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Unpopular opinion I agree with- learning should not be fun.
This blurb from @karpathy summarises it very well.
Udayan Walvekar
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Udayan Walvekar
@udayan_w
Co-founder & CEO @Growthx_Club - Global community of AI builders • Prev built growth teams @Razorpay, @Merkle • Music, food & fitness is therapy
- porter delivering parcels in minutes. urban company fixing anything at home the same day. instamart bringing groceries in 10. blinkit delivering printouts before your meeting. 1mg dropping medicines in less than an hour. they make life 100x easier. grateful for the on
- Nice IIT degree bro, you've earned it.
- Built MailChimp quietly for 20 years. No funding. No board. No noise. Never wanted an IPO. Never chased relevance. $1B in revenue before selling for $12B. After selling, didn’t start another company. Got a dog. Studied philosophy. Learned to enjoy the silence.
- Was flying back from Delhi to Bangalore today. A pilot sat next to me. Mid flight, I was working and she asked if she could borrow a book I wasn’t reading. One thing led to another, and we started chatting. Turns out, she was at the hedge fund DE Shaw before becoming a pilot—
- We're hiring across -Tech -Design -Learning -PM -Finance -HR -Business -Talent -Community Don’t care if you’ve worked for the biggest brands or have a degree from the fanciest university. Want people who can bring their A-game to the table & a passion for making a difference.
- In two, one, two! The secret's out of the bag! We’ve officially raised the largest community-led seed fund round, ever. 65% of it came from you, our GrowthXers! 💙 Thank you to the 212 believers, that have sowed the seeds for us to grow more! #GrowthXGrowsby212
00:00 - call me crazy but my 31st plans are to sleep by 10pm. on the 1st of jan, go for a nice 10k run, followed by downing a masala dosa & filter coffee, relax and read a book in cubbon, and finally sip myself a hot chocolate that puts me to sleep.
- Damn, this is big news 🚨 Sequoia, the VC behind Apple, Google, Airbnb, DoorDash, and Zoom, splits into three. 1 — Sequoia Capital 2 — HongShan 3 — Peak XV Partners. → US & EU keep the Sequoia brand, China becomes HongShan and India/Southeast Asia becomes Peak XV Partners.
- An @Uber cab driver in Bangalore switched on the AC on his own! Brb. Writing a 400 word review on how Uber should pay him more.
- Hey @cultfitofficial what's up with the insane crowding at gyms? It got so crowded that the gym has become a sauna despite AC. There's no place to stand, forget moving or doing anything. So many people literally just entered and left because it was like a mosh-pit here.
