Having founded, built, and exited two marketplace startups before joining Gojek as Product Manager, Prasun Jain, is a man with deep insights.

The key to achieving explosive growthWhen Prasun joined Gojek, it did not have a growth team.

“These companies had a full-stack growth team.

Back then, when I was talking to Uber, they had a 450 plus full-stack growth team,” Prasun shared.

And thus, Gojek put together a dedicated growth team, a move that was instrumental in accelerating the startup’s growth. | To read full story, visit https://startuparound.com/read/1583211605.5877147/Future-of-Work-2020:-Gojek-explains-how-it-gets-more-orders-than-Zomato,-Swiggy?ref=audio_experience

CALIFORNIA: Waymo, the self-driving unit of Alphabet Inc, said on Monday it had raised $2.25 billion in its first external investment round and expects to add more outside investors.

The company also disclosed its self-driving trucking business will be called Waymo Via.Founded 11 years ago as a small project inside Google , Waymo now is widely considered the leader in developing self-driving technology.

But Waymo and its principal rivals are still years away from building large-scale businesses around that technology, analysts believe.Waymo Chief Executive Officer John Krafcik , in a media briefing late on Monday, declined to confirm whether Alphabet plans to sell or spin off Waymo, saying it was "certainly a possibility for the future.

Figures for other outside investors were not immediately available.

Waymo did not provide a valuation.Last September, investment bank Morgan Stanley slashed its projected valuation of Waymo to $105 billion from its earlier estimate of $175 billion, saying the commercialization of self-driving vehicles and technology was taking longer than expected.Krafcik said Waymo plans to offer a range of self-driving transportation services, from its Waymo One ride hailing business in Phoenix through the new Waymo Via logistics business that would bundle local and long-haul delivery.He said Waymo, which has partnered with Lyft Inc , Fiat Chrysler Automobiles and Jaguar Land Rover , is considering partnerships with other automakers and transportation service providers in various markets outside North America, but did not provide details. | To read full story, visit https://startuparound.com/read/1583209806.1201742/Google's-self-driving-sister,-Waymo,-gets-first-outside-investors?ref=audio_experience

But seems like social media handles will have to take a pause, as Modi looks to take a breather from social media, at least temporarily.

Modi is certainly one of the most popular world leaders around the world when one looks at social media following alone.

— Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) March 2, 2020The tweet has not only taken social media by storm but has also managed to upset the very fans that have made Modi one of the most followed personalities on social media.

pic.twitter.com/HDymHw2VrB — Rahul Gandhi (@RahulGandhi) March 2, 2020The fact that Modi has planned his “exit” from social media on March 8 has also been picked up on by some personalities on social media.

March 8 is International Women’s Day, which has fuelled speculation of this being a teaser for a possible takeover of Modi’s account on Women’s Day. | To read full story, visit https://startuparound.com/read/1583208005.8157568/PM-Modi-To-Quit-Social-Media-On-Sunday,-Or-Is-It-Just-For-Women’s-Day??ref=audio_experience

BENGALURU: Bounce has raised $6.5 million in debt from InnoVen Capital taking the venture debt fund’s total investment in the Scooter-sharing startup to $12 million.Bounce will deploy the cash to invest in electric vehicle infrastructure.Since inception, the firm has raised over $200 million across multiple funding rounds led by Accel, Sequoia India Falcon Edge among others. | To read full story, visit https://startuparound.com/read/1583206204.762068/InnoVen-adds-$6.5-million-to-Bounce?ref=audio_experience

MUMBAI: Paytm subsidiary Paytm Insurance Broking has secured a brokerage licence from sector regulator Insurance Regulatory and Authority of India ( IRDAI ).The company plans to offer insurance products across categories including automotive, health and life.

It will also offer customers policy management and claim settlement services at select merchant points, it said.

