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What’s Really Going On With Moltbook | Episode 53


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Today’s episode moves between India’s Budget signals, AI systems that feel unsettling, and what it takes to build fast consumer brands.

🗞️ News — Quick Scan

  • Budget 2026 tightens speculation, flips buyback taxes, rewards long-term compute, and makes unproductive vices expensive.

🎙️ Guest Segments

Arun Kumar Gandlur & Srijan Shetty

A grounded teardown of Moltbook: what’s real vs hype, whether it’s infra or demo, why people project meaning onto AI outputs, how LLM biases form, and the least dramatic but most likely long-term outcome of agent social systems. We also discuss normalization of deviance, failure modes, and whether delegation discomfort is technical or philosophical.

Aparna Saxena — Founder & CEO, Antinorm

From Shark Tank to ₹1 Cr/month in 6 months with just 5 products. Aparna breaks down brand velocity, Gen-Z teams, the shift from 10-step routines to multifunctional skincare, what’s uniquely Indian about beauty, and what tech-driven personalization can (and can’t) do next. Plus, what the ₹28 Cr seed unlocks over the next year.

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