Today feels like a good day to reshare this clip of Ariane Aerospace’s CEO calling SpaceX’s reusability plans “a dream”

A boy went to Goa with his friends for a vacation. They enjoyed sightseeing, beaches, and had a great time. One day before leaving, he decided to buy some cashews and almonds because Goa is famous for them. In the morning, he visited many shops to check the prices. Most shops were selling cashews for around ₹550 per kilo and almonds for around ₹650 per kilo. After looking around, he found a shop where the shopkeeper said: "If you buy 5 kilos, I'll give them for ₹500 per kilo." The offer seemed very good, so he was happy. The packets were packed neatly, and the cashews visible on top looked fresh, white, and high quality. Without opening the packets, he bought 5 kilos of cashews and 5 kilos of almonds and returned to his hotel. The next day, he traveled back home. When he opened the packets at home, he was shocked. Only a few cashews on the top were good. Most of the cashews inside were black, stale, and tasted bad. Almost every packet was the same. After sorting through everything, he could save only a few hundred grams of good cashews. That's when he understood the trick. The seller had placed good-quality cashews on top to make the packets look attractive, while the rest was poor quality.

As an Apple Watch Ultra (1st gen) user, I’m disappointed with Apple. Imagine spending $800 on a smartwatch only for it to lose software support after just 3 years. Sure, the watch will still work fine, but you’ll miss out on new features and improvements that come with future watchOS updates. This has honestly made me reconsider buying another Apple Watch in the future. If I ever get one again, it’ll probably be an SE model, or I may just switch to another smartwatch brand entirely, because this just doesn’t feel acceptable to me.

CBIC drafts rules for GST provision allowing waiver of past tax dues of industry moneycontrol.com/news/busine…

my supplements store in Thailand discontinuing sales of Indian manufactured products is just another reminder that no matter what “bull-case” you’re being sold about India, Indians and our inherent dishonesty towards producing quality work will always work harder to undo our reputation globally than anything positive we try to do

Indian Venture capital seems to be entering a tough phase. Going to be a rough year for startups on tight runway

Old VC Pitch story from 2012 when I was building Wishberg, but I still remember this one. Two very popular super angels called me to pitch to them for a meeting at a very high-profile, super-rich bombay club. My first visit to any club of any kind whatsoever, it was intimidating anyway. I arrived early and was asked to wait until someone called for us. It was supposed to start around 7 pm or something, but I remember I had waited nearly 30-45 minutes already. Managed to glance through and these two gentlemen were sitting and already hearing the pitch of another, of a famous-celeb-founder. Nope, I am not judging - they were. Both of them were visibly drunk and laughing or cheering animatedly with that founder. They called for me. Went inside - it seemed that these angels have been there for all evening and ours seemed to be their last meeting for the day. Started the conversation, one was sloshed and was already telling his group of friends - wait just 5 mins, I will get done with this. No being from IIT or IIM or Ivy League (it was a thing back then) - had put them off already. Second one spoke about himself for 5 mins and rest of the time - cut me on every slide this won’t work, you haven’t seen the world, etc etc. 12-15 mins, and they were done. All through the meeting, had drinks, food and snacks and no one offered even glass of water or even bothered to remove food and glasses from the last pitches. The first drunk guy kept checking out passing women, and 10 mins into the pitch he left to join his friends. The second guy in all his arrogance said - buddy, do something meaningful in life. Long story short, the two gentlemen are still in the industry - over time while building Raise (knowingly or unknowingly) had tried to connect, but of course, I found a way out. Yes, the famous-founder was funded by them and over few years the venture folded silently. No big deal, we also folded Wishberg after few years. Those 15 mins of my life - I remember being treated as Bharat Bhushan in the movie Bheja Fry (in case you know, you know) who gets paraded as talent for weekend evening fun by a rich guys. I am not against strong feedback or refusing to fund - we founders face rejections all the time, but showing basic respect & humility that one should display in interactions with people is the minimum expectation.

Cockroach Janta Party founder Abhijeet Dipke arrives in New Delhi on Saturday, June 6, 2026. 📸: @ShivKumarPushp1

Tobey Maguire won an estimated $36 million playing underground poker in Hollywood over 3 years He played against DiCaprio, Matt Damon, Ben Affleck and Texas billionaires Molly Bloom said his skills were “on another level” Phil Hellmuth said “this kid could be a legitimate pro” Spider-Man was the best poker player in the room