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Precisely, and it might be too late by the time we realize.
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A bad VC will look at a company, find all the ways it could go wrong, feel good about their analysis, and call it a day.
A good VC will look at the same company, understand the risks, ask “what if it all goes right”, bet on the founder, and help build a generational business.
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Pavements. It comes back to pavements and garbage.
Simple problem to fix - and suddenly Indian cities will stop looking so bad at the ground level.
You can add traffic and air pollution to the wish list of problems to fix, but that may take time.
Pavements can literally be fixed in a few months.
Ethiopia capital, in a country with a GDP per capita of just $1,000, fun fact. Almost 50% of its population lacks access to electricity, and its HDI is worse than Bihar’s, yet its capital still mogs our Tier-1 cities. 😭😭
Our cities are our PR to the world, and we’re doing almost nothing to fix them.
Ethiopia’s capital PR > India PR.
indian vc's really overestimate their power and reputation in the valley
one of the older funds here in india threatened a founder for not taking their term sheet, saying "we'll make sure you never raise another $ from any vc anywhere in the world"
laughable, since our homies in sf respect these people even less than our founders do
Why are Indian VCs so afraid to take risk and make money?
Someone should go to India and take risk and make money.
Our story - corememory.com/p/a-new-india…
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never understood why LPs expect a bunch of MBAs to be good at venture capital.
There’s only two types of VCs I would trust with my money
1. super technical engineer who’s actually built and scaled companies.
2.humble & spiritually-aware archetype who’s exceptionally good at reading people
(2nd one is harder to find than 1st)
LPs will be choosing between:
-A16Z gaming fund VII (10b, fund VI underperformed S&P)
-“Mykonos Capital” (300m, ex Goldman Sachs Harvard grad whose relevant experience is 6 years as a principal at NEA)
-“Paperclip” (100m, ex Anthropic engineer anchoring with 20m of his own capital made through backing Cursor’s A)
I don’t think this is a hard decision
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I didn't fully appreciate how mid these people were until they started to reply
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"India is secular because Hindus are secular." – On the face of DHRUV RATHEE by the same Muslim he brought on to spew propaganda. Lol.
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No one sees more startups than I do - all around the world. Spent three weeks in India with 15 companies. Quite convinced about what is going on. Never been to a place where the VCs have a worse reputation.
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There was a viral post of a mother, father & their happy child, travelling on a rickshaw during Durga puja. Most people loved the pure, unadulterated joy radiating from that clip. But some got heartburn & responded with nastiness.
Question is: Why do harmless things like this elicit violent responses from some people? The reason is sad, really. Seeing others celebrate achievements, love, normal family bonds etc. touches a raw nerve. These things remind them of their own unmet needs, which they had perhaps never acknowledged. It triggers deep seated resentment, bitterness, frustration or threatens their fragile egos.
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We made the first AI model you can have a realistic conversation with that was trained entirely on speech!
Dessa is a full-duplex speech-to-speech model that you can run on consumer GPUs.
This is a GPT3 moment for speech.
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I’ve said it a hundred times - the biggest reason why Indian cities look so bad at ground level is an absence of proper pavements.
*It causes air pollution
*It prevents pedestrian movement
*It encourages littering
*It ruins the country’s image.
Why can’t we build and maintain proper pavements?
Why can’t we fix the problem across the nation in mission mode?
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One of my hot takes is that Moneybalification in society is bad and eliminates the chances of outliers, which by definition is a horrible venture strategy
SPC alum @ScottWu46 has always been a math savant.
Here's his take on the moneyball-ization of startups:
elevenlabs is one of the most evil companies in the world, and they're about to get fucked very soon.
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At a time when many Americans seem to harbor negative sentiments toward Indians, this white American woman has some truly heartwarming words for an Indian man she reunites with after ten years.
Suraj, who is in the United States on a work visa, apparently helped her a decade ago—and she has never forgotten his kindness.
Video belongs to Kat Kamalini
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My first employee is Indian
He's like a brother to me
He took a chance on us before anyone
We've been trying to meet in-person for 3 years
His visa got rejected for our France trip this summer
(Ok, it's France. My expectations are low for the French government)
But now the US just rejected him for a quick work trip.
I know the government is cracking down on Indian immigrants, but we just wanted to have him out to hang and work for a week and meet the team. This is extremely different.
What's craziest to me:
The US embassy didn't even give him a fair interview. Didn't ask questions, look at docs, or his passports. Even after multiple signed letters by me and working with his lawyers.
He's the most loyal, hardworking, dude I've met and literally only takes days off for meditation retreats (even when I tell him to go get some sleep).
He embodies the American spirit more than many Americans! We'd be a better country to have him even for a week.
This is America.
We take chances on people.
He believed in me when no one else did
I believe in him
Can anyone please help?
