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Ankit Sawant

@SatanAtWink

5 years

There is always a choice!

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Ankit Sawant

@SatanAtWink

10 months

Sharam naam ki bhi koi cheese hoti hai!

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Ankit Sawant

@SatanAtWink

4 years

He had two phones, 1 for Uber/Ola & 1 for streaming! I asked why so? He said, apne kaam se kaam rakho. Idhar koi motivational tweet ka material nahi hai.

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Ankit Sawant

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Mom got a mini heart attack because she had to pay for dhaniya on Blinkit. @albinder - mom is suggesting that you should bundle it for free with certain amount of veggies.

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Ankit Sawant

@SatanAtWink

2 years

I don’t think they understood!

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Ankit Sawant

@SatanAtWink

2 months

it’s 2024 & @bookmyshow still doesn’t let you sort theatres based on distance from you

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Ankit Sawant

@SatanAtWink

2 years

Indians facing rejection in Schengen Visa as a % of (total applicants) 2017 - 8.5% (920,699) 2018 - 9.3% (1,081,359) 2019 - 10.8% (1,141,705) 2020 - 16.9% (167,562) 2021 - 23.3% (130,427) Collectively lost ~$8.5m in only visa fees in 2021. Brought to you by @TravelOnArrival

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Ankit Sawant

@SatanAtWink

29 days

my soon-to-be wife went to Dubai & in less than 1.5 weeks she was able to: > register a company > get the company license > get her investor visa > get her medical test done > get her emirates id > renew her Indian passport from Embassy > open bank a/c for her business digitally

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Ankit Sawant

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5 months

IRCTC’s e-ticketing system is hosted in ONE DATA CENTER in Delhi without any Business Continuity Plan & Disaster Recovery site. For such a critical infrastructure which carried ~7.7 bn pax last fiscal, this is extremely worrisome. Screenshot from AR FY22-23.

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Ankit Sawant

@SatanAtWink

5 months

If you start getting dhaniya free on @letsblinkit please thank my mom 😝

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@SatanAtWink Will do it

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Ankit Sawant

@SatanAtWink

2 years

Have you ever claimed travel insurance that you bought from any OTAs like Cleartrip, MakeMyTrip, EaseMyTrip, etc? If yes or dropped, would love to have 10-15mins of your time to understand your experience. Please RT. Help us make your travel better!

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Ankit Sawant

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Ankit Sawant

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2 years

VC -> 0 : Operator -> 100

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Ankit Sawant

@SatanAtWink

1 year

TCS on CC is a witch hunt. It’s like gov doesn’t want us to travel abroad. Best thing to do is find Indians abroad with NRO accounts & get cash or credit card from them & transfer money here in India. Thinking of launching this as a service. 1000+ RTs & will do a hackathon!

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Ankit Sawant

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5 months

I can’t believe my random brain fart has created so much PR for Blinkit. So I am taking this moment to let you know that I am also a founder of one, @TravelOnArrival . And as in every early stage startup Founder’s life probably the reason for asking free dhaniya. It’s not as big

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Ankit Sawant

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1 year

1am at BLR Airport: Uber wait time - Go - 45mins Blu Smart - Not available / 45mins if lucky Ola - hahahaha! Bus - Mine was leaving in the next 10mins.

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Ankit Sawant

@SatanAtWink

5 months

@albinder From mom ->

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Ankit Sawant

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onlyfans can never scale in india but something that can scale & have margins like onlyfans is astrology & religious apps

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Ankit Sawant

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3 years

Zomato didn’t have an ESOP story even 1/4th of what Freshworks has; we really need to choose our heroes carefully

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Ankit Sawant

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2 months

got to know that therebelkid (Apoorva) makes around INR 40crs annually via brand deals on Instagram i think i am not doing enough with my life (this is from an industry source)

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Ankit Sawant

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2 years

The worst kind of people you have in startup ecosystem who will use a tragedy like this to just pump up their followers. What a waste of brain cells! Both the numbers are random speculations without any basis but only a guesstimate to spread more fear.

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Ankit Sawant

@SatanAtWink

2 months

when will people understand that it doesn’t work like this most drivers drive less in quick commerce vs. food or any other type of delivery they don’t carry extra weight as they are delivering just that one order with max weight of 7kg majority of the time shown on these apps

Shruti Chaturvedi 🇮🇳

@adhicutting

2 months

Quick delivery like Blinkit & Zepto should have an option for customers to select for delayed delivery. Most of us don’t mind waiting an hour or two for most items. & don’t want to put undue pressure of delivery in short time on delivery partners or be penalised from commision.

