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@SandeepMall
I think this kid went through some trouble due to being a little obese so extra love being showered and last wedding
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@_sameernigam
A fairly strong comment from a reticdnt builder. Looks like tech may move out of Bangalore
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A rare breed of founders are emerging in India...
Great at fund raise but terrible at execution..
This needs to be watched out
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@malpani
Humbly disagree Dr. Malpani. A number of notch institution (IITs, IIMs, NITs) are not for privileged few. Anyone who has ability to crack exam can go and study and atmo inside is absolutely equal (no difference based on religion, caste or economic standards).
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This is how my almamater, IIT Bombay
@iitbombay
conducted its convocation, what coordination & execution. My heart goes for class of 2019 but this is great guys
@singh_sequoia
@Zishaan
@hsgrover
@righthalf
@IITBAA1
@MohapatraHemant
@NandanNilekani
@bhash
@Goyal4Gagan
@farooqadam
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@ipo_mantra
Lived at these income levels for 4 years and it was good enough.
Rent - 40K (No EMI, did. Not buy home)
School fees - 10K
Movies - 3K
Eat out - 5K
Groceries - 25K
Petrol - 5K
Car maintenance - 1K
Car insurance - 1K
==========
10.8 Lac
80 C - 1.5 Lac
Tax - 70K
Holiday - 50K
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Given someone commented a few days back that PAYTM being faster than GPAY/PhonePE tweets may be fake or orchestred by company, I tried to test how fast PayTM is & it took just 1.8 sec & it felt incredibly fast.. Overall great experience
@vijayshekhar
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@anuragsingh_as
Anurag, a valid analysis but it misses 3 critical points
1. It misses is earning growth which will be very low for US Banks vs Indian banks as nominal growth rate in India vs US has at least gap of ~8%
2. Penetration of banking services is low in India vs US
3. Per capital
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@chandrarsrikant
If that anchor affects a billion dollar outcome for that conglomerate than yes..
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@ankit_singh08
@Uppolice
@dgpup
@kanpurnagarpol
@dcpskanpur
@adgzonekanpur
This is not right at all. Our police forces (especially at lower level) sometimes work all 7 days or sometimes long hours. Taking a break at work should. not be frowned upon
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@Ravisutanjani
True. Govt should not deduct income tax but only levy GST & Employee should also get GST benefits as they are earning money via hard earned labour and then GST should be offset on everything a person paying GST on.
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So proud to be an
#Ixigo
investor today! 🎉🚀
Ixigo has officially debuted on the stock markets.
And, I’m beyond thrilled to have witnessed this historic event firsthand, and even more honoured to have shared a moment with the visionary founders-
@alokebajpai
&
@rajnishkumar
.
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@drishtiispeaks
Your 1st line is a clickbait which means chasing followers still so everyone loves to become popular
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@ImRo45
Buddy, you are going to win it this time and you are leading from the front as well as from the back. One final frontier to be won
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@Ravisutanjani
No Ravi, read the report & see their previous short. They have a great track record of bringing companies down.
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@udaykotak
Uday Kotak Sir, huge respect for you Sir but it would be harsh to term converting debt in equity as 'create money out of thin air', and what's happening here is definitely a lot better than Reliance Power (Kotak Mahindra was a Banker to that IPO).
Not sure if I should debate
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@karan_1302
Thanks. Next set of predictions
1. RR vs GT (RR will win)
2. RCB vs LSG (RCB will win)
3. GT vs RCB (RCB will win)
4. RR vs RCB (RCB will win)
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@DPrasanthNair
True. Simple solution, I carry Rs 10/15 sachet of Girnar Tea, same one they mix. I ask for hot water which they are obliged to give and mix it right in front of their eyes. In next flight, I am planning to take more and distribute free as a sign of protest
@IndiGo6E
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@SachinSanghe
I am not against our dear PM and myself a supporter of his development work but this is case of wrong attribution as passport office's efficiency is thanks to TCS which now manages passport office and this has been as efficient since 2010-12, a lot of people in family for then as
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@aviralbhat
Nice observation, Aviral.
I was a double repeater. Not sure I am doing well or not but except the top 5% of batch in freshers (who were kinda real genius) repeater may have done well than who got through in JEE directly with 12th
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@chandrarsrikant
New Modi Govt and all its ministers are becoming experts in back tracking..
From abki baar 400 ki paar to coalition sarkar
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Here is the champion girl
@anuradha_mb
(finished 10K run in 70 minutes) & proud husband of champion girl (finished 10K in 75 minutes).
