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Announcement: $10M for ideas, in the next 6 months.
Now is the best time to build a startup in 🇮🇳 and for us to back exceptional founders even at the idea stage!
Towards this goal -
@telljeeves
& I are committing $10M from
@AntlerIndia
into stellar idea-stage companies in the
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Bangalore has the
cherry blossoms of Japan in March,
the coolness of Switzerland in April,
and the canals of Venice in May.
What more could you want?
@peakbengaluru
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Amid all the gloom, our beloved dog Data recently turned 6.
From this day forward, he will now be known as...Big Data.
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To me, this will always be SRK’s best work.
1 minute of not saying anything, yet making millions feel something, enough to spark a reverse migration trend.
When films weren't participating in the commercial success race.
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Imagining some Chartered Accountants in 🇮🇳 who will have an interesting year scratching their heads learning about dog-themed coins or ape NFTs.
#Budget2022
#Crypto
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The cancel culture in the BLR Uber ecosystem needs to be curtailed.
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Spent some time in Chandigarh and saw these two unique brands in the same home.
One, a 250Cr ($30M) business built by providing a very affordable 10 rupee ($0.12) price with quality and a great local flavor. Very little spent on marketing.
Another, a 3500 rupee ($45) protein
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Who else feels we CALMLY need to shut 🇮🇳 down totally for 2 weeks now?
Or we might have to pay a heavy price and shut it down for 3 months later?
#coronavirus
#Covid19India
#coronavirusindia
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To be fair, with “Tunak Tunak Tun”, he was already in his own
#metaverse
in 1995.
Way ahead of his time….
Daler Mehndi gets India's first Metaverse land acquisition, names it 'Balle Balle Land'
#news
#dailyhunt
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When I moved back to India a decade ago (after 15 yrs abroad), almost every startup idea was a copycat “X for India”.
X = Uber, Groupon, Tinder, CRM, etc. etc.
This Saturday morning, 4 hours spent with:
* A founder building entirely new types of schools
* A founder building
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Today, I was in this tiny autorickshaw-turned-car in
@peakbengaluru
and felt like Peter Gregory
@SiliconValHBO
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Have never understood how people who are blessed with this much success, public respect and crazy wealth….
….can still get themselves to promote tobacco brands for a little bit more money.
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A short, relevant read.
On a per capita basis,
Bangladesh now 15% richer than India, 45% vs. Pakistan
This is what happens when female labor participation rate goes up.
@kunalb11
+ when you quietly focus on growth (esp. exports) vs. other agendas
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@AntlerIndia
Presents
#Next100
What if you asked India's most respected minds: What's an example of a startup you wish someone was building? Or if you yourself could start up, what idea would you pursue?
Here are 100 big ideas from India's top investors, operators & founders
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The year of the Tiger 🐯 begins this week.
To clarify for startup folks - Chinese New Year, not Tiger Global
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Iceland Cricket is a gem. I hope the BCCI / ICC use their rich kitties to support countries and orgs with such great sense of humour.
Starting in 3 minutes, we will do an impromptu Q&A session with the fans for one hour. Please ask us anything you want in the comments below and we will try and answer as many as possible in one hour.
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Such an honor to have met the ex CEO of OpenAI, the potential new CEO of OpenAI, as well as the potential future CEO of Microsoft all at once.
Congrats either way, Sam bhai.
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All the tourist VCs who follow the flavour of the month....
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Received on WhatsApp:
“The business luminaries identified by the "Forbes 30 under 30" program have collectively raised $5.3B in funding till date, and committed fraud of $18.5”
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🗞️Today, we are excited to share our biggest investment as
@AntlerGlobal
, in India so far.
At Antler, incl. our Elevate continuty fund, we're thrilled to co-lead a $11M pre Ser A in
@nammayatri
, alongside
@BlumeVentures
@BKartRed
&
@Google
In this business, a few times in
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If I am invested in a founder, and you treat them unprofessionally, waste their time, renege on commitments, please do not expect to do business with me again.
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China building a 1,000-bed hospital OVER THE WEEKEND
“Prefabricated buildings with 1,000 beds will be put up...35 diggers and 10 bulldozers, arrived at the site on Thursday night, with the aim to get the new facility ready by Monday”
#coronarovirus
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“Disappoint again”
Why do we have such stupid headlines?
As if we are simply entitled to medals?
It is WE who are disappointing them w/ underinvestment in infra, politics in sport, & a culture that still doesn’t value (non-cricket) sports enough
#Olympics
#IndiaAtTokyo2020
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Friendly reminder that all the markups and upticks in 2020-21 are largely about these facts👇, and not investing genius.