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Ankit Sawant

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1 year

Price of a 2000+ sq.ft 3 bhk at Bannerghatta Road, Bengaluru over time, from a society that I have been tracking: 2019 - Rs. 45k - 55k 2020 - Rs. 45k - 55k 2021 - Rs. 65k - 75k 2022 - Rs. 1lac - 1.2lacs 2023 - Rs. 60k - 80k Seems like Bangalore is healing!

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Ankit Sawant

@SatanAtWink

3 years

Guy in gym lifting 180kgs. Headphones disconnect from his phone. ‘Channa mereya’ blasts in full volume. Seems like the weight of his breakup is heavier.

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Ankit Sawant

@SatanAtWink

4 months

TIL @MyGate_com allows owner/tenants to rate/review domestic help with no recourse for them to fight back. the domestic help my co-founder employs, took 4 days off due to health reasons. one of the flat she was going to asked her to stop coming & left a bad review affecting her

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Ankit Sawant

@SatanAtWink

3 years

A small startup is beating MMT in hotel room night sales in Maldives from India. All because of their ability to help a user book their entire trip over a part of it. If you aren’t going full stack in travel this decade, you might as well retire now. (Full stack ≠ Packages)

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Ankit Sawant

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1 year

Unpopular Opinion: Forbes has a knack of finding fraudsters early by putting them on the cover so that more people would dig into their business. 30u30 is just a Hitlist.

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Ankit Sawant

@SatanAtWink

2 years

The next version of Ola / Uber app will tell us where the driver wants to go so that we can plan better.

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Ankit Sawant

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2 years

Your startup either dies in india or lives long enough when incorporated in a foreign jurisdiction

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Ankit Sawant

@SatanAtWink

3 years

The core reason why China made education startups non-profit is also true for India. Having kids is getting unaffordable due to the cost of education.

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Ankit Sawant

@SatanAtWink

4 years

Hotstar & Scam 1992 teach us that great content can make bad products bearable

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Ankit Sawant

@SatanAtWink

3 years

Startups in Bangalore are like Goa plans in Mumbai; Few work, many don’t, but everyone likes to plan.

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Ankit Sawant

@SatanAtWink

26 days

@marinebharat @ThePuneMirror @MumbaiPolice @DevenBhartiIPS @CPMumbaiPolice @Dev_Fadnavis under what section? this is a real issue every year. you can see this reporting going back to a decade This vile threat is just your foolishness thinking that because your have huge followers you can sway people as a maharashtrian, mumbaikar, someone with ganpati at home, &

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Ankit Sawant

@SatanAtWink

1 year

He was once a woke, I guess!

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Ankit Sawant

@SatanAtWink

1 month

there is no one more stupid than brands who don’t accept credit card on UPI but will accept Amex p.s. it’s Urban Company

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Ankit Sawant

@SatanAtWink

1 month

@viraj_sheth - be useful to people without agenda. collect favours - be where the action is based on what you want to do. moving out is the first big life lesson - be a generalist. understand not only how your Industry works but everything that it touches. For e.g. in travel (my space) how

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Ankit Sawant

@SatanAtWink

3 years

In a heart touching moment, my Uber driver, looking at a beagle sitting by the window of a BMW, said, ‘Sir, woh kutte ki pass aaj ki date mein mere se jyada adhikar hai.’ And I didn’t know what to say!

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Ankit Sawant

@SatanAtWink

3 years

JEE AIR 1 is just 1 person & not mainstream. Starting up right out of college needs a certain amount of privilege to not worry about money that you would make, considering education loan. Please don’t let this fool you in anyway. Make your own decisions & don’t follow any herd.

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JEE AIR 1 Mridul "wants to pursue Computer Science Engineering from IIT Bombay and start his own start-up once he graduates" When ambitious Indian middle-class parents and kids want to do something, it has become mainstream

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Ankit Sawant

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5 months

“Blinkit Right now” by @ApoorvaGhorpade , design team @TravelOnArrival

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Ankit Sawant

@SatanAtWink

2 years

This week I spoke with someone who solves a big pain point of visa applying process for Indians & makes ~10 crores a year doing it, with 2 FTE & 3 Freelancers. 70% gross margin & business is little less than 2yrs old.