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Not many would remember, but the year 2011 - 2015 saw a lot of veteran PE fund managers turning entrepreneurs and launching new funds, most of those barring a few wound up within 2-3 years of getting a license.
The VC/PE business may look sexy from outside, but it's a very tough
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@ashajadeja325
Asha, while it's true
@amitabhk87
may not have written a line of code but India Govt Tech stack is world class and just handling billions of volume of UPI transaction but world is adopted.
Architect of this is our own
@NandanNilekani
and bunch of warriors. It is true market
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@raysubrata
@GabbbarSingh
1/2 disagree. I think it comes via an unconscious culture transfer where "getting things done via shortcuts is considered cool". At home it happens from elders-youngers, college/school from seniors/juniors & even peers. I think its part of a deep rooted psyche of Indian society
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@abhnv_r11
@pacificleo
Did you speak to maintenance secy or would you be open to become maintenance secy, Main Co or G Sec to fix this and all such problems?
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One of IIT Bombay alum needs urgent help. I think IITBAA is also trying to help, please help amplify this
@pratikpoddar
@malpani
@kunalb11
@NandanNilekani
@singh_sequoia
@MohapatraHemant
@ankoors
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@ashajadeja325
I thought even grads from top schools struggle to make $120K an year so $200K definitely seems super top end as folks who make more than a million USD in salary don't keep full time maid
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Thanks to a dear friend, enjoying Masala chai in Singapore and it was awesome..
7 meetings today and 8 meetings tomorrow and even on Wednesday (which is a public holiday), we got 5 meetings. Loving every bit of trip as well as building Dexter Capital (IB, $3-100MM deals) ,
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@hindipatrakar
So glad to see dadagiri of BJP Jiladhyaksh was called out by this RTO official
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@KapilSharmaK9
The way
@IndiGo6E
very harshly treats its passengers for even for a few minutes late. It should lay a penalty for wasting passengers time.
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Bloody brilliant.
@AshwiniVaishnaw
is simply brilliant. Cutting ribbons in one thing (which all politicians have done till date) but sitting in the coach to test for collision is something else..
Railway minister in 1 loco
Railway chairman board in another
Both going head to head to test kavach
Aiise minister chahiye 🇮🇳 ko 🙂 leading from front
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@RURALINDIA
This is an utter lie. I was at stadium and water was free. One just had to go and walk up to water counter
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#InvestmentUpdate
: Delighted to share our latest investment in The Pant Project! 💰💰
So delighted to have invested in the company’s Series A, which marks the startup’s first-ever institutional funding round after being run and scaled as a bootstrapped entity for years.
And
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@gandabherunda
Take bank to the task as well. If they allow money to be deducted without your instruction this is theft, at best they can freeze account but this seems like a gundaraj
@RBI
@nsitharaman
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@chiragbarjatyaa
Yes, that's way to build business also savings are reinvested to build Moat. Frugal, profitable businesses run by Marwadis
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Biggest disservice an Industry leader can do to it's peers is to list early and spoil sector sentiments. CarTrade is valued now at less than USD 400 MM & thus would make it hard for other cos in sector to raise capital
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@LiveLawIndia
How can we not make these class action suit in India? That is one award applies to all customers
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@deepakabbot
Founders themselves (& Investors as well) are to blame for employees not putting faith in ESOPs, year on year, promoters/founders have "looted" early employees at the name of ESOP
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1/n So after watching the premier of TVF Pitchers 2 along with a lot of entrepreneurs & VC friends
@_arpitmehta
@arpiit
, cast of pitchers,
@ZEE5India
&
@ArunabhKumar
himself, I came back & watched the remaining 3 episodes.. A quick thread on what to expect (without spoilers)
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@championswimmer
Yes, I have seen it. PAYTM seems genuinely fast but I also remember hearing
@vijayshekhar
telling in a private event (I think it was IDG event) how he in 2010 bought all spots in planes going to China and got PAYTM ads placed to influence Jack Ma & it worked like a beauty
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@dmuthuk
@narendramodi
@nsitharaman
Real estate in India is already expensive by huge margins. It's cheaper to buy in New Jersey City in the USA than buying a flat in Bangalore, Mumbai, and Gurgaon, and this becomes an issue when one needs to construct a hospital or hotel.
