What Was That?!

What Was That financial-year-ending episode, but no, there are no tax implications of listening to this podcast. Nitesh and Vineet discuss ChatGPT's viral Studio Ghibli filter; billionaires like Li Ka-shing and Warren Buffett are hoarding cash, Google loses an appeal and has to open up its Play Store in India, and more.

Links:

https://www.barandbench.com/news/litigation/nclat-modifies-cci-order-against-google-in-play-store-case-cuts-penalty-to-260-crore

https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/industry/banking/finance/banking/uday-kotak-warns-of-deposit-crunch-banking-margins-at-risk/articleshow/119668377.cms

It's What Was That?! Time again. This week Nitesh and Vineet discuss IT raids on Ola showrooms, and a huge mismatch between their sales figures and RTO registrations - https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-03-07/ola-electric-stores-see-raids-seizures-on-flouting-india-rules

Chinese find managers now have string perform-or-get-docked norms.

Apple's very, very late on delivering "AI Siri", and internal teams are fighting about it - https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-03-14/apple-s-siri-chief-calls-ai-delays-ugly-and-embarrassing-promises-fixes

Physical buttons are coming back to cars!

https://www.theverge.com/news/626311/vw-physical-controls-buttons-coming-id-2-all

Other links -

Trump is selling Teslas at the White House:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQEebJSCYRE

And The Daily Show's edit:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUntzU4Toy4

See y'all next week!

Welcome Back to What Was That?! where Nitesh and Vineet discuss the tech and business news of the week gone by.

This week we discuss Ozempic coming to India;

a pushback in a small town in the US against drone deliveries (https://www.wired.com/story/texas-amazon-drones-stop-flying/ );

Reliance Retail announcing a pullback and an overhaul (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-03-04/ambanis-overhaul-retail-unit-in-quest-of-125-billion-valuation);

AI summaries in the LA Times going very wrong;

and more. We even discuss Nitesh's favourite new biscuit.

Listen in, subscribe, and stay tuned!

It's What Was That?! time again, and Nitesh and Vineet cover a lot of ground talking about rich people owning things, and rich people investing, and rich people raising money for Youtube stuff.

Links:

https://www.berkshirehathaway.com/letters/letters.html

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=whwQqMMyRPU

https://notpricedin.substack.com/p/driving-under-the-influence

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-02-26/junior-banker-hiring-is-now-a-battle-against-ai-written-resumes

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-02-26/a-billion-people-are-watching-podcasts-on-youtube-every-month

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-02-27/youtube-star-mrbeast-is-raising-money-at-a-5-billion-valuation

This was fun, see you next week!

What Was That?! Feb 22nd - where Nitesh and Vineet discuss Lenskart's upcoming IPO, the Humane AI pin is humanely killed off, James Bond goes to MGM and ChatGPT goes to mental health columns, and more. 

Some relevant links from the show:

Nitesh writes about the shades market: https://notpricedin.substack.com/p/optical-illusions

This is the Humane AI Pin: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lNIwOOMVHk

The Humane AI Pin is the worst product MKBHD has ever reviewed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TitZV6k8zfA&t=1247s

Adam Neumann tries to buy back WeWork: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2024-02-06/adam-neumann-wants-we-back

A fantastic WSJ writeup on the James Bond affair: https://www.wsj.com/business/media/james-bond-movies-amazon-barbara-broccoli-0b04f0db

It's What Was That?! time again! We discuss ITC, MTR, OpenAI, Tesla, and where healthcare is headed. 

Also, a serious error in this episode that we apologize for - we stated that there were, at the time of recording, 17 subscribers to the YouTube channel. Vineet had extrapolated from 15 the previous day using some very calculated forecasting mechanisms. It turns out that there were actually just 16. 

Vineet apologizes for this gross oversight.