Madhav Krishna
@madhkrish
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Founder & CEO @Vahan | Creating opportunities for India’s 300M+ blue-collar workers | AI expert passionate about large scale impact | Backed by YC, Khosla
Bengaluru, India
Joined November 2011
The older I get, the more I realize that showing up is the key to life. Show up when it’s hard. Show up when no one’s watching. Show up when you don't feel like it. Show up when the rewards are uncertain. Show up. You can never bet against the person who just keeps showing up.
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Exec at F500 company: “AI is causing the lines between functions to blur. When I meet with a young person, if I don’t know their title beforehand, I wouldn’t be able to say if they are a PM, an analyst or an operations person. They are able to smoothly switch between these roles
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The informal economy might prove to be a cushion for India against the socio-economic shifts caused by AI. People in this segment will be insulated against changes enforced by corporate forces. They’ll be able to reap the benefits of AI before they are exposed to its downsides.
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Proud to have @OpenAI (thanks @sama) powering us with their tech to make job search accessible for India’s informal workforce. At @vahan_ai, our AI recruiter — powered by GPT-4o — places 40K+ workers/month via voice. Candid chat with @ETtech
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economictimes.indiatimes.com
Bengaluru-based startup Vahan uses OpenAI’s GPT-4o to power an AI recruiter that helps India’s informal workers find jobs via phone calls. Supporting over 40,000 monthly placements, it automates...
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Super proud of the impact that @VahanInc’s work with @OpenAI’s GPT-4o is creating; 40K gig-workers in India getting employed each month. Thanks @sama @pragyamisra @shyamalanadkat and others in the @OpenAI team for your hard work! Read more below: https://t.co/xKZStMwtFa
livemint.com
Vahan.ai, India’s largest AI-powered recruitment platform for the gig economy, on 1 May shared details about its collaboration with OpenAI, the global leader in artificial intelligence research and...
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#BudgetWithMint | Impact of AI on jobs 🤖💻 "Close to 88% of India's workforce is in low-competency jobs with high AI potential. But AI won't replace jobs," says Madhav Krishna, CEO & Founder, Vahan AI @abhishek_8724 | #UnionBudget2025
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AI startup that helps hire blue-collar workers for Amazon, Uber, Swiggy... has raised from billionaire Vinod Khosla, Y Combinator, othrs Vahan uses generative AI models to reach, recruit gig workers fm India's small cities, towns @technology @business
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bloomberg.com
Vahan.ai, an AI-powered recruiter of blue-collar workers, has secured $10 million in funding led by Silicon Valley billionaire Vinod Khosla’s Khosla Ventures, bringing artificial intelligence to a...
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Was walking in HSR layout and found a huge pipe leaking water since days Location is near 17th cross road near wakefit store. When Bangalore is dealing with water shortage. Wastage of water like this shows incompetence. @WeAreHSRLayout @HSRResidents
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3. Building for an agent/middleman makes more sense in markets with high supply side fragmentation — which is true for most markets in India. 3/3
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2. Nobody pays for vitamins, and only sometimes for painkillers. In the West, you can build billion dollar businesses by selling the former. 2/3
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Key learnings from building in India🧵 1. Relationships are king. For high *quality* revenue, focus on building real relationships with your customers at a human level. 1/3
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Leaders who are unable to build strong teams are unable to scale themselves. And leaders who are unable to scale themselves are unable to build strong teams. #leadership
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one of the great pleasures in life is finding undiscovered talent, enabling them with high conviction, and watching them bend the trajectory of things
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We’re fortunate to have @SahilBloom as an investor at @VahanInc. Thanks, Sahil, for helping us become better everyday through the wisdom that you share. Here’s to hitting more winning shots in the months and years to come! #wisdom #startups #winning
This is an idea I can't stop thinking about: Winner's Game vs. Loser's Game In the 1999 tennis book, Extraordinary Tennis for the Ordinary Tennis Player, author Simon Ramo broke down the difference between amateur and professional tennis: Amateur tennis is a Loser's Game. 80%
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Be fit and strong Prioritize family and friends Crush work Happy 2024 🎆
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Johnny Cash and John Denver singing "Take Me Home, Country Roads" (1978)
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I can't stop thinking about this question: Are you willing to sprint when the distance is unknown? In 2021, Georgia Tech strength coach Lewis Caralla delivered this epic speech to the football team. If it doesn't get you motivated, you may need to check your pulse... He opens
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Under-explored aspect of the LLM landscape: Who has access to proprietary data to train models?? OpenAI, Anthropic --> Nothing Google --> Youtube Meta --> Facebook and IG public content Amazon, MSFT, Apple --> Nothing I suspect this will be a huge factor in the coming year
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