Read the complete thread about the astonishing story of " Balaji, Ramanujan and Taxi No. 1729". 🧵 1/8 The maverick blockchain and tech investor, entrepreneur and author Balaji Srinivisan (@balajis) has a company written a book called the networked state, published by his publishing company 1729.com. Now, why 1729?

Yesterday, I had one of my most interesting visits and meetings, with the owner of the #company that virtually created #capitalism !!

Interested to know more? See the thread🧵 @TheEastIndia Company (EIC) was an English, and later British, joint-stock company founded in 1600. It was formed to trade in the Indian Ocean region, initially with the East Indies (the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia), and later with Qing China.

My friend and erstwhile colleague @GovindSankar reminded me of this.
In 1994, I was elated at being accepted by the super-prestigious Tata Administrative Service, #TAS right after my #MBA . I was even more thrilled when I was chosen to be a part of the Tata Singapore Airlines JV ...to start a world class airline in India - perhaps the most exciting thing happening in Indian aviation, if not Indian industry, at that time. Very few people know that the original inspiration for Singapore Airlines was JRD Tata’s @airindiain -