Pls note that if real assets are
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I haven't failed to get a response from all top builders whether its Ranjan Pai, Nandan Nilekani, Kunal Shah..True builders tend to respond, even if it is a few words..
Emailed Sam Altman inviting him on the pod
And the below was his response
Just glad that I got a response from him
Anything’s a win honestly
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@NileshShah68
Read on Reddit
"In 1990, the value of the land occupied by the Imperial Palace exceeded the real estate value of the entire state of California. Nothing close to that disparity exists today."
Emerging markets or developed market go through bubbles, for businesses (or stocks)
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@whiteHatSnr
This is the most disgusting thing I saw in my career in entrepreneur eco-system in last 12 years
@BYJUS
@whitehatjunior
so big corporates are trying to take down a person who would speak against them
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@NayrhitB
Nayrhit,
1. Never ever get irriated by customers
2. Assess customer on profitability, longevity, referral value add and bandwidth drain
3. Be polite but firm in say no to customers who may not fit
4. Discount would be asked figure out how to deal with it
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@redditindia
@zomato
@ZomatoProHelp
@zomatocare
This is cheating & quite unethical on part or Zomato. I am a pro user too and not sure have been subject to cheating.
@deepigoyal
deepi these needs to be fixed
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@aviralbhat
Both salaries are true only for the top 2-5% of folks & not for all teachers.. Though, agree multiple would still be minimum 5x. Reason is supply-demand & ability to correlate outcome/performance with efforts with most Institutes take student feedback to measure JEE teachers perf
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@raysubrata
@GabbbarSingh
2/2 examples are
1. Jumping red light
2. Getting off the train before the station
3. Getting up in a plane as soon as the plane stops
4. Breaking queues
5. Using bribe/approach for any kind of Govt works
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@gurkiratsgill
What Rohit is doing is actually great as it takes away pressure from batsmen to come. He should continue doing that.
Remember Jaysurya was not in top 15 ()
run scorer for Sri Lanka yet he won men of the series for SL for his ability to set up wins for
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Voted for the largest democracy in the world. Long live India & long live democracy.
Also won a T-shirt and note pad in lucky draw being the 1st 50 voters at out booth.
@anuradha_mb
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1. Voters should download "Know Your Candidate" app to know about respective candidates
2. Every candidate with criminal backyard needs to publish thrice in news paper
3. Every political party need to provide justifications for selecting candidates with criminal backgrounds
If
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@AskAnshul
Damn, what this guy is talking about? He is talking about Khalistani movement and separate land and all. It seems farmers are just a front and more vicious things are being planned
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Look Ma, my comment has become an ET headline
have been quoted multiple times in the past but a comment becoming "ET headline" is 1st.
@DexterAngels
@Dexter_Capital
@anuradha_mb
@EconomicTimes
'Twitter stint shows Agrawal’s career just getting started’
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NDA may make a Govt but unlikely to cross 320 but India block may cross 200 which is basically means
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@rishabhbansal97
What happened? I think one thing we all can try to do is learn a little bit of Kannada. The inclusiveness should be from both side.
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@anmolm_
1. Titan Capital
2. Better Capital
3. Dexter Angels
4. Special Invest
5. WEH Ventures
6. Accel Atoms
7. Sequoia Surge
8. KAE Capital
9. India Quotient
10. Sparrow Venture
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Super proud
@anuradha_mb
and entire
@multibhashi1
team. You guys are an inspiration. Govt's initiative "Ek Bharat Shreshth Bharat" & "Bhasha Sangam" is powered by Multibhashi team.
@malpani
@Tush_Ag
@DexterAngels
@Dexter_Capital
@ankitsaraf99
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How can one lose weight especially if you have in-laws from Jaipur?
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A powerful argument by
@vijayprashad
() against years of exploitation/colonialism that the developed world did against developing countries. Must listen for sheer beauty of powerful oratory
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This is deception and not disruption.
@deepigoyal
@zomato
should not resort to these practices, it is better to charge transparently than resort to these practices.
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Just now had a very sweet experience involving one of our portfolio co and founder.
Here goes the story. I was speaking to a lawyer connected by one of the other portfolio founder Anuj Parekh from Healthysure. I was quizzing the lawyer about her background and then I asked how
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Dmart Vs Big bazaar..
A key message to all founders who believe in "Go Big to Go Home", " Fail Fast".. sometime age old wisdom, perfecting the business model and being patient wins
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@darpan_sakshi
@iuditg
@gauravmunjal
1000 people in one go. You mean someone was waiting for "shub muhurt" In Navaratri?
