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Varun Mayya

Varun Mayya

Science and business follow the same principles and are practically the same thing - you experiment, you observe, you make conclusions, and you repeat.
I help entrepreneurs build software, content, small companies, and freelancing careers with actionable advice. I try my best to distill new developments in technology for the masses. Most importantly, I practice what I preach. I failed countless times on countless projects with a few small wins, and I have come to realise that this is the norm :)

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  • Wednesday · 15 min

    Here's How You Can Use ChatGPT To Get Smarter

    Is AI making you dumber? New research is starting to show how AI tools actually affect the way our brains think, focus, and remember. In this video, we break down real studies, including an MIT experiment and large education research, to explain why using AI sometimes hurts learning and sometimes helps it a lot. Uploaded 24-01-26 The difference is not AI itself, but how you use it. We look at what happens when AI does the work for you versus when it helps you think, why vague prompts lead to boring, generic answers, and how relying on AI without real effort weakens understanding. The video also explains how AI can slowly push everyone toward the same average ideas if you do not bring your own context and experience. We also touch upon the two modes of using tech: consumer mode and creator more. And how using an AI PC powered by Intel®️ Core™️ Ultra Processors can help you regain your lost creativity. If you use any AI tool for studying, writing, or work, this video shows how to use it in a way that actually makes you better at thinking, instead of replacing your thinking altogether. Learn more about Intel® Core™ Ultra Processors here: https://www.intel.co.uk/content/www/uk/en/products/details/processors/core-ultra.html 00:00 - MIT Study - AI's Impact on Brain Activity 03:06 - Context Problem with AI 04:20 - AI is Making You Generic 06:10 - Why Everyone Gets Same Answers 06:55 - Real World Experience First 10:21 - Closing thought Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • Wednesday · 7 min

    What if Mickey Mouse was conscious?

    Cero means "Zero" in Spanish. Uploaded 12-07-19 Business was my gateway drug to philosophy and understanding humans. In these short podcasts, let's talk black holes, computing, physics, business and philosophy, and let's try to keep it short. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- More: At the end of the day, everything from product to marketing to sales is fundamentally about psychology. I spend a lot of time reading research papers and running experiments in the neurosciences lab and on people. On Instagram, I've noticed how putting out any advanced content on this type of research gets me lower engagement - so I'm going to reserve that platform to put up motivational quotes and updates, and use this playlist to put out content for people to really win at this game of life. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • Wednesday · 47 min

    Best Skill to Learn in 2026 (AI Can't Replace This)

    Try Warp for free today at my link ➞ https://oz.dev/varunyt Uploaded 17-02-26 In this video, we explain how most people misunderstand writing because they treat it as self-expression, when it is really applied psychology. We break this down through the Soham Parekh cold email example, showing how great writing works like a psychological program. We then get into the core lesson here: world-building. How the goal is not what we want to say, but what the reader actually reads. We then connect this directly to AI and prompting. How a vague prompt produces generic output because the model fills gaps with defaults, while a detailed prompt creates a clear universe with rules the AI can operate inside. The takeaway is that writing well and prompting well are the same underlying skill, and why controlled framing is one of the highest-leverage form of communication. 00:00 : Intro 00:48 : How To Write 03:46 : Startup Founders and Conviction 06:50 : World Building 14:33 : Creating a New World 20:28 : Storytelling Inconsistencies in Superheroes 27:40 : The Power of Concrete Examples in Storytelling 31:00 : Game Development Challenges 33:10 : LLMs: Crafting Prompts for AI 39:55 : Concluding Thoughts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • Wednesday · 13 min

    What Consciousness is according to Modern Science (2019)

    Cero means "Zero" in Spanish. Uploaded 12-07-19 Business was my gateway drug to philosophy and understanding humans. In these short podcasts, let's talk black holes, computing, physics, business and philosophy, and let's try to keep it short. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- More: At the end of the day, everything from product to marketing to sales is fundamentally about psychology. I spend a lot of time reading research papers and running experiments in the neurosciences lab and on people. On Instagram, I've noticed how putting out any advanced content on this type of research gets me lower engagement - so I'm going to reserve that platform to put up motivational quotes and updates, and use this playlist to put out content for people to really win at this game of life. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • Wednesday · 46 min

