Vice Chairman
@timesinternet
, India's largest digital co, with leading platforms in news, sports, music, video, fintech, and real estate, with over 500m users
this literally feels like an SNL skit
::coughs:: it is contagious, but the death rate is pretty low
::coughs::, ::drinks his daughters water and then gives it back to her to drink::, they said yea im fine
Fox News just interviewed a Pennsylvania man who went through the coronavirus quarantine process -- but he couldn't stop coughing during the interview 😳
My latest for Cricbuzz: Knight Riders eyeing Los Angeles franchise in the US T20 League along with being part owners of the league itself.
Hollywood meets Bollywood
For more than 20 years, we at The Times Group have been imagining digital, via
@TimesInternet
, not merely as running digital versions of our leading traditional media assets, across print, TV, radio, etc, but with a broader ambition. 1/12
Crazy to see Zoom as the
#2
app, and Whatsapp as the
#9
app, in Android Play Store in India. Real testament to Zoom video quality that the product with less network effects, and restricted free product, is surpassing the pure free video product. And in India!
In case you are wondering how important individual impact is on societal COVID19 spread, read this story about Patient 31 in South Korea, who singlehandedly may be responsible for 80% of cases over a period of time.
"...her passing is not to be mourned; instead the liberation of the soul is to be celebrated. But there's no bar on my deeply missing a woman who walked with seers, but had her feet decidedly on the ground."
🙏 Chairman & Dadi
Last month
@gaana
passed 100 million monthly active users, being the first Indian music service to do so! It's a massive achievement for a business incubated in house at
@TimesInternet
. Congratulations to
@prashan_agarwal
and the team! 1/4
I’m excited and proud that
@timesofindia
is launching
#MaskIndia
, a movement to get every Indian to make a cloth mask and protect themselves and others! This is the front page of today's paper, and you can learn more at 1/7
What a day! Land in London, then World Cup to Wimbledon, then straight to the airport to catch flight! Physically and mentally exhausted, as I start my trip 🤦♂️
interesting data from
@IndiasporaForum
in
@timesofindia
on US NRI impact
- 6% of taxes from 1.5% population
- 25% of international students at US universities are from India
- 10% of US patents from Indian-origin inventors
- 28 of 34 spelling bee champions are India
.
@gaana
is a homegrown Indian product by
@TimesInternet
that leads against local and global players, and continues to grow rapidly.
@prashan_agarwal
and team focused on building the best product for all of India. Thanks
@newley
@WSJ
for sharing our story.
Investors and spectators (and weak leaders) look at funding fatalistically. If X raises more money then X’s competitor is doomed. I’ve found that it’s often the opposite: Limited cash creates operating efficiency and forced innovation. And an underdog sense of urgency.
How do SoftBank's big checks affect startup competition?
A year ago Wag raised $300M from SoftBank.
Wag's sales rose 8% since then. Rover's rose 25%.
via
@WSJVC
What a weekend for cricket in America!
From US beating Pakistan to hosting 34k people in New York City for the epic India Pakistan showdown… it’s been a weekend to remember
BREAKING NEWS: USA Cricket has completed its RFP process for the development of a world-class professional T20 cricket league in the United States🇺🇸 and has selected American Cricket Enterprises (ACE) as its strategic partner.🏏
Privileged to have
@TheEconomist
feature
@Timesinternet
so prominently in its special feature on internet usage. We are building experiences like
@gaana
and
@MXPlayer
that are completely different from Western models, and the exploration is exciting!
@paulg
im still baffled by the fact that no traditional car company has built a giant touchscreen display like tesla's. has nothing to do with being electric vs gas, but its like going from blackberry to iphone
Excited to share that
@Cricbuzz
has launched CricbuzzTV, in partnership with eVision
@eAndUAE
. CricbuzzTV will be the home of broadcast cricket across all platforms in the Middle East!
7 years ago, I was fortunate enough to have been introduced to
@miten
, and today we wish
@miten
the best on the next step of his journey. Colleagues inside
@TimesInternet
and in the digital ecosystem have felt Miten’s curiosity, passion, intellect, and excitement.
