It is my appeal to my fellow Indians,
Kindly contribute to the PM-CARES Fund. This Fund will also cater to similar distressing situations, if they occur in the times ahead. This link has all important details about the fund.
This is cute. I had no idea my own company is filing an IPO. Perhaps PTI and their 'investment banker' buddies can do the IPO filings and roadshows for us too? ๐ค
Let me know if I can be of any help in the process ๐ฌ
Dear
@PhonePe_
users. We are back with a bang! Would've been impossible to do so in record time without incredible effort & inspirational leadership displayed by
@NPCI_NPCI
and our new UPI partnerย
@ICICIBank
!
Will never forget because - A friend in need is a friend indeed ๐๐๐
Still remember the day we launched. The happy disbelief we felt when we crossed 10,00,000 users in 90 days. But never once in our wildest dreams did any of us imagine that 300 Millions Indians would be using
@PhonePe_
in ~4.5 short years.
What a
#surrealjourney
@rahulchari9
!
A big THANK YOU to the 30 Crore Indians who have chosen PhonePe to make their payments quicker, easier and safer. Weโre thrilled to be processing transactions from over 19,000 Pin Codes spanning more than 99% of the country! ๐๐ฝ๐ฎ๐ณ
#KarteJaBadhteJa
Dear
@PhonePe_
customers. We sincerely regret the long outage. Our partner bank (Yes Bank) was placed under moratorium by RBI. Entire team's been working all night to get services back up asap. We hope to be live in a few hours. Thanks for your patience. Stay tuned for updates!
Dear
@narendramodi
sir.
@PhonePe_
made its 1st One Crore contribution to the PMCARES Fund today, as we hope to cross the 1 million donors mark in the next few hours. Over INR 23 Crores already donated by 8.75 lakh Indians!
#i4India
#EveryRupeeCounts
๐
The govt of a $3Tn GDP economy.
The owner of a $1Tn tech company.
Both suing each other to enforce their respective rights to read my private chat messages. ๐คทโโ๏ธ๐๐
#BulliBaiApp
creators should be put behind bars for life. Shame on you - whoever you are! Your own mother's would be ashamed of having given birth to you today ๐ฟ
Thrilled to share that
@HarvardHBS
has published a case study on
@PhonePe_
! Totally surreal to be honest. Spent many hours reading HBS case studies during my MBA at
@Wharton
. Never thought that someday my own startup would be the feature of one of them.
#CoolStuff
The story of Indiaโs largest payment platform is now available to the world.
Read Harvard Business School's insightful case study, chronicling our journey of making financial inclusion a reality for a billion Indians.
Check it out here:
This is what happens when false news on social media goes unchecked!
@Npci
has set the record straight already.
@GooglePayIndia
is a legit UPI player. This is just false news!
Proud to report that ALL 2200+ full time employees at
@PhonePe_
own ESOPs in the company now.
1500 Crores worth of ESOPs issued overall. Incredibly emotional and gratifying moment for
@rahulchari9
and myself as founders. Shared wealth creation feels awesome. Karte Ja Badhte Ja!
#ComingUp
|
@PhonePe_
takes the lead in the
#startup
universe by rolling out ESOPs to all full-time employees includes those in sales & client experience. Why did it do that? Will others have to follow?
PhonePe co-founder
@_sameernigam
live at 6:20pm
@NayantaraRai
Dear
@PhonePe_
users. It gives us tremendous pride to announce that you are part of our family of 250 million plus registered users!
With 100 Mn monthly active users, we continue to march together in our mission to digitize payments across India. ๐โค๐
Thank you India! More than Rs 20 Crores donated by over 7.3 Lakh customers already. We need to cross 10 lakh donors today. Come on!! Please spread the word. Please teach your friends and family how to use UPI!
Wow! Thanks for the shout out
@amitabhk87
sir! Always in awe of your incredibly bold, positive and fearless leadership. Covid times have been no different. Proud that
@PhonePe_
has been able to contribute to India during these tough times in its own little way.
#KarteJaBadhteJa
Winners during
#COVID19
. Since March,
@PhonePe
users have done more than 2 Billion digital payment txns worth 3.5 Lakh Crore rupees! Zero payments service disruption for merchants throughout lockdowns. Indiaโs digital payment infrastructure has proven to be world leaders. (2/N)
PM nailed 1st lockdown timing. Saved countless lives. Failed to act this time. It's costing countless lives.
Same person. Got 1 right. 1 wrong. Guess what? It's ok. He's not god. He's not the devil. He's human! As flawed as all of us. So don't idolize him blindly. Humanize him!
