Pranav Kashyap

@immad Excited to join the @mercury team! Thanks @immad and @rywiggs and the whole Mercury team for the warm welcome!

Hollywood isn't dead. It's evolving. And we're leading that evolution. We just shipped Koyal v2.5: The best Agentic AI filmmaking platform. It goes from your script or music to full video with consistent characters, settings & storylines. Large Production houses, music labels & ad agencies use @KoyalAI for storyboarding & pre-viz. Smaller studios use it for making content they never had the time, budget or resources to create. Write a scene. Direct the camera. Build a world. @KoyalAI brings it to life. Here's what's new: - Go from script to video: Write a scene with dialogue, pacing, emotion. Koyal fully realizes it. Using the best voice models on the planet. - Direct the camera: Push in. Pull back. Drift through a scene. Real 3D camera blocking. Shape the shot the way you see it in your head. - Build a world that stays:Lock in a location and return to it. Your scenes stay consistent from the first frame to the last. Plus: dialogue, SFX, annotations for editing, and more control over every shot. Under the hood, we benchmark 40+ models weekly with real humans so Koyal always uses the best available (more on that next week!) Our agents pick the best models for each scene in run-time so you focus on the story, we handle the complexity. You don't need to prompt a film, you can direct it. With Koyal, we're looking to replace the camera, not the filmmaker behind it. Try it now at beta [dot] koyal [dot] ai DM me for credits!

@mil000 @cluely @im_roy_lee @neelyweely23 But have you forgotten about the capital losses you can harvest?

Looks like @cluely is almost fully out of money. they have removed all affiliates other than @im_roy_lee and @neelyweely23. Those badges cost $50 a month. I think they're spending too much on engineers since most of them have the original $400k pay package. They now pay 40% less

Emergent is now at $100M ARR (run rate) We got here in 8 months, making @emergentlabs one of the fastest-ever to do it! That's not all. Today, we're unlocking the next billion builders who will build on the go. 📱

jugaad max. Respect.

Another banger from @SarvamAI , this time: real time speech! We are now world best on all things Indian - accents, languages, tones - speak any Indian language in the same conversation, we will switch our tokenizer/mode, and automatically transcribe. Don't miss the demo video!

@marketplunger1 It’s a solid W

This turned out to be one of the greatest investment decisions of the past three years. Amazing.

@dvbydt @peakxvpartners @Ishaanmittal2 @tejeshwi_sharma Congrats @dvbydt @Ishaanmittal2 and @tejeshwi_sharma - can’t wait to see what the new firm brings!

After 13 years at @peakxvpartners / Sequoia Capital India, I have decided to take the entrepreneurial plunge. I am excited to be teaming up with longtime partners @Ishaanmittal2 and @tejeshwi_sharma to start a new venture capital firm. I am deeply grateful to all my partners - @sjs_day1, @mobhat , @gvravishankar, @RajanAnandan, @i_sakshichopra, and @rohitagar_wal - for a truly wonderful partnership. These years have shaped me not just as an investor, but also as a person. Today, the firm is stronger than ever - the next generation of investors, the operating leaders, and teams are exceptional. I thank all of them for their support over the years. It has also been an incredible privilege learning from Michael Moritz and Doug Leone, and the entire Sequoia leadership. Few institutions have refined the model for venture capital as thoughtfully as Sequoia, and it is an inspiration as we think about building our firm. The last few years have given me a ringside view of the best in entrepreneurship. Watching @_groww, one of the first investments I led, become the second most valued new-age public company in India has been extraordinary to witness first hand. Over time, I led ~20 others including Agrani Labs, @ambak_official, @Clarisights, @hellodezy, @Eduvanz_Finance, @gokwik, @LeapFinanceIn, @lightmetrics, @MSE_Exchange, @OnFinance_ai, @OrbitShift_AI, @OsfinAI, @PagarBook, @PayGlocalHQ, @getplumhq, @PristynC , @progcap, Stanza Living, @toddle_edu, @Wobot_ai, and @Zanskar Research. I am deeply thankful to all the founders who trusted me to be a part of their journeys. I am especially thrilled to be starting up with the two partners I have shared much of my life with. TJ and I have known each other for 13 years. Ishaan and I go back over 28 years - we were one year apart in middle school :) Together, we look forward to building a venture capital firm that supports the ambitions of the next generation of founders.

