Saxenasaheb.base.eth
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Govinda Govinda Govinda Govinda Govinda
Joined October 2009
Instead of doing a 2024 wrapped, thought of doing a decade wrapped. After all, our plans are measured in decades. Here's what the past ten years have looked like-. 2013- Aeronautical engineering grad, Manipal- Mostly hung out at local bars. 2013 - Research associate at IIT,
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Every time my parents ask me about my career choices:
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Delhi gyms: Punjabi music.Mumbai gyms: Western music. Bangalore gyms: Welcome to the Huberman Lab podcast.
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Tell me you’ve moved to Bangalore without telling me you’ve moved to bangalore.
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Bangalore men will build mental health startups than go to therapy.
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The kind of developers India’s startup ecosystem needs:
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Saw Nikhil Kamath’s podcast on Edtech. I am now confident that every single person in India thinks they belong to the middle class.
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Hotels didn't like Airbnb.Cabs didn't like Uber.Banks don't like Bitcoin.Your crush doesn't like you. Innovative products are often disliked.
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Some life update:.I’m joining Coinbase to lead Base’s efforts in bringing India onchain @BasedIndia. India has made massive strides in technology adoption that's unlocked incredible impact at scale. It's time to not just see but shape the next decade. It’s onchain India’s day 1.
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Working for European companies is such a different vibe. I once told my boss that I’d been optimising for a 4 hour sleep schedule to get more productive. Lad sent me on a week long leave to fix my sleep schedule.
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This will go down as one of the biggest heists in tech history. Love that a Manipal alum made this happen!
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Shared a smoke with someone in a cafe in Indiranagar. Ended up with intros to investors in the Middle East. @peakbengaluru never disappoints!.
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When your lead engineer and your CTO are from Bihar.
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A 20-year-old lad from Manipal is now worth ₹4,00,00,000+. No fancy tech, no shady scam. Pure hustle and grind. Here's his story 👇
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In the past six months, I've gone from thinking of cryptocurrencies as a scam to building products in web3. Drop a 👋 and I'll DM you a resource sheet that helped me make the shift.
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Posted a job on LinkedIn. 26 applications in 5 minutes for an unheard of startup. If you get out of the twitter bubble, desh me jobs ki maara maari hai.
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I’ve a feeling that a Koffee with Karan kind of a show for tech and startups would do really well.
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Met an auto driver that went by the meter in Bangalore. The city is healing. This man needs to be celebrated.
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No matter how old you get, brown kids remain brown kids.
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Bangalore folks don't break up, they disrupt relationships.
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The dance has begun. Welcome to India, Coinbase.
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Current builder community scene in India:. - Go to different chains .- Tell them you’ll help them expand in India and onboard devs.- Plan a 3/5/7/20 city tour .- Bill them $3000- $5000 per city meetup .- Connect with local city chapters/DAOs to run this and give them 50% of your.
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Overheard in Bangalore:. Bitches come and go, blockchain is there forever.
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Latest startup bro on the block has been manufactured successfully. Kabir Sinha Saxena.
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As a bachelor, the best thing you can do for yourself is to find a house who’s owner is an NRI.
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Kamath brothers are such sibling goals-. 1. Successful ✅.2. Healthy/Fit ✅.3. Openly show gratitude and appreciation while also making cute jabs ✅
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Went to make a joke on Dukaan, found lad’s blocked me already. Imagine being able to predict who’ll make fun of you and blocking them in advance. Mad ups!
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How do you find out if someone's done a Vipassana course?. They'll tell you within 10 minutes of meeting you.
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If your founder uses this phone cover, your company will survive recession.
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Exactly one year ago my friend Rishabh’s friend Pragun got stuck in a lift
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Don’t confuse Bangalore market fit for product market fit.
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Cult Indiranagar has a new setup where you use a thumbprint scanner to check in. This guy, who’s a member, has been arguing with the team as he doesn’t want to give his thumbprint citing privacy and data security concerns. At scale, every solution is unpredictable.
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Startup founders before venture capital was a thing.
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Overheard at a Hackerhouse in Indiranagar:. The reason Nikhil Kamath’s podcast does so well is because Beer biceps and Raj Shamani created a pipeline of followers for him.