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Ankit Sawant

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1 year

Most Gen Z confidence to work & follow passion is built on the back of parents who did the exact opposite.

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Ankit Sawant

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5 months

Brand new concrete road dug up AGAIN at Khar Pali road. No one can win against BMC.

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Ankit Sawant

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28 days

@malikgarv it will happen eventually, after I ask her first

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Ankit Sawant

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3 years

In a low trust society, you want your engineers to sit in the office & not at home so that they can attend less interviews.

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Ankit Sawant

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6 months

Gem of a reply. Mumbai 1: Bangalore & Delhi 0

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Ankit Sawant

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2 years

Came for a meeting at CRED & stumbled upon CRED Curious

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Ankit Sawant

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1 month

@detached_98 @Swiggy Pakistan speaks Urdu not Hindi.

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Ankit Sawant

@SatanAtWink

19 days

sometimes when i look around in a full flight, i can’t help but think about how easily we overlook the engineering marvel we’re part of. everyone just sits there, as if defying gravity is routine. many of us live in homes where sunlight barely reaches us, yet when we’re gifted

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Ankit Sawant

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2 years

If planning a Eurotrip from India was a playlist

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Ankit Sawant

@SatanAtWink

5 years

Just saw a female celebrity bashing post by a female on what the celebrity was wearing. This is why I say, sometimes women are women’s biggest enemies. Let Priyanka Chopra wear whatever she wants for wherever she is going!

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Ankit Sawant

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Experienced @peakbengaluru moment. Called a photo studio for getting headshots with my co-founder ( @pawshetty ), the guy asked whether we are founders & if it’s for a deck or PR.

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Ankit Sawant

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reading travel data is always funny if you believe DGCA data, you will see that ~9m flew to UAE from India if you read it along with Dubai Tourism data then you realise that out of these 9m only ~2m are pure tourists if you read this along with Dubai Employment data you

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Ankit Sawant

@SatanAtWink

4 years

“Paisa raise karna aasaan ho raha hai aur business karna mushkil” - Uber drive in Koramangala

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Ankit Sawant

@SatanAtWink

4 years

Writing about my 5yrs in Cleartrip in < 5000 words, have covered the following: 1) Culture 2) Design Focus 3) Customer Communication 4) Brand Cleartrip & Marketing 5) Acquisition of Flyin & Middle East 6) Acquisition by Flipkart 7) Cleartrip Mafia What more should I cover?

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Ankit Sawant

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1 month

@Tejasvi_Surya this is common in Mumbai where the police stations also have their own Ganpati & use whatever vehicles they have towards visarjan the spirit of Ganesha is to bring people together & freedom fighters died for it. don’t bring your cheap politics into this Khalti bus chup chap!

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Ankit Sawant

@SatanAtWink

4 years

If CRED brings tokenisation too along with the launch of this new Pay With Cred, they can pretty much help you route your transactions within your CCs in a way that enables you to earn maximum loyalty points too.

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Ankit Sawant

@SatanAtWink

1 year

In 2019, Apple used to buy 50 business class seats to China from United Airlines DAILY, making them the largest corporate customer spending upwards of $150m.

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Ankit Sawant

@SatanAtWink

4 years

I wonder why Ola / Uber don’t have ambulances on them. Instead of calling for one, people could just use the app.

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Ankit Sawant

@SatanAtWink

2 years

Thinking of passing this note along. Will update, post landing!

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Ankit Sawant

@SatanAtWink

3 years

In hospital with granny. Patient on the next bed is admitted as she has a risk of premature delivery. The husband starts a conversation, in which he says, ‘mein abhi iske wajese idhar atak gaya.’ Granny: ‘Uske wajese matlab? Baju wala aaya tha kya? ✨✨Mic drop ✨✨

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Ankit Sawant

@SatanAtWink

1 year

India was supposed to be the third largest outbound market by 2028. For every $1 that we would have added in Per Capita GDP, $3.27 would have been the growth in travel spends. But seems like this is going to be farther away just like Ache Din.

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Ankit Sawant

@SatanAtWink

3 years

Spoke to a potential senior engineering hire today. They work in an 🦄 & unaffordable for us. We extended a consulting gig, when asked about how much time can they dedicate, they said 3-4 hours. Well first I assumed it was a week only to be clarified they meant per day.

