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Startup Founder | Developer | Builder | Building @NurallC Raha Balinese-inspired luxury villas near Auroville and Pondicherry 🇮🇳 | Ex @amazon Tech leader.

Joined March 2008
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Super Excited to share - Svasa by @NurallC . Building homes inspired by nature and wellness is fun :) Nurall.co/svasa
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When you are building a new company the hardest thing to do is to stay in the game . Persistence and consistency produce good results , impossible to point to the specific timelines when things will start to work.
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Privacy is a fundamental right, in the digital world it is important to shield what you don't want to be known. Loving the momentum that privacy products has been receiving.
Privacy is the precondition for many of our freedoms. It’s the point at which government and corporate reach end and our individual freedoms and self-sovereignty begin. As our lives have moved online, privacy’s become a rare, vanishing commodity. That’s why we founded Cypherpunk (@cypherpunktech) — a company dedicated to privacy and self-sovereignty. We will execute on our mission by accumulating, building, and supporting privacy-protecting assets and technologies at a time when the world needs them more than ever. To that end, Cypherpunk — Ticker: $LPTX (today), $CYPH (tomorrow) — was launched with a $50 million+ investment from @winklevosscap to begin accumulating Zcash ($ZEC) at what we believe to be a significant discount to Zcash’s true long-term value. Cypherpunk currently holds 203,775 ZEC purchased at an average price of ~$245 per coin, representing ~1.25% of the current ZEC supply. We plan to continue accumulating ZEC rapidly so that Cypherpunk owns at least 5% of the total ZEC supply. Since Zcash’s launch 9 years ago, we’ve observed its highly symbiotic relationship with bitcoin. Zcash is a fork of Bitcoin and shares identical tokenomics — both have a fixed total supply of 21 million coins. If bitcoin is digital gold, Zcash is encrypted bitcoin, or digital cash. One is your store of value, the other is how you privately move your value. We’ve been tracking this symbiosis for years and believe that now — as we enter the age of AI — is the right time to begin accumulating ZEC. We feel strongly that Zcash could become a meaningful percentage of Bitcoin’s market capitalization — just on the merits of it being a privacy hedge or insurance policy to Bitcoin’s transparency alone. We believe bitcoin will continue to ascend to $1,000,000 per coin over the next 5-10 years. We also believe Zcash will appreciate significantly from here as well. These coins go hand in hand. Over the next few weeks, we’ll continue to lay out our thesis. In the meantime, we’re excited to have you join us as we stack zats and invest in other technologies that promote privacy and self-sovereignty. Let us proceed together apace. Onward.
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When you can build from anywhere , where would you build? Our bet @NurallC is that you would love to stay and work from places surrounded by nature and where wellness is part of your daily routine. Nature, Wellness and Tech are what we are passionate about.
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Being optimistic is one of the core qualities that I have noticed as required trait for start up leaders. It is key to push through hard times and deliver results.
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Yes setting up your own independent path starts with the security of being debt free and owning a house . 💯 building homes and at a rapid pace is needed.
This is 100% it Mamdani is the left's Trump and he won cause he properly addresses the issues people care about now And worldwide young people struggle leaving their parent's house because they can't find an affordable place to buy or rent Almost every issue right now follows back to there's not enough houses and now it's starting to affect society with radical left leaders getting elected They almost certainly have the wrong solutions, but they 100% address the right issues Almost everywhere in the world we should be agressively building more homes and making it easier to do so, so everyone can afford a roof above their head If we don't, they will start electing these leaders everywhere and you really don't want to see where that ends Build more homes for everybody!!!!
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Ravinder Dharmapuram retweeted
.@DavidDeutschOxf: "Wealth is not a number. I don't think it can be characterized very well by a number. It is a set. The set of all transformations that you are capable of bringing about, that is your wealth. And obviously, if optimism is true, then there's no limit to wealth. And at any one time, there is a rough correlation between the wealth that is the set of all transformations that you could bring about, and other things that aren't very fundamental, like the amount of money you have, or the amount of energy you control, or the amount of land you control, or the amount of power you have, and so on. But those are not fundamental. They are all outgrown, eventually, by the growth of knowledge."
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Ravinder Dharmapuram retweeted
Top 5 by market cap (Oct 2025): Nvidia ($5T), Apple ($3.9T), Microsoft ($3.89T), Alphabet ($3.15T), Amazon ($2.39T). Combined: $18.33T. Vs. US market ($67.8T): 27%, rest US $49.47T. Vs. global market ($159T): 11.5%, rest world $140.67T. YOY growth (2024-25 est.): Nvidia ~150%, Apple ~30%, Microsoft ~25%, Alphabet ~20%, Amazon ~25%. Exact rates vary by source.
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In a fast moving world, you have an advantage if you take the time to obsess over details during the design and development stage. This has been one of the secrets to @NurallC homes. We love building.
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My previous research work was on privacy enhanced personalization. 1). During this time our central problem was how do we get around the fact that we need to trust the central trusted provider . In order to obfuscate some information for privacy we had to use crypto tools.
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3) Our hypothesis on privacy versus personalization was that we will reach a tipping point where privacy will trump other benefits for certain customers .
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4) See similar discussions in the @Zcash community , great work @zooko and team . There will be a subset of customers for whom the use case of privacy will be more important .
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Startup Takeaway : Build spaces that you would personally love to spend time with friends and family. The network effects lead to sales , better customers and more fun.
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Anyone know of AI Apps or tools that have been used in a real world construction project. Our use case is for non technical users to be able to report work progress and for remote teams to also validate the quality of work.
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The widget we started on @Replit has worked really well on our website (Lokastays.com) . Extended to support 2 resorts and drive bookings , fun times.
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Vibe coding is insanely powerful . Coded up a chatbot for our resort using @Replit AI and webflow. Used OpenAI tokens and the results are superb. Nice work @Replit team.
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Super Excited to share that our website featuring Raha Luxury Wellness Villas is now Live. Thanks @NurallC Team. Super excited to see the vision come to life. nurall.co/raha
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❄️ Monday Afternoon Weather Update Snow & ice expected tonight with up to 1.5" accumulation. As temps drop below freezing, icy roads will be a major concern. Crews are treating roads per the City’s priority map at newcastlewa.gov/snowmap. Drive safely & check for school updates!
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Hope friends in LA are doing ok . Stayed in LA for 10 years including working on Sunset Boulevard for 6 years . Sad 😔 as these are beautiful and dynamic places . City 🏙️ will bounce back 💯
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