1/4
after an incredible 7-years of learning, doing, failing, succeeding and creating some impact
@timesinternet
, I am stepping back from my role as CSO
grateful to my colleagues, teams, partners, and investors who put so much trust in enabling me to deliver 🙏
feeling 🤟👌💪-
@MXPlayer
and
@gaana
are the top video and music apps, respectively, in Google Play. They are also the top-ranked Indian apps in the Play Store (excluding the Ludo and Carrom games)
$1 billion of investments managed by
@ETMONEY
in 3 years, and a business growing 3.5x each year. More importantly, 60% of customers were first time investors. Congratulations
@kalramukesh
and team on building something special and impactful
1/5 Wow, we just turned 3years old! What an amazing journey it has been. A BIG THANK YOU to all our Users & Partners🙏🙏Together, we have scaled a few mountains 👇👇
Mumbai Airport runway shut, schools closed, train stations flooded, but the newspapers arrived in my house on time & dry! I have to salute those quiet, unsung heroes who brave torrential rain just so we can experience a ‘normal day.’ 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽
With that said, I’m excited to share
@TimesInternet
’s 2nd Annual Report. While it’s been a wacky 6 months, I’m proud that we are growing on all metrics, tracking towards our goal of 1 billion users and 1 billion USD revenue by 2025. A few highlights: 4/12
COVID19 growth in hot places, over the last week (8Mar to 15Mar):
Malaysia (27°C) - 99 to 428 cases
Qatar (23°C) - 15 to 401 cases
Bahrain (22°C) - 85 to 214 cases
Philippines (26°C) - 10 to 140 cases
Indonesia (26°C) - 6 to 117 cases
Florida (26°C) - 0 to 115 cases
1/3
On 26Jan, congrats to
@RadioMirchi
for launching their first radio station in the USA! NY/NJ/Long Island/Connecticut Indians - check out Radio Mirchi at 1600 AM!
Always better to take that extra precaution. Will help you and those around you.
I commend the
@timesofindia
group for this very innovative movement.
#IndiaFightsCorona
PS: I want to thank the
@timesofindia
Brand, Edit, and Online teams, that labored all weekend until late hours to put this together, all while working from home. Very proud of the effort, and it shows that working for the greater good brings out the best in all of us :)
Excited to launch
@ETMoney
Genius, one of our most ambitious initiatives! Genius is India’s smartest, personalized investment strategy partner. Strategies normally only available for high net worth individuals, now available to any Indian.
More here ->
⏰ We have a very special cricket edition tomorrow! Super excited to announce our guests:
🇮🇳 🏏From team India
@ashwinravi99
along with
@prithinarayanan
🎙the voice of cricket I have grown up with : the one and only
@bhogleharsha
📰 Vice Chairman of Times Internet
@satyan
Happy Engineers Day to the 900+ engineers that help
@Timesinternet
serve nearly 500 million monthly consumers. Putting it simply, our engineers individually service over 500,000 consumers, each. Thank you.
Engineers are synonymous with diligence and determination. Human progress would be incomplete without their innovative zeal. Greetings on
#EngineersDay
and best wishes to all hardworking engineers. Tributes to the exemplary engineer Sir M. Visvesvaraya on his birth anniversary.
Proud of a very successful Inaugural Season of
@MLCricket
. Sold out stadiums across the United States for an American cricket league exceeded expectations. Looking forward to doing it bigger and better next year!
one of our most successful venture investments, led by
@gsinha
. we take pride in backing teams we believe in, and Sahil is one of the best CEOs in India
One of the biggest winners in Delhivery IPO will be Times Internet
They hold a 5% stake (pre-Offer) in Delhivery - A total of 3.17 cr shares held at Rs3.50 each, so total spend = 11.1 Cr
This has grown into 1550 cr - a cool 140x!
Times internet giving PEs a run for their money
“Overall, Hotstar and
@MXPlayer
were ruling the roost with the highest share of OTT audiences using their platforms.” From “One OTT Platform Simply Not Enough for Indians” by
@qzindia
|
Cool partnership...
