21: Balen

If you're still chasing VCs after 6 months of silence, it's time to rethink your strategy. Real innovation doesn't always come from the flashy funding rounds. Look for alternative sources—grants, crowdfunding, or revenue. Do the work, not the dance.

— Martin Tobias (Pre-Seed VC) (@MartinGTobias) April 16, 2026

My new VP added $100K in just 52 days.

Not because she’s smarter. Because she onboarded herself.

In her first 2 months, she: – asked the Qs most new hires are too afraid to ask – built her 30-60-90 before anyone told her to – identified and tracked metrics to keep consistent…

— Jesse Pujji (@jspujji) April 16, 2026

Controversial opinion from someone running an AI company:

Human-to-human communication is two dumb people talking to each other. I try to minimize it at my company🤷‍♀️

Before you @ me — hear me out. pic.twitter.com/eeq5LsInBF

— Xiaoyin Qu (@quxiaoyin) April 17, 2026

मैं सभी सांसदों से कहूंगा...

आप अपने घर में मां-बहन-बेटी-पत्नी सबका स्मरण करते हुए अपनी अंतरात्मा को सुनिए ...

देश की नारीशक्ति की सेवा का, उनके वंदन का ये बहुत बड़ा अवसर है।

उन्हें नए अवसरों से वंचित नहीं करिए।

ये संशोधन सर्वसम्मति से पारित होगा, तो देश की नारीशक्ति और सशक्त…

— Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) April 17, 2026

Balendra Shah “Money seems to grow on trees for those that sell their integrity,” raps Balendra Shah, the 35-year-old Nepali former hip-hop star who in March was elected the Himalayan nation’s youngest-ever Prime Minister. That landslide victory was galvanized by deadly street protests in the fall led by a Gen Z determined to purge a political old guard perceived as venal and out of touch. Enter Shah, commonly known as Balen, a civil-engineering graduate whose brooding stage presence and abrasive polemics skewering corrupt officials powered his becoming, four years ago, Kathmandu’s mayor—and now the leader of Nepal’s 30 million people. Balen’s rise is as much populist youthquake as it is a wholesale repudiation of South Asia’s ossified dynastic politics, sending shudders through the region’s establishment. As mayor, Balen managed to cut through bureaucratic red tape to improve waste management, education, and health care. Much hinges on whether this professed devotee of Tupac Shakur and 50 Cent can translate that success onto the national stage. “All politicians, new and old, are thieves,” Balen once posted on social media. Nepalis will hope he proves himself wrong.

Here is how it seems to be working

1- Start random wars

2- Collect massive 💰💰 from stock markets

3- Collect massive 💰💰 by back channeling negotiations

4- Collect massive 💰💰 by becoming the builders of the war torn region..

5- Collect massive 💰💰 from the weapon…

— Ruchit G Garg (@ruchitgarg) April 16, 2026

Time @time 100 Most Influential: Balendra Shah @ShahBalen https://t.co/q4bMBIalpW So proud of my cousin. https://t.co/iKOMZtD9r9 @CharlieCamp6ell

— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) April 16, 2026

A pleasure to meet you, @RepSuhas. Whatever abundance we gather externally, true fulfillment lies in how well we engineer our interiority. This is the greatest fulfillment and privilege we have as human beings—the ability to take full charge of our inner wellbeing. -Sg… pic.twitter.com/U9xmCqbfkv

— Sadhguru (@SadhguruJV) April 16, 2026

A funny thing happened yesterday.

My son had to write a paper on plagiarism, and as modern schools do, they wanted an AI detection report along with it. He wrote the entire paper in front of me, carefully adding citations and structuring everything properly, and there was no…

— Saucy bandit (Priyanka Joshi)🇮🇳 (@jopriyu) April 16, 2026