At Straive, there’s another Anand Subramanian who gets my emails and I get his emails. Name confusion - despite my last name being listed as “S”, not “Subramanian”. Day-before, we had a double confusion. Pallavi Gupta messaged the other Anand Subramanian who replied to a different Pallavi Gupta connecting me. Like The Comedy of Errors. Out of curiosity, I asked an AI agent to find all duplicate first + last names on Darwinbox. ...
I daydream a lot. One recurring daydream is where I’m a speaker, but the event is so packed with people that I’m not able to enter the hall. The organizers call me, worried, asking where I am. I tell them “I’m outside. I’m not able to get in!” They apologize profusely. “We’ll get you in,” they say. They move out a few people, control the crowd, and manage to get me in. ...
We take security very seriously at Straive. We set high standards – not just for ourselves, but our guests, too. Here’s the unofficial policy guide for visitors to Straive Singapore, exemplified by the sites blocked on our guest WiFi network. Please avoid childishness. No emojis. No emojikitchen.com, gitmoji.dev Write your own code. Avoid AI. No cursor.com, cline.bot, glideapps.com Avoid code entirely, if possible. No marimo.app, motherduck.com, firebase.studio, posthog.com No presentations either, please. No marp.app, revealjs Stay organized. Avoid crutches. No dynalist.io, focusmate.com, opennote.me You should already be fit, physically & mentally. No freedomfromdiabetes.org, artofliving.online We prefer real, not digital, shopping. No fairprice.com Fake data is not encouraged. No jsonplaceholder.typicode.com, placehold.co Please spell out URLs in full. No bit.ly, t.co Learning is for wimps. No maven.com, study.iitm.ac.in In fact, we’re so secure, we block our own sites. No learnovate.straive.com, policies.straive.com, myapps.straive.com. ...
In 2012, I started Gramener with half a dozen friends. This week, we were acquired by Straive, a part of Barings Private Equity Asia. How do you feel? I feel like the father of the bride. Gramener was registered on 26 Feb. A day before my daughter’s birthday. I’ve spent more time with Gramener than my daughter. That makes Gramener my elder child. Who’s moving into a new household. Along with me. (I feel like சகலகலா சம்மந்தி.) ...
You may know me as S Anand. You may also know me as Prof or Stud at the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore, as Anand Subramanian at IBM India, Bhalla at Alakananda hostel, IIT Madras, and Bal at Vidya Mandir. LinkedIn CV (2024) History 1974-1978 at home I was born on the 23rd November, 1974 (a Saturday) at Tirupati. I flew back to Madras (now Chennai) in a few days along with my parents. I stayed at home for 4 years, thoroughly enjoying myself. My mother would feed me while telling me stories while I was perched on her hip looking at the cows behind our house (it was no mean feat — I think I weighed 20 kilos). Since I was the youngest grandchild in our family, no one was permitted to get angry with me — especially if I sat on them and hit them with whatever they wouldn’t give me. ...