Tag: Hot-takes
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The Beard Problem
Main competitor for Gillette aren’t startups like Dollar Shave Club anymore, but the trend of keeping long beards, and in turn, less requirement to shave amongst men. Procter & Gamble recently had to wrote down $8B blaming “lower shaving frequency”. YouTube said 2018 to be the year in which highest number of videos related to…
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Every Company Wants to be a Tech Company!
The reason why every company now wants to be “tech” company first and everything else later! APIs, Microservices, Containers are not just the ways to optimize code. Rather if you zoom out and look at the bigger picture same principles can be applied to solve different problems and even different industries. This McKinsey & Company…
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Tinder Algorithm
Ever wonder how Tinder algorithm works? Some good product lessons in here. Here are my takeaways:1. Getting matching algorithm right is tough. One new algorithm apps are trying is Gale-Shapley algorithm. Though data still missing on effectiveness of fancy algos. 2. To maintain user authenticity, some apps, for example, The League are using LinkedIn as…
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Writing Is Thinking
When I started my career almost 7 year ago, I used to shy away from writing or penning down my thoughts on paper. I used to think writing or creating documents aren’t necessarily best use of my time. After a few years of negligence, thankfully I realized this early on, as I progressed in my…
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Reliance Jio’s India Transformation
30 GB mobile data per month in <$5! That’s how much it cost to have a data plan in India. All thanks to Jio! More important than the price is the paradigm shift that have moved people from thinking about 1 GB data per month to 1 GB data per day! Even in the US,…