Bhavin Turakhia
@bhavintu
Followers
57,390
Following
307
Media
133
Statuses
1,682
It is our moral obligation to make an impact proportionate to our potential. Founder @zetasuite , @titanemail , @radixregistry
London, England
Joined March 2008
Don't wanna be here?
Send us removal request.
Explore trending content on Musk Viewer
Telegram
• 1245361 Tweets
#خلصوا_صفقات_الهلال1
• 1227251 Tweets
Brazil
• 909926 Tweets
O Brasil
• 673758 Tweets
Elon Musk
• 664376 Tweets
Chelsea
• 514036 Tweets
Alexandre de Moraes
• 479925 Tweets
Osimhen
• 278244 Tweets
Sterling
• 200998 Tweets
Xandão
• 143250 Tweets
Napoli
• 134156 Tweets
Adeus Twitter
• 124643 Tweets
Ditadura
• 124505 Tweets
Threads
• 95139 Tweets
#مولد_ولي_العهد
• 86926 Tweets
Labor Day
• 65868 Tweets
Tchau
• 65537 Tweets
Anatel
• 63566 Tweets
Eddie
• 62083 Tweets
Nelson
• 53666 Tweets
Derrubaram o X
• 42526 Tweets
Bluesky
• 37982 Tweets
Tumblr
• 36343 Tweets
VPNs
• 35964 Tweets
Coreia do Norte
• 33429 Tweets
Benfica
• 32029 Tweets
CONGRATULATIONS RM
• 30461 Tweets
#الجناح_مطلب_اهلاوي
• 23809 Tweets
CONGRATULATIONS NAMJOON
• 22098 Tweets
Orkut
• 19059 Tweets
BARMY WITH BTS
• 15786 Tweets
Shelton
• 10363 Tweets
野菜の日
• 10349 Tweets
The most important skill you do not learn in school is that you can learn anything on your own
75
556
5K
We don't have enough time on this planet to take weekends off
362
171
2K
Zeta is a Unicorn. Now that that's out of the way, Id like to celebrate the real contributors -
1. Celebrate our 800+ employees who flawlessly execute on our vision even in these trying times
2. Celebrate the 20+ fintechs and 10+ banks globally who have placed faith in us ...
75
81
2K
If you don't have time to waste, you don't have time to think
33
161
2K
All founders - Our people come first. Everything else can wait
17
140
2K
People will join you for Purpose and stay with you for Impact
12
138
2K
2 billion users spend 136 minutes averagely on social media everyday. If 30% of that time was spent on reading books, then we'd have 2 billion people reading as many books as Bill Gates each month. (The irony of posting this on social media isn't lost on me :))
42
287
1K
Writing is an under-appreciated skill that deserves more attention. The better you get at writing, the better you will get at thinking too.
30
97
1K
Human brains are no different from single core computers. The more you try to get done in parallel the more time you waste in context switching and delay everything
16
139
1K
I get asked how I had the strength to start at 17, build 5 different companies and run 3 at the same time (
@Flock
,
@RadixRegistry
,
@ZetaIndia
). My answer - I am not afraid of starting new things. Not afraid of failing. The only thing I am afraid of - is not taking chances.
28
210
1K
A perpetually loss making startup is a charity not a business
48
86
1K
Remote work is very efficient for day to day execution (assuming ownership and accountability) due to reduced distractions and lesser commute time wastage ... but very inefficient for strategic planning, collaborative problem solving, decision making and 0 to 1 leaps
35
129
1K
Entrepreneurs have an ultra fast switch from pessimism to optimism
42
112
1K
A startup is like an organism. Starts with a single cell that contains all the code (Founder) and then rapidly divides and specializes into multiple differentiated cells forming disparate organs working in harmony to create magic - but they all share the same DNA (culture)
21
176
1K
A successful entrepreneur should be a great builder, but MUST be an exceptional storyteller
34
98
1K
Time spent on "hiring right" has the highest compounding ROI
32
76
1K
Give me the strength to avoid the temptation of building what I don't have and start selling what I have
24
122
1K
Folks who take notes and jot down tasks during meetings have a higher degree of trust from me
29
44
1K
Use intuition to discover ideas. Use data to decide if you should pursue them.
