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(He/Him/His) | Founding team at @SaaS22Inc via @IIML @getplumhq @hiverhq @freshworksinc | Talk books & Bengaluru to me.
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Cool new gig drop here 🎙️
I'm going to be building
@Saas22Inc
—an AI-first software marketplace, along with a bunch of super cool folks! Let's go 💪💪 🚀🚀
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Hey
@CRED_club
, here's an idea.💡
I'm sure a bunch of us have a ton of unused Cred coins. How about we use them on the app to contribute towards relief efforts to help those affected by the second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic?
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This Karnataka Rajyotsava, I'm putting together a short 🧵on books about Bangalore/Bengaluru. 📚
I hope to read more about Karnataka, but for now, here's to what I love.
PS: Apologies in advance. Most of these books are under piles of unread books, so images from the internet. 😔
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🤢🤢🤢
LinkedIn is the absolute worst.
Riots in Gurgaon = plug for a startup. How. Just how. 🤦
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Because somebody had to make a
@DanishSait
version of this meme - Making multiple accounts for free trials be like:
Side note:
@peakbengaluru
, this should have happened a lot earlier, no? 😅
#FridayFeeling
#memesdaily
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Absolutely wild shop front signage spotted in the wild in Bangalore.
Steve Harris and co., are surely having the last laugh. 😂
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Mid-week blues? Here's an impeccable VW Kombi Type 2 (circa 60s/70s) spotted on the roads of Bangalore to brighten up your timeline 🌻
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Did a mini heritage trail in Bengaluru earlier this morning. Here’s how it went.
Started at Tipu Sultan’s Summer Palace (currently undergoing restoration for the most part)
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Hey
@peakbengaluru
, look at what I found! A water tanker with the Apple Logo on it. Maybe they're delivering iWater.
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Streets (among other things) of Fort Kochi, a throwback thread
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Folks got the second dose of the Covishield vaccine today.
So much relief. 😅
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Good folks on Twitter, I'm looking to hire an associate for my team at
@getplumhq
.
0-2 yrs exp, some prior exposure in marketing, comms, etc., & enthusiasm to break into Product Marketing is all that I need. Remote for now, in BLR later.
DMs open. RT, please? 🍺/☕️ on me.
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Probably the most touching newsletter to hit my inbox in a long time.
#RestInPower
Danish Siddiqui: The Lens with a Conscience via
@RanaAyyub
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And it finally happened. Lost a member of the family to the pandemic in Delhi.
Things are tense at home.
He didn't deserve this. No one deserves this.
Taking a break from Twitter.
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Welcome home, Kid.
I have a feeling, you and I, we'll be going on a lot of fun, new adventures together 🛣️
(Also ft. the go-faster hot hatchback bits that make this 🚗 truly special and worth the wait).
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"Don't let these stories and pretty lights fool you, boys. Religion is darkness." - What a day to relive this scene from Life of Pi.
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How it started (1998) vs. How it's going (2023) [Noida edition 👨🎓]
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The only dip I'm buying. 😋
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@KithRags
I'm creating a public-facing list of everything that I can think of. Let me know if you want a sneak peek?
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Alright, bring on the waterworks 😭
After 18 months, last week marked my last day at
@getplumhq
.
While I leave with a lot of mixed feelings, one feeling that stands out is gratitude.
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The new Atta Galatta in Indiranagar (the first picture) is nice and I'm so thankful that another independent bookstore is back on the scene.
That said, i can't help but miss the old one in Koramangala (the second picture), it felt cozier (but this one will grow on me 😅)
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This morning 🌄 was a little different for all of us
@getplumhq
. First-ever print ad pulled off in the Economic Times after a lot of ☕☕ ☕
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This is where my love for reading about cities began. Peter Colaco's Bangalore, illustrated by Paul Fernandes.
It began as research material for a school play for the annual day, but it ended up being so much more.
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On this day, five years ago, I took my first steps into the corporate world.
Thank you,
@FreshworksInc
(back then
@freshdesk
) for placing your bets on a just-out-of-college graduate. I wouldn't be where I am today, had it not been for this. 🙌
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Thank you,
@thesanerguy
and
@tanish2k
, for having me onboard
@getplumhq
! 🥳
Really excited to take on this mission of helping build the world's largest health insurance platform from India 🇮🇳 and making high-quality insurance and wellness affordable.
Let's do this! 🚀💪
Excited to have
@TejasKinger
join
@getplumhq
, to build Product Marketing function 🎉
Employee Insurance is a deeply boring subject, which means the employees don't want to read or understand their insurance till they actually need it. At Plum, we aim to make insurance fun 👀
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Did a thing today: Malleshwaram Hogona to see some street art.
Happy Ugadi, y’all! (1/2)
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Aesthetic saturday mornings courtesy of the good people at Karnataka Vintage Car Club and Heritage Beku.
