The Percolator is Back - Let this sink in!
Freshly brewed with a new vigour and more value for all of you.
Hello 👋,
We are back after a break of little over 2 months. Happy Diwali & New Year to all those celebrating. Hope you all had a great time!
Since we launched in February 2022, Percolator sent 35+ newsletter and grew in to a 10,000+ subscribers newsletter. We got a lot of feedback from our readers, and so we took some time off to figure out how we can cater to all of our subscribers, the best!
The two key request that we got from you all were:
Actionable content, resources & tools
Curated insights and information from various sources
We heard and we changed!
Soon, we are going to launch two associated newsletters from Percolator in Services as a Newsletter (SaaN - we want to believe we are creating a new category) format for the first time entrepreneurs (founderbase) and young professionals (workbase). They will have free & paid tiers with propriteory tools, resources and learning contents which can be downloaded. They will be full range services built on back of newsletters. We will share the details about them shortly!
The Percolator itself will remain a FOREVER FREE newsletter curated with top reads, key inisghts & great stories to keep you up to date with events of the world specially in the space of technology, finance & policy served as The Sunday Brew in your inbox every Sunday (of course!). Once in a while, we will also make you a slow roasted hand crafted fresh brew presenting deep dive with the perspective of our resident and guest authors.
With that introduction, lets get started. Hope we can pick up, just from where we left a couple of months back!
Enjoy your first Sunday Brew!
Best,
Neel
Sunday Brew #1
Last week of October packed quite a few exciting developments. So Lets dive straight in to the top three picks to get the second innings of The Percolator started.
Let That Sink In
The drama that started with Elon entering Twitter HQ with a sink on Wednesday, wrapped with two pranksters walking out of it with their boxes on Friday. Fundamentally, both epic act of trolling; one costed $44B while the other a few 10s. Both got lapped up immediately by media and TBH brought great satisfaction to millions of internet users. If you look closely, there is a very sad commentry behind all of it. For ongoign story of Twitter takeover, you can go to this live update on NYT in one of the rare instances where they willing to let you read somethign without paying.
Are we heading to MetaWorse?
Whatever happened to the addage, time in market trumps timing the market. If you spent time with FAANG (I don’t know why wre still using this abbreviation) instead of timing them, you probably aren’t doing too well. The tech stocks ate back to their pre - pandemic levels and in case of Meta; they have decided to go in another direction entirely. But, Zuckerberg is all in on this, and to be honest I am willing to go long too.
Hung out on The Wire
You might have missed this if you are not big on Tech & Media, but the story has got all the makings of a great thriller. As it played out over last couple of weeks, following it tweet by tweet (Yes, that is where everything happened. You see what Elon is going for) was so exhausting and yet exciting. As of now, the Wire has admitted that their story was based on questionable sources & fabricated evidences. The Wire thrown their in-house “journalist & expert” under the bus to save themselves, the politician has filed criminal charges and Meta is back to doing what they do best (and at the moment, I honestly don’t know what that is). Here is a summary of the story. And if you like more fun route, and explore yourself then get started on this twitter thread, it is wild out there.
That is all for the first edition. From next Sunday, expect a little more everytime. And stay tuned for updates on founderbase & workbase.
Have a great week ahead!