They can slam PM Modi for various reasons - could be political, social or any other. But in their heart of hearts each one of the 130 Billion Indians knows that no one, I repeat, no one could have handled the
#COVID19
crisis more responsibly & compassionately than him.
Blockchain is one helluva technology. Yet, almost 15 years later it still feels like a solution waiting for a problem.
What are some real at-scale problems (other than crypto pls!) that blockchain can solve way more elegantly than other existing technologies?
PhonePe moves domicile from Singapore to India.
We have taken three significant steps toward relocating its headquarters from Singapore to India. These steps are as follows:
Japan to jump on the
@UPI_NPCI
๐๐๐ too!
This is so super awesome!
As Indian kids growing up in the 80's and 90's, we all used to marvel at Japanese technology.
Never imagined a day when the Japanese would be marvelling at Indian technology! ๐ฎ๐ณ๐ช๐ฎ๐ณ
#ImpossibleIsNothing
Thanks for the show of support
@amodm
! Considering that you literally were my boss,
@rahulchari9
's boss and Burzin's boss at different points of time during our career this sure means a lot. Aisa lagta hai teacher ne student ko shabaashi de di ๐๐๐
Dear users. In line with honorable PM
@narendramodi
's advisory, effective yesterday
@PhonePe_
has mandated all its 10,000 employees to
#WFH
till March 31st (for now!). All services will continue uninterrupted! More details here:
#LetsFightCoronaTogether
Super excited to announce the launch of
@PhonePe_
Super Funds. This is a game changer!!!
Smartest MF managers from ABSL to handpick from over 1000+ equity, debt & gold funds across all AMCs. Premium wealth mgmt services...for every citizen... regardless of their portfolio size.
#PhonePe
has announced the launch of Super Fund, a solution that invests across multiple top equity, gold and debt funds of different mutual fund companies to help investors create long-term wealth in a safer way.ย
@PhonePe_
@_sameernigam
@terencelucien
Thrilled to announce that
@generalatlantic
is anchoring
@PhonePe
's new funding round.
Welcome to the
@PhonePe
family. Looking forward to enjoying a hell of a ride together!
@kunalb11
This time is diff. Product wise, Signal has arrived!
Moved 1000+
@PhonePe
-rs to Signal. Recreated all my work groups.
Moved my family groups. Seamlessly.
Zero switching cost. Just retain ur WA acct (like ur old 90s Hotmail account) to reference old threads...
Thrilled to announce the formal launch of our new hyper-local shopping app.
Currently servicing customers in Namma Bengaluru only!
@pincode
Available for download now on iOS and Android app stores.
Frustrating lack of clarity around the covid vaccine distribution strategy. India clearly has a HUGE stockpile of the vaccine. We're exporting it too (which is nice!). Yet, most metros are battling a 2nd covid wave and citizens still can't get the vaccine? What's the plan?๐ค๐ค๐ค
A very big milestone for us. Thanks to the millions of customers who use
@PhonePe_
everyday and make this a truly special journey for all of us who work here.
We just crossed a BILLION transactions on the PhonePe App! A big thank you to all our users for being part of this exciting journey.
@_sameernigam
@rahulchari9
Such an amazingly vacuous PR stunt!
95% of
@AppStore
revenue comes from the top 2% most popular apps. But this new discount applies only to the bottom 98% apps. So
@Apple
is basically giving up just ~2.5% of future revenues, but making it look like a 50% discount. ๐๐๐๐
Proud to announce that the
#Pulse
open source data apis are now live folks!
This marks the culmination of a year long effort by a large cross-functional team at
@PhonePe_
It's our way of giving back to the larger Indian ecosystem that's given us so much over the years!
1/3
What can data from 20Bn+ digital payment txns by 300Mn+ Indians be used for?
Let's find out together India!
Presenting
#Pulse
!
Check it out:
Data APIs (now live!), interactive geo-spatial maps, pdf reports, trends & insights
All free! All here!
Always feel so happy when I see
@PhonePe_
@UPI_NPCI
QR codes being used by customers at small kirana shops. Doubly sweet when the customer is a cabinet minister - OMG wow ๐
India badal raha hai.
#KarteJaBadhteJa
@PhonePe
crossed 500 Million (50 Crore!) registered users today.
โค๏ธโค๏ธโค๏ธโค๏ธโค๏ธ
7 years since we embarked on this exhilarating journey, and it still continues to surprise us and excite us each and every day.
Next Up -
#1BillionUsers
by 2030!
@fs0c131y
@PhonePeSupport
@PhonePe
@PhonePe_
3/3 We will add an acct deletion feature on priority, and roll out the change within a few days. Promise to update this thread when the feature is enabled. Rest assured, we will never hold our users hostage for any reason whatsoever.
