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
Joined July 2009
Being rich and famous is mostly chance Being content and fulfilled is mostly choice
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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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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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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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11 months ago, I picked up a golf club. 10 months ago, my first handicap was 29.7 (a.k.a. pro ball-loser š
). This week ā single-digit handicap ā³ļøš Only ~1ā2% of golfers ever get here. And I started at 41 Grateful for coaches, partners & family who have been EXTREMELY
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Super inspiring to host the @OGQ_India team at our office earlier this week š Their mission to back Indiaās athletes with world-class support is a reminder of what passion + purpose can achieve ā in sport, business, and life. As a former budding athlete and father of a current
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The twin sisters woke up and started chatting loudly. But they pretended to be asleep as soon as they heard their mother's footsteps. š
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My secret superpower? I never get bored š Stuck in traffic? Iām listening to an audiobook 𩺠Waiting 30 mins past my appointment? Reading on Kindle or clearing Instapaper šµ No book in sight? I just replay the one Iām currently reading⦠in my head Wonder if anyone else is
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Hey @audible_com, your India customer service is genuinely the worst. All Iām trying to do is update my payment method after my card expired ā 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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āThe important thing is not what one is born with, but what use one makes of that equipment.ā Alfred Adler
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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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How you do anything is how you do everything Excellence is largelyĀ a habit,Ā notĀ a choice
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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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As a quiet, introverted, and often bullied child, I found comfort in my oldest friendsābooks On this World Book Day, I hope there are others like me who have found solace in the pages of a good story This isnāt to say you shouldnāt go out and build meaningful friendshipsālife
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If thereās one lesson I wish I had learned earlier (and something most business schools in India overlook), itās this: Networking isnāt just a soft skill. The power to build genuine connections and interact effectively with others leads to tangible, real-world results. Donāt
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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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"Yet the world doesnāt 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
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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Always amazed by the fact that my ā¦@WHOOPā© knows before I do that I am about to be sick š¤§
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ChatGPT was meant to simplify our workflows Yet now, weāre encountering lengthy emails generated almost entirely by ChatGPT Followed by recipients using ChatGPT again to condense them back into bare-bones summariesš
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