If we get actual pay transparency in India - many companies will literally have massive fights happen inside them. 

Imagine finding out what everyone else is actually making in an anonymized manner. It can cause a hell lot of chaos in Indian companies.

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I tried Ola ebike service for commuting a short distance ~ 5km. The experience was good and the fare was also cheap(50 Rs.). 
I spoke to the driver about earnings and whether he has to give EMI for the OE bike. Then he showed me the below table - how his earnings are calculated. 

I got shocked at seeing the high earnings amount - upto 4.5K daily which amounts to 1.35 lac monthly! 
He told me that Ola ebike is for short distances only - Upto 7-8 kms. And he is able to get average 3-4 rides in 1 hour, and he also doesn't have to pay for the vehicle rent. The Charging is also free at Ola Chargers. 

I couldn't help but wonder how can Ola sustain with this much spending. If they're giving upto 1lac to every driver and charging the user very less, that's a lot of cash burn.

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Lately, I have been thinking very deeply about my college days when the Flipkart story had inspired the entire lot of my batch at IIT-D. We were starry eyed college kids who wanted to do something innovative in India and break away from the "three" most popular moves after IIT:

1. UPSC
2. MBA
3. MS/PhD abroad

I proceeded to then work in various Indian startups and noticed an alarming thing. I began to realise a pattern across all my stints:

The initial founding team does exceptional work innovating, they excel at what Thiel calls "Zero to One", the act of creation. I will concede that although most founders fail to innovate by often copying what worked in the west but the initial founding team usually excels in execution. It allows for initial traction as it breathes a fresh breath in the\ space that they are operating in.

Almost always, when Product Market Fit is "achieved"(whatever that means), the founders begin to deploy insane amounts of funds into growth. 

By definition, Growth is not a bad thing. But, I have been noticing that across all startups I have worked at( all raised funds from the largest global funds) that it comes at the expense of product building. And during this era of hypergrowth, the product starts to stagnate while focus becomes marketing and sales. 

I often felt that this was temporary. That once we reach enough scale, we would start to innovate again. 
But time and time again, the ability to innovate atrophies over time.
Rather than building something that has enduring value by executing faster than anyone, the focus becomes achieving growth at all costs. 

This ultimately leads to two outcomes:
1. The startup cannot sustain this growth and retention begins to look dire. The churn becomes unbearable and the startup goes out of business.

2. The startup gets acquired by someone bigger, allowing founders and investors to believe that they created value where none existed in the first place.

I am completely dejected at this.

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share your silly/interesting/futuristic ideas, which are rotting away in your notes

PS: don't worry about someone stealing your idea, ideas don't matter, execution does. If market is big enough multiple players make money, anyway competition is for losers.

Idea Dump

1.Dehydration of the vegetables and fruits which are considered as poor quality (shape/size) and making Nutritional Powders out of it for livestock consumption. 
 2.E-Market Place to buy Bio-degradable waste (Husk,Paddy Straw) For bio-fuel products based companies. 
 3. Agri-Tourism and an Incubation centre (Makers Place) for Rural Entrepreneurs (Pottery, Bags, Food Products, Clothes etc)

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And it should be extended to all vehicles and not be limited to cars.

Or maybe I am missing out on some extreme scenarios which may have serious repercussions if this is implemented.

I believe this is a great idea especially for Indian Citizens

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Everyone wants Google's distribution, but no one wants to pay for it.

Everyone wants Google to stop doing what it's doing, but no one wants to invest in an alternative.

Alternatives, if any coming up, from India will be of cheap quality. Does anyone remember what happened to BharatOS, or what's happening with Krutrim. 

What these app developers are not realising is that, their business is more or less happening because Android as an OS is there. It's not just about play store. 

I wonder why they're not cribbing against the Apple app store. 

Could the rates be lower? Yes.
But what's in it for Google or Apple when that entire section of business is because of them?

No one is stopping anyone from building a new OS, a better one. As long as a good quality one is not coming up, everyone will have to rely on Google or Apple. 

It feels really bad when the founders try to make it a national issue as well 🤦🏻‍♂️

Oh, and even if a new OS comes up, I wonder how they're going to sustain it, plus make people choose that without the availability of other apps.

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India sees its own version of this in terms of minority founders

How much importance do you give to aesthetics in your life?
We are lagging behind in aesthetics compared to many developed countries.
Why things like having clean roads, good personal care and hygiene, building nice public places is still not an Indian thing?

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Seems like anti-incumbency and COVID-19 seems to be a major factor. Let's see.

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I've ranted for years how Indians, illiterate and white collar alike are too bad at a lot of things:

1) Traffic sense: Lane discipline, honking, rash driving, both private and commercial, parking and vendors taking up half the road, creating fatal blind spots
2) Public places: Spitting, littering, peeing, smoking
3) Basic civic sense: Queuing up, not using loud phones in public transport etc
4) Pets and stray animals: Totally irresponsible behaviour and irrational takes on killer dogs and dangerous bulls

Pointing out things has been done for years. Where's the solution? How can this be taught to the masses?

Give suggestions.

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Budget 2024 scrapped the angel tax for all investors, creating the ultimate playground for innovation and entrepreneurship in India.

Big news for Indian startups!

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Vision 2020 was once the most popular motivation for India. Our renewed Target is 2047 which is far from now. 

What are your thoughts on this? Are we on the right track? Can we achieve the dream of inclusive and developed India sooner ?

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