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Insights on stealth mode startup. Let's have such conversation too on gravevine

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What happened to Raj Shamani’s House of X?

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House of Dragons 

Looking forward for The Boys next season.

Current fav series ??

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This influencer with a massive following on YouTube laid me & my team off within a week of hiring since apparently they have deferred their Series A. Bro, why didn't you figure it out before I joined. They bumped off Sourcing, D2C sales head, Finance, Offline Sales head, etc as well. Apparently - they still have the HR head drawing the salary of probably more than 50L pa since they need to build 'culture' for a team size of less than 25 ppl now.

Business model: D2C business launching products in partnership with Influencer to leverage their following

Founders couldn't Figure Out fund raise

Bro there's Sham in the name.  What else did you expect.

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One of my known friend who got laid off recently from top VC funded company who had joined recently. 


Reason for layoff: Company runway

To all the hiring teams - While hiring mention your runway too

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Any idea on how the company is doing and its culture? Previous posts are quite old but give mixed signals and hence a new post

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..unless either of the two mess up insanely bad

We'll probably get to the #3 spot if things go well. But it seems impossible that we'll ever go beyond that.

Internal reasons that are very hard to fix:-

(1) Our population TFR fell below standard replacement rate in 2023. This means we will not be able to follow the same economic growth trajectory required to reach developed status before population stagnation or declination. This is not a death knell but definitely very VERY bad news.

(2) Our blue-collar workforce skill levels are not only subpar but are slowly falling behind the world standards every year. Much of our youth aim to join government orgs like the Army or the Railways which train for the job later, not before. Despite a national shortage of skilled plumbers, electricians etc, our vocational training orgs have been unsuccessful in attracting people towards these careers as well as churning out skilled workers.

(3) Our bureaucratic environment is extremely slow with pathetic turnaround times on initiatives. This is not government specific and has always been the case so it seems like this will always be. This is not even a problem unique to India as many other countries have been facing this too but it is still a factor that negatively impacts our growth massively.

I wish it was just internal reasons but a large part of it also comes down to both China and US being aggressively great at ensuring their successes:-

(1) Chinese manufacturing seems nearly impossible to overcome - not just for India but also for the US. Yes, we might win over some industries and companies like the US, Vietnam, Thailand etc. have been doing but the amount of autocratic control in China allows them to crush competition easily. Case in point - the recent tussle between India and China on solar manufacturing which China won by autocratically lowering their prices.

(2) If de-dollarisation succeeds, it will benefit China the most because (contd. in comments)

Controversial: India will never overtake China or US

Let's do our part, instead FOMO, have an abundance mindset,keep building and shipping.

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Going to start looking out. How’s the market for PMs right now? PM1/PM2 roles. I have 3.5 years of work ex.

How’s the ProdMan market right now?

Just confused cuz I don't see many people talking about it anymore

Wearable tech startup Ultrahuman has raised $35 million in a mix of debt and equity in its Series B round from Blume Ventures and others

Ultrahuman raises $35 Mn in Series B round

Ultrahuman raises $35Mn. Any check on how they're actually doing? Seems it's Debt & Equity, not sure how much debt.

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* 6 days work
* Not sure if the UnacademyX app will work or die. Is it getting any traction??
* I heard that company wants people to work 24*7.


I have another offer from Lighthouse Learning, but nobody knows this company, they run EuroKids schools(Old school firm), will my career die upon joining Lighthouse?

How is UnacademyX doing?? Got an offer

I’m thinking of applying to Hasura. Does any one know how they are doing financially? They seemed to have raised a lot of money , not sure how their revenues are doing.

Just trying to figure out how the company is doing financially

How is Hasura doing?

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A masterful stroke by Jio. If the 29/month gives access to all the amazing HBO content that only they have access to, that's incredible value.

Classic Jio move : First get them addicted, then check their pockets.

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