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Why did Facebook pay $19 billion for Whatsapp? Facebook’s valuation of Whatsapp (and it’s Network Effects) must be that high. As discussed in the previous part, Whatsapp is known for its tightly-knit cluster of users and has one of the…
What if I told you that since 1994, 70% of the value generated by tech companies is based on one simple concept? Network Effects. I was introduced to Network Effects as an idea, like so many other things, by Naval…
Social media is bad. It is addictive and makes you crave external validation. I agree with that. But there is a caveat to the statement. You control your social media accounts and you can use your social network to your…
I hated Geography in school. It didn’t make any sense to me. How will learning about borders, countries, continents help me in any way? The worst was name the capital cities of these 10 states for 10 marks. What the…
I was finally able to read Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman, a book about the life of the eccentric physicist, Richard Feynman, after having it on my list for a long time. This book was recommended by Bill Gates, Elon…
This is the second part of a two part series – As previously mentioned in part 1 of my article, the key to better decisions is being wrong less often. Logical fallacies and biases are essential to this. Logical Fallacies…
This is a two-part article – For the past 3-4 years, I have been fascinated with the concept of decision-making and learning quicker, in a more structured way. How are some people able to be writers, entrepreneurs, philanthropists, and tech…
Every 1st of January, do you decide to read more books for the year and on the 1st of March, you have already given up? Or is it that you can’t even pick up a book the entire year because…
So you have decided you are visiting a new city and don’t know how to plan your travel to the new city? After years of travel, I have realized that whenever we (me and my friends) are traveling to a…
NYC is an amalgamation of different cultures, races, and ethnicities and it is pretty evident from the food especially Indian food, which NYC does the best! Indian food is comfort food for me; having grown up eating Indian food, I…
Speakeasy bars are known for their dimly lit ambience and artisanal cocktails and Upper East Side has some of the very best speakeasy bars in New York City. Speakeasy bars are hidden or secret bars that were famous during the…
Every time a friend visits me in NYC and asks me to take them out, ‘the village’ (i.e. Greenwich Village and West Village) is the first neighborhood that comes in my mind. Each time. So here is my NYC guide…
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