Stay humble.
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Well done
@netflix
About time this toxic culture of glorifying test prep factories + “”ranks” in the media is questioned.
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Resurfacing today after 2 challenging weeks of fighting
#COVID19
Thank you for your messages and best wishes.
Hard not to be overwhelmingly reminded of how fortunate some of us are right now.
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This is hilarious and says a lot about India the country we have today
The only Pathaan Movie Review that matters. Better than any Movie Critic
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It is now clear that the story of
@sandeepnailwal
@jdkanani
will be the next Bollywood blockbuster
#Web3
"We have extraordinary stories as far as science & tech. is concerned.
We have these guys from UP & MP who have started a new metaverse worth 15.3 billion as of today. These guys are actual heroes & are aspirations for the youngsters" -
@ActorMadhavan
at
#Cannes
#IndiaAtCannes
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Because many in edtech get away with being neither ed nor tech...
So many EdTech startups with so much funding; yet education remains broken.
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(1/2) Excited to share
@sandeepnailwal
& I will discuss
@0xPolygon
's journey to $10BN network value, and lessons for the Indian ecosystem at India's largest
#crypto
conference on Sunday.
Now globally the strongest Layer 2 for
#Ethereum
The most valuable network from India...
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How does one invest in the theme of “dig up Bangalore again and again”
Recurring revenue stream.
PMF, GTM clear
And they literally start building moats everywhere.
@peakbengaluru
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Every time an astrology business makes money or gets funded, a part of me dies...VC is supposed to move society forward, not fund things that take away human agency.
Just a personal opinion. The stars are aligned for some of you to come at me now :)
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Q: How’s your liquidity pipeline?
A: I have a lot of free cash flow
#WATCH
| ACB officials find money in the Pipeline of PWD Junior Engineer Shanta Gowda's house in Kalaburagi,
#Karnataka
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Only in India can you insult doctors, who are giving it their all, in the middle of a raging pandemic...
...and be rewarded with bulk contracts for your fake cure,
paid for by taxpayer money (which could otherwise buy vaccines).
Unbelievable.
#COVID19
#Ramdev
Haryana govt to buy 1 lakh coronil kits to distribute among patients
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👏👏👏👏👏👏
Congrats
@mrgirish
& everyone associated
@therealjpk
@nishrao
@nivasravi
@avinashraghava
@mobhat
@HarshjitSethi
@Accel_India
@Sequoia_India
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💡Announcing:
@AntlerIndia
Residency (AIR)
#5
.
With 5 new announcements.
Incl. a new “ARC” construct committing ~$500k (Rs. 4 Cr) for all our future investments
Why?
Because it’s the best time to build a new startup in 🇮🇳
🧵
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Soon to close w/ 600Cr ($75M) target. BIG thank you to early believers, our team
@AntlerIndia
& founders we are lucky to back. w/
@telljeeves
Just like we tell founders, fundraising is just (re)fueling….the real work of building continues
@AntlerGlobal
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(1/) At
@AntlerGlobal
India, we are excited to back
@invactHQ
@manishm
@tanaypratap
are prolific builders + educators & need no introduction.
With
@ArkamVc
(lead)
@rahulchandra77
, we look fwd to them building a "university in the
#metaverse
"
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Post-Cubbon ghee dosas and filter coffees with this amazing crew.
@ultasawaal
@jiteshluthra
@MotwaniSuhas
@bhatvakash
@nikhiljoisr
@manjotpahwa
@bondijois
@showmannan
@heyprat
@Aashishpunjabi1
@os7borne
+ others I may have missed
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Wow. Congrats to all involved.
1) The number of investors who pass on gaming because it’s a “hits business”....as if VC isn’t :)
2) “Building in 🇮🇳 for the world” is no longer only about enterprise SaaS.
PlaySimple, which raised $4M Series A from Elevation and Chiratae at $16M valuation in 2016 and did not do any more rounds after it, sold to Swedish giant for $360M.
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Just like I went in early into Web3 (2017), have been chatting with a number of Silicon Valley friends about Web4 - where the metaverse + ZKP will actually become real.
This is coming faster than people realize.
Doing an invite-only webinar on Web4 on the 20th. DM if interested
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Interviewed a candidate today who said something cool + profound.
"Entrepreneurship is the best tool to learn about yourself"
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🧵 (1/7) We are thrilled to announce - Theory of NEXT - another exciting experiment
@AntlerGlobal
India!
But before that, here’s some context. In the past 13 yrs of being an investor, I've had the incredible opportunity to decode the future alongside some of the smartest minds
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Saw a most beautiful thing.
