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Piyush Surana

@Piyush_Surana

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Investments & Strategy at Gulf Islamic Investments |Ex - Tomorrow Capital, Uber, Ola, Zomato| Ex-Board @ Leverage Edu, Bonito Designs | All views personal

Dubai, UAE
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@Piyush_Surana
Piyush Surana
4 years
Being rich and famous is mostly chance Being content and fulfilled is mostly choice
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Piyush Surana
27 days
Life, like sports, runs on rhythm The batsman going at the ball too hard. The bowler going too straight in search of a wicket. The golfer swinging too hard to get distance Sometimes in trying to do too much we achieve too little When anxious, default to cadence and rhythm
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@Piyush_Surana
Piyush Surana
30 days
If you are a sports and tracking the Asia Cup or the Ryder Cup... Enjoy the game, and ignore all the rubbish around it.
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Piyush Surana
30 days
A lot of learning is recursive When learning something new and challenging, it often feels like you spend hours and hours to return to the same spot/feel/level. But every time you come back, your mind is that little bit sharper, your instincts keener, your learnings more honed
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Piyush Surana
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11 months ago, I picked up a golf club. 10 months ago, my first handicap was 29.7 (a.k.a. pro ball-loser šŸ˜…). This week → single-digit handicap ā›³ļøšŸŽ‰ Only ~1–2% of golfers ever get here. And I started at 41 Grateful for coaches, partners & family who have been EXTREMELY
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Piyush Surana
2 months
Super inspiring to host the @OGQ_India team at our office earlier this week šŸ™Œ Their mission to back India’s athletes with world-class support is a reminder of what passion + purpose can achieve — in sport, business, and life. As a former budding athlete and father of a current
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Piyush Surana
2 months
Cant blame them. Me and my son do the same šŸ˜‚
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The Figen
2 months
The twin sisters woke up and started chatting loudly. But they pretended to be asleep as soon as they heard their mother's footsteps. šŸ˜‚
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@TheFigen_
The Figen
2 months
The twin sisters woke up and started chatting loudly. But they pretended to be asleep as soon as they heard their mother's footsteps. šŸ˜‚
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Piyush Surana
2 months
My secret superpower? I never get bored šŸš— Stuck in traffic? I’m listening to an audiobook 🩺 Waiting 30 mins past my appointment? Reading on Kindle or clearing Instapaper šŸ“µ No book in sight? I just replay the one I’m currently reading… in my head Wonder if anyone else is
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Piyush Surana
2 months
Hey @audible_com, your India customer service is genuinely the worst. All I’m trying to do is update my payment method after my card expired — but for the past month, every time I try, the payment page just shows up blank. Tried multiple devices, browsers, cards. Nothing.
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Piyush Surana
3 months
ā€œThe important thing is not what one is born with, but what use one makes of that equipment.ā€ Alfred Adler
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Piyush Surana
4 months
Simple rule of parenting: Kids learn more from seeing you thanĀ hearingĀ you. IMO might work at all levels of leadership as well.
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Piyush Surana
4 months
How you do anything is how you do everything Excellence is largelyĀ a habit,Ā notĀ a choice
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Piyush Surana
4 months
Behind every great event is a great team - super pumped to be a part of the ExCom that was was able to put together this event. It was an honour to host some eminent personalities: H.E. Hadi Badri, CEO of DEDC H.E. Sunjay Sudhir, Ambassador of India to the UAE Honourable Mr.
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Piyush Surana
6 months
As a quiet, introverted, and often bullied child, I found comfort in my oldest friends—books On this World Book Day, I hope there are others like me who have found solace in the pages of a good story This isn’t to say you shouldn’t go out and build meaningful friendships—life
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Piyush Surana
7 months
If there’s one lesson I wish I had learned earlier (and something most business schools in India overlook), it’s this: Networking isn’t just a soft skill. The power to build genuine connections and interact effectively with others leads to tangible, real-world results. Don’t
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Piyush Surana
8 months
2024 has been an exciting and transformative year for all of us here at GII - the momentum has been off the charts. Not ready to rest just yet, though; we are excited to build on this momentum and continue to partner with the best businesses and founders in the region in the
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Piyush Surana
8 months
"Yet the world doesn’t stop for cancer. While we battled, Matter faced its own adversity." If this one statement does not embody founder commitment and tenacity, I am not sure what does. Founder often have to battle adversity; sometimes I wonder what keeps them going. You must
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Ben Springwater
8 months
2025 letter: The future of @matter There are years that ask questions, and years that answer. For us, last year was both. Rob and I founded Matter together in 2020. In 2022, we became fathers, only three weeks apart. Then, last year, we were both diagnosed with cancer. I had
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Piyush Surana
8 months
Always amazed by the fact that my ⁦@WHOOP⁩ knows before I do that I am about to be sick 🤧
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@Piyush_Surana
Piyush Surana
8 months
ChatGPT was meant to simplify our workflows Yet now, we’re encountering lengthy emails generated almost entirely by ChatGPT Followed by recipients using ChatGPT again to condense them back into bare-bones summariesšŸ˜…
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