Super excited to have
@Walmart
as a long-term strategic investor. World's largest retailer = Global Learnings. Fun times ahead at
@PhonePe_
and
@Flipkart
Karnataka Government : Bangalore Karaga - Another Tablighi in the making-Karnataka govt should withdraw permission. - Sign the Petition! via
@ChangeOrg_India
This news article is totally misleading.
We have not shut down the Mumbai office or 'exited Maharashtra'.
We have just changed the Registered Office of PhonePe from our Mumbai office to our main Bengaluru HQ.
What an absolutely fantastic Diwali gift! Thank you India for showering
@PhonePe_
with all your love, trust and loyalty 2 billion times a month!!!
โค๐โค
Thank you, India for helping us cross the 2 Billion monthly transactions mark, setting a new all-time record. With November just halfway done, we're excited to see how far we can go!
58 Grand Slams combined for
@DjokerNole
@RafaelNadal
@rogerfederer
now! Gravity defying consistency from this amazing trio. Haven't seen this kind of dream run in any other sport ever!!!
How many budding entrepreneurs just said 'Nothing is worth this crap'? How many jobs did India lose? Time to change our legal system. This man should be able to sue the IT dept for direct and indirect losses, unless they can prove that his Angels are tax evading demons.
Over 55% of PhonePe's transactions during Flipkart's blockbuster Big Billion Days sale happened via UPI this year. We processed more than 50 txns per second at peak!!
Dear
@Google
@GooglePlay
. The
@PhonePe_
app has mysteriously disappeared from all PS Top Charts today. 31st is the busiest day of the month for all Payment apps! No prior notice or warning. Just gone from the Top Charts. Please fix the issue asap.
#NotCool
Kadte Jaa! Badhte Jaa! Incredible to see 5 lakh Indians have already supported the
#100CrorePledge
. Come on everyone. All you need to do is donate Rs 1/- to show your support!!
#DonateKaroNaIndia
@Saranyagop
@IndiaDice
Thanks for the donuts! They vanished so fast I couldn't even get a pic in ๐
@PhonePeSupport
- you guys were rock stars during the hardest of times. Thank you for everything that you do - day in, day out !!!
Kudos to the government. 7.2% GDP growth amidst all the global turmoil is an incredible achievement!
๐๐๐
Huge investments in physical & digital infra are starting to pay off. Economy is formalizing very rapidly.
The ๐ฎ๐ณ ๐ฏ is sprinting forward!
#ApnaTimeAaGaya
๐๐๐
Definition of 'Irony': Meta teaching youngs kids about digital safety and online well-being.
CBSE permitting Meta access to millions of young, impressionable Indian kids is a shame. Gives me the shivers as a parent! Please please rethink this ๐
Super proud of our offline team for making
@PhonePe_
ATMs live across our national merchant network!!! Millions of new cash-out centers being rolled out across the length and breadth of India. No longer do users need to travel far away, or stand in long lines to withdraw cash.
One of the trickiest jobs in the digital millennium today. Deciding what type of content mega platforms should censor. By whom. Under what circumstances. How often. How much. At who's discretion. All these are tough questions to answer, but debating them is v important indeed!
I had the privilege of deposing before Delhi Government Committee on Peace & Harmony this week, on Facebook's role in the Delhi Riots, allegations of political bias. What I said:
1. My recco's:
a.Allegations against Facebook SHOULD be investigated by an independent agency (1/n)
@vishan_khadke
@NPCI
@GooglePayIndia
I am worried about how quickly false news spreads. It can cause irreparable damage to any company. We should all be on our toes against the spread of false news
Thrilled to be a proud co-owner of the Mumbai Meteors & Prime Volleyball League !!!!
Looking forward to an amazing 2nd season!
@PrimeVolley
@rahulchari9
Cybersafe is a incredible consumer protection initiative by
@HMOIndia
!
I'm proud to share that
@PhonePe_
was an active collaborator in the design of this platform. It will protect Indian consumers against the menace of digital fraud.
#CrimeDoesntPay
#FraudstersOnNotice
เคเฅเคนเคฎเคเคคเฅเคฐเฅ เคเคพเคฐเฅเคฏเคพเคฒเคฏ, HMO India
MHAโs CyberSafe is a comprehensive system meant to tackle digital frauds and making digital payments secure.
Glad to share that this app leads to the neutralisation of a pan-India Fraud Gang spread over 18 States/UTs.
You too can check suspects at
Diversity in the workspace rocks. Welcome it. Promote it. Nurture it. Celebrate it. Until it's so commonplace that its impossible for any employee to look at another colleague and say - you're the odd one out!
Fintech unicorn
#PhonePe
has launched its Diversity & Inclusion charter. The first phase will focus on gender, sexual orientation, and people with disability, identifying specific actions in each of these areas.
