drishtibuting @matiks_play • future cattle farmer • i will win, regardless

Joined July 2024
> cleared R1 for ISB YLP (deferred MBA) > had all my SOPs ready for MBA/MIM outside India > was scoring 750-760 in GMAT mocks > had a joining offer from consulting firms left it all because i couldnt imagine myself working my ass off 9-5 for all my life. raising ipad kids. having to ask permission from boss to take someone to hospital or kids to PTM. saw people with prestigious degrees also just working paychecks to paychecks. nothing made sense. so i did what any retard would do. start from scratch again. no connections. no friends. no hand to hold. all alone in a new city by myself. i dont regret anything in past 6 months. no matter how bumpy the ride has been. still believe, my life would have been easier, otherwise but my soul would have died.
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primordial intelligence retweeted
have been seeing @cortisoul_ @primal_brainer building Matiks and doing amazing things!! congratulations to the team!!! 💪
we raised $10M to take Matiks from India to the world 🧠🌍 not long ago, it was just a few of us who believed mind sports could go mainstream. most people called it niche. last month, 2.2M people played 48M brain games on Matiks. they could’ve kept scrolling, and they didn’t. our longest streak has crossed 689 days. players run google meets to coach each other. one called us “the cure to my doomscrolling” and we still aren’t over it. huge welcome to General Catalyst and Unilazer Ventures, and thank you Info Edge Ventures, Tanglin Venture Partners and Untitled Ventures for backing us again. what’s next: → taking Matiks to the US → more games across math, memory, logic and puzzles → an AI engine so anyone can build a brain game millions can play to Sudhanshu, Sushant, Mohan and the whole Matiks team: you took a simple idea and made millions fall in love with using their brains. to our players: none of this exists without you. this one’s for you ❤️
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we raised $10M at Matiks I used to read TechCrunch to learn how startups grow. today, it's writing about ours. I still remember when the growth team was just me and our daily users were negligible. since then, we've hit #1 Sports app on the App Store, with people across the world playing 1-minute duels. proud of every person who built this. we're just getting started. you can literally just do things
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The fastest way to attract what you want is to become completely unavailable to what you don’t.
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Once you become smart enough, you realize the value in playing dumb.
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the moat is the friends you made along the way
there is no moat
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look ma!
have seen her always using drishtibution word and now she owns this word on google. seo is fun so does personal branding.
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drishtibution is the moat
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rich in life because my parents downloaded Substack just to read my articles. I don’t think any number of subscribers could ever beat that.🤍
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YC founder: i want to be known for our product not just YC tag also YC founder: we are a YC startup day in my life building a YC startup working on my YC startup
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its so funny that every one in blr has either an AI wrapper, a whop, or a “stealth” startup. meanwhile @acharyaamrit and @srinathramki built a network of ~7,000 factories and are now listed on NSE and BSE. atoms > bits. the boring and complex stuff wins congrats zetwerk 🫡
A pair of earbuds is a few grams of plastic, metal and electronics, made across several factories before it reaches a pocket. Solar panels, circuit boards and wind turbines are built the same way. For years, buyers had to juggle those factories themselves, while the one with exactly the right machine often never heard about the order. ZETWERK (@zetwerk) set out to close that gap. We first partnered with Amrit Acharya (@acharyaamrit) and Srinath Ramakkrushnan (@srinathramki) in 2019. Since then, that idea has grown into a network of nearly 7,000 suppliers, serving customers in 29 countries across energy, precision products and capital goods. Along the way, Zetwerk has brought work to builders from workshops in India to factory floors in Germany. Amrit and Srinath were joined by Vishal Chaudhary, Ankit Fatehpuria and Rahul Sharma in their journey. Today, Zetwerk’s name goes up on the NSE and BSE. Behind that name are thousands of people who built it, one part at a time. Congratulations Amrit, Srinath and the entire Zetwerk team. This film is for all of you, and everyone who builds with you. @bsomaia
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my entire growth playbook at matiks has been fafo > have the guts to try > see what sticks > double down > iterate fast > kill faster sharing what worked (and what didn't) this sunday at minimi HQ. pull up 🤌🏻
🚨 growth = f*ck around and find out. if you are a founder or growth team member who is trying to crack organic distribution - this sunday, we’re bringing together @aadharrr, founder at Kulfi; @sarvagya_kul, founder at Backdoor; @primal_brainer, growth at Matiks they’ve cracked millions of organic views and turned attention into actual users. i will too share my learnings! registration link in comments -
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he's a red flag if he wanna build from SF not BLR
SF’s dating pool was once, as an Egyptian founder put it to us, “drier than the desert in my homeland.” Now, gorgeous women are flocking to the city. Why? As AI gets cheaper to build, companies flush with venture cash are hiring beautiful women to charm investors and clients. Enjoy it while it lasts, gentlemen. As @nicolewizman1 writes: paying hotties 6 figures to get drunk with your business prospects feels like a pretty good sign we’re in a bubble. 👇
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Anyone can talk about why a startup looks promising after it starts growing, but TBH the more interesting question is what made an investor believe in it before that. And that’s what makes Lightspeed’s The Investment Memo super coool!! It goes back to the original thesis on SuperLiving and revisits it with the founders, including what the team got right and what has changed since. Can't wait for the next!
🔊 The Investment Memo, Episode 1 🎙️ Every partnership at Lightspeed starts with an investment memo, where our team writes down what it believes about a company before we partner with it. In The Investment Memo, our new series, we open that memo with the founders it was written about and read from it, so you can see how an early investment decision is made. Our first episode is with @SuperLivingApp, which is building an AI health coach for India, starting with users in tier 2 and tier 3 towns. People already ask AI about their health, but they rarely get someone who checks in with them the next day, and SuperLiving's coaches remember each user and follow up, at a price most families can pay. We partnered with Manavdeep Singh Grover and Gurjot Kaur early at SuperLiving's Series A. When we wrote our memo, the app had 24,000 paid subscribers after about four months. Both founders came from Pocket FM, and they have shaped the product around what their users asked for. In the episode, Lightspeed Partner @kumarharsha2212 and Vice President @PriyalMotw89880 read our memo to Manavdeep and Gurjot section by section, from the team and market to the risks we noted, and discuss what has shifted since. Watch the full episode here: tinyurl.com/SuperLivingPodca…
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The most universally relevant quote is, “life rewards action not intelligence” I have to remind myself that everyday
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no movement failed once 3.5% of the people had joined it yet most movements fail or maybe we did, as a society link: : drishtibution.substack.com/p…
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it's funny how you build an UGC engine and the group chat becomes the best content
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my brain isn't braining no more
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i still think about this
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all you need is delusional self confidence
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