> I did some quick math, and the 240k acres it says they own comes out to about 378 square miles, which if condensed down to a square would be 20 miles by 20 miles.
To put that in perspective though.. per Wikipedia, all of Manhattan is 22.7 square miles!
Whoa.. talk about disrupting the IIT-prep cottage industry!
Of course, I haven't seen the details of whether it's an effective tool or not, but as a free service that can only improve and scale over time .. should be a gamechanger.
(For those outside India who are not aware of the exam that the academy is targeted at, its for admission to a collection of premier Engineering schools in the country. The exam is taken by over 1 million students annually, with a ~ 1% acceptance rate. There is a huge cottage industry of paid 'tutorial classes' and online programs to help students succeed in the exam.)
I’ve heard it come up in an enterprise context, when there was a question about using a Google product - “they have a history of killing products, so let’s pick an alternate if possible”. This was a couple of years back, don’t remember what (could have been Google Glass).
Looking beyond the political angles, interesting analysis of the tax and financial implications of the returns. Not sure if other tax lawyers would interpret the same way, so I’m interested to hear other opinions, especially from those of you who know/understand tax law.
To put that in perspective though.. per Wikipedia, all of Manhattan is 22.7 square miles!
*mindblown*