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🆕 Presenting Plum Perks — our comprehensive suite of healthcare and wellness benefits that money can't buy.* ✨ 5 categories — Nutrition, self-care, health, fitness, and family care. 🤝 50+ partners, including The Whole Truth Foods, PharmEasy, Lenskart.com, Clove Dental, Cloudnine Group of Hospitals, Cosmix, Nua, Foxtale, and more. 💰 ₹30,000 in annual healthcare savings per user. Learn more here: https://lnkd.in/g_2uU-Kk *Exclusive for Plum users. If you'd like to access Perks, tag your HR in the comments.

Given we spend a third of our life at work, founders have a responsibility to build a workplace promoting health, creating a culture of care. Because wellness isn’t an individual journey; it’s a collective effort. We are hosting a fireside chat with Udayan Walvekar, Surbhi Jain, and Dilip Kumar on 24th July at 6 PM to understand how these founders, for whom health is the north star, have built a culture of care. Some questions: ✨ What does an average founder’s relationship with health look like? ✨ What is the need to invest in team health, and what does the qualitative & quantitative impact look like? ✨ How do founders build their employee health and wellness stacks? If you’ve been actively thinking about your team’s well-being lately, tune into our conversation. 

An excerpt from ThePrint's coverage of Plum Perks 👇 "The offerings [on Plum Perks] are highly curated, with each product and service meticulously tested before being made available to Plum’s users. This launch embodies Plum’s commitment to delivering exceptional and personalised healthcare solutions, ensuring quality and comprehensive care for all. Brands that have been on-boarded onto Plum Perks include – The Whole Truth, Good Bug, Cosmix, Nua Health, Pee Safe, Cloudnine, Supertails, Heads up for Tails, The Sleep Company, Toothsi, HealthifyMe, PharmaEasy, Orange Health, Khayaal, Clove Dental, Lenskart, Tata 1mg and more." Read more: https://lnkd.in/g9n7XEt5

Nobody: ... Adhish: What if we launched Plum Perks internally... with cadbury perks? Jokes aside, Plum Perks was a pretty serious affair. From day one, the team decided that the perks we offer were not about preventive care, but about peak health. Ashish Khandelwal, our Director of Product, had three guiding principles on what perks WOULD NOT be about: 🔴 No random coupon aggregation — all our partner brands were a result of careful, meticulous user research. 🔴 No endless scroll — all perks have been categorized into stacks based on our user's relationship with health. 🔴 No fine print — the terms of every offer are communicated in the app even before one can redeem them. 🍫 To know more, check out perks: https://lnkd.in/g_2uU-Kk 📖 For the BTS, read Ashish's post: https://lnkd.in/gb-BH5Cs 🔧 If you'd like to work with Ashish, we're #hiring: plumhq.com/careers

[long-ish post] Early in your career, and not sure what you want from it? Deepak Gopalakrishnan has a framework you might find useful — he calls it connecting the dots. He believes you should spend your 20s blindly collecting dots, and use your 30s connecting them. But what are dots? Any new experience, interaction, or piece of content you consume - which might be useful later - is a dot. For example, attending a heavy metal concert could result in four separate dots, and four different trains of thought. (Refer to attached photo.) Why is this activity useful? 🧠 It's good for the brain — new experiences lead to fired-up neurons and new connections.  📈 It helps you in your life — whether it’s just a dopamine kick out of eking out your new insight, or a more significant professional one, having a rich, diverse base of dots will have benefits later.  🕶 It makes you interesting — Ashok Krish went from humour blogger to meme-maker to innovative musician to bestselling author to food influence to board game designer… all while having a full-time senior job at a major technology company. How do you collect dots?  ⚫ Do interesting things — You may never do it again, but you’ve tried it, learnt a little bit more about yourself, have stories to tell, and have an interesting opinion that might impress your hiring manager (or date).  ⚫ Reflect on what you did — For some folks, journaling helps, for some using tools like Notion and Roam Research does. For others, including the writer of this post, it’s just a lot of thinking, and giving the brain space to breathe. Read Deepak's article here: https://lnkd.in/dQuvwb9Y P.S. Most of our marketing campaigns are a result of collecting dots. 🔖 The Starter Guide exists because Siddharth was moving cities.  🎴 Cards Against Work was an idea that hit Ganapathi in the middle of a mildly boring dinner party.  🎙 ASMR with Plum came from Diganth's doomscrolling on YouTube. If you're someone who does the same thing? Hit Shreyas up, we're #hiring at marketing.

🗣 Saurabh Arora: "We're building a Salesforce-like solution for employee benefits workflows." What that means 👇 You could be: 🌱 a five-member team working on sheets 🪴 a growing company with payroll tools and HRIS 🌳 an enterprise with custom implementations and employee records Bring your workflows to us, and we'll build your health benefits stack around it. Watch the full conversation on the Forbes India Startup Friday podcast, hosted by Harichandan Arakali: https://lnkd.in/dsshksr6

The Starter Guide to India: 5 editions. 100+ shoutouts. 1 account suspension on Twitter. In Edition 11 of The Plum Jam, Aishwarya looks back at what we built over the last few months, referencing an exchange between Shreyas and Udayan in the process. Also includes: The Humanise book, and a sneak peek into our upcoming product feature. Read, share, subscribe, hydrate.

🗣 "This is a team brought together by a vision of impacting the health and wellbeing of every Indian. And when you imbibe this vision closely, you will go out of your way to help." Abhishek and Saurabh spent an hour with Harichandan Arakali on the Forbes India Startup Friday podcast, discussing their vision for Plum, and how it unites everyone on the team. Watch: https://lnkd.in/dsshksr6

On this sleepy Saturday afternoon, if you're at the cusp of a major career decision, but afraid of the unknown, remember that Pareen Lathia quit at the peak of his career not once, not twice, but thrice — only to come out of it stronger, wiser, and happier every time. Read: https://lnkd.in/gKmiDbsH

For Darwinbox, partnering with Plum was a matter of 'natural selection.' In their third year with Plum, Darwinbox has had nearly zero escalations over the last annual policy period — a far cry from their previous experience.  We recently spoke with Shravan Kumar Dullur and Narane Gundabathula about their health benefits, the benefits of a tech-first experience, and their approach to healthcare that put them in the 2% Club. ▶▶▶ Swipe for the overview, click for the longer read: https://lnkd.in/g-Npp4vf