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Ankit Sawant

@SatanAtWink

2 years

🤌🏽🤌🏽🤌🏽🤌🏽🤌🏽

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Ankit Sawant

@SatanAtWink

2 years

If anyone is planning Europe Trip, better to plan via Spain. Spain’s Schengen Visa is not with VFS but with @blsintlservices . They have an at Home Service where even biometrics would be done at your door step.

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Ankit Sawant

@SatanAtWink

3 years

Not missing Bangalore, anymore. The sea can fix almost anything.

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Ankit Sawant

@SatanAtWink

1 year

Cost wise - Uber Go ~ 1200 Blu Smart ~1300 Ola ~ 1100 Bus - 255 + Last Mile Uber 105 = 360 for my trip to Arekere. Took the bus!

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Ankit Sawant

@SatanAtWink

2 years

Bye bye to all the continuous glucose monitors!

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Ankit Sawant

@SatanAtWink

2 months

so @TravelOnArrival closed august’24 at 75% m-o-m growth. that’s it. that’s the tweet.

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Ankit Sawant

@SatanAtWink

2 years

Spent 4hrs at the Mecca of online travel in India! Building an infrastructure company means you have solve for things that you don’t know too. My happiest moment was when they laid out the problem & we had a significant solution match.

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Ankit Sawant

@SatanAtWink

2 years

I am sure many would have struggled with finding appointments for Schengen visa. Launching something really soon with your favourite travel brands that you frequently use. *PS: This is live data*

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Ankit Sawant

@SatanAtWink

3 years

Clubhouse & Spaces has shown that many influencers we follow are actually shitty people. Carefully written scripts are their only saviours. Some of the best people I met on Clubhouse were actually pretty silent on other social medias.

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Ankit Sawant

@SatanAtWink

3 years

@Dhoop94 @beNNefingwrs @AirAsiaIndia If they don’t resolve this: 1) Check if they sent any kind of communication about change 2) If not, start with a complaint on consumer forum 3) Write to DGCA on the website & also AirAsia’s Cheif Grievance Officer 4) More often then not, you will get the compensation.

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Ankit Sawant

@SatanAtWink

4 months

something that the team @TravelOnArrival has been working on relentlessly over the last 2 quarters went live towards the end of last month ✅ today we achieved $1.3m in annualised GMV with less than 20 days of being live. All without any marketing spends & growing at 36% w-o-w.

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Ankit Sawant

@SatanAtWink

5 months

already did 2 radio interviews - both with Red FM 93.5 for Chandigarh & Delhi. Might get aired during the rest of the evening. Got a podcast guest request & lead of an enterprise customer for @TravelOnArrival . I think this is going great ❤️

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Ankit Sawant

@SatanAtWink

2 years

If you have booked your flight tickets today for a travel date which is more than 7 days away, as per DGCA rules you can cancel your ticket with 24hrs of booking & get a full refund. It airlines / OTAs refuse, you can complain to DGCA & get compensation too.

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When you book your flights and are happy that you got the best fares and next day the prices drop drastically

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Ankit Sawant

@SatanAtWink

1 year

When a Fintech CEO expressed such opinions, one really has to worry about money being invested with them. He conveniently forgot that those tax payers have families.

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@ViramShah8

1 year

Contrary opinion - the TCS on LRS is justifiable. 8cr people file taxes in India of which 0.8cr declared income of 10L+ (20% bracket). But, we had 2.7cr outbound travellers pre-covid. The govt is saying that how can 1.9cr people travel abroad and not earn more than 10L a year

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Ankit Sawant

@SatanAtWink

1 year

A couple on the next table is meeting, from what it sounds like, a marriage portal. It’s a very interesting conversation. The guy is almost declaring that he meets (& will continue meeting) his friends every weekend. Little does he know!

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Ankit Sawant

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5 months

@albinder Just saw it! Will share a video from my mom soon ❤️

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Ankit Sawant

@SatanAtWink

3 years

✨ Life Update ✨ Yesterday was my last day @verloopio . Thanks to @sgaurav_baghel for providing this opportunity of working with an amazing co & team. What next? 👇 Travel industry is going through a momental tech change & after 8yrs in it, I am going to startup :)

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Ankit Sawant

@SatanAtWink

7 months

Sounds a lot like Indiranagar-Koramangala-HSR Market Fit.

