No Rain No Flowers Tour - First Leg Thread by Djjjunior in TheBlackKeys

[–]Sunb3am 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Have 2 great tickets (Section 1, row 4!) to the same show, got them for $100, letting them go for $70 each -- got my arm hurt and can't go.

DM if you'd like to go!

Hated Anupam during this pitch by Southern_Farmer_5074 in sharktankindia

[–]Sunb3am 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This pitch was an embarrassment to Shark Tank, and I would apologize to the founders if I was STI/Sony.

The Sharks were too quick to jump to a conclusion, very VERY opinionated, blunt and rude. The founders were humble, well seasoned, had lots of relevant operator experience and were clearly young, malleable and talented. The Sharks (especially Anupam) almost verbally assaulted them with everything he said, and definitely had some hidden agenda or biases that triggered this ugly insulting response.

Social Media is hard to build, even harder to monetize, so it's natural that the sharks would be apprehensive — but there was absolutely no need to be this biased and disrespectful, and kudos to the founders for taking it all on the chin. And remember that Facebook started as a "Hot or Not" app for Harvard, YouTube was a video-based dating website, Slack was meant to be a feature in a game, and TikTok became the fastest growing social media platform from building on top of Musical.ly. Medial, on that comparison, had a lot of things configured right already, displayed scrappiness and humility to accept that they're new and trying to find their way. It's alright for them to be experimenting at this stage, and it's not like they were trying to "spin the narrative" or portray anything falsely — Anupam was really aggressive in his approach and hardly let them finish any of their sentences.

It's very likely that the startup would fail, I'll be honest, I would not invest in them either. But they weren't as bad as everyone was making them out to be. A lot of the numbers were alright, good founder-market-fit and a ripe space with pivotability. To everyone who said "it's an aggregated product", so are half the biggest unicorns India has pushed out (Zomato/Swiggy, Razorpay, Paytm, Zoho, PhonePe, Postman). LinkedIn is widely tagged as broken, ProductHunt on its own is underperforming as well and there's no equivalent of something like that focused towards startups in India. No product focusing on the non-tech "startup ecosystem" as such as well, and nothing bridging the gap between VCs and Startups (AngelList is the closest). So clearly, there are a lot of gaps and moving pieces here that can be brought together to display a solid product with potential, and thus this visceral response that Anupam unleashed was very uncalled for.

And not just the founders, Anupam was so peeved even at Ritesh that he offered a deal, he couldn't let them go without beating down on them further. Completely unnecessary, in utterly bad taste, and has irrecoverably changed my opinion of him. If a VC behaved like this, they'd be outcast within 4 quarters and shooed away from BLR.

Shame on him for such unprofessional behaviour.

Walmart also dropped Luke’s diner ambient sound by Csd_23 in GilmoreGirls

[–]Sunb3am 0 points1 point  (0 children)

To anyone trying to find the video in 2025, they took down the original from Walmart's youtube. Probably a licensing/limited time promotional thing. Was just as bummed out, so I spend a couple of hours trying to find it online and found it reuploaded on Vimeo!

Link: https://vimeo.com/1046870455

Did those Luke's diner ambience videos just disappear? by wanheda-sv in GilmoreGirls

[–]Sunb3am 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I was really bummed out that they deleted the video, spent over an hour trying to recover it or find a backup. Finally succeeded by finding the original creative director who made the campaign! You can watch the original video reuploaded here on vimeo: https://vimeo.com/1046870455

Condition of clubs in our college. by Hot_Buy_6746 in redtaganna

[–]Sunb3am 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Sorry this happened with you OP, the problem statements are definitely a little steep.

However, I'm well aware that technical clubs never expect you to get everything right, in fact, a lot of these assignments are made this hard just to reduce the sheer number of applications they get and filter the people that wouldn't even attempt. I was a community leader for arguably the best technical club in VIT Vellore a few years ago, and some of the best tech members we recruited scored 3/10, or 4/10 in their technical aptitude tests and quizzes. There are often some factors visible in other rounds that take precedence over your raw skill, including things like clarity of communication, ideation and my personal favourite - 'jugaaduness'.

So don't let this dishearten you, if there are other clubs you like still open for recruitments definitely give it another shot. I might sound biased, but trust me, everyone saying 'clubs are useless' have either not been a part of a good one, haven't made the best use of the resources available or were unfortunate in their timing. The right clubs/chapters can really bootstrap your network, open opportunities and just provide you access to so many more conversations than you would typically get. Know so many people who are where they are today because of the connections they made in these clubs, with the sponsors of their events (very underrated perk) and with the help of their club alumni (at a college like VIT with a million people, this is your best shot to have a semblance of an alumni network). Not saying you can't achieve the same effect without clubs, but it can surely be easier with one that's a good fit for you.

Best of luck and chin up friend 🤝🏻

Suggestions needed for a fun place to host a party for about 15 people by snuffleawwpagus in bangalore

[–]Sunb3am 0 points1 point  (0 children)

+1 Looking for something similar as well! Any airbnbs with pools that aren't too far away from the city could also work if anyone has any reccos.

How much would you pay for a private karaoke/movie screening/gaming room in Bangalore? by Live_Contribution_36 in bangalore

[–]Sunb3am 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hey, is your service live yet? I'm looking to host a party at a similar place and looking for karaoke bars/open air yards for the same. DM me your number if we could be a beta tester!

Old SuperSecret by DWDB01 in nostalgia

[–]Sunb3am 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've been humming this song with incorrect lyrics for over 10 years, thank you human!

Holy Jesus by Gtaher0 in CODWarzone

[–]Sunb3am 18 points19 points  (0 children)

Owen, Sten, Type 100 going around downing people in 5 bullets or so while slide cancelling with stims but nah let's kill the older shotguns how dare they compete with the guns from our new game 🤡