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Kunal Shah: Emotions are great for detecting symptoms, terrible for making decisions
“Using emotions to detect symptoms is great. Using emotions to solve or make decisions is terrible.”
Kunal Shah: Tourist businesses optimize for scams because customers do not repeat
“All the places that are built around tourist places are designed to optimize for short-term behavior because there is no repeat customer behavior. So all the scammy people will self-select themselves to be around tourist places. Because I don't need to optimiz…”
Kunal Shah: Optimizing revenue per employee preserves talent density
“Companies who obsess for revenue per employee naturally retain talent density a lot more by design because they do not kind of regress to mean”
Shah: India is the world's largest recipient of inward remittances
“India is the largest market which sends money back to India amongst all markets that does remittance. Indians remit the highest amount of money back to their family. Then it comes to Mexico and others.”
Shah: Living room renovations generate 70-80% of revenue for advised startup
“And I told this insight to a home renovation company. I told them, don't keep saying home renovation, launch a product line, which is living room renovation. And today, 70, 80% of that revenue for them is living room renovation.”
Shah crowdsources decision journaling publicly on Twitter instead of privately
“I crowdsource my decision making journaling and shaming because it reminds me more efficiently. I'm not a structured person. I can barely make a to-do list in life. I can, in fact, the day I make a to-do list, I somehow lose that to-do list because I just can'…”