Because of Temple, India will have scientists and engineers who had the courage to go into the deep unknown and build something that makes all of us superhuman.
They'll become the heroes and inspiration of the next generation. And after Temple, they'll carry so much knowledge, capital and a network of exceptional co-builders that they'll go on to build things that make Temple look tiny.
Deepi has been making futures like this possible for almost two decades.
We'll all have him and Temple to thank.
To the courageous, the optimists, the adventurers, the builders: you have one life - take your moonshot.
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A founder friend, an early Blinkit exec, has freshly raised $3.7M from top VCs and founders to change how India eats: fresh ghar ka khana for every daily meal, from a nearby kitchen you trust like your own.
He’s hiring ex-founders with solid chops for the Founder's Office in Gurugram. If this sounds like an exciting next big bet for you - DM me.
He's also my go-to person for all things growth! Having played a key role in scaling Blinkit (then Grofers) from day 0, he knows what it takes to build at a 10x pace. I can vouch that you'll learn a tremendous amount working with him.
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India’s exemplary GDP growth of 7.8% during Q1 of FY 2026-27 is a herculean feat.
The collective strength of our people ensured India delivered such growth despite oil price shocks and supply chain issues in the midst of global uncertainties.
Doomsayers were doomed and India bloomed…yet again!
A document makes you think. Art makes you feel.
If you are reading this, this is an art about you - by @shaurya_sinha7
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This Independence Day 🇮🇳, I asked, "What will the next century of young Indians look like?"
$0.01 Drone Deliveries. UAVs that never land. Groceries in under 10 minutes.
Meet The 22nd Century Indian. A Documentary on a New India.
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🇮🇳India today
1. is a $4.15T economy
2. is the fastest-growing major economy
3. holds $700B+ in forex, 4th-largest
4. has ₹2.05L per-capita income
5. exports $863B in goods & services
6. ships $421B in services exports
7. is 3rd-largest by PPP, $18T+
8. is set to be a top-3 economy soon
9. has the 4th-largest stock market
10. averages nearly ₹2L cr GST a month
11. files 9 crore+ tax returns a year
12. banks 55 crore via Jan Dhan
13. doubled its GDP in a decade
14. drives ~1/6 of global growth
15. sees record SIP inflows monthly
16. is the No.2 phone maker globally
17. makes 99% of its phones at home
18. exports ₹2.62L cr of smartphones
19. makes ₹13.11L cr of electronics
20. rolled out its first Made-in-India chips
21. is the 3rd-largest car market
22. leads in 2-wheelers & tractors
23. is the 2nd-largest steel maker
24. grew defence exports 34x in a decade
25. does 23.66B UPI txns a month
26. moved ₹29.88L cr on UPI in July
27. has 2.4L+ recognised startups
28. clears 763M UPI payments a day
29. runs UPI live in 7+ countries
30. is the 3rd-largest startup hub
31. has minted 100+ unicorns
32. made 23L+ jobs via startups
33. connects 900M+ to the internet
34. ranks 3rd in science papers
35. ranks 6th in patent filings
36. spends ₹12.2L cr on capex
37. has 99.6% rail electrification
38. rose to 38th on innovation index
39. ranks 4th in trademark filings
40. has 63.73L km of roads
41. has 1.47L km of highways
42. has 45,516 km of 4-lane roads
43. has 7,300+ km of expressways
44. has 165 operational airports
45. has the 2nd-largest road network
46. has the 4th-largest rail network
47. has 1,155+ km of metro rail
48. runs 160+ Vande Bharat trains
49. built the world's highest rail bridge
50. has 1,728 MMTPA port capacity
51. runs metro in 26 cities
52. grew its highway network 60% in a decade
53. has 552 GW of power capacity
54. more than doubled power since 2014
55. runs 300 GW of non-fossil power
56. is 3rd-largest in renewables
57. has 164 GW of solar power
58. added a record 55 GW of clean power in FY26
59. is 4th-largest in wind power
60. runs a Green Hydrogen Mission
61. has powered every village
62. targets 100 GW nuclear by 2047
63. grew renewable output to 478 billion units
64. grows 357.7 MT of foodgrain
65. grows 362 MT of horticulture
66. is the No.1 milk producer
67. leads in pulses, millets & spices
68. farms the most arable land
69. has 844 medical colleges
70. doubled its MBBS seats
71. enrols 4.3 cr in higher ed
72. keeps growing IITs and IIMs
73. has 1,100+ universities & 45,000+ colleges
74. runs the largest health cover
75. covers 55 crore under Ayushman
76. raised life expectancy past 70
77. is the 4th nation to dock in orbit
78. has 44 UNESCO heritage sites
79. hit the Moon's south pole first
80. is home to 1.46B people
And we are just getting started.