My Singaporean 🇸🇬 taxi driver (of Cantonese heritage) - playing Kishore Kumar “Kabhi Alvida…” and singing along.
He knew about rich houses in BLR flooded last week.
And asks me why crypto conferences are happening since no one is making money:)
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To do this for cameras is sickening beyond belief.
How do people with this level of maturity and sensitivity make it to the IAS??
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What’s common to garbage, first dates, diapers and the yield curve?
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We've now committed to 40 investments
@AntlerIndia
, and are hiring again for our investment + diligence team.
What we can promise: the fastest learning / growth path, & the maximum responsibility possible in an Associate role. Please spread the word👇
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Great to see that the PM just gave an award to the very talented young creator of a
#crypto
price tracker app :)
Now only if the RBI wasn’t arguing for a ban on crypto 🤦♂️
India never ceases to amaze.
#IndiaWantsCrypto
I am delighted that the very talented Harshita Arora has been conferred the Bal Shakti Puraskar 2020!
She has been focussing on a wide range of sectors. Her passion towards science, technology and human welfare are clearly visible.
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Kutumb’s growth in 2021 was 🔥 🔥
Communities: from 40 to 9000
Users: from 300K to 20 million
MAUs: from 25K to 5 million
Vast base of Indian Internet users moving to a 2.0 experience around their communities & languages.
@abhikejri
& team quietly building a 🚀 with clarity
Congrats team Kutumb. Glad (& lucky) to have been the first vc investor to commit.
Real clarity of thought (in the founding team) is actually far rarer than we all assume, and goes a long way. But it was clear
@abhikejri
is that rare outlier.
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If you are unable to sleep or sit still because you are obsessed with what GenAI can do to K12 education, please DM me. Lots to talk about.
Might be contrarian to say but quite clear to me that people are too negative on edtech because of certain companies.
Sure, most of it
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Interesting - hadn’t connected the dots re: how a style like Van Gogh’s was partly a response to new technology.
A poignant reminder about genius: He died at 37 and “had only sold one painting in his life. Today, The Starry Night is the 3rd most visited painting in the world”
The Starry Night is a great lesson on how technology changes art.
Vincent Van Gogh created his masterpiece in 1889. But the painting style was born from the art world's response to the invention of photography decades earlier.
Here the story🧵
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@m2jr
Ideally pushing elected officials towards one of these:
(1) Send AZ vaccine stockpile the US won’t use anyway
(2) Lift embargo on raw material exports (bags, filters)
(3) Temporarily relax patent protections for the two US vaccines
(4) Export part of the excess broader stockpile
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(1/n) Over the next few weeks, will be sharing job openings at investee startups
Updated site:
Now ~30 seed to pre Ser A startups supported (via private syndicate), working on interesting problems
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10 Messi & 10 Tendulkar
We were all just waiting for someone to create something like this….
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$21M in TV ads spent on one event!
Temu’s marketing manager after buying 3 ads during the Super Bowl
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Congratulations to the whole community.
Historic verdict - the Supreme Court of India has ruled against the central bank!!
India keeps the door open to crypto and public blockchains and digital assets.
#IndiaWantsCrypto
(1/4) Tomorrow (or soon), the Hon. SC of India will deliver its verdict in the
#RBIvsCrypto
#IndiaWantsCrypto
case.
Having followed the issue closely since April 2018:
(a) regardless of outcome, clarity better than the 2 yr limbo
(b) the
#blockchain
community made a strong case
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👇Making billions by investing in narrative violations.
What are the prevailing narratives in 🇮🇳 and which startups are violating them?
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👇 THIS is why the opportunity is so big for Indian devs. We’re just getting started
#Web3
& a new form of work.
@sandeepnailwal
@_jdkanani
@thebitsian
@Dul_dul
@imrgoyal
@anshuagrawal_
@AkshitBordia
@tanaypratap
@manishm
@akshaybd
@balajis
@madhavanmalolan
@abhilashi
@Tushar307
A $1.81 trillion asset class has been created by just .06% of the world's developers.
h/t
@ElectricCapital
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~2500 applicants.
500+ interviews.
Down to 65 who will build new startups with us.
3 months of long days and midnight oil burnt by the
@AntlerIndia
team.
And it begins now…the Antler India Residency
#AntlerIndiaResidency
@AntlerGlobal
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You can win a Nobel and still be referred to as “and wife”. 🤦♂️
Unconscious / subconscious sexism is so deeply ingrained in our minds.
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Today, we are thrilled to launch the next
@AntlerIndia
Residency (AIR). Our BIGGEST yet.
In a major revamp, AIR is now open to BOTH solo founders and early teams!!