Most billion-dollar ideas die because the barrier to build is too high, @emergentlabs changed that and hit $50M run rate in 7 months. I spoke with @MohapatraHemant to share the hard lessons I've learnt and what it takes to build in AI tl;dr takeaways 🧵 youtube.com/watch?v=hg99Vd…

@akusharmaa @andychuxbt Akash, someone is writing for you too?

@andychuxbt bet, I've heard this work for some founders I know too

sat next to a guy at a coworking space last week. grey hoodie. airpods in. looked like any other dude grinding on his laptop. glanced at his screen. he was scrolling X. figured he was procrastinating like everyone else. 3 hours later we're both getting coffee. "you spend a lot of time on X." "it's my job." "content creator?" "no. i get paid to comment." "what?" "founders pay me to reply to big accounts in their niche. $3,200 a month per client." i almost choked. "you make money... replying?" "i have 11 clients. $35,200 a month. i reply to about 300 posts a day across their accounts." "why would anyone pay for that?" "because replies from the founder's account build trust faster than posts. but founders are too busy to sit on X for 3 hours a day. so i do it for them." "how do you sound like them?" "onboarding call. i ask for 10 examples of how they talk. their opinions on common topics. their humor style. then i just become them in the comments." "and this actually works?" "one client went from 400 followers to 12,000 in 4 months. closed $180K in deals. he said half came from people who found him through replies." "not his posts?" "his posts averaged 2K views. his replies were getting seen by 50K-100K people every day because he was first comment on big accounts." i sat there doing the math. 11 clients. $35K/month. replying to tweets. no content creation. no strategy calls. no deliverables besides comments. "how'd you get clients?" "i DMed 50 founders and offered to do it free for 2 weeks. 9 said yes. 6 became paying clients. then referrals." "what's your X account look like?" "814 followers." "you have 11 clients at $3,200 each with 814 followers?" "they're not paying for my audience. they're paying for my time and my ability to sound like them. followers don't matter when you're ghostwriting replies." he put his airpods back in. went back to commenting on someone else's posts. $35K/month. replying to tweets. he just replies to people who already went viral. and gets paid more than most of them make.

15 months ago I didn't expect I'd start another company so soon Then I saw how many great ideas never make it past day one Today, we’re announcing a $70M Series B for @emergentlabs from @khoslaventures & @SoftBank Here's the story of how we got here (thread) ⬇️

Introducing Vellum: Agents for the rest of us. Just describe your task and get a working agents in minutes. This is not another ChatGPT wrapper or a complex workflow builder. We spent thousands of hours to build the “brain” so you don’t have to look at error logs and learn prompting. Vellum will ask smart questions, connect to your apps, build you a custom agent, and make improvements along the way.

How do we go from a single cell to a complex organism? For 50 yrs experimentally meeting the nutritional demands of a growing organism has been a bottleneck in development. For the first time, we built placental support and predictive tools to make it possible. Watch ↓

LEAKED: actual Waymo code if traffic_light.color == "red": stop() elif traffic_light.color == "green": go() else: # traffic light is off??? # this will literally never happen lol pass update: it happened

Guys I think I found the opposite of Indian food.

Anyone else think MacOS really went a bit overboard on the "Allow" security modals? It should not be controversial that I am using Microsoft Excel to open a spreadsheet in my Dropbox folder.

@benln We love @BigMekaStyle at @firstround! Most helpful team ever

Who are the pre-seed / seed investors every founder should want on their cap table these days?

Our AI SDR has been running for 3 weeks. It just closed a $20k deal. With another AI SDR. Neither company knows yet. We're letting it play out. Is this the future of work?

@aakashdotio @MananShahmd @wyndlyhealth Grateful to work with founders like Aakash and Manan who are rethinking what healthcare feels like for patients🤝 Learn more about Wyndly here - wyndly.com

@aakashdotio @MananShahmd @wyndlyhealth Now, Wyndly brings it straight to patients: personalized, clinically-proven, and delivered through telehealth. They’re proving that medicine can be both convenient and deeply personal.

Healthcare makes it easy to buy pills. It’s still terrible at helping you get better. That’s what cousins @aakashdotio and @MananShahmd set out to fix with @wyndlyhealth. Allergies affect 100M+ Americans and the number’s only growing. Most treatments just suppress symptoms.