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Today we did a research launch of DALL•E 2, a new AI tool that can create and edit images from natural language instructions.  Most importantly, we hope people love the tool and find it useful....

Umm… It’s been an eventful couple of months. I broke up with my girlfriend of 5+ years, I went from being a designer to a developer, and I learned how to be a slightly better human in the process.

So over the last couple weeks, I’ve been talking to VCs and founders who have and haven’t taken VC to learn whether it makes sense for Kinopio. I don’t think it does.

The Ken formally launched on 3 October 2016 as India’s first subscriptions-only business news site. Today, we’re announcing our angel funding round. In a short span of four months, we’ve managed to create a subscriber base composed not just of founders, venture capitalists, CEOs, lawyers and senior management but also college students and young professionals. Our readers trust us because we’re honest about our journalism. This means: 1. We do only one story every weekday, and that story is original, analytical, deeply-reported and well-narrated. 2. Subscribers like reading our articles, so they pay us. 3. Thus, we’re India’s first pure…

An explainer on the PVR INOX merger

We’re either the last generation to ever die, or the first generation to live forever. I’m not talking figuratively here. You, reading this, might have an eternal life.

An explainer on ONDC - open network for digital commerce

An explainer on how China is losing the tech war to the US

Plus! Not Enough Housing; Durable Network Effects; VPN Integration; Reserve Currency Problems; Movies ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌This is the weekly free edition of The Diff, now on Mondays rather than Fridays.

While partnerships with fintechs have helped SBM Bank’s fortunes skyrocket in a few short years, they are also its biggest risk

As new users flatline and consumer spending freezes, e-commerce companies descend into the unknown to find growth Read this edition online A paid 🔒 weekly emailer that explains fundamental shifts in business, technology and finance that happened over the last seven days in India.

What's the difference in the price of a barrel of oil delivered to your doorstep today vs. a contract that locks in a price and guarantees you a barrel of oil in 6 months? You'd need to think about what it costs to store a barrel of oil. First, you'll need a warehouse and safety gear to keep it (the fumes of a single barrel of oil can quickly kill you). Then there are insurance, financing, and other hidden costs to owning the physical commodity. When today's price ("the spot price") is lower t

An explainer on why Nickel prices rallied like crazy

And whether there is a case for it Read this edition online Tuesday, 07 June 2022 A weekly newsletter about the biggest changes in commerce—focusing on shifts that matter to you.

Apple and WhatsApp announced on Tuesday that the popular chat service has been rolled into Apple’s Move to iOS system, which allows Android users to migrate their data to the iPhone. Here&#82…

Now things will never be the same in India Read this edition online A paid 🔒 weekly emailer that explains fundamental shifts in business, technology and finance that happened over the last seven days in India.

An explainer on why many people are pronouncing the death of globalisation

Cicero once told the story of a tyrant king of Syracuse named Dionysius II. He had been king for 38 years – with significant wealth and fame. Yet, he lived in constant fear of those around him – he wouldn't trust a barber, he addressed the people not from a pulpit but a high tower, everyone near him was searched for weapons extensively. Damocles, a member of Dionysius's entourage, once told the king how wonderful it seemed to be king – that no one seemed happier. Dionysius replied, > Do you wi

An explainer on whether Sensex can actually hit 100,000 or is it?

An explainer on how Mahindra Holidays struggled to turn its fortune

ONDC has been created to change the status quo in e-commerce dramatically. So why are all the incumbents rushing to cooperate with it? Read this edition online A paid 🔒 weekly emailer that explains fundamental shifts in business, technology and finance that happened over the last seven days in India.

By Means of Natural Selection

Some thoughts about Snap’s 2022 Partner Summit

in Two Maps

Much of the Internet has been abuzz about The Disruption Machine, an essay by Jill Lepore in the New Yorker that seeks to refute Clayton Christensen’s Theory of Disruptive Innovation. From th…

Clayton M. Christensen’s popular theory of disruption is founded on panic, anxiety, and shaky evidence.

A template for other brands to follow?

In 2015 I gave a presentation at the DLD Conference about brands and tech. The video of the talk went semi-viral on YouTube after a music industry analyst (@boblefsetz) featured it in his newsletter. Soon after, I had a book deal; I was writing this newsletter every week; CNBC, Fox Business, and Bloomberg were calling […]