🎵Money for Nothing — Dire Straits. Not ironically. Literally. That's what it felt like — something had moved, money had gone somewhere, and none of it had come in our direction.
🕯Bangalore, early 2000s. A newspaper. A website that no longer belonged to the people who built it. The specific silence of an idea that has been absorbed by something larger than itself.
☁️Complicated. Not bitter — complicated. The feeling of someone who was right about the idea and wrong about what being right would protect.
Technology · Ideas
Checks & Balances
The First and the Fastest
On building India's first online tenders portal, watching a publishing giant absorb it, and the lesson I wish someone had taught me before I needed to learn it.