Stoa Digest #06: People matter most.
You can earn loads of money, but if you're not surrounded by the people you'd like to share it with the most, it won't matter as much.
Highlight of the Week
Finance 🤝 Freedom
This past Thursday we got some serious words of wisdom from a financieur(finance connoisseur) himself - Mr. Pratik Oswal.
If there’s ever been a more opportune time to know about finances, we haven’t been this living & alert through it before.
With so many advances, changes in tech & money out there, we got some very applicable knowledge from Mr. Oswal on how we can possibly grow our wealth.
It just probably would’ve been nicer if we were younger, but it will still have returns even now.
Better late than never.
Let’s Rewind: Last Week at Stoa 📆
While, over the weekend everyone clocked some learning hours in!
This’ what happened over the week.
Cohort 3…
finished their Second Session with Nihal for Ikiguide, and you’ll see a few of them on Discord being very aware of what they took away from this workshop.
You could go talk to them about it, potentially.
They were also hypothetical bread-sellers and lost a fair amount of money.
Guess what module this was? 🤔
Cohort 2
on the other hand, learned how to strategise their future companies better.
I see a possible collaboration to improve the sales of our bakers soon! 📈
Announcements 📢
If you’re someone that consumes a lot of content or uses absolutely any bookmarking service - there’s never been a better alternative than UnoLink.
And to boot, it links to your Notion dashboard absolutely brilliantly, so you can always track what Bookmarks you have.
Where, When, How, Who from you got them are all questions answered by Uno-who.
So, check it out & hit up Akshay for more!
Glow Ups ✨
Vichar Shroff raised a whopping 330,000 pre-seed funding round for BurnCal, the first for a Stoan with lots more to come in the future!
Congratulations, Vichar!!
A Zen Guy got published in the country’s largest daily. Check it out!
Birthday Parttaaayy! 🥳 🎂
Dhananjay Sahoo - 22nd July, Thursday
(Saumya) Saxena Saheb - 23rd July, Friday
I think you know what to do to make them feel like shiny, sparkling, special gems that are part of the Stoa family on their birthdays!!
Question: Do you wish your fellow Stoans on their birthdays?
Or just the ones you know?
Community Buzz 🐝
If you were also immensely inspired to invest all your money after Pratik’s session, this chat might prove useful.
Fellows Rocket🚀Shipping🚢 Content
🔗 On Linked In
Have the urge to ask Swapnil to write me a book of motivational quotes from his own life, with this.
🐦 Tweeple
Vikrant’s been playing his part, upskilling the fellows’ Socials game when he can - here you’ll find some tips.
Jokes work better on Twitter?
So you remember that really good workshop Pratik Oswal ran, right? Well, so did Noor, except he wrote about it too.
Tanay and Moat-y (think “cartoons”)
Other Socials 📷
Animesh made this music video of his favourite animé and apparently it hit some fellows right in the feels.
For Stoans by Stoans ✍🏼📚⏯
Books 📚
If you’re looking for a way to order books that isn’t Amazon - here you go!
Watchtime 🎥
Marvel fans? 🙋🏻♂️🙋🏻♀️🙋🏽♀️
If you’re a fan of Football, History & Movies - enjoy.
Movies: 🍿🥤
Rashomon - recommended by a fan
Blogs & Resources 🤓
It’s no Blog, but it is a Resource - we’ve got a fair frew Brewers in this Community.
If you’re ever in the need for recommendations for Instant Coffee, look no further.Some of the strategies the current world’s largest companies employ to be the companies they are.
You remember that conversation (if you don’t, it’s really okay) that Akshay had to understand emoji usage?
If you like us, want to start a newsletter, you could use these tips.
Fevicol: The glue that grew the nation. ( 🤪Try saying “The glue that grew” 5 times fast - it’s a challenge.)
Tools 💻
You write, but you’re looking for an Indian Wattpad now. Well, you got it.
We got pretty engrossed in Crypto this week, so we’re going to make it a tiny sub-heading here.
Crypto:
1. What have you been thinking about Crypto recently?
2. Hot takes/reality? You decide.
Meme Wars 🥲
The #MemeWars are kinda dead atm, maybe it’s a “Bullwhip” effect?
“This week’s shiny new winner of Best Meme goes to …………
🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁”
To end, we’ll leave you with this: 🎧
On Sameer’s special request: