Snapshots That Wow!

Be mine at 29!

Over the last decade, the median age of Jeevansathi users has shifted from 27 to 29. Career impact or dating app effect?

Source: Jeevansathi Matchmaking Report

How would Scorsese make Robert DeNiro a lead star today?!

Self-driving taxi company Waymo is now doing over 1.2 million rides per month in California, a 22x increase over the past two years.

Source: Charlie Bilello

Why should kids have all the fun!

“A record 32% of household wealth is now held by Americans that are 70 years of age and older.” Clearly only the old can afford to age like fine wine now.

Source: Charlie Bilello

Soft power indicating a brewing in soft commodities?

China now reflects 20.9% of Latin American and Caribbean exports, excluding Mexico, marking the 6th consecutive year with a weight above 20.0%.

This surpasses the US at 16.4% and the EU at 12.4%.

China’s contribution to Latin American and Caribbean exports has surged +20 percentage points since 2000.

Source: Kobeissi Letter

Apple doesn’t follow aam (junta)

Instead of blitzscaling capex in an uncertain world, Apple prefers to simply license the winner and reserve cash to buy a few others.

Source: a16z

India says, PayTM kar diya!

Cash withdrawals as a percentage of GDP have fallen by more than half to 8% from 17% less than a decade back.

Source: SBI