Twitter

“The founders, all the angels got, you know, 10 times in four years. The last VC got, you know, two and a half X in four months, I think.”

“I think perspective led us to leading the Series B of Twitter in February of 2009. The world seemed, the financial markets seemed like they were going to end, and valuations were plummeting, and in that, we and Benchmark Capital co-led around in Twitter at aro…”

“And it actually grew to seventy million users in India at a time where Facebook and Twitter had only like one million users in India, right?”

“Very, very few people have the patience to actually go and read an article. Usually people are happy just scrolling through their timelines. So if suppose you can distill that great article in a set of five, six tweets or 10 tweets, And that, that's how, and p…”

“When you interact with people who are already well followed and Add your opinions, add your rejoinders to them. So what will happen is, of course, when there is nothing more evocative than a great argument. So if suppose I put out a tweet, I put out an opinion…”

“Consistency is not something which you have to put extra efforts on, let's say one year or two years in the line. I mean, first one year, maybe you'll have to be consistent. Otherwise afterwards it becomes an automatic process. You constantly are getting drawn…”

“They started with a lot of facts. They gave out a lot of facts, which are interesting facts, which are insights about the business. And then they have moved to opinion. I mean, that's where I see the journey as well.”

“When you're tweeting very niche stuff you might not get as much reach, but you will get the quality follows. As opposed to that if you want to get the massive followers also once in a while tweet about very relatable stuff.”

“You can't invest in a company like share chat by getting into a consensus, right? So it's impossible, right? Because there was hardly anything there, right? To say that you will basically create a social media company when you have a Facebook, when you have a …”

“So, after 50,000, I started doing on LinkedIn, after 50,000, I started doing on Twitter, after a hundred k, I started doing on YouTube, and after 300 k or three 50 k, I started doing on Instagram.”

“Within few months of me joining Twitter and sharing my thoughts, two individuals from India flew, flew all the way to Salt Lake City, USA to meet me and thank me for what I was sharing on Twitter. And they were the ones who suggested to me the idea of writing …”

“On Twitter is like the same problems that like English school, educated engineering boy, that's Twitter, right? Maybe slightly more work, right? But YouTube is very different. YouTube is India, right? It has The entire spectrum of India from people who don't m…”

“Every single person we have hired, except like one or two people who we've hired from agencies, every other person we've hired from Twitter.”

“In fact, my entire last round happened Because Gaurav saw one of my tweets on Twitter, called me, I mean, sent me a text and said, come to my office. He would never have discovered me if I had cold emailed.”

“Every month we have more than 10,000 posts coming on LinkedIn and Twitter together, which drives us about 20%, 25% of Lyft organically, which also helps our overall acquisition cost, right?”

“We got 25 to 30% organic traffic from LinkedIn and Twitter, not from Instagram as a brand, right?”

“So when you say global tech, it's Google, Facebook, Twitter, you know, Microsoft, everybody else. There is no Indian name there.”

“Because we allow Twitter to operate in India. US will allow coup to operate in US as well as long as the users love it.”

“Every move that Elon is taking might be good for the US and the US business, but for the rest of the world, I think it's great for coup.”

“The more Elon Musk Goes into monetization. He's retreating back to US. In the US also he's retreating back to the top one percent.”

“For countries like India, Where even the top one percent will think twice about paying Twitter that money. The rest of the 99% will never pay.”

“We are not a country where you can sell stuff on Twitter to a meaningful audience. You can sell stuff to Twitter for like five crore people, but tool is about by like 30 crore people. So you have to, you should almost consider, which actually we've not been su…”

“I feel like the new heroes are going to be made on YouTube. Twitter maybe, but slightly less, because the audience size of Twitter is lower, ah, and Instagram to some extent, but it's still short form, so connection is low.”

“We had this company that was only a year old called magic pony technology. So very funny and memorable name. It was like a early computer vision company doing video compression using a technique called super resolution and a year into their journey, Twitter bo…”

“Koo is a great product, great founders, ok. I would love to see them succeed, but there is no Twitter of India. Twitter of India is Twitter. Same thing with Facebook.”

“We were Series B investors in Twitter and Snapchat a little bit later in Discord, but all of which we did well below a billion dollars in venture price.”