april fools tomorrow, which reminds me of 2004 when google launched and email service with 1GB of storage as a joke (against 2MB provided by Hotmail at that time)
except it wasn’t a joke
👋Personal update:
As some of you already know - after spending amazing 2.5 years at McKinsey, working in the tech, energy, renewables and chemicals practices, I have decided to move on (1/n)
As a next phase of my career, I am joining Bessemer India's investment team in Bangalore. If you are a founder building anything tech, feel free to drop a DM (or an email to vtandon
@bvp
.com) and I would love to connect! (n/n)
Incredibly grateful of the time I've spent at McK, and I genuinely believe that there is no better platform for accelerated learning, right after one's undergrad - than working at McKinsey. The peer set and the problem statements you get to work with/on is truly unmatched. (2/n)
Recently, several students from my undergrad and other tech schools have been reaching out for help with preparing for consulting interviews. Reflecting on my own journey, I've come to a realization: there is only one meaningful opportunity to secure a tech job …
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blinkit printouts has a target audience of urban upper middle class children aged 7 to 13, who inform their parents at 9:30 PM that boss I need printouts of my wikipedia lifted history project on the mughal period
one thing that I would love to double down on is "randomness"
it's always the random plans / thoughts / actions that sometime end up in exceptional outcomes
TIL that "Eveready" - the famous battery manufacturer (world's third largest carbon zinc battery manufacturer), was renamed in 1995 from guess what -
"Union Carbide India Limited" - the plant behind the Bhopal gas tragedy in 1984
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One of the downsides of a platform like twitter is users with a high sense of self-morality that people assume to impose their preferences onto others.
Not everyone thinks like you, not everyone can resonate with you.
These exercises are great for politicians who would (1/n)
linkedin taught me you can have a fulltime job of telling your connections that you work/worked at boston consulting group, every single day of your life, and still make money
Prompt: “A movie trailer featuring the adventures of the 30 year old space man wearing a red wool knitted motorcycle helmet, blue sky, salt desert, cinematic style, shot on 35mm film, vivid colors.”
right after graduating from a tech school. It's important not to give up on this chance for a consulting role, as there can arise later, especially after graduating from B school. On the other hand, transitioning to a tech job after starting in consulting is much more challenging
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of all the things people could learn from munger, i am seeing people justifying his lifestyle habits by correlating it to his long age.
clearly he was an outlier in that context + would have spent a good amount of his formative years without processed food.
most fruits are produced by plants for animals to eat and spread seeds around them - which helps spead the fruit population. but lemons are sour - which makes this process difficult because why would animals consume it then (1/n)