    Demis Hassabis On AGI, Advice For Indian Engineers, AI In Gaming and More

    I was honoured to sit down with Demis Hassabis, co-founder and CEO of Google DeepMind, and Prof. Govindan Rangarajan, Director of IISc, to discuss how breakthroughs like AlphaFold could accelerate medicine, healthcare, and scientific progress in India. Uploaded 19-02-26 We then go deeper into a harder question: scientific taste. What helps great scientists choose the right problems, and why intuition and curiosity are still so difficult for machines to replicate. We also touch on mentorship, experimentation, and why the future belongs to people who can connect ideas across disciplines rather than staying inside silos. Finally, we zoom out to discuss bigger shifts like AGI, robotics, and AI in the physical world, and what all of this means for engineers, students, and India’s role in global tech. 00:00 Introduction and Audience Welcome 01:33 AlphaFold's Impact on India 03:17 How to Build Scientific Taste 07:04 The Future of Medical AI 09:40 AI and Gaming's New Golden Era 13:50 How to Be a Polymath 20:14 Demis Hassabis on AGI 22:50 Balancing Google's Commercial Pressure vs DeepMind's Research 25:00 The Future of Indian Engineers in the Age of AI 28:30 The Next Big AI Breakthrough 30:44 Should AI Replace or Complement Human Intelligence? 34:35 Demis Hassabis on Learning to Learn 35:32 Memory in LLMs vs Human Memory 39:05 Closing Thoughts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • Wednesday · 16 min

    I Spent 5 Days With The 0.0001% In A Secret City...

    Attend a FREE AevyTV video editing masterclass - https://class.aevytv.com/learn_editing Uploaded 17-03-25 I got access into the top 0.1% of the world, and it opened my eyes. Davos is like looking behind the curtain of power—you’re walking around, running into billionaires and famous people everywhere. Turns out, everyone’s just figuring things out as they go—even the people who control the economy. Being around billionaires and leaders showed me the real way things work. And to bring the same experience to you, I wore my Meta glasses and recorded the hidden side of it all. To give you the same experience I had. And so in this video, I share what I saw at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. I also give you my top 5 insights from this life-changing experience. From the heavy security and houses set up for countries and companies, to how deals get made and friendships form—this video shows you what happens when the world’s most powerful people meet, and how they run the world. 0:00 Intro 2:21 First learning 4:27 Second learning 5:29 Third learning 6:06 Integration 6:41 Fourth learning 8:52 Fifth learning Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • Wednesday · 10 min

    Your brain is scamming you

    Credit to https://twitter.com/foone for inspiring me to do this video. Uploaded 12-07-19 Cero means "Zero" in Spanish. Business was my gateway drug to philosophy and understanding humans. In these short podcasts, let's talk black holes, computing, physics, business and philosophy, and let's try to keep it short. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- More: At the end of the day, everything from product to marketing to sales is fundamentally about psychology. I spend a lot of time reading research papers and running experiments in the neurosciences lab and on people. On Instagram, I've noticed how putting out any advanced content on this type of research gets me lower engagement - so I'm going to reserve that platform to put up motivational quotes and updates, and use this playlist to put out content for people to really win at this game of life. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • Wednesday · 12 min

    HOW TO SELL YOUR COMPANY + TIPS ON VALUATION | METASTARTUP #13

    What happens when you sell a company? What do you get? What do your investors get? Uploaded 08-12-18 And...how exactly do you value your company? How does the Discounted Cash Flow method work? Does it apply to small startups? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • Wednesday · 24 min

    The Ultimate Guide To Cold Calling | Metastartup #24

    If you're in a rush and don't want to know the stats, the sequence starts at 9:50 Uploaded 10-02-19 Subscribe to me in one click: https://bit.ly/2Rbq52r Follow me on Instagram: https://instagram.com/thevarunmayya Metastartup Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/361737054599889 More reading: https://www.saleshacker.com/cold-call-statistics/ http://www.gong.io/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/Cold-Call-Deck.pdf https://www.gong.io/blog/cold-calling-tips/ https://www.salesforce.com/blog/2015/04/sales-hierarchy-lead-data-needs-gp.html Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • Wednesday · 48 min

    Peyush Bansal on UPI Payments in Glasses, IPO Criticism and More!

