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This newsletter is now branching out to what's happening in the Twitter-sphere with the help of a self-confessed Twitter addict

A newsletter to demystify Twitter?

Twitter is chaotic!

It is optimized for outrage-noise and can be overwhelming for someone who is not used to it. This TWIL offshoot is an initiative to filter the signal from the noise.

Anything ‘viral’ on Twitter usually ends up on all major media platforms but some of the best insights™ that are shared on Twitter never make it out of it. This newsletter is a small effort in highlighting some of these ‘gems’ in addition to TWIL to augment some of the highlights of Twitter especially from the world of Tech, Business, and VC - for more clarity,

• 🌎 Global Tech Trends

• 🇺🇸 Tech-Biz-VC scoops from the land of the free

• 🧶 Great Threads (what is a Twitter Newsletter without threads)

• 🇮🇳 Insights from India and not just limited to Koramangala® startups

🌎Supersonic is back*!

Boom Supersonic @boomaero

Introducing the United supersonic fleet. @united will purchase up to 50 Overture airliners and fly the fleet on 100% sustainable aviation fuels. boomsupersonic.com/united #BoomSupersonic

*by 2029 :P

Fun Fact - Co-Founder of Boom Supersonic Kathy Savitt is the sister of incoming Amazon CEO current AWS head Andy Jassy

🇺🇸 Miami hosted a Bitcoin Conference and it was WILD!

litquidity @litcapital

my cringe just cringed 🥴

The person in question hurling the expletives is Max Keiser who is the host of Keiser Report (a show on RT) - a BTC evangelist who also believes it is the solution to all of the world’s major problems. This was his reaction to Elon’s criticism about BTC’s mining methods (on Twitter duh) and the subsequent rollback of Tesla’s decision of accepting it as a mode of payment that ultimately caused the price to plummet.

🧶What fuelled YouTube’s meteoric rise?

Shishir @shishirmehrotra

1/ Time for another doc. This one is historical. YouTube’s hypergrowth was a rollercoaster, but we stayed grounded with a clear set of rituals. While it didn’t happen overnight, we gradually settled into the planning and meeting pattern you see in this diagram. A thread: 👇

Shishir Mehrotra the former VP of Product @ YouTube and current CEO Co-founder of Coda shared how post-YT’s acquisition by Google, they had to customize their product planning generally used at Google (OKRs) to a 6-month vision and 6-week sprint implementation routine. The end of the thread contains a full in-depth explainer of this process that you can find it here

🇮🇳 How Meesho uses Low/No-code tools to experiment!

Shikhar Saxena @_shikharsaxena

When building a 0-1 product, resist the temptation of writing code. Meesho ran entirely on WhatsApp & Google Sheets for many months before we built the first version of our app. A short-thread on how we went about it 👇

Meesho is one of India’s recent entrants into the Unicorn club. It is a social commerce platform that primarily acts as reselling space for women-centric products and entrepreneurs targeting the Next Billion Users of India! Their Low Code stack is very useful for their PMs to rapidly prototype new ideas.

✨Signing off the inaugural Twitter newsletter with some mandatory G(yawn)

Morgan Housel @morganhousel

Useful hack for a lot of things: There’s a scene in Lawrence of Arabia where one man puts out a match with his fingers and doesn’t flinch. Another man watching tries to do the same and screams. “It hurts! What’s the trick?” he asks. “The trick is not minding that it hurts.”

Verbatim reply from Morgan himself - “there are no hacks, that's the point”

See you next Tuesday and also tell others who don’t want to sign up to Twitter but want all the tech-biz-startup goodness from it?

- pH