Product Growth Engineer scaling products globally. Ex-Sky (20M users) Stealth Startup (accelerator → Series A). Love hanging around startup ecosystems.

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Joined September 2024
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Just wrapped an incredible evening in Thimphu with Vijay Krishna Shetty - from Apple's India partner to backing deep tech startups. 25 minds exploring AI funding realities vs hype. Check thread for more Building Bhutan's tech story 🇧🇹 #BhutanTech #AICollective #VC
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Drifting only works if you’re willing to cut off what no longer fits.
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Every successful career I've ever known was filled with long periods of meandering, months or even years when no one knew what would happen next. Look at me: I started as a geology major turned failed realtor. I then ended up founding several companies, one of which ended up becoming @netflix
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There’s a contagion effect to good habits. When you watch your friends or relatives exercise, you want to exercise. Same is true for shipping, giving back, eating well… Surround yourself with people who raise your bar.
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Helping @Accel_India hire an AI Resident / CoS. If you have great product sense, tinker with different AI tools and have strong opinions I would love to chat. Please DM me with the LinkedIn and 2 lines about why you would be a great fit.
The support and the energy from both places is impressive! Even within the video, we can see the dip in availability of talent from SF to Stockholm
Guy is a genius
33 open source bounties available totaling $119,200
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Vercel CEO @rauchg shared how to build a $9.3B company from 0.
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The actual risk is not that OpenAI collapses, but that they become one of five players in a highly competitive market. They will face margin compression and declining market share, which reduces a 30x+ price to sales ratio down to 5x, which means the market cap slows or maybe even stays flat Flat market cap means it’s impossible to make the $1.4t commitments as quickly as planned
The core issue DeSantis is pointing at is legitimate and worth taking seriously. OpenAI is unprofitable, has never turned a profit, and yet it's been structured into the infrastructure of major tech companies in ways that make it systematically important. Microsoft is betting its entire AI narrative on OpenAI. Oracle signed a 300 billion dollar contract over five years for infrastructure. Nvidia committed 100 billion dollars. If OpenAI collapses, Oracle's cash flow gets obliterated. Microsoft's valuation story falls apart. Nvidia loses their biggest customer in this new compute paradigm. So what happens if OpenAI fails? These companies have to save it because they can't afford not to. The uncomfortable truth is that we've created a situation where one unprofitable company has become so central to the financial markets that its failure would be contagious across the entire tech sector. This is the same pattern we saw with financial institutions in 2008 just playing out with AI infrastructure instead of mortgage derivatives. If OpenAI actually implodes, you don't just get one company going under. You get cascading doubts about whether these massive infrastructure bets made sense at all. Oracle, Nvidia, Microsoft, SoftBank, all of them suddenly need to explain why they committed hundreds of billions to something that failed. The market reprices not just OpenAI but the entire AI thesis. That's bad. The realistic outcome isn't really a hard failure anyway. It's that if OpenAI ever gets genuinely close to the edge, some combination of government backing, private consortium rescue, or emergency capital injection happens. Not because it's good policy but because the system can't afford the alternative. Let's hope for the sake of our economy this day never comes!
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Boldness makes even the smallest animal dangerous.
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Who here is hiring for engineers? Ideally remote, or hybrid in London. I've got a few intros I'd love to make! 🫡
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If you’re not under pressure to live up to your potential, you’ve already accepted mediocrity.
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Purpose is the most underrated antidepressant
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We had the highest referrals in YC history (12) and still got rejected on our third try. @gustaf told us to stop wasting time & get customers. We did and got in. As deadline approaches, stop cold DMing @ycombinator founders. Get customers & LOIs instead.
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The secret to success is retaining your child-like qualities.
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Charlie Munger on how to rise in life:
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English just keeps getting better. Previously we had to use the European words “milieu” and “gestalt” but now we can just say vibes
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the ai job market right now - prompt engineer: 80k - ai product manager: 120k - guy who can actually code: 250k+ supply and demand working as intended
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6 Months in SF - What It’s Taught Me The past half-year in San Francisco has been the hardest and most rewarding stretch of my life. I learned that extreme effort compounds. The nights you spend alone grinding don’t go unnoticed - they quietly build your reputation. I’ve learned to pivot fast. Sometimes you’ll spend hundreds of hours chasing something that ends up being the wrong direction. Don’t dwell. Move on. Execute again. Say yes to everything early on. Go to every event, every dinner, every random meetup. You never know who’s in the room until you show up. When you meet someone who truly believes in you - hold onto that. If they ask for something, deliver beyond expectation. If they offer you an opportunity, outwork everyone. 100+ hour weeks are a privilege when you’re learning from the best. Never chase money. Chase momentum, learning, and impact. Money follows value. And above all - surround yourself with people who are smarter, faster, and more curious than you. TL;DR: Show value. Work hard. Pivot fast. Be mission-driven. If you’re first-gen or come from a humble background and you’re out here hustling - I want to meet you. DM me.