Happy Independence Day!
flyankur retweeted
Abuses never solve anything.
Let’s guide the misguided.
Let’s work together.
Let’s work for Bharat.
flyankur retweeted
I’ve long maintained (for over 10 years atp) that the Indian education system is a scam. Honestly I’m tired of saying it again and again. Everyone knows the problem, but these days I have a different opinion on how to change it. Given the climate, it’s not a popular opinion but I’ll say it anyway. There’s actually two ways to do it and the best analogy I’ve found to explain it is actually from the anime Code Geass.
The first is to directly take on the system, through anger and being vocal about it. It’s the Lelouch approach. But over time you will find that in order to fight villains, you have to become a villain yourself. This path starts peacefully with a genuinely good objective but is often hijacked by people who just enjoy violence and don’t care about the mission. It’s still a necessary path and it’s important some people take it. And we have a constitutional right to raise our voices. Especially because students have lost their lives because of this system, it’s critical to be vocal and put pressure on it. Many of our own channels have been as vocal as we can. But my experience of seeing these over decades means that in a year or two we’re back in the same situation. Temporary solutions, temporary apologies. But a permanent problem with new faces.
There’s another path, the Suzaku path. The Suzaku path fully understands that the system is broken and there are villains. But the approach is to patiently and slowly change the system. In the real world that also means building viable alternatives. It’s the less flashy, less vocal but more effective path. Unlike the other one, it takes a long time, sometimes decades of doing things like creating jobs and slowly but surely influencing the system to produce the type of talent you need and thus also changing things in the process. The education system exists to serve the ecosystem of jobs so over time the system has no choice but to change.
Separately, I also think we really need better technology in our systems to prevent things like leaks. If people opt for the default path, we have a right to demand that it is at least fair. And a resignation to keep the system accountable is a correct ask. But at the same time we need alternatives for those who don’t make it in the current system. It’s brutal and unfair and I think many people are super talented but aren’t very good at giving an exam. We cannot judge a person based on just that. I hope to dedicate my life to helping build some of those alternatives and who knows, many one day that even becomes the norm.
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Let me explain what just happened today because it deserves so much recognition.
GalaxEye is a Bengaluru startup founded in 2021 by IIT Madras engineers. Today they launched Mission Drishti on a SpaceX Falcon 9. It is India's largest privately built satellite at 190 kg. And it carries a technology that no commercial satellite has ever carried before.
Normal satellites take photos of the Earth using optical cameras. Like your phone camera, but from 500 km up. The problem is obvious. Clouds. Night. Fog. Smoke. If any of these are in the way, the photo is useless. India has monsoon cover for 4 months a year. That is 4 months where optical satellites are partially or fully blind over large parts of the country.
The alternative is SAR. Synthetic Aperture Radar. Instead of taking photos with light, it sends radar waves down and reads what bounces back. Radar goes through clouds, through darkness, through smoke. A SAR satellite can image a flooded village at 2 AM during a cyclone when no optical satellite can see anything.
The problem with SAR is that the images look nothing like photos. They look like grainy black-and-white radar maps. A military analyst or a trained geospatial engineer can read them. A farmer, a disaster response team, or a city planner cannot.
Until today, if you wanted both optical and SAR data for the same location, you needed two different satellites, passing over at different times, at different angles. Then someone had to manually align and fuse the two datasets. Expensive, slow, and the data never perfectly matched because the satellites saw the same spot minutes or hours apart.
GalaxEye put both sensors on one satellite. Optical and SAR, fused into what they call OptoSAR. Three times more information than a single sensor. Processed onboard by an NVIDIA AI chip at 1.8 metre resolution.
Now in practice, during the next cyclone hitting Odisha, one satellite pass gives you a clear image of which villages are flooded, which roads are cut, and which buildings are standing. Day or night. Cloud or clear. In near real-time.