    In this episode, Peyush Bansal sits down to talk about Lenskart’s IPO, the debate around its valuation, and why he believes the company has been priced fairly despite market chatter. He explains how Lenskart’s profitability, strong unit economics, and sustained growth make it stand apart from most consumer tech listings that were still loss-making when they went public. Uploaded 02-11-25 We then get into how the company grew from a small tech-led eyewear startup into a global brand through vertical integration, manufacturing, and customer obsession. Peyush also discusses the next frontier, smart glasses, built in partnership with Qualcomm, and how India could lead this new form factor by developing full-stack hardware and software locally. The conversation then goes beyond business metrics to explore his Shark Tank experience, lessons in scaling culture, counterintuitive insights on Indian consumers, and how he stays grounded amid success, criticism, and the chaos of IPO day. 00:00 - Intro 00:52 - IPO Launch Day Experience 02:18 - The Valuation Debate 08:22 - Shark Tank Impact 09:48 - Lenskart Origin Story 13:49 - Evolution from Startup to Global Company 16:38 - Smart Glasses and Future of Computing 25:29 - The Road to Profitability 29:05 - Post-IPO Team Motivation 32:37 - Counter-Intuitive Consumer Insights 38:04 - Dealing with Success and Criticism Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • Wednesday · 21 min

    This is what INDIA will look like in 2030 Ft. NVIDIA (FUTURISTIC VLOG)

    What will India look like in 2030? Uploaded 26-01-25 Join me on a fascinating journey into the future where I show you a day in my life - from AI-powered smart homes and personalized bathrooms to telerobotic avatars and next-gen entertainment systems. The best part? Everything you see in this video already exists somewhere in the world today - it's just unevenly distributed. Watch as we explore how entrepreneurship and technology will make these innovations accessible to everyone in India. Now, in the second half of the video, we break down exactly how we created these futuristic scenes using various AI tools and CGI techniques. From storyboarding with Stable Diffusion to creating photorealistic avatars with Flux and implementing precise camera tracking in Blender - learn how we brought this vision to life. And finally, a BIG SHOUTOUT to NVIDIA RTX AI PC for making this video possible! Experience breakthrough AI performance with RTX GPUs, featuring TensorRT acceleration for up to 20% faster AI tasks and 30% faster rendering in tools like After Effects. Whether you're a content creator or an artist pushing creative boundaries, RTX AI PCs revolutionize workflows by enabling real-time ray tracing and AI-powered tools right on your desktop. Check out the links below to learn more about NVIDIA RTX AI PCs and level up your creative potential. Resources and Useful Links from the Tutorial:- Concept and Pre-Production: Running Flux locally for Storyboard image generation - https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/ai-decoded-flux-one Digital Human Creation: NVIDIA ACE - https://developer.nvidia.com/ace Audio2Face for expressions - https://build.nvidia.com/nvidia/audio2face-3d Flux for photorealistic avatars - https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/ai-decoded-flux-one Learn more about ACE and AI innovations - https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/ai-decoded-gamescom-ace-nemotron-instruct/ Advanced AI Features: Real-time ray tracing and Tensor RT acceleration - https://developer.nvidia.com/rtx/ray-tracing https://developer.nvidia.com/tensorrt-getting-started Local AI processing with RTX - https://www.nvidia.com/en-in/ai-on-rtx/chatrtx/ Checkout NVIDIA's AI Decoded blog series to stay updated on the latest AI innovations - https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/tag/ai-decoded/ Finally, If you want to create content like this? Check out NVIDIA RTX AI PCs: https://www.nvidia.com/en-in/ai-on-rtx/ 0:00 - The vision behind this video 1:14 - Day in 2030 India begins 1:34 - Smart bedroom and fitness tech 2:01 - Future bathroom tour 3:35 - Smart wardrobe showcase 4:08 - Meeting the AI assistant 4:54 - Future of TVs 5:55 - What hasn't changed: Food 6:12 - What hasn't changed: Laptops 7:16 - Why buildings look the same 7:55 - Future grocery shopping 8:19 - Robot rental services 9:15 - EVs of 2030 9:38 - Face wearables replace phones 9:53 - Paying for Dosa In The Future 10:13 - Indian Restaurants In The Future 10:52 - Back To Varun's Apartment 11:35 - Insight: Futuristic tech exists but is unevenly distributed 12:25 - Entrepreneurship’s role in tech adoption 13:28 - Tutorial: Making the video with Nvidia RTX AI PCs Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • Wednesday · 1 hr 34 min

