Mailchimp, Venture DAOs, Status game
Tetris and Snakes, Canva, Love letter to Cricket and Solana
To be happy (is to) be unashamed. Pursuing the important things requires some willingness to go all out and commit to your identified goals. Be happy, be unashamed.
Came across this wonderful framework by Shristi about Tetris vs Snake. We go about life ignoring the pitfalls of losing, but as any committed engineer would attest to - true learning is from our mistakes and failures. But more importantly, true learning happens when we build on top of other ideas, ie. everything is remix philosophy that generally trumps everything in the real world.
Dune and French dispatch on same day - Oct 22, Chalamet season is here, baby!
Why the future of Venture Capital would be entirely decentralized?
"Groundedness does not eliminate passion, productivity, or all forms of striving and ambition. Instead, it is about ditching an omnipresent and frantic anxiety to begin living in alignment with your innermost values, pursuing your interests, and expressing your authentic self in the here and now. When you are grounded there is no need to look up or down. You are where you are, and you hold true strength and power from that position. Your success, and the way in which you pursue it, becomes more enduring and robust. You gain the confidence to opt out of the consumer-driven rat-race that leaves you feeling like you are never enough."
Just need a month getaway to Switzerland, is that too much to ask for?
or even Kerala
The story of Mailchimp is one of perseverance and grit, this is the profile piece of this latest Intuit 12bn$ acquisition, when after 17 years of patience was the company of the year.
In this week of crypto updates, I link you to the new launch of Coinbase updates and an excellent piece on everything Solana, ie. Solana Summer
Paras Chopra and Kunal Shah are two of my favorite people on twitter, right from my starting college days. I can’t believe I missed out on this gem for so long!
Anything worth learning can only be experienced
UPI is going to get linked to SGP, can you believe that? Fucking hell I was completely shocked when I first read this - UPI is truly India to the world. Hats off to Nandan Nilekani!
Long time cricket afficianado Ritesh, a VC who also happens to be from my Alma Mater is quite popular on twitter, more so for his cricketing hot takes. This piece transported me back to the days I first followed cricket and made me realize again, why I fell in love with the amazing sport.
I first used Canva for the design of the poster for my college fest, I remember the joy of choosing the simple and slick templates making the tedious poster design of Adobe Illustrator redundant. So happy to find that not only have they been valued at 40bn$ now but they are also one of the biggest companies outside the US. But the most interesting part is the story of the Canva Foundation
Apple and Design - a story made in heaven