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Missed the under-one-hour 10K mark by a whisker, but happy to be back and running for the spirit of Bengaluru, fifth year in a row 💪💪 🏃♂️🏃♂️
#tcsw10k
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Postcards from the Kochi-Muziris Biennale 2022-23.
Day 1, ft. Aspinwall House, Pepper House, and Dutch Warehouse (MAP Project Space)
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Almost the end of the day. But, I just remembered, on this day 6 years ago, I moved to Chennai to start my career at
@FreshworksInc
. Forever grateful for that. 🌸
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If you're from Karnataka but grew up in a bubble, like me, or if you're new to Karnataka and wondering why things have recently turned ugly and communal,
@janeborges9
has a wonderfully detailed primer for a Sunday afternoon read in today's
@sundaymidday
.
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As my Delhi sojourn nearly comes to an end, here's the last of the bookstores that I'm hitting - Kunzum in GK. 📚
After Midland, Faqir-Chand, and Bahrisons - it's been a year of being grateful to Delhi and some of its wonderful independent bookstores.
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Update: This is live on
@CRED_club
!
@kunalb11
@CRED_support
and team, thank you. 🙌
Thanks,
@Ashwin_7
for giving me a heads up.
Now to everyone who pledged their Cred Coins, go donate! I don't know if it was always in their pipeline, but I owe you all big time.
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@gooner_joy
@peakbengaluru
Directly competing with water supply from Apple. I guess this one is from iCloud?
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7 years at the workplace.
Eternally grateful for the wonderful teams, mentors, well-wishers, and friends that I've gotten along the way at
@FreshworksInc
,
@hiverhq
, and
@getplumhq
.
PS: Yes, I have only one photo from my time at Hiver 🙈
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Sitting at
@thirdwaveindia
, reading the
@Flipkart
story which I bought off of
@amazonIN
. Am I doing
@peakbengaluru
Sundays right?
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Snuck in the under one hour 10K run! 👟👟
URU night run ✔️
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Before the day ends,
#TIL
the first Maruti 800 rolled off the assembly line on this day in 1983 and was delivered to a customer in New Delhi.
So to mark this day, from the archives, here's a 2005 photo of an awkward smol me with the Mothership's Maruti 800.
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Now serving Black Tea, Tea, Strong Tea, Light Tea, and iOT (io Tea?) 😅 ☕
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If you know me, you know that I'm a massive admirer of INTACH and its endeavors to protect our heritage structures.
Discovering Bengaluru by Meera Iyer is like traveling through time, taking a long, meandering walk in the footsteps of those who quite literally built this city.
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Story of my life - nobody laughs at my bangers 🥲
"I think our office is becoming con-tejas."
-
@TejasKinger
on meeting
@tejas_pathi
for the first time in the office.
Nobody laughed.
#OverheardAtTheOffice
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21.1 K Half Marathon done ✅
Back at the home of India's oldest and arguably most scenic trail marathon, the Kaveri Trail after a gap of 3 years
🏞️ 🏃
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From National Public School (NPS) to Net Promoter Score (NPS), it's been a 12 year long journey back to school. 🎒
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After two years and three months, it is time to bid goodbye to
@hiverhq
. I'm immensely thankful for all the memories and learning. I'm not kidding when I say this, but these years of hands-on work have helped me better myself.
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With the coming up of reading groups and book clubs like
@CubbonBookClub
@cubbonreads
@whitefieldreads
@hsrreads
🌳📕 and of course, the OG
@BibliophilesBlr
, I'm attempting to create a repository to help readers new and old. 📚📚
Help me collate it here?
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What a fun night of product, growth, and beers courtesy of the good folks at
@Toplynehq
and
@mixpanel
! 🍻
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Kannada Rajyotsava Habbada Hardika Shubhashayagalu!
Every year, on Karnataka Rajyotsava, I share a list of books - set in/or about the beautiful city of Bangalore/Bengaluru - a place I call home 🏡
Here's to edition 2023:
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One-third of a half marathon ✅
Slowly working my way up back to the 2019 half marathon days. 👟👟
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I think I've been a silent spectator despite everything wrong that I witnessed during my time at Sastra because, in a strange way, I felt like I owed them a wee bit of gratitude for helping me step into the professional world.
No longer. This is vile.
Sexual assault at
@SastraUniv
@SVaidhyasubrama
with proof. My friend was courageous enough to report it and what did you do? NOTHING.
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💥 100 kilometres of running 👟👟 in Q1 2022 ✅ (The only OKR that didn't disappoint me 🙈)
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8 years is a long time. And this one is going to be a particularly hard goodbye.
So, thank you for letting me cut my teeth. Thank you for never letting me down.
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Still haven't gotten over the feeling. I quite literally teared up when
@mrgirish
said "I thank all employees past and present." 😭😭
So here's my miniscule part of the
@FreshworksInc
journey.
