Pratham.

Huge thanks to @ycombinator @snowmaker @xuster @agupta for making this event come to life!

Yc really put a great event here in India. Here’s 3 key points you need to know. 1. You need to keep your customer as your number 1 priority. 2. You don’t have to be the first, you just need to be better at executing. 3. In this age, let the tokens rip.

@xuster @_groww @lkeshre Really enjoyed the interview! The questions were spot on.

@_groww is now a public company and is the largest investment platform in India. @lkeshre the founder and CEO is still the power user of the product he’s built and still talks to users today.  Had the privilege of sharing the stage at Startup School India where he spoke about building a generational consumer company. We talked about product taste as being not just what looks good, but intentional design choices informed by an obsession with the customer. Lalit and how the team at Groww builds products exemplify this. Photo credit: @gcs319

@runjeetw @ycombinator Shoot, we didn’t meet. But let’s connect on X.

At @ycombinator 🏋️🏋️

@TheGreatest9756 It was fun meeting you!

YC SUS was fun, met some really cool ppl 👀

Got so many good insights and so many good connections! A event to remember, @ycombinator

@archiexzzz @ycombinator Hey man we were not able to meet today :( Regardless keep building!

I want to thank @ycombinator for organizing such a huge event with over 2,000 really cracked people under a single roof. Only YC can pull this off. I met so many folks I had only met on Twitter and never IRL. Thanks to everyone who organized the event, the speakers, and every 12th man who was there to make sure the event ran smoothly. I hope we see more events for YC Startup School India for 10,000 operators and builders next time.

What I told 2,000 future founders in Bengaluru today: 1/ We believe we are at the start of a second wave of Indian companies that will build world-class AI native products for the global market. Emergent and Giga are the model of the future. 2/ Just because a space seems crowded doesn't mean it's too late. Zepto, Emergent, Giga - none were first movers. Second mover advantage is real. 3/ In fact, a good formula for finding startup ideas is to look at ideas that are showing some promise and just execute them better. Execution is everything: if you're an exceptional engineer, and you can build and move faster than your competitors, you'll win. 4/ There is every reason to believe Indian teams can beat US teams building global products. The level of engineering talent here is on a whole different level, and that's the key input. 5/ In the AI era, the best founders are the ones building at the edge of what's technically possible. You need to be experimenting wth the latest models, the latest open source projects. 6/ Stay in the flow of information. Watch the right podcasts, follow the right people on X. With AI changing this fast, you need to know what the smartest builders are thinking. 7/ Most of the best startups don't come from someone explicitly trying to start a company. They start from someone building a project just for fun, or tinkering with a new technology because they are curious. India needs more of this "tinkering" culture - this is how you have novel ideas when technology is shifting quickly. 8/ Founders are getting younger. Aadit was 18 when he started Zepto. The Giga founders were 20 when they came to SF. Young people who can learn very fast have the advantage right now. 9/ The best founders are pushing AI coding to the max. You can now write 20K lines of code / day. One person can do the work that just a year ago would take a 100 person team. The best builders are taking advantage and building at Garry Tan speeds.

Yc is ycinggg

Dude where are you?

Where is the yc stance guy!???

@itsharshag Where you at? Let’s connect!

the coachella for techbros 🥳

Startup school guys where you at?

Housefull at YC Startup School India @ycombinator @startupschool !

.@harshilmathur is in the house @ YC SUS! Razorpay is the first YC startup from India and it's extremely inspiring to know this.

Y combinator has arrived in India.

📍 YC startup school

Banglore I’m inside you. Will be attending Yc Sus tomorrow.

Tomorrow. YC Startup School India.