Below should be made compulsory for finance/management/investing courses -
Tv Show - Scam 1992
Movie - Guru, Rocket Singh
Books - CEO Factory, Dr. Vijay Malik books, Almanack of Naval Ravikant, Ankur Warikoo Sir’s ebooks, atomic habits, Parag Parikh Sir's books
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A Mega thread!
My last thread for 2021 🧵
#Books #Reading
Let's get started 👇
A few years back, I used to read articles which used to say a CEO read 40 books this year and I always thought how?
It's all about consistently reading a few pages every day!
2020- I read 15-25 pages(not every day) - I read 34 books in 2020
2021- I read 25-35 pages every night before sleeping and 100-150 pages every weekend
Ok, now let’s go through those 50 books 👇
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Shoe Dog by Phil Knight
Nike started off by importing high-quality, low-cost running shoes from Japan
What’s shocking is the number of times the business came to an end but came out stronger every time!
Never Giving up – The one key lesson from the book!{{ img:6c137d }}
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Ankur Warikoo's 6 Ebooks
Failure Resume
Mistakes I made with my money
mistakes I made in my 30s
Leadership
Time Management
Mistakes I made in my 20s
Read here - https://t.co/utSzYtS3CV
PS - He is someone I follow very closely, I learn a lot from his content!
@warikoo
Not just the above but his threads, videos, newsletters and podcasts are also amazing!
His new book ‘Do Epic shit’ is out, I would strongly recommend you to order that. I have done that already on Day 1 and I am starting my 2022 with that book 😊
After the much-celebrated #IPO of Zomato, all eyes are now on #PayTM!
So let's not wait and let's understand everything about PayTM in the below thread 👇
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- The DRHP mentions a Rs 16,600 Cr Fundraise
- Split - 50% Fresh, 50% OFS
- Valuation of $25-30 billion targeted from this IPO
Let’s put all of these numbers into perspective here –
Paytm Pre IPO info -
— Aditya Kondawar (@aditya_kondawar) July 7, 2021
Unlisted price - \u20b92450-2500
Valuation - \u20b9151,250 Cr
Targeting 25-30bn$ as per various news sources
25 bn $ - \u20b9185,925 Cr
30 bn $ - \u20b9223,110 Cr
6.05 cr shares - FY21 (FV\u20b910)
Recent split to \u20b91 FV, 60.5 Cr shares
Exchange rate 74.37 taken
No reco!
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Some big numbers, right? Ok back to PayTM now –
What does it do?
Well, it does a lot of things but at the core of it let's term it a fintech company.
- It started as a digital wallet-based platform focused on mobile SIM top-ups and utility payments in 2010
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- They pivoted to marketing, mobile phone top-ups, payments, e-comm, then a full-scale fintech services company – The avatar that we see today
- The Paytm ecosystem has payments (wallet / UPI), merchant acquiring, credit, savings, broking, wealth management, and insurance.
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Total users - 333 mn
Monthly active users - 50 mn
Merchants - 21.1 mn
RedSeer - Paytm has a payments transaction volume market share of ~40% and wallet payments transaction mkt share of 65-70% in India for FY21
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Like company moats, your personal moat should be a competitive advantage that is not only durable—it should also compound over time.
Characteristics of a personal moat below:
I'm increasingly interested in the idea of "personal moats" in the context of careers.
— Erik Torenberg (@eriktorenberg) November 22, 2018
Moats should be:
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- Skills that are rare and valuable
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- Unique to your own talents & interests https://t.co/bB3k1YcH5b
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5/ Similarly, in careers, what used to be (more) scarce were things like ideas, money, and exclusive relationships.
In the internet economy, what has become scarce are things like specific knowledge, rare & valuable skills, and great reputations.