19
93
1K
You know a company is big when news about their one hour outage gets more coverage than the advertising budgets of all the startups I can name combined
14
56
1K
A plan without goals is a dream. A goal without a deadline is a wish.
5
124
1K
Office on break from tomorrow for 7 days. What am I going to do!!
121
13
959
Single tasking - the biggest productivity hack that everyone has forgotten about
16
75
965
Goodbye Revenue multiples, GMV multiples, Userbase multiples. Welcome DCF.
22
53
903
An indian headnod is like a quantum particle. It is in a superposition of Yes, No and Maybe until it is finally measured.
29
106
904
Writing code needs to become more prevalent than writing essays in school
65
56
885
Treat talent acquisition like organizing a party. The more selective you are, the more people want to get in
12
53
878
Techies make poor product managers because as a techie "everything is possible"
42
53
861
Pick products that are easier to sell and not ones that are easier to build
30
80
846
Startups eat large companies for lunch because as you grow larger you end up spending more and more time with lawyers and lesser and lesser time with creators :)
16
48
859
Google raised $25.1mn before its IPO. Even at a 5% success rate $10bn ought to be able to create 20 Googles. Excess capital breeds inefficiencies. Constraints breed creativity.
30
63
847
The journey to a million customers starts by building a product for one
10
57
825
Speak and you are heard once. Write and you are seen forever.
13
67
797
The 10% adept at "What to focus on" generate 90% of the value in any organization
7
53
784
Omicron - the natural organic vaccine that no-one can decline
16
34
783
Successful entrepreneurship relies on having a healthy dose of delusion without becoming delusional
13
82
778
"if you build it they will come" - my most expensive flawed assumption.
27
40
751
Friend: YOLO. Life is fragile. It can end anytime. What is the point of working all the time. You should just chill.
ME: YOLO. Life is fragile. It can end anytime. So its now or never to make an impact.
15
51
746
Most enterprise software is simply taking something that was done on spreadsheets and building a system of record and a workflow engine around it
21
58
737
Most people take more time deciding to fix a bad decision than the time taken to fix the bad decision
11
61
714
8500+ book recommendations from the most successful and interesting people in the world -
(Tweeting this as a bookmark for myself)
@gauravmunjal
@kunalb11
- FYI too
16
219
713
Impatience can also be a virtue. Strong sense of Urgency. Bias for Action. Intolerance for procrastination. 100% Follow through. No dropping the ball. All virtues in my book.
23
72
686
Meetings are 2X more productive when the organizers send pre-reading material that everyone consumes before or at the start of the meeting
15
39
680
Fintech is a fallacy. You are either "fin" (a regulated financial services business) or "tech" (a SaaS/software company)
43
45
662
My hiring criteria -
Breadth+Depth - Rockstar / Leadership Material
Depth only - Specialist
Breadth only - Reject
Don't spend your life swimming in shallow waters, dive deep with insatiable curiosity and hunger
16
52
667
The best thing about being an entrepreneur is being able to constantly feel like you are taking over the world. Nothing else compares.
14
53
653
When climbing a mountain, enjoy the trek, for the glorious feeling of reaching the peak is a fleeting moment
11
47
628
My definition of a Fintech: A company that does not have a banking license but provides financial services to a segment of customers in one of 2 ways - (1) partnering with a bank and embedding their products into their apps (2) layering on top of open banking APIs
17
73
621
Having a purpose and being able to work towards it is the formula for lasting happiness
9
46
627
To make an interface simpler on the frontend requires infinitely more intelligence and work on the backend
14
52
617
I have tremendous respect for people who are pushy and incessant in follow up and follow through. They are also the ones who have meticulous systems of maintaining todo lists with deadlines and let nothing slip through the cracks
14
30
618
Whenever a large app does several things it creates an opportunity for a startup to come along and unbundle the most important thing into a new app and build a unicorn out of it
23
53
605
Domain expertise has much lesser value than the ability to engineer from first principles. The latter can help disrupt any domain. The former can actually act as a handicap due to preconcieved notions.
28
63
601
Raising capital is a bit like wake surfing. At some point you have to be able to let the rope go and ride the free cash flow wave :)
13
12
589
Journey of a Founder - (1) Identify high impact opportunity (2) Raise adequate capital (3) Hire the right Talent (4) Build the right playbooks
19
65
582
We clean our homes by eliminating stuff we don't use periodically. Good product managers need to do the same with their products. A clean clutter free experience cannot be over rated.
14
40
576
Overfunding startups tempts and distracts them into scaling sales, marketing, headcount before achieving product market fit, low CAC, high retention, high NPS and figuring out all the unknown unknowns
11
49
573
Treat time as your most valuable asset, and do not allow anyone or anything to waste it
11
66
578
Every interviewee would benefit from taking 2 min to jot a few notes for each question with a pen and paper before they begin to answer. I offer this to every candidate in every interview and yet almost none take it up.
23
34
559
Retaining 1 customer is more important than getting 10 new ones in the initial stages
11
41
559
4 things I wish were ingrained through teaching and repetition from a very early age for every child
* It is ok to be wrong
* The art of self-learning
* You can achieve what you believe
* How to optimize your body and mind
12
86
556
Marketing is about selecting what to leave out from your pitch so what you keep is both necessary and sufficient
12
55
556
Each $ invested in Paid advertising earns it's value once, if at all. Each $ invested in creating content can pay dividend for life.
18
115
552
Founders need to be micro managers during the 0 to 1 phase. Delegating 0 to 1 is at best inefficient and at worst completely ineffective.
Investors delegate 0 to 1. Founders own it.
15
50
549
Companies that focus on generating EBITDA can re-invest that EBITDA to generate more EBITDA creating a compounding flywheel.
Companies that have to keep raising money, have to keep raising money.
12
38
553
As a leader every conversation is an opportunity to inspire
12
36
544
I propose renaming OKRs (Objectives, Key Results, Initiatives) to GMTs (Goals, Milestones, Tasks)
29
33
549
The 7Ps you need to get right to succeed in any venture - Persona, Problem, Product, Proposition, Promotion, Profits, Preservation
14
79
539
A fundraise is an input, not an outcome; a pitstop not a finish line; an enabler not an achievement
We are humbled to be recognized as a unicorn, but we will park our right to be proud when we achieve our vision of becoming the largest banking tech player worldwide
9
33
538
Common drivers of all 4 happy hormones - Exercise, Sunlight, Meditation, Healthy diet, Adequate Sleep, Touch, Social Interaction, Laughter. How many of these do you get daily?
21
60
535
Don't emulate what successful people do after they are successful. What got them there tends to be quite different.
12
30
532
I do not believe in Fail Early, Fail Fast, Fail often. Instead I believe in Validate early, Validate Fast, Validate always.
Fail implies you start and fail. Validate implies you do not start before you validate adequately
12
42
528
Better to build a 100 mocks (if required) than to write 1 line of code (before validation)
12
45
525
Entrepreneurship is like a marathon. Winning is fun. But you've got to love running more.
10
31
523
Playing at the $1 table or the $10,000 table takes the same amount of time and brain function
15
41
505
Good entrepreneurs find unique solutions to any problem. Great entrepreneurs find unique problems.
16
54
501
The 3 non-compromisables - Smartness (problem solver), Ownership (Delivers results) and humility (no explanation needed)
9
32
491
Ideation - 15% time, Validation - 30% time, Implementation - 30% time, Measurement - 25% time. Repeat.
7
50
482
Many a times as a leader my only job is to let people know that they can dream bigger, aim higher and raise the bar
12
19
481
We constantly tend to mistake 'pleasure' for 'happiness'
16
31
483
I really hate it when people send me spreadsheets with merged cells and you cannot sort, manipulate, reorder, filter anymore. Spreadsheets should eliminate them. Excel is not intended to be a documentation tool. It is intended to be an analytics tool (IMHO)
18
23
482