Vivek Prakash
@vivekprakash
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Building @Codingal - Leading online after-school where kids learn AI & Coding through live, interactive classes. YC W21. Email [email protected]
San Francisco, CA
Joined May 2009
RT @garrytan: Sometimes you don’t raise money and your startup dies. Sometimes you raise too much money and your startup dies. It’s just on….
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RT @codingal: 🚀 Just got a DM from the @hackunited_ student crew behind United Hacks V5 and we’re buzzing! The 48-hour, worldwide, virtual….
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At @codingal, we’ve fully embraced an AI-first engineering workflow - and it’s transformed how we build. Here’s how we ship faster with tools like Devin and Claude Code:. 1️⃣ Every Linear task starts with a detailed technical description - engineering design doc for task.
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💻777 code commits this year - and yes, I’m the CEO 🙂. AI-assisted coding (shoutout to Claude Code) has made it easier than ever to go from idea → product. We don’t just teach AI & coding to kids at @codingal - we live it. Now profitable & growing fast. Stay tuned 🚀
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RT @garrytan: Just study Computer Science or engineering.
Just study computer science or engineering. You can learn the other stuff live when you need it.
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The mindset we used at to just keep growing. Whenever it felt like we were stuck, we found new ways! And we will continue to do that, whatever it takes.
One of the most important things I've learned from 20 years of talking to startups at Y Combinator is how few local maximums there are. Founders can just put their heads down and focus on growth, without more than a few months' lookahead, and they'll almost always do well.
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We are looking for problem setters at @codingal, to create coding challenges for fun competitions where high school students participate. We have been running a series of competitive programming challenges for students over the year to encourage them to take up programming and.
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RT @karpathy: Agency > Intelligence. I had this intuitively wrong for decades, I think due to a pervasive cultural veneration of intelligen….
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RT @CanadaKaz: Many product managers don't bind their ambitions with humility. They don't work on small things at all. So, small things ge….
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For many founders, highlight of 2024 was executing in Founder Mode. Many interpreted it in different ways, but smart founders knew what they had to do, or what they were doing already was explained by “Founder Mode”.
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RT @paulg: This is false, but it might be a good thing if belief in it became moderately widespread, because then all the remaining program….
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RT @Suhail: Sometimes I wish I could go back to when I was 19 again and just built stuff I thought was cool without thinking a second thoug….
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RT @nikunj: People just don’t realize how hard early stage startups are. And by chance you find PMF, you are given EVEN harder problems.….
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RT @snowmaker: This section from the Mr Beast onboarding guide is how every company should handle promotions.
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Building a startup feels like fighting a war on N different fronts at the same time!. They are always very specific in nature, e.g. lowering the transaction costs, reducing marketing expenses while ensuring leads continue to grow, reducing the expenses, optimizing servers &.
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Makes so much sense!.
When I graduated with my computer engineering degree I went to Gap and wanted a job that could let me code and design clothes. They laughed at me and told me to go work in IT. I went to an ad agency and said I wanted to work on creative and they said haha there is no role for.
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"Founder Mode" brought back a flood of memories from my first startup. I went through a challenging time, being gaslit at all levels by people I trusted, leading to the painful realization that some believed the startup could thrive without its founders. In my naivety, I accepted.
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RT @snowmaker: "Founder Mode" was an instant classic because it articulated something that thousands of founders already knew to be true bu….
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