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4 years ago, at the age of 45 - when I founded my startup, a lot people told me I was perhaps 15-20 years late in the game. Today, at 49, I was honoured with the Startup Leader of Jaipur award. Success doesn’t ask your age. It asks for your commitment. And I'm not done yet!

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Golden words by @ValaAfshar 👇

This!👇

Imagine telling someone 10 years ago: “An Indian founder with no engineering degree, no MBA, and a philosophy background will one day run WhatsApp.” The lesson? Credentials get you shortlisted. Curiosity, conviction, and execution get you remembered. Well done @kunalb11 - I haven’t always agreed with your takes, but I’ve always admired your ability to think independently and challenge conventional wisdom.

What’s the most overrated startup metric? • Revenue • Funding • Valuation • Headcount • Social media followers My answer: Headcount. What’s yours?

How not to celebrate Yoga Day! Glimpses of our Vanshiv team demonstrating their favourite Shavasana😀 #YogaDay #InternationalDayOfYogaday

Everyone talks about AI agents. Nobody talks about the 3 things that make them fail: -Bad data -Missing permissions -No evaluation framework The model is usually the least important part but the most glorified. Enterprise AI is 20% LLM. 80% plumbing. That's the game!

When the company fired the junior developer on the team for an outage but git blame shows it was your changes which took the system down.

My little startup from a Tier-2 city in India just became part of @claudeai Partner Network! @AnthropicAI is rewriting rules of the Industry & it feels so good that they're open to onboarding small niche partners purely on use case & merit, rather than just play alongside the big boys. The best part - they use Claude to run the Partner Portal. No better example of 'drinking your own champagne' or walking the talk when it comes to AI.

Founders love candidates who're honest and upfront - even if they don't join their startup. Got this email from a brilliant candidate who had declined our offer from @vanshivtech in March. Nearly two months later, he sent this email transparently stating that the compensation difference was way too much for him He got a remote job from a US company paying a handsome dollar rate and there's no way a small Indian consulting company like ours could match it. I respect him even more for saying it openly. The Indian tech industry needs more people who communicate like this. There’s still hope. 🙂

On a lighter note, inspired by the revolutionary Cockroach Janta Party, I've decided to form my own 'Salesforce Janta Party' 😇 Our founding principles - AI for Janta, By Janta - 360 Degree Janta View - Reports Jo Bataye Sach - Community Hamari Taqat Our motto - 'Configuration Hamara Hathiyar, Customer Success Humara Lakshya'! Want to join our mission? Drop a comment on this post with what you'd like to add to our motto and together - we'll make it happen! 😅 #Salesforce #Humour

"Women don’t make good developers" - These words from my boss frustrated me and he openly ridiculed & mocked me over the years whenever I wanted to open up opportunities for the women on my team - participate in a hackathon or speak at a conference. I promised myself that as a founder - I'll change this perception. Yesterday, an all-girls team from my little startup @vanshivtech in Jaipur finished in Top 3 at one of India’s biggest @salesforce hackathons - 'Agentforce World Tour' in Mumbai. 🚀 350+ teams. 12 finalists. Only ONE all-girls team. These girls from a Tier-2 city outperformed teams from much larger companies and India’s biggest tech hubs. To our team - thank you for making me and all of us at Vanshiv proud. And to every woman in tech who has ever been underestimated: Keep building. Keep showing up. Keep competing. You got this! And to my fellow founders - the problem is NOT lack of talent, it's the lack of opportunity - and we CAN change it. Godspeed!

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For more than 20 years, I worked in swanky corporate office building in Delhi, Bangalore & Hyderabad where seating bays, meeting rooms & spaces were named as 'Building 2 Floor 3 Bay 5', or something like 'B4L1-East'. The more creative ones went copying the western world - naming meeting rooms as 'New York', 'London', 'Sydney'. Rarely did I ever come across any Indian names, let alone anything which would make us feel proud as Indians. When I founded my startup in Jaipur 3 years ago, I wanted to pay a tribute to the heritage of our beautiful pink city. That’s why every floor, meeting room, and space at Vanshiv is named after places that define Jaipur’s heritage and soul. - Birthday Celebration in Jaigarh, Come fast! - Quick team huddle in Nahargarh in 5! - Announcement at Hawa Mahal, gather quickly! - Come for Puja at Govind Dev Ji! - Snack time at Chopati! Disappearing fast! These are actual day to day messages on our All Staff chat group at @vanshivtech and as a proud Jaipuri - it fills my heart with joy! Jaipur is a city where history and ambition coexist beautifully. And as we build a global technology company working across AI, CRM, and Data, I wanted our workspace to always stay connected to the city that shaped us. And if you’re ever visiting Jaipur, mhare office padharo sa! We’d love to host you for some chai ☕, conversations around tech & AI, and of course - some authentic daal baati churma. If only more Indian companies valued our culture, ethics, heritage rather than blindly copy the glitz and glamour of western world! #Jaipur #Culture #Heritage

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If a Salesforce Developer was invited to Met Gala! 😀

No mother deserves to die like this. No child deserves to die like this. Nobody deserves to die like this. A child should not lose his mother like this. A mother should never lose her child like this. No life jacket. No adherence to rules. No consideration for human life. This is so heartbreaking, one tragedy after the other - yet our 'Chalta hai' attitude as a nation isn't changing. And wait till the boat owner gets away with a bribe of a few thousand rupees.

Our society WhatsApp group is an absolute joke - it's called 'Parivar' and here's what happens so frequently - Someone passed away, they post about it - members post - a few "RIP" and "Om Shanti" messages follow - Then, somone will post a forward joke video - A flurry of useless Good Morning graphics follows - And of course - Election posts - self-proclaimed political anlysts sharing their gyaan - Until the Hindu Muslim posts take over - Some lady will discover a Eureka moment with a new recipe and post it - The orbituary message is lost among all the trash The worst part - when I go for the cremation/ biathak of the person who's passed away, generally <5% of the group members actually show up. We used to believe grief, when shared, became lighter. Now, the messages are many. The people are missing. Alas!

Somebody, find this cop and give him a raise! I've never seen even any two-wheeler stop at this traffic signal (Rajasthan University, JLN Marg Jaipur). He saw several vehicles pass him left and right - jumping the signal (you can see some of those in the pic) but he stayed put until the signal turned green. While this may sound trivial, it’s a reminder that doing the right thing isn’t about others - it’s about who you choose to be.

Excited about what we’re building with @claudeai We at @vanshivtech completed all requirements to become a partner ~1 month ago & a bunch of our folks including yours truly (founder & CEO) also did a bunch of courses to fulfil the pre-reqs. We're looking forward to getting onboarded and taking this to market. @AnthropicAI - Let's please get this moving! #Claude #ClaudePartner #Anthropic #AnthropicPartner