@WillowTV
and
@YESNetwork
have partnered to show
@MLCricket
@MINYCricket
matches on YES, alongside New York
@Yankees
matches, this July! pretty cool to see the biggest baseball franchise in the world excited about bringing cricket to its fans! listen below
Next week I’ll be chatting with Sam Altman of OpenAI. We will discuss AI and India, amongst other things. Please let me know if you have any questions or topic suggestions
The Economic Times is delighted to host an exclusive evening with
@sama
— CEO of
#OpenAI
and the unofficial leader of the
#AI
revolution — on June 7 in New Delhi.
In conversation with Altman will be
@satyan
, Vice Chairman of Times Internet.
We touched 110 million daily users and 557 million monthly users last year. We reach nearly 8 in 10 Indians, and nearly 7% of the world’s population, every month. And we’re the largest Indian digital network, reaching more audiences in India, aside from Google and Facebook 5/12
Massive moment for
@flipkart
, for
@binnybansal
, for
@_sachinbansal
, and for Digital India... lots of implications for the Indian ecosystem to consider, but today is a day of congratulations and celebration!
In case you weren’t convinced on the market potential of short form video in India, the top 6 downloaded apps in India across all categories are all short form video platforms (led by
@MXTakaTak
).
I congratulate Viacome18 for winning Aus, SA, UK,
Times have got MENA & US, who win the Rest of the World Rights. The IPL is as popular outside India as it is here and
the viewers will be able to enjoy top-class cricket.
Amazon has inspired a whole generation of entrepreneurs to believe that making profit isn’t important for a company, and to justify perpetually losing money. Running a zero or negative margin business is walking a tight rope
If predatory pricing were illegal, which is to say you were not allowed to run companies to intentionally lose money in anti-competitive ways, much of the bullshit counterfeit economy (Lyft, Uber, WeWork, Bird) would disappear. And it should disappear.
1/6 China will come out of this far stronger than the rest of the world. China is near finished with completing containment of COVID19, rest of world just getting started coming to terms with its existence.
My sister Seema Gajwani is transforming the criminal justice system of America by getting PROSECUTORS to use restorative justice. Nothing short of incredible 🙌🙏
Landed in Bangalore! Love the weather, hate the traffic, but mostly excited to attend the
@StartupAwardsET
this evening. Look forward to hearing from
@PiyushGoyal
and
@Rajeev_GoI
, and spending time with India’s most promising entrepreneurs and disruptors
Watch it live at 5:30pm
.
@MLCricket
will be available across many platforms this year in the US! Exciting to place cricket alongside baseball and other American sports. Thank you to our partners! MLC Season 2 starts Friday! Details below:
- All matches on
@willowtv
-
@MINYCricket
matches on
Being an entrepreneur in India is harder than people realize. There’s less money, infrastructure, and foundation to build on.
@aakuvaish
and
@SRajdev
at
@haptik
have embraced it, and have demonstrated non-stop hustle over the last few years which is hard to find. 1/4
Thanks to
@Timesinternet
for being an amazing partner over the last 3 years.
@satyan
@gsinha
@miten
have built a platform that truly embodies the spirit of a startup, with the resources of an institution. Always true to their word and genuine backers of entrepreneurs. 🙏
For
@gsinha
and
@TimesInternet
, this is a landmark moment, as Gaana is our first business to raise external capital. Rest assured, we’re just getting started… we’re going to make Times Internet one of the most impactful digital companies in India.
#backtowork
Great interview by
@vijayshekhar
. Amidst lots of noise, he reaffirmed Paytm’s market position, capability, and underlying purpose that drive the company.
Having known Vijay for 12 years, I can safely say- don’t sleep on him :P
“You’ll rarely see Chinese bad guys in Hollywood productions, says Stanley Rosen, a USC expert on Chinese society. If a film bothers the Party, the government will not only ban the film, but also ban the studio itself from showing future films in China.”
Now THAT is soft power!