Snapshots That Wow!

Jaati vaad nahi, sirf humnava!

Over the past decade the role of caste has evolved, with the shift being most prominent in metros with only 49% of users secting caste as a strict field.

Source: Jeevansathi Matchmaking Report

Fire about to be poured over oil?

Short covering in US energy in the past week was at an all time high. An oil move coming soon? Where is this armada headed?

Money is power? Power is money!

No such things as a low energy rich country. Every country that has a high GDP per capita, has significantly high consumption of electricity units.

Source: IEA

3 stores per day x 30 years!

Dollar General (a rural retailer in the US) has gone from 2400 stores in 1996 to 21000 stores averaging a 2.6 store openings every day for three decades!

Source: EDGE by Quartr

Clickbait is not how the real world works!

Every technology step up has resulted in a better productivity and creation of jobs that never existed before.

Demise of “older” jobs is also not as fast as it is made out to be. 17% of US Total non-farm payroll was employed in retail trade. In 1999 when 0.5% of retail transactions was transacted on the internet, we wrote obituaries for offline retail. 25 years later, retail jobs are down 30% but still employing over 1.5cr Americans, Walmart is at an all time high. Amazon (with AWS, prime, etc.) just overtook Walmart in sales in 2025 for the first time.

Source: a16Z

I guess Rohit Shetty’s next can be shot in Slovakia!

"Slovakia punches well above its weight. In 2025 it manufactured nearly 1.1m vehicles, more than anywhere else in the world per head of population (see chart). The industry is the heart of the country’s economy, contributing around 10% of GDP and directly employing 170,000 people. Almost all the cars head abroad, making up around a third of Slovakia’s exports."

Source: Economist