Hassan W. Bhatti
@hwbhatti
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Building stuff folks love. Tweets about AI, startups & life. Investor @nextwaveNYC & fellow @creativedlab. X-Snowflake & 2X exits - founder CN (acq Snowflake)
Start-up and AI guy
Joined November 2011
I made $0 from my first start-up. I sold my second start-up to a $100 billion tech company. Here are 12 things I learned through failure and success:.
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Life is a game. Make sure you design your own. Otherwise you will be miserable.
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It was a pleasure supporting CentML and being part of the journey as an investor. Congrats to the team - Great outcome for everyone :).
Scoop: Nvidia has acquired CentML, a Toronto-based firm making software to run AI models faster and more efficiently.
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Claude 4 is here. Let’s go - Love the speed of innovation.
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If you are building cool AI applications reach out. Love to consider investing if you are raising. But also if you just want a shoutout in the world’s largest AI newsletter Superhuman happy to include you if I like what I see.
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Got to visit HF0 and got to say Dave has built something amazing. Residencies that allow deep work over a prolonged time period make so much sense.
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Work life balance I feel is a woke thing. Everyone successful I meet works intensely, treats the week as 7 days, and has a set of priorities/values around which they operate. These values and priorities may mean spending time with kids, working out, spending time with wife,.
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Stop 2 in South East Asia Philippines. - Ruled by Spanish and then Americans. But parts ruled by Muslims, British, Japanese as well. - Super westernized and great English in comparison to Indonesia. - Malls are lit and even have green spaces and museums attached to them. - A
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Money = Friction reduction in life. Friction reduction leads to more time. If you utilize the time for the right things:. - Relationships/Family .- Purposeful work.- Health.- Decisions which matter . You will be happy generally.
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First time in South East Asia. Jakarta, Indonesia was first on the trip. General observations:. - People are super nice and polite .- Internet and mobile penetration crazy - Super cheap to get access. - Grab super app is so good and drivers super friendly and helpful. I.
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This guy most probably never been a founder.
Most people dunking on VCs miss something crucial: VC partners are basically founders themselves. Here's why:. They raise funds from LPs just like founders raise from investors.- Need a compelling vision.- Face constant rejections.- Must prove their strategy works. They stress.
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May get some hate for this. But I think countries should just improve service quality for the top tax payers and provide preferred access where viable. Government at the end of the day is a service and we should treat it like one. Instead of just saying let’s tax the rich etc.
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Majority of the world is average. People at some point just give up on improvement - Combination of factors from age to being in the wrong circle. One way I try to keep improving is:. - Have an internal benchmark of what good looks like and keep pushing the boundary there.
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