Shashank Mehta
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Now: Tinkering | Past: VP & GM @RazorpayX & founding team @Razorpay. Found working, deep diving about the latest tech, napping or travelling.
Bengaluru, India
Joined March 2009
We're seeing some pretty deep usage of Scouts at VC firms! If this is of interest to you, reach out! Common uses we've seen so far: — Tracking a certain area (e.g., agentic commerce) for any relevant news, new companies, etc. — Tracking companies coming out of stealth from
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Karnataka's Domestic Workers Bill mandates written agreement for employing domestic workers. With non compliance facing penalties including 3 months imprisonment and fines. Opportunity for companies like @MyGate_com to build an end to end compliant solution.
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What does US & India have in common? Contaminated protein powders. @ConsumerReports’ study of US market protein powders had similar findings to @theliverdr’s study on India markets. Many contain excess amount of toxic elements, particularly lead.
my latest investigation for @ConsumerReports is based on months of reporting and 60+ lab tests of leading protein supplements we found that most protein powders and shakes have more lead in one serving than our experts say is safe to have in a day — some by more than 10 times !
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Nice glimpse of the future of commerce and payments! Now imagine this on @WhatsApp x @letsblinkit: Simply create a voice note (you can ramble, AI can handle it) and get your grocery delivered in 10 min. Question is: will Blinkit + WhatsApp move faster or ChatGPT+ someone (like
AI made its first payment in India - seamlessly - no redirects, no hassles. We just piloted Razorpay Agentic Payments with @NPCI_NPCI & @OpenAI at #GFF2025. You chat → the AI shops → you confirm → it pays. India didn’t wait for the future. It switched it on. 🚀
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Just got off an expert call….apparently when large brands learned LLMs were training heavily on Reddit, swaths of people have been deployed to basically post on Reddit all day.
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"Show me the incentives, and I'll show you the outcome" — Charlie Munger
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I don’t get who the audience for iPhone Air is. But if Air is step 0 towards iPhone Fold in 2026, then I can’t wait for 2026
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First time in SF! 🌉 Can’t believe it took me ten years in the industry to finally make it to the mecca of startups. Would love suggestions on people to meet, food to try, and places to see! Here till first week of Sep.
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Wrote a quick post to make sense of OpenAI’s GPT-5 launch & what it means for ChatGPT. (Link in next tweet) tl;dr: It’s a new baseline for AI chat in the market, with vastly superior model than 4o. Why didn’t they change default to o3 earlier? Looks like cost was a reason, with
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Next few days are going to be interesting. 4 versions of GPT-5 coming out in a day! - gpt-5: Designed for logic and multi-step tasks. - gpt-5-mini: A lightweight version for cost-sensitive applications. - gpt-5-nano: Optimized for speed and ideal for applications requiring low
someone at GitHub published the blog post too early 🫣 https://t.co/hEJbNMwXY7
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The full doc is a good read. And quite strongly worded. Even equates AI race to space race! Whether you are individually pro-AI or not, you won't be left with an option but to grapple with it. "The United States is in a race to achieve global dominance in artificial
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Explore President Trump's AI Action Plan, America's roadmap to win the AI race focused on Three Pillars: Accelerating Innovation, Building AI Infrastructure, and Leading in International diplomacy...
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Learn formal writing, they said. Be professional, they said. US government AI Action Plan: “Build, Baby, Build!”
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Chat with your tabs is a killer use case on @diabrowser. I tried switching from @arcinternet and it didn't stick initially. I was missing spaces, pinned tabs etc. Until I tried chat with tabs. I don't even care Dia is missing those features. It's that good. Example: Dia
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Companies spend millions on @IPL ads to flex their own brand. @Razorpay chose to flex their clients instead 💪
For years, cricket ad breaks have belonged to celebrities. This year, we flipped the script. We handed the spotlight to 35 bold individuals — not entertainers, but builders. People creating jobs, solving real problems, and shaping India’s future. And instead of asking them to
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