While the initial idea of speaking to people in the gaming industry was to validate a hypothesis: Building a casual gaming studio from India for the world is a large opportunity (covered in Part I), those conversations proved way more fruitful than we imagined. Not...
While I’ve always been more of a board games person, the pandemic and my entry into tech investing pushed me to give mobile games a shot. Admittedly, I’ve spent many a night playing Call of Duty (COD) during the lonely days of COVID and more recently, couldn’t escape...
Would ONDC be a real game changer and alter India’s e-commerce landscape in a big way? Would it lead to massive value creation by a host of new companies playing a key role in the unbundled supply chain? Or would its impact be limited & hardly needle-moving for...
The recent launch of “Credit line on UPI” by NPCI is a pivotal point in India’s credit journey, one that will give rise to several fintechs. In essence, Credit line on UPI is set to become what Debit Card EMI aspired to be, and more. Credit line on UPI makes...
Contrary to popular narratives that software is not impacted during downcycles, it does. To a large extent, it already has. Sales cycles have lengthened by 20-25% and public cloud vendors have seen their growth reduce. Over the last 5 quarters, YoY growth for US...
Over the last three years, the number of parameters in AI models have gone up 16,500x and computing power used to train these foundational models has gone up by a trillion times since 2017. Machines have surpassed an average human in most cognitive tasks be it...
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