Pune Metro Year 3 Impressions
I recently went from Kalyani Nagar to Nashik Phata via Pune Metro. My route was: Kalyani Nagar to District Court (fka Civil Court) on Aqua Line towards Vanaz. District Court to…
“Will AI Kill SaaS?” Is The Wrong Question
Last week saw a severe meltdown of software company stocks on Wall Street. Salesforce: ?47% Figma: ?83% Hubspot: ?71% ServiceNow: ?53% Workday: ?45% Click here for a more complete list.…
Reg DrugsQR Comes Into Effect After 14 Year Wait!
I first heard about the mandate for QR code on drugs three years ago. According to this article in Economic Times dated 3 January 2022, National Pharmaceuticals Pricing Authority (NPPA)…
Rufus v. ChatGPT
Rufus is Amazon's Generative AI chatbot. Whenever you have a question about a product you're browing on the Amazon website or app, you can click the Rufus button and ask…
Paging RBI EMandate – Is There Anybody Out There?
I bought a paid plan of a SAAS software, with the fixed monthly subscription fees payable with credit card. This is a canonical example of a recurring payment subject to…
Arattai V. WhatsApp: Network Effects Don’t Grow On Trees
The mainstream media has already started writing the obituary of Zoho's Arattai messaging app. Take, for example, Economic Times. In its oped entitled Why Arattai Isn't A WhatsApp by Akshat…
Season’s Greetings
Season’s Greetings & Best Wishes for a Happy New Year! Welcome back to GTM360 Blog. We published 48 posts in 2025. The Top 10 posts of the year were: #10. Pune…
How China Primed Its R&D Pump With IP Theft
When some rando shills China's R&D playbook for India on social media, it's funny. But if a leading columnist does the same in the world's second largest business daily (see…
Robot Journalist Steps Out of My Imagination And Enters The Real World
In my blog post entitled Future Of Media, I'd daydreamed about a robot journalist: My imaginary Robot Journalist (RoJo) is equipped with a camera, sensors, and an LLM (Large Language Model), and…
Outcome Washing In AI Deals
Outcome Based Pricing (OBP) is where my product helps you to achieve a certain outcome, I sell it to you for a price that's proportional to the monetary value of…