    How to Build a Global Brand from India (Lessons from a Unicorn Founder)

    In this episode, Naveen Tewari opens up about the near-collapse of InMobi (when the company lost 40% of its revenue overnight and was weeks away from shutting down). He breaks down what it’s like to lose everything you’ve built, and how in just 45 days, he rebuilt the company from scratch. Uploaded 16-10-25 He then talks about the moment he realised no one was coming to save him, how survival forces real clarity, and why the best founders think “heaven” even when they’re in hell. From getting rejected by 40+ VCs, to raising $200 million from Masa Son, to building Glance AI… this episode is a raw, unfiltered look into what it takes to stay alive when everything’s falling apart. Tune in to listen to Naveen’s timeless principles that enables him to create companies like Glance and InMobi… in today’s episode. 0:00 - Introduction 0:50 - Building two unicorns and raising $800M across InMobi and Glance 3:00 - Four failures before InMobi when startups meant "unemployable" 5:00 - Pivoting from SMS search to mobile internet in 2008 8:48 - Every VC rejected mobile internet as the future 11:26 - Raised $7.1M with only ₹20,000 in bank account 22:55 - Decision to build globally, not just India 30:00 - Lost 40% business, burned $20M per quarter 41:47 - The legendary Masa story 52:27 - Mukesh Ambani wanted 10 paisa calls vs McKinsey's ₹1.50 58:03 - Reliance Jio invested $200M in Glance 1:00:30 - InMobi today: global ads and Glance AI platform 1:12:00 - Build global AI software, not just local solutions 1:21:44 - At ₹10-20 crores wealth, play the biggest game Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • Wednesday · 10 min

    How to obtain Optimum Neurotransmission

    Cero means "Zero" in Spanish. Uploaded 12-07-19 Business was my gateway drug to philosophy and understanding humans. In these short podcasts, let's talk black holes, computing, physics, business and philosophy, and let's try to keep it short. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- More: At the end of the day, everything from product to marketing to sales is fundamentally about psychology. I spend a lot of time reading research papers and running experiments in the neurosciences lab and on people. On Instagram, I've noticed how putting out any advanced content on this type of research gets me lower engagement - so I'm going to reserve that platform to put up motivational quotes and updates, and use this playlist to put out content for people to really win at this game of life. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • Wednesday · 1 hr 2 min

    Mastercard CTO on The Past And Future Of Finance (Absolute Finance Masterclass 2024)

    Ed McLaughlin, CTO of Mastercard discusses the fascinating evolution from paper money to digital neural networks that now protect trillions in global transactions. Ed opens up about Mastercard’s AI system that uses over 1.6 trillion parameters, processes decisions in 50 milliseconds, runs in 210 countries and prevented $20 billion in fraud this year. We explore the deep lessons from his startup days - from operating with zero revenue to transforming how billions of people pay today. From unbreakable payment networks to the future of digital transactions, Ed shares invaluable insights about building technology that powers economies. He breaks down why learning to learn matters more than specific skills, and why the best products don't make markets - they unlock existing demand. An insider's perspective on how payments has evolved and where the next breakthrough might come from. Uploaded 29-10-24 00:00 - Intro 0:54 - Varun's early experience with cashless transactions 2:41 - Difference between money and wealth 4:13 - State of the financial system in 2005 when Ed joined MasterCard 10:12 - Ed's predictions from 20 years ago that came true 17:23 - Ed's early career and path to becoming CTO of MasterCard 21:55 - Where Ed sees payments and financial technology heading in the next 5 years 28:10 - Discussion of MasterCard's work with crypto and blockchain technology 28:12 - Explanation of tokenization and its applications 33:26 - MasterCard's AI-powered decision management platform for fraud prevention 41:32 - future of contextual commerce and embedded payments 44:18 - How AI can enable greater financial inclusion 46:08 - Predictions for the next big consumer fintech innovations in India 49:22 - Career advice for young people interested in fintech and payments 53:56 - Conclusion Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • Wednesday · 1 hr 1 min