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At Facebook, I coined a term called Filipino Product Market-Fit: Every year a product manager would observe their new product getting intense adoption in the Phillipines and proclaim their idea was working. Directors would quickly staff the team and alert their VPs of the

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Ankit Sawant

@SatanAtWink

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@marinebharat @ThePuneMirror @MumbaiPolice @DevenBhartiIPS @CPMumbaiPolice @Dev_Fadnavis No one is dictating - most mandals already discuss this every year Smaller ones already moved to clay or other eco friendly material as those are more feasible and good luck implementing that poster rule during visarjan. there is a line between why that poster exists & what

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Ankit Sawant

@SatanAtWink

3 years

Bangalore now has more active cases than Mumbai. 1.49L vs. 81k as of today. Let that sink in! Stay home!!!

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Ankit Sawant

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1 year

These credit card folks fight on the TL like women in Mumbai local trains.

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Ankit Sawant

@SatanAtWink

4 years

Flight has landed but no one has got up. I. Can’t. Believe. This!

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Ankit Sawant

@SatanAtWink

7 months

I am tired of telling VCs that AI Travel Planner has no future because as much as people hate planning they secretly love it too. But hear it from @rafat as well. This is what @HariPyt & I discussed recently.

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Ankit Sawant

@SatanAtWink

3 years

I know people have been saying no one needs 10mins delivery, but there is this startup called Zepto in Bandra only (I think) who is consistently doing it under 6-8mins. While I don’t get my entire basket there, the convenience is just crazy.

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Ankit Sawant

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@hipreetam93 Yes. It’s becoming more common. Once you are back from your trip, you have to go back to Mumbai consulate to show your exit stamp. Failing to do so means next time your application will be rejected.

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Ankit Sawant

@SatanAtWink

2 years

In Bangalore for today & tomorrow, who all should I avoid meeting?

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Ankit Sawant

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10 months

is that from tinder? on @DigiYatraOffice ’s new screenshots in the appstore

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Ankit Sawant

@SatanAtWink

4 years

I think people should read ‘Saying No To Jugaad: The Making of BigBasket’ before even thinking about doing grocery. Essence of the book is that grocery is a full stack business.

Entrackr

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Zomato is planning to shut its newly launched grocery delivery service - Zomato Market @ZomatoIN #zomato #grocery #shutdown

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Ankit Sawant

@SatanAtWink

4 years

Doing a quick poll. Would you pay for priority support by an OTA / Airline / Hotel?

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Ankit Sawant

@SatanAtWink

1 year

In a reverse Uno move, some tenants in my building have complained that the residents are playing music loudly.

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Ankit Sawant

@SatanAtWink

4 years

The CRED room on CH currently feels like this, based on the opinions being shared by ‘you’

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Ankit Sawant

@SatanAtWink

8 days

- data on outbound travellers is wrong. It was 2.82 crores for 2023 - a good 50% of that is work or business related - this official number also doesn’t distinguish between NRIs visiting back home - this also includes student going to study abroad unnecessarily sensationalism

Akshat Shrivastava

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Roughly 2Cr people pay direct income tax. But 5Cr Indians take a foreign holiday. This fact needs to be fixed. And, everyone knows this. But, the focus of our taxation is to extract maximum juice out of 2Cr people already paying. And, harass them to death.

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Ankit Sawant

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‘The suddenness! The sheer suddenness of the move! The unexpected nature of the move! The unpredictability of the move! The fact that there was no warning!’

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Ankit Sawant

@SatanAtWink

3 months

this week in bangalore I have sat through every major VC’s office & figured out best ergonomic chair

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Ankit Sawant

@SatanAtWink

2 years

Indigo 6E-5252 BOM - BLR diverted to MAA due to bad whether in BLR & the pilot announced that they have exhausted the holding fuel. The flight was rescheduled from 19:05 to 19:45 hrs. Finally took off at 20:20 hrs. Just landed in MAA, will refuel, & try for BLR again. (1/n)

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Ankit Sawant

@SatanAtWink

2 years

Spoke with someone very senior in travel tech and I enquired why they aren’t on social media. His response was epic. He said, ‘I am too old to be governed by the fear of dumb people’

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Ankit Sawant

@SatanAtWink

3 years

Unless Bangalore landlord accept crypto as deposit, it will always be under penetrated in India

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Ankit Sawant

@SatanAtWink

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