For defence, it means you can monitor a border area 24/7 regardless of weather. For agriculture, it means tracking crop health across an entire monsoon season without a single cloud gap. For infrastructure, it means monitoring construction progress on highways and bridges without waiting for a clear day.
GalaxEye tested their SAR tech on ISRO's POEM orbital platform. The satellite was tested at ISRO facilities. IN-SPACe provided regulatory clearance. NSIL, ISRO's commercial arm, will distribute the imagery globally. And it launched on SpaceX because ISRO's PSLV doesn't have the right orbit slot for this mission.
Yes, four IIT Madras graduates built a world-first satellite in 4 years in Bengaluru.
Take a bow!
A Bengaluru startup just did something no one in the world has ever done, put a satellite in orbit that sees through clouds, through the night, with optical sensor and SAR fused into one.
Many many congratulations to the @Galaxeye team on the launch of Mission Drishti!
This is exactly why PM Sri @narendramodi opened up the space sector, so young Indians could build an audacious future for the nation.
flyankur retweeted
Available on Blinkit starting 15th April
In building Blinkit, @albinder Singh Dhindsa reshaped how Indians get what they need every day, redefining consumer expectations in the process—but the decade it took was anything but predictable. Buildit is his sharp, unfiltered account of navigating India's complex reality, making high-stakes decisions, and building systems where none existed. A founder’s candid story and an essential read for anyone trying to build and scale in India.
Out April 15. Available wherever books are sold.
#READWithHarperCollins
flyankur retweeted
Facts below (1/5):
In 2025, average earnings per hour (EPH), excluding tips, for a delivery partner on Zomato were ₹102.
In 2024, this number was ₹92. That’s a ~10.9% year-on-year increase. Over a longer horizon also, EPH has shown steady growth.
Most delivery partners work for a few hours and only a few days in a month. But if someone were to work for 10 hours/day, 26 days/month, this translates to ~₹26,500/month in gross earnings. After accounting for fuel and maintenance (~20%), the net earnings for the partner are ~₹21,000/month.
Note: Earnings per hour are calculated on total hours logged in, including the time when the partner might be waiting to receive an order. Earnings per “busy hour” will be higher but that’s not the right metric to look at.
On top of this - delivery partners earn 100% of tips given by customers. The average tip per hour in 2025 on Zomato was INR 2.6 and in 2024 was INR 2.4 per hour. Tips are transferred instantly, with zero deductions. We absorb the payment gateway processing cost ourselves. About 5% of the orders get tipped on Zomato; 2.5% on Blinkit.
flyankur retweeted
🚨: HARDWARE FOUNDERS this one is for you!
If you’re building:
> machines - from CNCs to circuits, from ships (space or sea - doesn't matter) to satellites
> robots - arms, quadrupeds, humanoids, semi-humanoids, exoskeletons
> drones or UAVs or things that fly
> wearables rings or pendants or smart glasses or
.... basically anything in hardware, manufacturing, industrial automation, or embodied AI ... we’ve built a Home for you!
Whether you’re in Tokyo or Tennessee, Melbourne or Madrid, Singapore or San Francisco, Beijing or Berlin, Shenzhen or Stockholm, Bangalore or Boston, or Lima or London — if you’re building the physical future, you belong here⚒️
MOSAIX is a global network for hardware x AI founders — the first of its kind — designed to help you solve, scale, and sustain your vision.
This is born out of years of working with hardware founders across the world and seeing how hard it is to build in hardware alone.
Founders like you have a unique journey. You deal with machines, with grease, with soldering irons and sensors, with components and gears. Your challenges don’t look like those in the software world, and that’s exactly why MOSAIX exists.
Our team spans China, India, Europe, and the U.S. and so does our purpose.
We’re independent.
We’re not backed by anyone.
We don’t carry anyone’s agenda.
Just a shared belief that hardware founders deserve a network of their own — a safe space, and a safety net.
MOSAIX is invite-only. For now, joining is free.
Welcome to the Age of Hardware.
Welcome to the MOSAIX Network.
More details in the tweet below.
Global health governance stands at a crucial turning point. With traditional structures faltering, India's civilisational ethos offers a fresh path forward—rooted in responsibility, innovation, and sovereignty-based cooperation.
