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When a startup with promise collapses, it’s not just investors who lose.
It’s the users, the drivers, the employees, and the cities that needed better options.
Innovation without integrity is a house of cards.
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I really liked BluSmart. Clean cabs, on time, no surge pricing drama — and that fresh all-electric fleet made the experience better.
That’s why it stings a little more to see how things have fallen apart.
If there’s a lesson here for all of us (and for the startup world at large), it’s this: innovation without integrity is a house of cards.
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Instead of selling "8 gigabytes" of storage, someone chose to say "a thousand songs in your pocket."
Someone sat in a room, looked at a piece of engineering, and found the exact sentence that made a person feel something before they understood anything.
Writing is the most underappreciated craft in product building. It translates specs into human meaning.
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Kun Faya Kun at Hazrat Nizamuddin Dargah in Delhi.
Some healing you get from this song. Forever thankful to Rahman!
It was only after watching #Rockstar that most of us in Delhi would flock to the Dargah for sufi qawwali every Thursday evening.
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The magic of A.R. Rahman, Mohit Chauhan, and Irshad Kamil.
I don't think any other album comes close. I wonder what they must be thinking while composing something like this. The arrangement, lyrics, vocals, and instrumentation are unlike what we've seen in a movie album, let alone a rock album.
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15 years of Rockstar!
My college group pooled money after selling metro cards so that everyone could go. Millennials still yearn for that time and magic.
The kind of effect the music had on guys! Perhaps the best album!
Journalists and politicians rushing to read Sonia Gandhi's memoir 'Belonging' so they can post excerpts on Twitter :P
Getting a message across without stating the obvious is the hardest part of brand storytelling.
Most advertising today lists specs and explains what a product does.
The campaigns that actually stick show what life feels like, with the product woven seamlessly into that feeling. When you lead with human emotion, you don't have to shout.
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Erick Massey retweeted
Five copies in two hours at Akshara Books in Jubilee Hills. Seven picked up from Off The Shelf in Gachibowli soon after the store received its stock. And 150 orders in just one hour for India Book Distributors. Sonia Gandhi’s memoir, 'Belonging: A Journey of Love', hit the ground running in Hyderabad on Tuesday, with bookshops reporting brisk interest on the day of its launch. The memoir has also made it to Amazon’s bestseller list in the Biographies & Autobiographies category.
✍️ @serish
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Looks like there's a nip in the air, had to get my winter clothes out today. Brace for the unforgiving winter!
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I have a feeling they'd make WhatsApp feature-heavy and more cluttered, and no one wants that. It has been the best app to connect with close ones and we don't want every other app to masquerade as a mini can-do-all app!!
I am nearly 4+ Months In WhatsApp
I think of WhatsApp like a shared language, spoken by 3bn+ people. Sometimes we use words, and sometimes it’s a voice note to a parent, a sticker that ends an argument, or a "that was a fun dinner” at the end of the night. Language is at the heart of everything we as people do. We write letters, tell stories, get things done and make plans for the future. A WhatsApp chat is often where we start.
Like any language, the people who use it shape it. They don't wait for permission. They find new things to say, and new ways to say them. Often, our users show us what should come next based on how they’re using the app and communicating in the world.
I’ve spent the last few months listening and understanding what our users want from us and what I heard is simple: help people stay close to those who matter to them, and get more done on WhatsApp. So that's what we'll build.
First, we want to make connections richer.
Sometimes hearing someone's voice, sending a joke, agreeing on a plan or knowing they're safe is the whole point. People send over 10 billion voice messages and over 4 billion stickers on WhatsApp every day. As the way people communicate evolves, we will evolve these experiences with them. We'll make voice notes, groups, stickers and video simpler and more expressive, because how people feel close keeps changing.
Second, we want anything you do on WhatsApp to be as simple as sending a message. Too many things start in a chat and end with many more steps somewhere else: paying a bill, borrowing money, staying connected when you travel. Each handoff to another task costs time. We're working with financial services and telecom partners so that finishing something feels as easy as starting it.
Third, we want to make this all more efficient with AI. It should quietly find what you need, get things done and make sure you never miss a booking or an appointment. The best technology saves you time, so you can get back to the connections that matter.
None of this works without trust. WhatsApp handles over 100 billion messages and 2 billion calls every day. Trust takes years to earn and a moment to lose, and I don't take that lightly. Whatever we build, WhatsApp must remain simple, reliable and private. These principles we’ve had for years aren’t changing. Your personal messages and calls stay end-to-end encrypted. This and our quality bar stays the same.
What happens inside WhatsApp only matters for what it makes possible outside it: more time together, stronger communities, and fewer barriers between people and the lives they want to live.
Onwards.
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Never seen anything like this outside any book store for a book launch in Delhi in yearssss.
Sonia Gandhi's memoir 'Belonging' has all the attention.
Pc- @srinivasiyc
Quite an important release and its effect will be visible tomorrow when the market opens.
We just issued a press release from our board of directors. Read the release: nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/s…
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