sphinx
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- the last native civilisation standing greeks, romans, aztecs, mayans...are gone. all demolished. their temples destroyed. their gods forgotten. their monuments turned to rubble. then this oldest civilisation. the last one standing. rises from ashes.
- How’s this company so far ahead from every one else ?? Like forget about ford and GM, it looked like byd was getting close and now this.
- Was in flight. Pilot comes online. ‘Chandrayan has Landed’ Entire flight starts clapping. I don’t know of any other country that celebrates tech like India does. That’s a win.
- Amazon was built on Oracle. They stopped using it after aws but still it lasted until 2019. Oracle DB is still the defacto database for Fortune 500. Besides DB, Oracle also owns Peoplesoft (HR software), Siebel (CRM), Netsuite (ERP), Mysql and dozen other brands.WHAT. DOES. ORACLE. DO???????
- India just passed a low tax regime. No tax upto ~5x per capita income. For comparison US 5x gdp/capita is at $400k. Brave move. Needs applause.BREAKING: NO INCOME TAX PAYABLE UP TO INCOME OF 12 LAKH PER ANNUM
- Left: Google Founders Right: Their mentor - Professor Rajeev Motwani Professor Motwani (IITK CS) mentored Larry & Sergey grad students at Stanford & helped form Google (+co-authored PageRank) He died in 2009 He mentored many other startups It's important to remember him
