Aakrit Vaish
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Activate AI in India
Mumbai, India
Joined February 2009
Congrats @RaghuRaghuram. I've not known you for anywhere close to 30 years. But even in the little time we've spent, your EQ and strategic input has been second to none. Let's go! π
Raghu Raghuram @RaghuRaghuram Nearly 30 years ago, I hired Raghu Raghuram to be a product manager at Netscape. While I do not remember much from those days, I keenly remember how smart he was. He was also eager to learn absolutely everything. The problem for me was that he was
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The "barbell" feels true for most things today. Either go very early or very late. Cheap or super premium. Very small or very big. The middle is getting commoditized - it's where quality goes to die. - investing (very early stage or public markets) - careers (deep specialist
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π π¨π¨Some news points from my interview with Perplexity founder and CEO Aravind Srinivas when I met him last week at the AI search engineβs San Francisco headquarters. 1. India is now Perplexityβs biggest user base on the back of Airtel partnership 2. Will launch Perplexity
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We got 500+ high quality applicants. Excited to see the interest in India AI. Will be facilitating introductions for the most relevant candidates over the next few weeks. Fascinating to see how the companies stack up in popularity :)
I've been thinking about doing this for a while. And no better time than now in the aftermath of the H1B issue. Indian AI startup landscape is exploding. For anyone looking for a job at some of the best companies, I'd love put my network to work. - We've curated 20 amazing
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Balaji is building something unique & special in Singapore. If you're young & ambitious, this is the only conference I would recommend going to this year.
This year's Network State Conference is on Friday, October 3 in Singapore. Our speakers include Vitalik Buterin, Bryan Johnson, Ben Horowitz, Brian Armstrong, Amjad Masad, Ranveer Allahbadia, Arthur Hayes, Nas Daily, Noah Smith, Andrew Huberman, and the governments of Singapore,
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Forensic analysis, crop disease detection, personalized learning, flood prediction, patient advocacy support, earthquake prediction, addiction recovery support, homeless prevention, energy grid optimization, meeting transcription, coaching, clinical trial matching, editing, urban
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Congrats on the @EmergentLabsHQ team on their Series A milestone. @waitin4agi_ and @177pc sat down with Founder & CEO @mukundjha to unpack a rocket ship in the making. https://t.co/rn9HvqsHzO
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I've been thinking about doing this for a while. And no better time than now in the aftermath of the H1B issue. Indian AI startup landscape is exploding. For anyone looking for a job at some of the best companies, I'd love put my network to work. - We've curated 20 amazing
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Stop thinking about chatbots. Start thinking about the cake. https://t.co/2g2i0g0M0K
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Great fun hosting a bunch of amazing Indian AI founders at OpenAI HQ. Thanks to the @OpenAI startups team for putting together this session for us! @shyamalanadkat @177pc @GanatraSoham @kamath_sutra @aryamanTitan @Prateekjogani @ParikshitGD
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π Our mission: make 1:1 learning accessible to every learner on Earth. Today, Airlearn launches the worldβs first Iconic AI Tutor. Starting with languages, and soon, everything π
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We're excited to be hosting our 2nd Dugout tomorrow (5th September) in SFO This our quarterly curated gathering for portfolio founders, co-investors & friends of the firm. We're co-hosting Dugout this time with a fantastic line-up:
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Thrilled to see our very own @abhish18 in the Time100 AI 2025 list. One of only two people from India. The other being Prof @MiteshKhapra from IIT-M. Putting India's AI story on the global map :) https://t.co/TOxiNPWnIu
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Find out why Abhishek Singh made TIMEβs list of the most influential people in artificial intelligence
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The latest MIT report on the State of GenAI in Enterprise is a goldmine. "Startups that successfully cross the GenAI divide land small, visible wins in narrow workflows, then expand."
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I am not going to participate in any more AI conferences in India. This is not against anyone specific, but the conversation is all the same and the audience is not gaining anything. Founders should instead spend this time building or with customers, that's it.
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