@PhonePe_
@rahulchari9
@_sameernigam
@meme_startup
@peakbengaluru
It's not a popularity contest. It's definitely not a Bangalore thing either. That's a gross generalization.
Different people respond to different topics at different times. It's ok.
Folks are wondering - 'Why open src your data?'
It's simple really: We owe our existence and our success over the past 5 years to the sheer audacity & imagination of visionaries at
@RBI
,
@Product_nation
@NPCI_NPCI
,
@GoI_MeitY
,
@DFS_India
who delivered
@UPI_NPCI
to the nation 2/3
It's here!
Presenting 'Digital Payments in India: A US $10
Trillion Opportunity'
A report launched by PhonePe Pulse and Boston Consulting Group (BCG) gives insights into digital payment trends in India
Click here for the report:
#BeatofProgress
#Pulse
Building new apps is so much fun! So many first-evers and early milestones to aim for and celebrate.
@pincode
team - I'm officially jealous of you guys. Keep rocking it! ๐
Huge shout out to our early adopters of
@Pincode
in Bengaluru !
Thanks to you, we've broken into the "Top 100 Shopping Apps" list on
@GooglePlay
in less than 48 hours!
Great to meet the entire startup community together under one roof again. Thanks
#ETStartupAwards
! Continues to be one of my favorite events every year!
Supporting Indiaโs digital economy,
@walmartindia
and
@phonepe_
are bringing secure UPI to
@BestPriceWMT
stores. CEO
@iyerkrish
says: weโre enabling our 1 million members prosper with payment solutions that make life easier for kirana & small biz members
@fs0c131y
@PhonePeSupport
@PhonePe
@PhonePe_
2/3
3. In case of wallet closure, pld note that RBI's PPI guidelines mandate that the txn history be archived by the PPI issuer (us) for 10 years.
4. The
@PhonePe_
login, currently it can be blocked, but not deleted entirely. This is definitely a miss on our end. No excuses!
@fs0c131y
@PhonePeSupport
1/3 Dear
@PhonePe
users. This topic is important enough to justify a detailed clarification. So here goes:
1. You can delete your linked bank accounts via the app itself, anytime and permanently.
2. You can also delete your
@Phonepe_
wallet permanently via CS.
@kunalb11
@PhonePe
And I say all this with a genuine sense of loss/sadness. WhatsApp is by far and away the best product I've ever seen in the social/comm category. I trusted the WA founders. I loved the simplicity of their product. Never imagined switching to another chat app. C'est la vie โน
@ajaypv4
@PhonePe
@bigbasket_com
@PhonePe
has no idea *what* you purchase from a shop. We also NEVER share raw data with any 3rd party. So we'd never know you bought a coconut.
So either the shopkeeper told BB (doubt it!), or you just hit freakish odds.
My suggestion - Buy a lottery ticket now!!! ๐
BREAKING: With phenomenal increase in transactions of virtual digital assets, we will impose a 30% tax on any income from transfer of virtual digital assets. No deductions allowed except cost of acquisition, loss cant be set off, TDS of 1%: FM Sitharaman
#Budget2022
'Reasonable' censorship is very annoying. A handful of people deciding what a billion adults can/cannot watch on OTT shows is R.E.G.R.E.S.S.I.V.E!
Pls keep it simple. Ban the illegal stuff. Certify the rest. Then go away. Adults can decide what to watch. Thank you! ๐๐
Thank you
@_sameernigam
and
@rahulchari9
for hosting us at your residence last evening and sharing such thoughtful moments with us, we truly felt at home ๐ We were humbled by the warmth of your families and were motivated with the support that you showed us ๐คฉ
#KhupDhanyawad
Incredible blog by
@rahulchari9
- my co-founder and CTO extraordinaire
@PhonePe
on the amazing Tech-first culture, accelerated learning curve and outsized impact (both organizational & societal..) that engineers can look forward to at
@PhonePe
.
#JoinTheMission
1/ A question I am often asked is how one should think about their career as a software engineer....followed by what that looks like at
@PhonePe
. My thoughts on this are penned in this blog ๐ . And for a quick read, key takeaways are captured in this๐งต!
HUGE!!!!!
In 2001, Microsoft stopped forcing OEMs to prebundle its IE browser on PCs. Today, IE's market share is < 2%.
Enforced strictly, today's CCI ruling will change the face of the Indian Internet & Mobile ecosystem in the same vein.
By taxing virtual digital assets, GOI has legalized crypto trading in India. So crypto as a commodity is now ok, but it still can't be used as a currency (ie - long term value is still zero!)
So will be interesting to see how the w3 market reacts for now.