    Why Indians Don't Attempt (And Stay Average Forever) | KATA 4

    Welcome to the fourth session of the 16-Kata series, where the focus shifts from building systems to reading people. This episode introduces a practical way to evaluate competence, both in yourself and in others, using the idea of “power levels” borrowed from Dragon Ball. The core question is simple: who can actually get things done when real risk is involved, and who only talks about it. Uploaded 10-01-26 The session explains how real competence is built through a specific pattern: believing in something, taking a visible high-risk swing, facing skepticism, and either failing cleanly or pulling it off. These attempts permanently change how the world values you. It also shows why prediction, opinion, or confidence without personal risk produces very little real status, and why one true execution, even after many failures, upgrades your access to money, talent, and opportunity. Finally, the episode breaks down why India systematically misreads competence by overvaluing niceness, humility, and conflict avoidance, while undervaluing people who sell, resolve conflict, and push things forward. If you want raises, leverage, better teams, or serious opportunities, this session explains how they are actually earned. 00:00 - Introduction 01:30 - What Are Scouters? 03:16 - How to Read and Gain Competence 05:12 - The Two Startup India's 06:31 - How I Got Into Startup India 1 10:54 - The Importance of Taking Attempts 14:10 - The Gap Between Thinking and Doing 17:42 - Proving It vs Believing It 19:12 - Why Excuses Don't Matter at Higher Levels 20:55 - The Five Scouter Levels Explained 26:30 - The Indian Competence Blindspot 28:47 - The Role of Luck and Attempts 30:38 - Action Produces Information 36:32 - What Successful Founders Actually Do 40:02 - How to Accurately Read Competence 45:22 - The Niceness Trap in Indian Culture 49:15 - Quick Tips to Raise Your Scouter Level 50:41 - Using Scouters in Hiring and Choosing Bosses 52:30 - Co-founders, Friends and Schadenfreude 53:48 - Clustering with High Competence People Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • Wednesday · 1 hr 6 min

    Why 90% of Companies Break After 50 People | Kata 2

    Welcome to the second session of the 16-Kata series, where I continue breaking down what I have learned about building and scaling companies over the past decade. Uploaded 24-12-25 In this session, we focus on the hardest problem that emerges after early growth: coordination at scale. We examine why quality degrades as teams grow, why most services businesses fail when they scale too fast, and how leadership, incentives, and clear communication reduce coordination costs across large organizations. The session also explains why caring deeply about customers outperforms aggressive expansion, how leaders propagate standards through layers of teams, and why writing, incentives, and mastery matter more than control. If you are leading teams, scaling an organization, or trying to understand how alignment actually works inside growing companies, this session is designed to give you a practical mental model. 00:00 - Introduction 00:53 - The Challenge of Scaling Quality 08:20 - What Really Drives People? 11:58 - The Coordination Cost Framework 15:36 - Generating Current as a Leader 18:30 - The Power of Stories and Incentives 22:38 - Setting Incentives Effectively 28:20 - The Quest for Mastery 33:34 - The Leader's Toolkit 34:54 - Human-Related Blockages 40:05 - Avoiding Leader Burnout 44:52 - The Secret Weapon 49:13 - Rules and Enforcement 51:08 - The Four Horsemen of Closed Systems 55:09 - Why Coordination Matters 58:04 - The 100% Coordination Myth Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • Wednesday · 27 min

    HOW TO CONVINCE A VC | METASTARTUP #25

    Subscribe to me in one click: https://bit.ly/2Rbq52r Uploaded 28-02-19 Loosely based on Paul Graham's essay + my own experiences. If you're in a rush and don't want to know backstory, the sequence starts at 9:30 Follow me on Instagram: https://instagram.com/thevarunmayya Metastartup Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/361737054599889 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • Wednesday · 39 min