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Last year at Eth India, we came up with the idea of building Purple Pay. In around 12 months, right before Eth India we decided to shut it down. Knowing when to shut shop is the hardest part. When do you say, this is it, after all?
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The US vs India argument I never thought I’d witness:
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A 22 year old lad from BITS Goa is building ‘Netflix for casual gaming’. Here’s why you need to know about Noah 👇
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Toxic trait of non IIT/IIM managers is telling everyone how they're managing people from IIT/IIM.
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It is easier to raise your startup's seed round in Bangalore than find a flat to live in.
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Indian subcontinent needs a YC equivalent. Such terrific advice. @nikhilkamathcio may be something to think about building on top of your podcast.
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Governments should just name roads after brands. Change Indiranagar 100ft road to Swiggy road and watch how fast Swiggy takes care of road development.
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I have never worked with as cracked a team as @base . And I’ve worked for over a decade across teams, geographies, and industries. Here’s an example of why I’m so mega bullish on us:. - @jessepollak and team woke up at 5:30 to get ready for a 3 hour Futsal tournament with 100+
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There are hard jobs. And then there is consulting.
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Someone needs to create a secondary market for ESOPs of top Startups. So much liquidity can be unlocked and can accelerate consumption patterns and overall growth.
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Monisha beta 'generalist' bolo, ye 'koi kaam dhang se nahi aata' is too middle class.
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If your CEO isn’t thinking of starting a podcast or a newsletter, your company will survive the recession.
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VFS is the clown jewel of visa bookings. Startups need to fix this. Mad disruption opportunity.
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Today marks the death of the greatest card that ever lived. I’m doing my bit and hosting a funeral for the Axis Magnus (2022 - 2023). 1st August, Third wave Koramangala. Who's in?
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I completed 3 months at Base this week. Some observations on culture- . 1. Everyone is tied to the larger vision:. > Doesn’t matter what your role is, it’s playing an undeniable role in bringing the world onchain . > Jesse is incredible both at translating the vision into an.
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Tell me you work in crypto without telling me you work in crypto.
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Ladies and gentlemen, presenting 97% of tech twitter:
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When I started my twitter journey mid 2021, I had 40 followers and 0 dollars in my stripe account. Cut to 2 years later.
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So you think you can venture capital?.India edition.
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The day Indian entrepreneurs start romanticising simple things and not 70 hour work weeks it’s so over for everyone else.
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Hot take:. Anyone that's going to get an MBA in this age of the internet, deserves the debt it comes with.
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The easiest way to 10x your ambition is to save and fly business class once. No going back from there.
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All went well. Now, it’s waiting time, fingers crossed🫡
When it's demoday for your startup tomorrow, but you can’t trust your sleep:
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India’s 1st ever Onchain AI Fellowship is here. - 2 weeks of building .- India’s top onchain and AI builders.- AI agents on @base . Demo at ETH India 🇮🇳 . - Exclusive mentorship from @coinbase .- A builder community to ship together.- Hands on support from @callusFBI, @Base,
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Telling my son how the best time to get onchain was when he was born. The second best time is now.
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What’s your class topper from school doing today?.
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Yoga had been in India forever but saw mainstream adoption after the west found it appealing. What else is an under hyped Indian undertaking that could blow up given the right catalyst?.
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This little ball turns 3 months in a couple days. Want to buy him $10 of bitcoin every day for the next 18 years. Is there a DCA tool that does that?
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Exactly one year, ago I shut down a onchain payments company. This year, it's been a lot of experiments- Communities, products, funds. All that have had some degree of PMF. What changed?. I went from being a builder to being an authentic onchain builder. Moved away from VC
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I was smoking a cigarette, a guy walked up to me and said ‘your network is your net worth’. I thought what a loser. 20 years later, I saw that guy become the CEO of Microsoft.
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You don't realise you've left Bengaluru until you walk into a cafe and nobody is talking about startups/web3.
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2022 ETHIndia- Hacker .2024 ETHIndia- Partner . This year we go mainstream. Onboard your friends, onboard your family, onboard your neighbors. - Create content.- Build products.- Build communities. The world will come onchain, and it’ll start here in India.
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Tier 2/3 India is moving back to Tier 1 India. Funnily enough, this isn't just because of companies calling people back or other better opportunities.
