to be the
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Founder of a well oiled startup joined Scaler Academy today, because he wants to network with a large pool of tech talent and hire.
The amount of investment founders make for tech hiring is inspiring, and shows how ecosystem is evolving :)
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If freedom and courage had a face.
I'd be a happy man if this man succeeds in protecting his motherland!
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You can only love or hate people who are going to make a big impact. You can’t remain neutral about them.
Elon musk, Steve Jobs, Mahatma Gandhi, Sawarkar, Churchill, ML King, history is full of them!
Do you recall a neutral person, who made a huge impact on the world?
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