Important perspectives by @aakanshabhawsar here:
chintan.indiafoundation.in/a…
#GlobalHealth #WHO #IndiaLeadership
flyankur retweeted
Twitter fam - Need your help!
(Please RT if you’re reading this)
Meet Vanessa ma’am, my mom’s friend and colleague - they teach tiny tots together. Outside of school hours, she spends all her day taking care of 600 dogs and many cats, cows in Delhi. From daily food to their medical needs, she does it all herself.
As she approaches retirement, her biggest worry is sustaining the ₹80k spend on monthly care for these voiceless souls she's protected for years.
She needs OUR help to continue her incredible work.
If you’re keen to support, this is her UPI ID: 9899445651@ptsbi.
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For eight transformative years, I was fortunate to be part of multiple 0-1 journeys at Grofers (now Blinkit), navigating through pivots and ultimately achieving the 10-minute delivery model. This experience was a treasure trove of learnings, mental models, and systems that compounded over time. It led me to start IN47, where I've had the privilege of applying these learnings at Chaayos and Zeno.health, leading to the successful discovery of high-conviction 10x product innovation bets.
To achieve product-market fit, two crucial steps stand out:
1. Generating Disruptive 10x Ideas: Identifying ideas that will drive your vision for the next 10–15 years—often non-intuitive, confusing, and slow.
2. Executing with Excellence: The goal is to execute the best you can with what you have, survive, and thrive until you hit product-market fit.
I'm thrilled to partner with Antler's BeforeDayZero.in team to conduct an online workshop where I'll dive deep into the first part - mastering consumer insight systems, especially Jobs-to-be-Done (JTBD) - that can fuel your intuition to discover 10x consumer product ideas.
Here’s the agenda for the online workshop:
- The Power of Consumer Insights: We’ll dive deep into key learning moments from Ankur's 8-year journey of building Blinkit (formerly Grofers) and how they discovered the power of consumer insights.
- JTBD and Other Systems for Discovering Consumer Insights: We'll explore the art of conducting consumer interviews to synthesize a job-to-be-done (JTBD) and apply other systems to discover impactful consumer insights. A live consumer interview will be conducted to illustrate the process and nuances.
- 10x Ideas: We’ll discuss the mental models & frameworks for coming up with 10x ideas. And how to apply them to generate 10x consumer product ideas for the insights gathered in the previous steps.
- Next steps on applying all of these insights in your journey from -1 to 0 as an early founder
Please join this online session - crucial
🚀
Wondering what's on that board?
It’s from my first chat with @flyankur (former Head of Technology & Growth, Blinkit).
What started as a simple conversation turned into a 2-hour eye-opening masterclass on consumer insights. Ankur shared his playbook from Blinkit's early days, revealing how they became the 10-minute e-commerce powerhouse they are today.
It was clear right then - I had to get Ankur to host a workshop for Before Day Zero members. The focus? Decoding consumer insights to generate 10x product ideas.
Many founders in the critical -1 to 0 phase struggle with this. They often miss the crucial step of translating consumer insights into viable ideas - a key piece of the puzzle for achieving product-market fit.
If you're in the -1 to 0 phase of building, you won't want to miss this. This board is just the 0.1% of the valuable insights Ankur will share in the upcoming workshop.
Deets: 22nd Aug, 4-6:30 PM IST, online.
flyankur retweeted
Wondering what's on that board?
It’s from my first chat with @flyankur (former Head of Technology & Growth, Blinkit).
What started as a simple conversation turned into a 2-hour eye-opening masterclass on consumer insights. Ankur shared his playbook from Blinkit's early days, revealing how they became the 10-minute e-commerce powerhouse they are today.
It was clear right then - I had to get Ankur to host a workshop for Before Day Zero members. The focus? Decoding consumer insights to generate 10x product ideas.
Many founders in the critical -1 to 0 phase struggle with this. They often miss the crucial step of translating consumer insights into viable ideas - a key piece of the puzzle for achieving product-market fit.
If you're in the -1 to 0 phase of building, you won't want to miss this. This board is just the 0.1% of the valuable insights Ankur will share in the upcoming workshop.
Deets: 22nd Aug, 4-6:30 PM IST, online.