Crypto bros are waking up from their graves

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Seeing many more shitty Crypto scams and ads on Twitter again. It's making me hopeful 😊🤞

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Seeing many more shitty Crypto scams and ads on Twitter again. It's making me hopeful 😊🤞- Grapevine

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Also, which digital assets in general are you bullish on and why?

Anyone tracking Bitcoin? What are your thoughts on recent price action?

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Fintech influencer seems to have faked his entire educational background. Instead of IIIT he studied at ITI. Anyone have more tea on him? 
https://twitter.com/SatarkAadmi/status/1701565930650706306?s=19

Ravisutanjani Kumar aka Indian Mike Ross

Good stuffs. I went through the tweet. What a shame that all those fakeness got destroyed in a thread.

Marketing Manager

Before people jump into validation mode, I thought let’s do something ulta (opposite)🙃

Pick one of your worst investment mistakes (it can be a stock, RE, ULIP, relationx blah blah) 

My inputs - During 2021/22 real estate boom, I picked a real estate stonk (india bulls) as I thought it’s a growing sector and company will become beneficiary after all the sins they have committed in past. Bam! Over next 5 months stock crashed ~50% 🥲

FriYaY is Investment day on GV!

Product Manager

Not going to lie but Ashneer was right, Mankur Marikoo ka naam saath mei mat lena, tu mujhe gaali se se but naam saath mei mat lena( because he’s the biggest scam artist after Dakshat Shrivastava)

 Just like Vauld, Marikoo turns out to be the biggest sell out of all time yet again. With Fraud Shamani and Chetan Bro-goat following him, they promoted a scam Startup Conference in Noida stating you can raise funding there, that too within 3 days.

Turns out you have to pay 💰 a boatload of cash to get into the conference. Now it turns out to be a scam when the organisers fled away with the money.

It’s a pity that people follow these charlatans who masquerade as superior beings while their true character is revealed in moments like this..

Latest Scam: Ankur Warikoo, Chetan Bhagat, Raj Shamani

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So finally, someone spoke about this fraudulent startup AstroTalk. How they operate and how they take advantage of gullible people, is completely explained in the video. These kinds of startups need to be busted on LinkedIn and other social media platforms so that no one calls prey for such cheap tactics. This is just another BYJUs in the making. The cofounder is an IIT IIM grad. Shows how greed can even pollute the minds of even highly educated people. Really don't understand how the VCs can be so fucking dumb, funding them with 165 Crores!! Shocking but it isn't surprising since the Indian Startup ecosystem is filled with such scam artists.

Scam called AstroTalk - BYJUs 2.0

Jab tak hum jaise log IIM/IITians ki G chaat te rahenge tab tak ye hume chutiya banate rahenge. 4 din baad tum chutiye sab bhool jaoge fir kisi naye IIT/IIM led startup ko linkedin par praise karoge jab tak wo bubble itna bada na ho jaye ki use criticise kar pao…fir kisi anonymous platform par aajakr “OMG SO FUCKING DISGUSTING” bold doge kyuki linkedin par to tumhari gaand thandi ho jati hai kisi ko criticise karte hue…aur ye cycle bas chalta rahega…so moral of the story is, tum hi log chutiye ho wo nahi.

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Sales

Around 2020 there were lots of Web3 based startups that raised funding but now they are rarely in mainstream news. What happened?

What happened to Web3?

no crypto news/startups in the market. where has everyone disappeared?

Was crypto a big scam? also is AI the new scam?

- Indian crypto exchange WazirX experienced a security breach in one of its multisig wallets, leading to over $230 million in withdrawals.
- The exchange confirmed the breach and announced a temporary pause on INR and crypto withdrawals to ensure asset safety.
- The stolen funds represent over 45% of WazirX's $500 million holdings, with significant amounts in SHIB, ETH, MATIC, and PEPE.
- The exploiter is actively selling the stolen assets on Uniswap, holding over $4.2 million in FLOKI tokens.
- WazirX, popular among Indian traders, is one of the few FIU-registered exchanges in India, with recent trading volumes of $2.2 million. 

 Source: Coindesk

WazirX Faces Security Breach, Over $230 Million Withdrawn

Incoming crypto bro saying "Blockchain is unhackable"

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2008 Orkut
2011 Facebook
2012 Twitter 
2013 Instagram
2015 Quora
2016 Reditt
2019 Discord
2020 Tiktok
2022 Snapchat
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2024 Grapevine.

Except GV, none of them is shipped from India.

Social media has evolved like anything.

Now my 90% time goes to GV and distant 2nd is Twitter and LinkedIn etc.

GV can be really big if things go right 👍

LinkedIn has 100M+ users in India, so TG is huge.

Monetization should be done in such a way that it doesn't snatches the charm of product unlike other SMs ex quora.

Any suggestions to make GV a better product gvians?

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Complete company is being run by COO and his favourites(complete incompetent people) Founders come to India once a month and have no clue about what they are doing. Head of Okto have left and continue to burn money hiring random community teams with gas to do miracle. 

Founders seems busy running their personal brand in the public image on twitter.

Actual scoop: Founders of Coindcx have left India for Dubai to benefit their tax and for Dubai residence.

Hey folks, I've landed a new role (with a decent raise over my previous earnings)

It's a permanent WFH role, so I'll be moving back to my hometown (tier 1 city) to help my parents for retirement.

Age: 25.
YOE: 3

I currently have somehow saved up ~4L.
The breakdown is as follows.

Index fund: 2.47L
Savings: 12k (had to take out a bunch for some family emergency during my notice period 🫠)
FD: 1.4L (to help with my brother's education)

My monthly in hand at the new org will be around ~80k

I know my initial goals will be to increase my savings, get health insurance for myself (and potentially life insurance)

Other than that, my expenses for each month will vary based on the set up costs required to help in my parents' retirement.

I'm guessing 40-50k a month will be going towards this set up cost, but only for a few months. 

But I'm going to equally start saving up and getting a health insurance myself. 

My main challenge comes on what to do after that. How much do you think i should save per month?
How much should go into investments?

Etc etc. 

I'll be more than happy to share any more details with y'all.

Help me figure out my investments

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Crypto is back

Do you think the network will thrive, or will it be replaced by something else?

What’s the future of SOLANA?

Seeing this for a few weeks now. Noticed it when PG tweeted about how there are 100 ai startups in the batch and all are legit. That is none of then it’s phony or opportunistic. He also talked about how domain experts are building in AI and great founders. 

Then saw Garry Tan promoting the batch and retweeting others doing it. A couple of other partners talked about the companies they are excited about too. 

To me, this signals that yc isn’t getting the kind of interest they used to get and they have to promote the quality of the batch to be able to generate enough interest. For the first time in 10-15 years maybe. If they have to do it to ensure the companies are getting enough funding interest, what about startups without a brand name behind them. 

We will see more of these as we get close to the demo day. Most startups are just ai wrappers or agents. Not sure about the exact differentiation between them. Not clear from the descriptions or websites.

Shower Thought: the market is so bad, even yc partners have to promote their startups

The initial Cap was 30L. Right now, last month's total PBT was $37k

Seeing many more shitty Crypto scams and ads on Twitter again. It's making me hopeful 😊🤞

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