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2020, that you? 📞

Gm coffee gang! 👋 Summer is just around the corner. Temps are gradually starting to rise, but so far the portfolio is cold AF. Market action has moved from sexy growth stocks and YOLO trades, to boring ‘ol commodities and cyclical ideas. Value investors are grinning. Meanwhile, back in Ukraine, the

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India's newest unicorn startup is a YouTube channel 🤑

What’s poppin’ — Entrackr says, Physics Wallah, an entrance-exam coaching company that started as a YouTube channel is in talks to raise roughly $100 million, its first outside money, from Westbridge capital [https://email.mg2.substack.com/c/eJwlkcGOhCAMhp9muGEQQfTAYS_7GgahKhkHDJRxfPvFnYTQNG35y_dbg7DGdOkjZiT3NeF1gA5w5h0QIZGSIU3eac5byVqpiNPCtYMciM_TkgBexu8aUwFylHn31qCP4Z7olJQt2bQcTM9m27VGgOPc2pEZIYQbxhEGO3ZfXVOch2BBwxvSFQOQXW-IR350Pw_-Ww8ETMY-U2Pjq6accV4D6-7Sx-4l-zfQOUbMte84wNGMJmE56LFd2dtMT7PvZ

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LEAD School is 3rd Unicorn of 2022 💸

LEAD School, a curriculum design service, picked up a $100 million Series E [https://techcrunch.com/2022/01/12/lead-school-india-unicorn/] check from Westbridge and GSV — 2xing valuation to $1.1 billion. That’s unicorn No.3 for the year! 🚀 LEAD [https://leadschool.in/] equips schools with the technology needed for

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Indian government now owns Vodafone-Idea 🖖

What’s poppin’ — the Indian government has decided to own 35.8% [https://techcrunch.com/2022/01/10/vodafone-idea-india-government/] of India’s No.3 telecom provider, Vodafone Idea, in exchange for the $6.76 billon in fees the company owed GOI. To remind ya, VI had been gasping for breath

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Fighting over ParleG ✋

What happened — B2B ecommerce marketplace Udaan, which basically helps shop owners and retailers procure goods in wholesale, is locking horns [https://inc42.com/buzz/amul-parle-others-cut-direct-supply-to-b2b-ecom-startup-udaan/] with Parle, Amul, and few other FMCG brands, because the brands decided to stop working with the startup. Some context — all started when last week

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New era in Indian fintech 🙌

What’s brewing hot? ☕ ✅ Cryptic Chinese — after beating up its tech giants and other businesses for trying to list on foreign exchanges, China is now opening up a new stock exchange [https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/world/china-to-launch-beijing-stock-market-president-xi-jinping-says-7421951.html] in Beijing. Deets weren’t disclosed but Xi’s government says

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PayTM files for an IPO 🔥

Move along kids, daddy’s here — PayTM finally filed for its IPO last night, looking to raise $2.2 billion [https://techcrunch.com/2021/07/15/paytm-files-for-2-2-billion-ipo/] from the markets, topping Zomato and any other Indian company for at least a decade. Alibaba, Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway, and Softbank,