Applications open now (link in the 🧵below)
@AntlerGlobal
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Days
@getnuo
took to grow loan reserves:
1st $1M = 40 days
2nd $1M = 20
3rd $1M = 14
4th $1M = 7
5th $1M = 4
6th $1M = 3 days
What a 🚀 🚀 looks like..
#1
#DeFi
in Asia
Kudos
@thebitsian
@sidsverma
@ethereumJoseph
@ConsenSys
@guptajiten
@amrishrau
@sumshetty
#blockchain
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Today,
@telljeeves
& I are thrilled to share that Gowri Nagarajan - who brings stellar past experience across InMobi, Cleartax, Medlife, McKinsey & RoofandFloor (which he founded) - is joining
@AntlerIndia
as the head of portfolio to scale our support of investee startups 10x
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This is HUGE.
For the first time, a highest level decision maker has said they understand the importance of keeping doors for
#crypto
experimentation / innovation open!
This is ALL some of us from the startup world have been hoping for, over 3 yrs! Thanks
@nsitharaman
Ma’am
#CNBCTV18IBLA
|
#FinanceMinister
@nsitharaman
says 'Govt wants to ensure there's a window for experiments in
#Cryptocurrency
space.' Adds 'There will be a very calibrated position taken on cryptocurrency.'
@ShereenBhan
@FinMinIndia
#Leadersofchange
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Happy
#Diwali
Especially to those who are working tonight.
Armed forces and the police,
doctors and nurses,
pilots and drivers,
call centers
crypto traders
influencers and trolls
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When you walk into a
@thirdwaveindia
cafe and don’t find a single seat empty.
And it actually feels GREAT.
(because you are an angel investor :)
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Startup winter or whatever, summer mornings at Cubbon are still fine.
Nice to be back after a few weeks of injury.
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(1/2) A huge THANKS to many in the ecosystem for a good 1st year as we got
@AntlerGlobal
India off the ground.
@telljeeves
& I are grateful for our team (now 13), the 16 portfolio cos we partnered with, & to the 12k+ individuals (~6k startups) we were fortunate to connect with
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First work social in 2 years. Nothing replaces the warmth of an in-person gathering.
From our team
@AntlerGlobal
🇮🇳, thanks to our amazing friends and founders who joined
And our heartiest congrats to
@MotwaniSuhas
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🚨 🚨 HIRING: Web3 Investor
@AntlerGlobal
India
(1/)
Our team members were among the first in 🇮🇳 (2017) to go all in. We created a dev community (Incrypt), backed many startups, & even engaged national policymakers
Well before it was "hot"
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Special day. The entire, larger
@AntlerIndia
team in the office for the first time!
INTENSE + fun discussions
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Bangalore weather really spoils you.
3 hrs a day of moderate heat, for 3 weeks in the year, and we have to whine, for all of global warming has descended upon our town.
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What the dog lover + VC in me sees: India is the world’s fastest growing major petcare market
@siddharthdarbha
@mywagr
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We are excited to welcome our founders, backers and our global and 🇮🇳 team to the first
@AntlerIndia
Day
With
@telljeeves
#IndiaInevitable
@AntlerGlobal
@MagnusGrimeland
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Didn’t know that the .ai domain is for Anguilla.
Everytime an AI (or wannabe AI) startup registers the domain, Anguilla gets a fee.
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In the last 9 games, no opposition has scored a goal against Morocco 🇲🇦!!
In one World Cup, to bring down 3 powers in Portugal, Spain and Belgium, plus draw against Croatia.
Incredible.
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What a beautiful tweet 👇
16 seconds of pure joy
Messi X The Pursuit of Happiness.
This part of my life, this little part, is called happiness.
#ARGCRO
#Messi
𓃵
#Messi
#FIFAWorldCup
#Qatar2022
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We’re biased as investors but
@flintdotmoney
arguably has the BEST onboarding experience in 🇮🇳
Took me 3 minutes to start earning yield.
No wonder it’s a waitlist of 2L+
Backed
@anshuagrawal_
@AkshitBordia
on a concept but didn’t expect this product / UX within weeks :)
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5 years later, there will be panels in Indian conferences on “Catching up with China’s Blockchain Ecosystem”, or “Finding India’s Place in the Global Blockchain Ecosystem”.
People will wonder what happened...
India literally has no strategic response to this. There is not even a mention of this in the Indian media.
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🧵 The next episode of
#TheoryOfNext
:
MENTAL HEALTH: Probably the biggest pandemic of our times.
If you've ever felt like this👇- both overwhelmed & underwhelmed by life - you're not alone.
You're just one of 800+ million people at any time.
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