    Gemini 3 Full Review and Mind-Blowing Use Cases

    Higgsfield just dropped its Black Friday deal, and you get 65% off on an entire year of unlimited 4K image generations! The sale is live only for 3 days so make sure you check out https://higgsfield.ai/?utm_source=varunytnb Uploaded 22-11-25 Gemini 3 is finally here, and Google claims it’s the most capable model yet. But the real question is what it can actually do. So in this video, we put it through practical, end-to-end tests: generating complete websites, recreating real landing pages from screen recordings, building functioning apps, assembling PC-builder tools with compatibility logic, and even producing small games with external sprites. And the results were surprising. Front-end developers, junior engineers, designers, and even no-code SaaS builders are staring at the most rapid compression of their field so far. Tasks that once took days or months now collapse into minutes. Meanwhile, the bottleneck shifts upward: idea selection, synthesis, distribution, and domain expertise become the real differentiators, not writing code line by line. This video breaks down why implementation is being commodified, why simple SaaS products are racing to zero, and why the advantage now moves to people who can combine domain knowledge with fast iteration instead of writing everything from scratch. We’ll also explore how Gemini handles UI recreation from video, whether it truly fixes the “purple crypto website” problem, how well it reasons about compatibility chains, and why small interactive experiences might become a new marketing format for brands. Links to the prompts: https://docs.google.com/document/d/16rtcG4WCt9i8ftLtPDog4IRq9qaYrIpOrYhHoVoJu9U/edit?usp=sharing 00:00 - Introduction 01:50 - Website Generation 06:26 - Sponsor message (Higgsfield) 07:48 - Building from Reference 12:06 - Cloning Popular Apps 17:33 - Building Complex Tools 23:10 - Interactive Projects 28:25 - More Demos Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • Wednesday · 5 min

    OPENING A CORPORATE BANK ACCOUNT, CREDIT CARDS, FIRST BOARD MEETING and MORE | METASTARTUP #7

    In this episode, we're going to learn: Uploaded 25-11-18 - How to open a bank account and the best strategies (hint: open 2) - Minimum corporate bank balance - Learn what fixed deposits are and why you need them - How to get your first corporate credit card - Why you need a Chartered Account (here's mine -- only use if you can't find one yourself: sarvesh@gspconsulting.co.in) - How to set up a virtual office (you need to assign one in your first board meeting) - Getting a payment gateway: prerequisites Metastartup is a 100% course that will teach you how to run an Indian startup from scratch to finish. Follow me on Instagram at http://instagram.com/thevarunmayya Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • Wednesday · 56 min

    LinkedIn CEO on Which Jobs Will Matter in 5 Years, Getting Hired, Advice for Indians and More

    In this conversation, I sat down with Daniel Shapero, CEO of LinkedIn, and got him to reverse engineer his entire career on a whiteboard. Yes, a whiteboard where he walks us through starting a company as a math student back in 1998, watching three startups collapse one after another, getting an MBA to regroup, spending four years at Bain doing due diligence on companies for private equity deals, and then landing at LinkedIn almost by luck, where he built a sales org from just himself to a team of 1,500 people before working his way up to COO and eventually CEO. Uploaded 30-08-26 The whiteboard session also gets into the skills he didn't have at every stage, the people who took a bet on him when it mattered, and the decisions that looked reckless at the time but ended up defining his career. We then get into where jobs are actually headed with AI. What should a 22 year old in India be doing right now. Which roles are quietly disappearing. Why entrepreneurship, healthcare, and data center jobs are booming while old-school skill sets are getting wiped out fast. Daniel pushes back on the "AI is cheating" mindset some people online have, explains why real skill still beats knowing how to prompt, gives advice to someone in their 40s who feels like they're falling behind, and talks about where LinkedIn is headed with video, short-form content, and paying creators directly. 00:00 Highlights 00:59 Reverse-Engineering the LinkedIn CEO’s Career 14:23 Becoming CEO After 18 Years at LinkedIn 16:28 What Changes When You Go from COO to CEO? 19:41 What Should a 22-Year-Old in India Do in the AI Era? 21:21 Which Industries Are Growing in India? 24:20 Does a College Degree Still Matter? 27:23 How LinkedIn Is Adapting to New AI-Era Jobs 29:08 Open to Work and the Changing Culture of Employment 31:31 How LinkedIn Makes Money and Why India Matters 33:10 How AI Agents Are Changing Job Applications and Hiring 36:33 Which Jobs Are Growing and Which Are Fading? 41:49 Are Colleges Leaving Graduates Behind on AI? 44:43 LinkedIn’s Strategy for Creators and Video 49:26 Closing Thoughts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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