Not against firing or mass firing but no point defending & strictly strictly against making it sound like all fired people were underperformer.
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@khemaridh
False.. $5MM incl. home equity won't be sufficient to live a good life style.. If you home is $1MM then remaining $4M even if it generates 10% ROI, it will generate just $40K which may not be enough to live a good life style
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@drriteshmalik
Wealth should always be created by team before investors. Just because Investors have bargaining power they end up creating more wealth than team members
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In the words of buffett: stock market is a device for transferring money from the impatient to the patient.
We are reminded of this quote as HDFC delivered strong preliminary results with deposit growth returning to normal.
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What Dr. Malpani just said
@malpani
is often most misunderstood concept by entrepreneurs, some newly minted VCs, journalists that valuations in private market has no correlation with real worth of company at point of time.
Even a secondary transaction at valuation would not
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With one of my favourite stars & India's star bowler
@harbhajan_singh
yesterday at a party of a family friend.
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#DealUpdate
: Being a part of Frubon’s 3 funding rounds has been such a delight.
And the relationship is not that of an advisor and client alone. We are also an investor.
Here are the three reasons why.
—
One.
Rahul Verma was my senior at IIT Bombay, and we grew into close
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@adadithya
Never understood these bragging tags whether it's a blue tick or IIT, IIM, ISB or Ivy League..
@kunalb11
rightly theorized India is a status driven society & status sells well
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@RagingVentures
1/2 this account is followed by 30K folks (not sure how many when thread was published). The analysis a month back was plain & simple but even the smartest of VCs did not see it & now only option is to get a buyer or fresh equity injection or FED secures large part of deposits
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@loganbartlett
The biggest IRONY VCs have
They love capex light businesses, but capital is raw material
They love non linear scale, but scaling a VC fund is hard
They love great teams, but find retaining great teams hard
They love moat, but super hard to create moat
@akm1410
@koolhead17
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I’m thrilled to announce that
@Dexter_Capital
has advised Nutrabay in their Series A funding, raising $5M. This round was led by
@RPSGCapVen
and supported by
@KotakAlt
Nutrabay’s co-founders, Sharad Jain, Divay Jain, and Shreyans Jain, commented: “As a bootstrapped company,
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Chak De, India ! Going to the Motera stadium to root for India to bring home the third World Cup 🏆.. We are in G block if anyone is in same block please ping on WhatsApp.
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@ganeshb78
2+2 = 4
2*2 = 4
3 + 1.5 = 4.5
3 * 1.5 = 4.5
4 + 1.33 = 5.33
4*1.333 = 5.33
6 + 1.2 = 7.2
6*1.2 = 7.2
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So
@ixigo
, a company where we (
@jhawarshubham1
) are shareholders and we absolutely love gets a huge love from the market.
98.34x subscription overall with ~55x from retail
This is mind boggling subscription and best amongst all tech cos I believe
IPO Subscription stats of
Ixigo’s IPO opens on June 10th. As long term backers of the business, here is what we are most excited about.
@dkagarwal
@hithisisbharath
@PragmatiKStance
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@banglani
Yes, these unfortunately exist... There are several modus operandi of corporate fraud that exists..
1. Taking company's asset away & forming a new co
2. Over-invoicing
3. Circular transactions in Tech cos
4. Inflating Capex
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@guruchahal
We shouldn't appreciate this machosim. It is better that Founders don't do this double shift & take care of their health, family and mental health..
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@AngadDaryani
Integrity is hard and it's even harder to find in as people become more intelligent
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@rajatgarg79
True.. Glad someone said it. Also VCs who ask 'low founder salary' in name of skin in the game should ask themselves do they waive mgmt fee, plus office, plus stay when their funds are underperforming & delivery sub par returns
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@ravihanda
In India, no one wants to pay a professional advice or skill. Biggest peev point is when people expect one to provide free service for professional advice/skill
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#InvestmentUpdate
: He lost his grandfather due to the unavailability of an ambulance.
And this hit him so hard on the personal end, that he ended up embarking on a mission.
.
Joining hands with Pranav, Ravjot co-founded
@medulance
in 2017.
Fast forward to 2024, and we at
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@sajithpai
1/n strongly disagree with this entire narrative on i-bankers or negativity signalling if a deal is represented via an I banker. It squarely depends upon the quality of i-banking firm or partner you work with & how committed they are with you while working.
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