🧵TWIL on Twitter 4

In a break away from "current affairs" based tweets, this edition features two out of sync with current tidings yet entirely informational tweets!

🌎When game recognizes game!

Jon Erlichman @JonErlichman

When Star Wars beat Jaws at the box office, Steven Spielberg bought a full page congrats ad for George Lucas:

Spielberg congratulated Lucas (Star Wars) and Lucas congratulated Cameron (Titanic) and more recently Cameron congratulated Feige (Avengers) - each for breaking the worldwide box office record for the topmost grossing film of all time. PS - John’s account is a wonderful throwback account that highlights major world events in the world of media and tech.

🇺🇸 Sriracha’s Logo inspiration comes from Huy Fong’s birth-year of the rooster

Trung Phan 🇨🇦 @TrungTPhan

Huy Fong's Sriracha hit revenue of $150m+ a year...with no sales team, no trademark and $0 in ad spend. Its creator is Vietnamese-American David Tran, making the sauce's success a tale of immigrant hustle and a product that literally sells itself. Here's the story🧵

A beautiful thread about the unique success of an Asian product in the US! Fun Fact, he replaced the original Vietnamese Chilies with Californian favorite Jalapeños.

🧶Founder Tenacity Matters - case in point: Cabulous

note - this is not a tweet from last week, but it was too good not to be shared!

Varun @varun_mathur

October 24th, 2009 is when the first Cabulous ride happened. Kieran Farr picked up the first passenger in San Francisco.

Cabuluous started a good 6 months before “UberCab” started in SF but a nice guy approach won’t do in the cut-throat industry of ride-hailing-sharing. The industry was literally shaped into existence by Travis (Uber) and Zimmer (Lyft)

🇮🇳 Ground Reality from India after the 2nd wave is NOT good

Abhinay Jain @AbhinayJain6

I don’t understand what is happening at macro level in India. Impact of lockdown and wave-2 seems to be really sad. I spoke to few friends and my dad- largely shop owners earning 15-25k in Bhilai/Chattisgarh and what they say is different from Twitter world. Thread 🧵 1/n

TLDR - too many unsecured loans that are charged at high interest leading to a massive decrease in expenditure by the families in order to repay these loans

✨Gyaan of the week

Divya Karthikeyan @divya_krthk

I'm 27 and I have this irritating feeling at the back of my mind telling me I'm behind in life and everyone else got the memo on how to adult. Common?

Check the replies for the gyaan :P

- pH