Ketki Duvvuru

Being smart, ambitious and hard working isn’t enough to survive and thrive in today’s always online world. 1/🧵

Plot twist: 7 months pregnant in February and not stressing about hot girl summer '25 - instead I'll spend the year prepping for healthy girl winter '26, complete with enhanced germ-fighting powers and a second tiny sidekick! 💪🤰🦠🤧🤒🥲 #coldseason #fluseason #lifewithatoddler #preggers

@henrythe9ths AI guide!

There's a shocking fact about AI that nobody tells you: You can catch up to the public AI research frontier in just 2 weeks. Yes, really. I've built a $150M annual revenue startup over the last 8 years and If I were to start a company today, I’d drop everything and go all-in on AI. But like many busy software builders, I felt lost—overwhelmed by the noisy, crowded and fast-moving modern AI landscape. And I wasn’t alone. So I spent my entire holiday diving deep into AI research—reading 30+ papers, watching hours of lectures, analyzing trends, and catching up to the research frontier. ✨ Here’s what I learned: - You don’t need months (or years) to catch up. - You don’t need a PhD or decades of ML experience. - You need fewer than 20 papers and 2 weeks to understand the major breakthroughs shaping AI today. It's because the technology is extremely nascent and most techniques that came before are no longer relevant: - ChatGPT is barely 2 years old and Transformers are only 7 years old. - Most game-changing discoveries happened within the last 4 years, driven by a few breakthrough ideas, scaling laws, and efficient matrix multiplication. The biggest secret? Many groundbreaking AI papers with thousands of citations are surprisingly simple and applied, like adding "let's think step by step" to the prompt, or simply asking the LLM over and over again to improve its answer (Self-Refine). I realized there are tons of founders and builders in the same boat—wanting to dive deeper into AI but unsure where to start. I've created an essential AI Guide that helped me catch up, in just 2 weeks, to the frontier of public AI research to figure out where the next opportunities and gaps were: - Curated list of only the most important papers - Simple explanations of key concepts - Clear pathway to understanding the frontier of modern AI It’s perfect for: - Founders expanding into AI - Builders wanting to innovate at the frontier of AI - Investors looking to separate the signal from the noise 👇 Want the full guide? - Like and Share this post - Comment "AI Guide" - I'll send you the complete guide (ps, I’m also teaming up with @VishalVasishth, co-founder of @obviousvc with @ev (focused on large-scale societal impact companies like Twitter, Medium, Beyond Meat), to host a small meetup to discuss what's working and needs to be solved in the AI stack in SF. Message me if you're interested)

@kimber_lockhart Love it! Count me in :)

I'm circling up a group friends to join me in a peer accountability circle this January. You can sign up here: tinyurl.com/accountability…

It's fascinating and gratifying to hear @skipperdotco users reference @Superhuman as inspiration for what great product execution looks like - before they even realize I was their first PM! I know firsthand what it takes to build something truly exceptional. Excited to bring that DNA to achieving #InboxZero with your browser tabs! 🎯

Glad you’re enjoying @skipperdotco Jeny! 🤩

@skipperdotco Or skip the reading and go straight to the tools here! app.skipper.co/folders/421509…

Check out the latest on the @skipperdotco blog - a refresher of tools to help you GSD or even something new to try! 🧠👉 skipper.co/post/top-5-bra…

ready! 🏕️🔥

looking forward to getting product-nerdy tomorrow at @lennysan summit! 🤗 my role as ceo @skipperdotco is built on my foundation as PM. so many lessons apply across both roles: - make sure you really understand the problem you’re trying to solve 🕵️‍♀️ -👣 on the street and talk to customers as much as possible - saying no to 99% of good ideas is necessary to really nail the 1% great ideas 🏆 #product #founder #startup #itstimetobuild

@rajivayyangar @ProductHunt auto-organize your browser tabs so you can focus without distractions

I’m the @ProductHunt CEO, I’ve launched 7 times on PH, and helped countless friends prep their launches. The most common mistake I see? a confusing tagline. Launching on @ProductHunt soon? Tell me your tagline and I’ll fix it for you :)

@upekabee Oh man sadly I’ve already had a similar experience with @skipperdotco too! Maybe we’re not too early for HR help 🤔🙏

Read the full story here 👉🏽 buff.ly/3A47ahN

A few weeks ago, someone I know—let’s call him Fred—found an inconspicuous letter buried in the mailroom of his co-working space. When he opened it, his heart sank; it was a notice from the IRS for nearly $20,000. Fred is a fictional character, this story is true—it’s mine.

@jeff_weinstein @gauravvohra our 4-person team works remote across 3 states - filings to register as a business x 3, for a DBA x 3, to issue shares, some of which require a wet signature and notary 🤦‍♀️ these states need to go fully online!

@gauravvohra @k3tk1 heh. those are my ding words. please, tell me about this! jweinstein@stripe.com

the amount of docusign slinging and fedex store visits as a startup founder... 🤡

The first step for any product is to build the wedge: an incredible solution for a single use case that just works. @skipperdotco 's wedge is a Chrome extension that automatically saves & organizes your browser tabs. try it and end tab overload once and for all 👉 chromewebstore.google.com/detail/skipper…

@DarrelFrater Oops! Fixed

@k3tk1 Your DMs aren't open

Any founders interested in pitching AlleyCorp? They are one of the most active early stage funds in New York, typically writing checks between $1M - $3M at the Pre-Seed through Series A Stage. Happy to get you connected.

brb rebranding OKRs as CoaP (Concepts of a Plan)

Skeema’s first product is a Chrome extension for your desktop — install it to enjoy a decluttered browser and automatically organized tabs by topic and usage. I invite you to try it out and let me know what you think! 👉 skeema.com/?utm_source=x&…

Skeema takes over the unnecessarily manual process of collecting and organizing your own digital information to free you up to prioritize, plan and make decisions — the stuff that we humans are best at and actually enjoy doing.

all of the distractions that assault us from every angle constantly: push notifications buzzing in my pocket, countless Slack messages and emails piling up to no end and of course — all those browser tabs with half finished tasks, unread articles, unwritten status updates.