Deepsekhar Choudhury
@deepsekharc
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Associate Editor, Outlook Business magazine
New Delhi, India
Joined May 2016
What drives Sir Martin Sorrell to work at 80? โItโs still about world domination,โ he quips. Yes, that's the man who built WPP into the worldโs largest ad empire. ๐งต via @outlookbusiness (1/n)
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Swiggyโs QIP will take its cash reserves to about Rs 17,000 cr (including Rs 2,400 cr from the Rapido stake sale). That puts it almost at par with Blinkit owner Eternalโs Rs 18,314 cr. Zepto said it had Rs 8,150 cr in cash in October after its latest fundraise. All eyes are now
๐จ Domestic mutual funds dominate Swiggy's Rs 10,000 crore QIP About 80% of the QIP has been allotted to domestic investors like ICICI Prudential, SBI Mutual Funds and Aditya Birla MF. Foreign investors like Temasek, GIC and Nomura have also participated. Swiggy has issued
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Sad scenes in Delhi as well. For my flight, Indigo says crew still not here after 2h delay. Tempers are flaring up. Gentleman threatening to break windows. Distraught French lady says she has flown 20 hours from Paris via Istanbul, bound for Goa. Bad look for tourism @IndiGo6E
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"Russia has sold its 1st bonds denominated in Chinese renminbi, raising almost $3B as it seeks to fund its invasion of Ukraine & deepen its financial ties w/Beijing" https://t.co/sl9xmGasM4
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Countryโs $3bn โdim sumโ bond will help finance war in Ukraine and could lead to many more
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๐จ PRISM (formerly OYO) issues EGM notice to seek shareholder approval for a Rs 6650 crore IPO Shareholders will also vote on a bonus issue proposal to issue 1 share for 19 existing equity shares, with December 5, 2025 set as the record date Via @outlookbusiness
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Nvidia is the worldโs most valuable company, generating $120 billion of annualized net income selling highly engineered chips and software that have required decades to perfect. So why have they felt it necessary to issue a rebuttal to short sellers like Michael Burry? Three
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Anthropic and Mistral investor Lightspeed's take on AI in India - Like Google or Instagram, India is the largest market in terms of users after the US. - With AI coming into BPO and IT services, there will be a "natural extension of India's outsourcing story"
After nearly two decades, VCs are back to tracking IT services companies in India. But now the hunt is for the next AI services startup led by their top executives.
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BREAKING: Google's quantum chip computed a 150-year problem in 2 hoursโand proved it. Nature confirmed today: Willow achieved verifiable quantum advantage, meaning physics validates its answers. At 13,000ร classical speed with 99.9% fidelity across 105 qubits, it's not just
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#Unseen The email exchanges between @deepigoyal and @sbikh in the book are delightful to read... It's quite evident that both of them like to think through the big stuff by writing things down H/T @MeghaVishwanath
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Amazon vs Meesho ๐ฅ Amazon's cloud unit, AWS, states that Meesho has not paid bills worth Rs 127 crore. Meesho has said that Amazonโs services were deficient and made a counter-claim of Rs 86 cr, due to loss of business Since then, Meesho has moved from AWS to Google Cloud ๐
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OpenAI still has a big majority of GenAI Traffic market share, but $GOOGL's Gemini has taken significant market share over the last few months, growing from the 5% range to 12.9% today.
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HSBC says global investors are positioning India as an "anti-AI play."
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The September edition of @outlookbusiness carries an abridged version of the interview. Here is the link to the full conversation (n/n) https://t.co/GqwMAS87m6
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In an exclusive conversation with Outlook Business, Cred Founder Kunal Shah explains why margins come from consumer desire rather than utility, and how Cred scales by balancing aspiration with value...
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How defensible are distribution moats? Does Cred's focus on aesthetics help it earn bigger margins? How does risk determine a nation's fortunes? How hard is it for startups to compete with legacy companies for talent? We talked about these things and more. (4/n)
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Typically founders of Shah's stature are quite straitjacketed when speaking to journalists. But he is a 'truth seeker'. If you give him a rationale that runs counter to his perspective, he will quickly think on his feet and reconsider the point of view. (3/n)
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So, as I sat down with him for an interview at the plush Indiranagar office of Cred last month, it was clear early on that the conversation would shape up differently. A Socratic Dialogue perhaps. (2/n) https://t.co/GqwMAS87m6
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In an exclusive conversation with Outlook Business, Cred Founder Kunal Shah explains why margins come from consumer desire rather than utility, and how Cred scales by balancing aspiration with value...
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Plato once imagined a โphilosopher-kingโ, a ruler who could govern wisely because he understood truth beyond power. If startups are the new kingdoms, @kunalb11 may be the closest thing India has to a philosopher-founder. (1/n)
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๐ช๐ต๐ ๐๐ป๐ฑ๐ถ๐ฎโ๐ ๐๐ถ๐ด๐ถ๐๐ฎ๐น ๐๐ป๐ณ๐ฟ๐ฎ๐๐๐ฟ๐๐ฐ๐๐๐ฟ๐ฒ ๐ฆ๐๐ฟ๐๐ด๐ด๐น๐ฒ๐ ๐๐ฒ๐๐ผ๐ป๐ฑ ๐จ๐ฃ๐ ๐ฎ๐ป๐ฑ ๐๐ฎ๐ฑ๐ต๐ฎ๐ฎ๐ฟ Read my story in the October Issue of Outlook Business Magazine https://t.co/m5VVVR1xVq
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While platforms like DigiLocker, Ayushman Bharat, and ONDC show promise, Indiaโs digital public infrastructure struggles with real-world adoption due to usability issues, trust gaps, and ecosystem...
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OpenAI employees sold $6.6B of equity if they held for more than 2yrs, when they had 770 employees. Thats $8.5M/employee on average. Thanks ChatGPT for absolutely destroying the SF real estate market!
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I didnโt start doing physics until I was 33 and now I work on a cutting edge research project at one of the top labs in the world. You can just do things
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Andreessen Horowitz has returned at least $25B net to LPs since its was founded
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