co-founder + marketing @clevertap; @mumbai_tech_; #product #tech #treks #dadjokes; LKO →AMD →SFO →SEA →BOM

Mumbai
Joined November 2008
Creating a master tweet of my stories - 1) Luna + Washing Machine: x.com/helloanand/status/1104… 2) My "Computer" career: x.com/helloanand/status/9955… 3) Manufacturing Birdspikes: x.com/helloanand/status/1399… 4) Soap As A Service (SaaS in '90s):
SaaS is 1992 - a short story. In 1992, while doing general timepass with a bunch of friends, one of them said that he's won a cleaning contract of a certain soap factory. Each evening after the shift work is done, he goes there with his crew to clean up the factory floor.
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Dreading spending a few hours in Delhi for a layover given the AQI
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💯 at times when your server asks “how’s the food”, do mention the “service is so good also”. It’ll brighten up their day. You’ll see in their lit up smile. Of course, only say so when the service is great.
When a customer service rep ends a call with "You have a great day", try to respond with - "Thanks. You have a fantastic day too, <name>". It takes 2 more seconds, but they will notice that someone acknowledges and appreciates their efforts in helping you out. In a world of AI bots, we need more #Empathy in human conversations.
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“Tere bin sanu sohaniya koyi hor nayo labhna Jo de ve rooh nu sakunn chuke jo nakhra mera” - best summarizes the relation between mother and a son. What say @ku1deep?
October is almost done and It has been a tough few days. The sky is falling. Sleep has been rare lately. I land early in the day in delhi. The sandpaper flavour of its people makes a red ruin of my sanity. I finish a tough meeting. It goes well but I am hungry, cranky and have too much cortisol in my system. I need to make a few tough calls. I have been playing excel tetris for days now. The numbers needs to add up but they are not working. It is 3 pm and I am inside a cab. Outside, the hellish Gurgaon landscape plays its depressing dirge. I have had it. I am gonna give up now. I enter the next destination in the uber app but I am not going to my next meeting. I have decided I am going home and so I do. Home I grew up in decades ago. when the days were sepia and skies blue. I get there after 2 hours. Mom is there. She smiles gently and acknowledges that I am home. Asks the housekeeper to make me a cup of tea. we sit in silence for a bit. There really isn’t much me and my mom talk about. we almost never have. She does not understand the world I live in but she knows I know, that I live in it because of her. But as I sip my chai she tells me stories. The cows are giving milk, monkeys come around the evening to destroy her kitchen gardens, the air smells of smoke most mornings. She talks, I listen. I nod along, she keeps talking. She is happy. We both know it. I am ashamed that it took so little from me to make her happy and it took me so much effort to do so little. I give her a hug. My arms remember a rock, but find a frail frame. She feels smaller. I seek the familiar safety I remember but I find that I am holding the person who once held me. I see in that moment that I am the parent now and she gets to be a child. She keeps talking, I keep nodding. The paddy is being harvested, the lime trees are full of fruit, should she make me kheer, It will be cold soon and her joints ache… It has been an hour. I have a flight to catch. She hugs me goodbye and I walk back to my cab. I don’t look back. I am leaving home all over again. I get back to the Excel Tetris. The numbers still don’t make sense. But suddenly they don’t have to. I know what I am going to do. The cortisol haze has lifted and I see the futility of what I was doing. The numbers will never make sense. I just have to change reality around them. Doubt dies. I am the child who knows mom is watching from the stands. I breathe deep and easy. I will do what it takes and I will sleep well tonight.
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Years 1976 - 1999, then on off until 2005.
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That white building is Lemontree hotel and grew up living right next to it in Royal Apartments, Khanpur, Ahmedabad. I can attest that both before and after images are accurate.
Congress, Commies, liberals, and leftists sneer at Gujarat because it’s bulldozing its way into a powerhouse real development, ironclad leadership, and work that actually delivers. The proof’s screaming in your face. Maharashtra and Uttar Pradesh are the same: infra exploding on a monstrous scale. Now look at Karnataka and West Bengal rotting under useless, thieving clowns who con the masses while stuffing their pockets. They despise Gujarat because it exposes their pathetic, looting circus for the joke it is.
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Why I couldn’t pull myself together -
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Anand Jain retweeted
We've updated our bio! 😎
𝐂.𝐇.𝐀.𝐌.𝐏.𝐈.𝐎.𝐍.𝐒 🏆 Congratulations to #TeamIndia on winning their maiden ICC Women's Cricket World Cup 🇮🇳 Take. A. Bow 🙌 #WomenInBlue | #CWC25 | #Final | #INDvSA
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🚨‼️Posting for a friend: Critical family member - we need A+ platelets and blood donation. Please spread the word in your Delhi network groups if anyone can donate it at Max hospital Noida sector 128 today if possible. Please call 9523961009/ 9650063974
First trek ~13 years ago. Had to take the Harbor line to go to Neral. Bought first class tickets at 5 am on Sunday 🤦‍♂️ Found a totally empty train.
What’s the funniest comment you heard in a #MumbaiLocal train? "train rukne ke baad utrega kya?" Pic from 1984
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*Boards train in hurry* Passenger 1: Ye, slow hai ya fast? Passenger 2: Fast hai Passenger 1: Goregaon rukega? Passenger 2: Chain khechne pe kahi pe bhi rukega Passenger 1: Malad kis taraf ayega Passenger 2: Naya hai kya? Malad hamesha left mei hi ayega. Aaj bhi aur pachaas saal baad bhi. *Boards Virar fast train in peak time* Passenger 1: Thoda jagah dedo Borivali utenka hai Passenger2: Pagal hai kya. Jake andar baith ja. Abhi seedha Virar uterneka. TC pakdega bolneka uterne nahi diya. Fine nahi lagega. Slow local leke wapas janeka.
What’s the funniest comment you heard in a #MumbaiLocal train? "train rukne ke baad utrega kya?" Pic from 1984
Anand Jain retweeted
*Train pulls in at Churchgate Station" Passenger 1: Ye wala last stop hai kya? Passenger 2: Ha, Iske aage gyaarah number ka bus pakadne ka Context: Gyaarah number ka bus = Bus number 11 where 11 represents your legs by which they mean go walking 😂
What’s the funniest comment you heard in a #MumbaiLocal train? "train rukne ke baad utrega kya?" Pic from 1984
This is so much #Mumbai vibes
What’s the funniest comment you heard in a #MumbaiLocal train? "train rukne ke baad utrega kya?" Pic from 1984
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Anand Jain retweeted
SeatGuru Is Gone After 24 Years — Here’s What Killed It And What To Use Now dlvr.it/TP0XmX via @garyleff
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Anand Jain retweeted
what 28AQI does to mumbai
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When in Vegas .. with @subharun
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Awesome listening to @mlevchin talk about the need for BNPL at the @money2020 Awards
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Meet me and team @CleverTap at @money2020 Booth #8026. Let’s chat about engaging customers and retaining them for life 💪 #Fintech #money2020USA
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Who else is here for #money2020USA ?
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The pressure to save the planet
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