Sunil Kumar Goyal

On a lazy day, stumbled upon this masterpiece from the great Amitabh Bachchan on how to deal with life challenges and felt like sharing it here. According to him, if things don't happen according to your wish, it's even better. This is because they are happening according to the wish of some Divine force, and that Divine force will never think ill about you. So you have to respect that as being better. Life is a struggle, and as long as there is life, there is going to be struggle. If we accept this, we will be better prepared to deal with the challenges that come our way. We should not sit in despondency, but rather be aware that tomorrow is another day, which could be profitable or not, but eventually there will be another day when we can start trying all over again. The fear of those ugly moments recurring is perhaps what drives us every day. Check out this video where Amitabh Bachchan talks about dealing with life challenges: https://lnkd.in/gWVwBUWd

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Zomato's Q1FY25 Earnings Soar: Revenue Up by 74% to Rs 4,206 Crore, Profit Skyrockets to Rs 253 Crore https://lnkd.in/d4YNQHFi Great to see regular profits from startup darlings of India. way to go 🎉🥳 #zomato #startup #india #indiastartup

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A little mortified Ajay Bulusu posted my tweets on "Cab Company CEO" here. Twitter & LI are like Oil & Water - they don't mix well. But to summarize my thoughts, the attempt by the Cab Company CEO to package Cloud and AI as a "nationalistic" venture, is dubious & unworkable. Very soon it will turn into an attempt at regulatory capture in the name of patriotism & national security (he has already called for data localization using the CrowdStrike outage as an excuse - never mind that these have no relation). I have seen Gaurav and Ajay build NextBillion.ai into a viable alternative to Google maps for enterprises. Krutrim is welcome as well - but no special favors because it's 'Indian'. The world of digital products & ideas is global. More innovation lies ahead than behind - and it will come from talented people - not legacy factories or fertile land. Countries that do well in this will be the ones who attract the best innovators. Technologists tend to cluster around these leading innovators. Capital too is globalised and will fund these innovators wherever they are. Digital innovators are nomadic - they only need an internet connection as a tether - & the world's leading and wannabe tech hubs are all competing to attract them. Our benchmark for success should be how many innovators setup companies in India, work from here, patent their IP here, bill their clients from here. Today, most of our innovators incorporate abroad & emigrate at the first chance. News of relaxed entrepreneur visa norms in the US gets a million views and likes. Many of our best engineers are always looking for emigration opportunities. If the Indian Govt. is interested in capturing more of the value of this ecosystem - it should try to align governance to attract this crowd. That means low and predictable regulation, economic and social freedoms, moderate taxes, great livable urban spaces and so on. This is a far far cry from the India of today - with it's urban hells, parasitic taxation levels in certain areas, ridiculous and high friction regulation around global currency movement and securities transactions, and lack of a trustworthy judicial and L&O system. Hucksters step into this lack of an internationally competitive environment - and claim that "protectionism" in the name of "nationalism" is the answer. It is most definitely not. We won't get our own Facebooks and LinkedIns by erecting walls. Such walls will only help give these hucksters' ventures a leg-up - so their otherwise shoddy goods and services are not exposed to international competition. And in fact such walls will only drive further emigration of genuine innovators. To the contrary - we should be tearing down walls like FEMA laws - that harass economic freedom today. We are the kids of 1980's India. We don't want to go back there. We don't want our internet captured by reincarnations of the Bajaj Auto regulatory capture model (the sheer irony). Compete fairly in the global marketplace and win.

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Can you change any device parameter of your on-field devices remotely? Yes! But why is it very critical? As I'm consistently asked this questions in the recent discovery calls. As a developer, it might only seem like a feature that brings convenience to your life but from a business point of view, the impact is actually very big! -Think of how much time and resources are typically spent on maintenance and manual configurations. -Now think of reduced downtime due to faster troubleshooting and parameter adjustments. It directly translate to cost savings. -Scalability is a big challenge for IoT projects and this facilitates easy updates and upgrades across many devices simultaneously, promoting uniformity and efficiency on a scalable level. -Data processing becomes more efficient if parameters controlling data flow can be adjusted dynamically! -Best Businesses provide best product and service quality. Remote fine-tuning based on performance feedback not just improve customer satisfaction but also helps you improve your service offerings and personalisations!

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AKS Bullet Byte #2 Peter Thiel in his book Zero to One sets the premise - "The act of creation is singular, as is the moment of creation." "Every moment in Business happens only once. The next Bill Gates will not build an operating system. The next Larry Page or Sergey Brin won’t make a search engine. And the next Mark Zuckerberg won’t create a social network. If you are copying these guys, you aren’t learning from them." It’s easier to copy a model than to make something new. Doing what we already know how to do takes the world from 1 to n, adding more of something familiar. But every time we create something new, we go from 0 to 1 and the result is something fresh and strange. Progress can take one of two forms. Horizontal or extensive progress means copying things that work— going from 1 to n. Horizontal progress is easy to imagine because we already know what it looks like. Vertical or intensive progress means doing new things—going from 0 to 1. Vertical progress is harder to imagine because it requires doing something nobody else has ever done. If you take one typewriter and build 100, you have made horizontal progress. If you have a typewriter and build a word processor, you have made vertical progress. At the macro level, the single word for horizontal progress is globalization—taking things that work somewhere and making them work everywhere. The single word for vertical, 0 to 1 progress is technology. What do you think start-up mindset is/should be like - one focussing on Vertical Progress or one delving on Horizontol. Technology or Globalisation - ofcourse both are required in an economy but that is not the question. Think about it. How is this relevant to career building ? Can this guide our directions at various stages of our professional lives. Think and one may be enlightened. #startups #AKSbullets #progress

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