Paytm, which has so far been a marketplace for all insurance products, said it had “recently surrendered” its corporate agency licence in order to obtain the brokerage licence.The wholly owned subsidiary of Noida-based One 97 Communications has already tied up with 20 insurance firms to roll out products, and is exploring 30 other partnership opportunities, it said. | To read full story, visit https://startuparound.com/read/1583204508.1423948/Paytm-arm-gets-IRDAI’s-brokerage-licence?ref=audio_experience

Naveen Tewari, the Founder and CEO of InMobi, India’s first unicorn startup, is well known in the startup world.

Naveen Tiwari , Founder and CEO of InMobiTo reach out to international audience better, the company was later rebranded in 2012 to InMobi.

For inspiration, Naveen Tewari looks to the greats of technology and cricket: Steve Jobs and Sachin Tendulkar.

Here are 17 inspirational quotes by Naveen Tewari, a man with incredible vision, someone who challenges the norm, and forces people to think beyond the ordinary.

It’s hard to walk away but harder to persevere.”“As an entrepreneur, you’re going to get 100 rejections and one yes. | To read full story, visit https://startuparound.com/read/1583202607.6531107/These-inspiring-quotes-by-InMobi-Founder-Naveen-Tewari-are-sure-to-motivate-the-entrepreneur-in-you?ref=audio_experience

Building for Bharat was one of the key themes at a panel discussion on ‘The ever-evolving ‘tech’ of Fintech’ on Day 2 of YourStory’s Future of Work 2020 conference in Bengaluru.

The panel comprised Abhishek Singh, CAO, Lendingkart; Vineeth Narasimhan, CTO, Kristal.AI; and Vishal Chopra, Founder & CEO, MoneyOnClick, and was moderated by YourStory’s Tarush Bhalla.

He said they were building ‘a social distribution platform for loans’.

Vineeth also spoke about building for a new type of customer.

“We are building hyper-personalised solutions for the growing aspirational segment in India and across the world. | To read full story, visit https://startuparound.com/read/1583200805.7266786/Future-of-Work-2020:-Building-for-Bharat-and-evolving-fintech-solutions?ref=audio_experience

Released on Monday in Delhi, the Oppo Reno 3 is priced at 29,990 and Rs 32,990.

However, Oppo Reno 2, and now the Oppo Reno 3 Pro, have fallen short of expectations.

Unlike the earlier model, the Oppo Reno 3 Pro feels a little too light in the hand.

While Reno 3 Pro doesn’t change that fact, one can safely say that Oppo has done a better job with the display for Oppo Reno 3 Pro when compared to the Reno 2 and Reno 10x Zoom.

Oppo has decided to sell two variants of the Oppo Reno 3 Pro. | To read full story, visit https://startuparound.com/read/1583199006.3240225/Oppo-Reno-3-Pro:-Is-the-newly-released-smartphone-worth-your-money??ref=audio_experience

Robinhood, the startup with a stock trading app valued upwards of at least $7.6 billion, suffered one of its worst outages on one of the busiest trading days of the year.

That quickly morphed into a trading platform that the company says has more than 10 million users on its platform.

The secret to the company’s initial success was free stock trading — a pricing model which many of its competitors have since gone on to copy.

According to Apptopia, Robinhood is far and away the most popular of the free stock trading services, having far more volume and users than its legacy contenders.

Even so, the big trading houses have also experienced technical issues over the past week, as CNBC reported earlier today. | To read full story, visit https://startuparound.com/read/1583197207.4630754/Robinhood-suffers-prolonged-outage-on-the-day-the-Dow-enjoyed-its-single-biggest-point-gain-–-TechCrunch?ref=audio_experience

Bengaluru-based environment intelligence startup Ambee is one of them.

The startup measures hyperlocal air quality data in real time, and makes it accessible to developers, consumers, health researchers, and media companies.

He says Ambee aims to measure and democratise access to data and eventually work towards improving air quality for future generations.

In addition to government sensor data, IoT sensors, and open source data, Ambee uses satellite imagery, weather and meteorological data, and human indicators like population and garbage burning.

It has gathered air quality data for over one lakh pin codes across 65 countries. | To read full story, visit https://startuparound.com/read/1583195405.763246/Environment-intelligence-startup-Ambee-is-using-data-to-improve-air-quality?ref=audio_experience