Somesh Dash
@someshdash
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Dad to 2 incredible kids, husband to an incredible wife, son to incredible parents, friend/relative of amazing individuals. Investor. Ruminator. Self-assessor.
Bay Area, California
Joined January 2008
Bravo @sama and team - not easy to make these decisions and trade offs and even harder to do so proactively.
Some of our principles are in conflict, so here is what we are going to do: https://t.co/UQA6ddG356
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I am so excited to share that I have joined @basetenco as president! @tuhinone @amiruci @saltyph have built a beloved product and a hardcore team...and it's just the beginning. Come join us!
Welcome to Baseten @DannieHerz! We’re thrilled to announce that Dannie Herzberg has joined as our new President to lead Baseten’s GTM and operations. As @tuhinone shared: "Dannie is biased towards action, dependable, and long-term in her thinking, and she knows that the
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Update: Perplexity now serves over 300M user queries every week. 3x growth in approx 9 months from the time we hit 100m weekly queries.
Perplexity now serves over 100M queries every week. Next stop: 100M+ queries every day.
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The Perplexity Finance earnings hub is now available for Indian markets. You can see a schedule of upcoming NSE and BSE stocks with earnings calls, and follow live transcripts + analysis + documents.
this weeks’s @PPLXfinance feature— live earnings call schedule + realtime transcription/analysis for Indian markets engineering and quality control on this one was non trivial. Lots of data to capture and present accurately.
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For 20 years, mobile devs paid 30% of every in-app purchase to the platforms. That era is ending. @appchargeHQ is building what comes next. Why we’re leading their $58M Series B → https://t.co/3ARCI85xi7
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Pedro Franceschi explains why Brex doesn’t hire “people managers” anymore One day Brex founder Pedro Franceschi made a list of all of the leaders at the company who worked and didn’t work. “I was trying to find what was predictive of leadership success,” he explains. “A lot of
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Boom! Special day for two of our investments - congrats @shishirmehrotra @rahulvohra and teams @Grammarly and @Superhuman!
This is the future we've been building toward since day one: AI that works where people work, not just where companies want them to work. Thrilled to announce @Grammarly intends to acquire @Superhuman to bring our agentic vision to life. Email is the perfect staging ground for
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So great to see - congrats @DanielLurie @nedsegal and team!
Our arts and culture will drive San Francisco’s comeback. This incredible space at Pier 29, which was formally empty, will now be the largest artist studio and exhibition space in the city. I couldn't be more excited! https://t.co/KLC2awGwM3
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Lots of fun being back on @TFR_Pod with Nick Moran!
@someshdash of IVP rejoins TFR to talk scale-stage excellence, AI strategy, and why great founders lean into going public. We cover Rubrik’s IPO, IVP’s $8B under management, open source's rise, and what it takes to break out. The link to TFR is in our bio.
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Awesome convo with @dottkhan on his new Khanversation podcast!
Had a great chat with my friend @someshdash on the venture industry, AI, and his 20 years as a venture capitalist. Check out his insights! Hope you enjoy
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Thank you for @ariannahuff for sharing your insights!
I love Brian Dyson’s “juggling five balls” analogy: work is a rubber ball that bounces back, but health, family, and well-being are fragile crystal balls that can’t be dropped. When scaling global companies, @someshdash and I learned that the key is recognizing which moments are
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Can’t wait for this - sports + @perplexity_ai!
Introducing Perplexity Sports @PPLXsports: you can get real-time scores, push alerts and live commentary and breakdowns on your Lock Screen! Starting with NFL and NBA, but we’re very quickly going to bring in other sports!
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Congrats to the true startup ecosystem 🐐 @gokulr - nobody does more for founders than him! Excited to see him build Marathon and help a new gen of innovators and builders
I'm excited to launch @MarathonMP with my friend @MBGilroy. Marathon will invest in and support founders who are obsessed with the problem they're solving, who understand the customers they're building for better than anyone else, and for whom their company is their life's
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Prayers to everyone in the greater Los Angeles area - the fires are absolutely tragic and frightening
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Perplexity is a great way to ingest the knowledge in the Gita
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Amazing moment - congrats @AravSrinivas and team @perplexity_ai for meeting with PM Modi in Delhi!
Was great to meet you and discuss AI, its uses and its evolution. Good to see you doing great work with @perplexity_ai. Wish you all the best for your future endeavors.
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RIP to Manmohan Singh - a true scholar, patriot and legislator who did more for India in the years 90’s than most people can fathom
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