June 2014 - My campus interview by Girish
July 2019 - My last day at Freshworks
Here's why Girish Mathrubootham believes the Freshworks IPO is a Roger Bannister moment for Indian SaaS. "Apna Time Aagaya", he says. Listen in.
#Freshworks
#FreshworksIPO
#IPO
#SaaS
|
@chandrarsrikant
@Sequoia_India
@Accel_India
@mrgirish
@FreshworksInc
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Of old Ambassador cars and remnants of art deco balconies in old Bengaluru homes.
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I'm honestly surprised that
@bira91
's social team hasn't capitalized on the
#BangaloreBoom
hashtag yet?
(If you're listening, do this now and maybe send me some free beer later 😋)
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Back on the track after 4 years. 👟👟 Arguably one of the best road run circuits.
#TCSW10K
. Also first sub 7-minute kilometre run, a personal best (bonus: the last image from my first run 7 years ago, definitely fitter even if I don't look it).
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This is what my Slack looks like on a Friday morning. Clearly, I need help 🥲🥲
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If there's one story I love on the internet today, it is Coimbatore-based Daily Basket (
@rameshvel
) taking on BigBasket with their very clever website
It takes me back to the epic Freshdesk vs Zendesk "Rip off or not" campaign ()
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This is a Bangalore and Tabebuia appreciation tweet. That's it.
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Weekend Westland books haul from
@bookworm_Kris
(as always 🙂) 📚
It's a bittersweet moment; to know that you're truly lucky to have these titles on your bookshelf, but also to know that these were probably the last of their kind (sincerely hope this won't happen 🤞🏻).
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First under 6 minute kilometre in a year.
Here's to gradually bringing back the pace. 🔥👟👟
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2 years. Lots of ups and downs. Yet, an important milestone. 1000 kilometres of running done and dusted. ✅ 👟👟
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When you think of tourist attractions in Bengaluru, chances are the first name that comes to your mind is Lalbagh.
But why is that? The answer lies in Bangalore's Lalbagh by Suresh Jayaram. Forever grateful to
@bookworm_Kris
for getting me an author-signed copy.
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🚴along the NGV boulevard lined with the beautiful tabebuia blossoms 🌸🌸
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For us long-time Bangaloreans, what has always stood about Bangalore/Bengaluru is the weather and the city's relationship with nature.
Nature in the city by Harini Nagendra dives deep into this relationship and explores how it has changed with time and how to preserve it.
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For someone who has only a rudimentary coding background, but a good understanding of tech, no-code platforms are a blessing.
Here's a great read: Can You Join Hackathons If You're Non-Technical?
@ProductHunt
😺
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One year at
@hiverhq
and one year in Namma Bengaluru. 🎂
Terribly missing the office space today. ☹️
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On the trial menu this weekend - Gin and Tonic with a dash of flavouring syrups.
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I've loved writing
@getplumhq
's newsletters for 11 editions now.
But this one was extra special—it talked about brand refresh, Humanise, Mending, and then some.
If you're not on Plum but still want to read it, reply to this Tweet, and I'll send you a copy.
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Will I get cancelled by Bangalore Twitter today? Let's find out.
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Completed a year at
@getplumhq
today 🎂
I'm immensely overwhelmed by the learning and support I've received this year.
With a little help from
@Ganapathi_97
, here's my attempt at encapsulating this transformative journey.
🧵👇
Hey
@TejasKinger
👋, just clocked that it has been a year since you joined us at Plum. How are you feeling today? 🍻
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The iPod turns 20 this weekend. 🎂
Here's to my OG 2GB iPod Nano - snuck it away from home everyday, hid it in a special compartment in my school bag, borrowed a headphone splitter from a friend to share the music.
Memories. 😅
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The mothership and I getting our pandemic haircuts. 💇♀️💇♂️
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It pains me to write this.💔
After a long-fought battle, we lost Tushar yesterday.
My heart goes out to
@LakshiBhatia
, Rupakshi, and the entire family. I can't begin to imagine what you must be going through.
Go well, brother. You will be missed dearly.
#Delhi
this one is urgent. This is for my brother with Down Syndrome.
We urgently need
#Remedisivir
injections.
Please send me the latest verified leads.
#COVIDEmergency
#CovidSOS
Please RT and help in any way that you can.
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Oh Delhi December, you've been so kind 💙
Safdarjung's Tomb in this weather is a thing of beauty.
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🎅🎄 Thank you, 📚 Secret Santa. If you're seeing this, DM?
Farah Bashir has been on my to-read list forever. 🤓
Also,
#TIL
about
@blossombookhous
and their cute textbook wrapping paper packages. 🥺
Merry Christmas y'all!
@BibliophilesBlr
@abhicantdraw
Danke ☃️
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Wholesome weekend 🌟 at
@ChampacaBooks
with author
@AanchalMalhotra
who talked to us about stories of the partition and the need to preserve these stories. 📚
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