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Most based Indian builders that you should be following right away:. > @0xSmit .> @0xkryptocodes .> @ravibakhai .> @_0xaryan .> @prnth_ .> @_arihantbansal .> @Envoy_1084 .> @serverConnectd .> @KrishnaTNemani .> @anomit .> @RadadiyaSunny.> @_dhruvsol .> @DecentralDude .>.
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Looking to hire an intern to scale Base's builder efforts. Requirements:.→ Gets building.→ Gets content.→ Onchain score > 75 .→ High agency. You'll get:.→ Paid enough to take your next international trip.→ Remote work, insane exposure. Want in? Drop me a self written email
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Overheard at a tech conference in SG:. ‘I am successful not because of my Indian education, but inspite of it.’. I immediately lose respect for people that don’t have an appreciation for where they come from.
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If you want to watch Succession in India, you've to find hacky websites/download links. Truly takes you back 10 years. Before Netflix and OTTs. Yet, we're all watching. Succession is a Delta4 product.
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It's funny how in hindsight everything adds up. Thanks for pushing boundaries @StoaHQ @BuildBySTL @GrowthX_Club @SuperteamDAO. Frens with @AntlerIndia officially now. Back to building.
With experience building Web3 products at Makerdock and SuperteamDAO, @saxenasaheb is kickstarting his entrepreneurial journey in the Web3 space. #TheAntlerIndiaResidency
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Take all of your savings and go long on this one dude.
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Over 40% of all projects built at ETHIndia were built on Base. Grateful for everyone that’s trusted us with their time and effort. This year we have just 2 goals-.1. Help builders build better.2. Help builders go viral. This year we go mainstream. Keep building and stay based.
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If you’re building something cool show me ⬇️ . Builders help builders who then help builders who help builders who then help builders who help builders who then help builders who help builders who then help builders.
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Life before and after 25 in beautifully drawn graphs:
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This man will go down in history books as the guy who dedicated his life to bringing the world onchain.
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The hack to being good at BD is being a good person.
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A month ago, we applied at the @jump_pit in Singapore. We had slightly more than an idea and a deep belief that the thing holding back web3 tech was regulation. Today, @PurplePayApp won their top prize for the most scalable product solving for payments in a compliant manner.
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Told him about the Based fellowship and how he didn’t make the final list
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Okay so hear me out:. A space for onchain builders to come hang, build, and live in the mountains. Should we do this?.
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Most based Indian marketers that you should be following right away:. > @ankitkr0 .> @ShubhAgrawal26.> @SwethaPD.> @Sukriti2108.> @kthsalins.> @ninja_writer21.> @adiiHQ.> @Srijith_Padmesh.> @0xpratik .> @TweetSapra.> @sxjonchain.> @buntyverse.> @kunalvg.> @yashhsm.> @karanmalik6.
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Hot take:. Folks from Tier 2-3 cities in India have more hunger, grit, and resilience than the Delhi/ Mumbai crowd.
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Keep hitting at a problem long enough and you're gonna end up solving it. Some top Indian hardhitters solving meaningful problems onchain-. > @pumpernikhil- Balance via @0xPredicate .> @Nameet - Ownership via @MuzifyHQ.> @imrgoyal - Attention via @GmTribe .> @sxtvik - Access via.
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Most based Indian community builders that you should be following right away:. > @kashviETH.> @naruto11eth.> @cryptoprofesso9.> @AadarshArmil.> @manbirmarwah.> @srilakshmitc.> @arunphilips.> @theborklar .> @akhil_bvs .> @NareshKx .> @gyan_w3b.> @Rum00r .> @suraj_sharma14.>.
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Different Indian cities rated by the quality of their Biryani:. Bangalore- 9/10.Mumbai- 4/10.Kolkata- 8/10.Delhi- 5/10.Chennai- 8/10.Pune- 5/10.Ahmedabad- 0/10.Lucknow- 7/10.Jaipur- 6/10.Hyderabad- 10/10.Guwahati- 1/10.
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A surprisingly high number of Bangalore men quote Naval mid conversation.
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Travelling to Goa next week. Was about to apply for leave when I realized I don't have a job anymore. Web3 life is good ngl.
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