Jainam Patel

$100M+ in scholarships goes unclaimed every year in the US. Not because students don't need it. Because they can't find it. So we built Astrai. Type in your high school and our AI agents find scholarships you actually qualify for, including local ones no other platform touches. Watch (sound on) how it works:

@mixpanel wants the smoke

@mrvisheshgupta Ya if you work hard enough you can definitely still be successful. Good luck dawg

@JainamBlueprint I don't see a path forward in college. But I do see it outside of college. So naturally leaving it behind was a no brainer.

If you create content explaining solutions without stating the problem It's like filming a movie with a hero that lacks a villain to fight. No narrative = boring.

@maheshbusiness_ Igu

someone give me access to mythos pretty plz

opportunity to get into a top college. I was similar in your thought process of not needing school or college. I couldn’t have been more wrong. Unless you have something where you can’t balance school with, getting access to incredibly intelligent people + name brand associated with your college is incredibly valuable. The brand name of your college can get you so far. Alums, organizations on campus, etc. What was the reasoning behind your decision? Just curious nothing else

@JainamBlueprint Why stay there?

@dev_kunjadia Give a review on it after if it's worth reading

A friend just gifted me this, this is going to be legendary

@kushwah_aaryan @ycombinator @saviomartin7 Congrats!!

we got into @ycombinator P26 as some of the youngest Indians ever to get in. in the last month, we decided to build the future of work. the major contributors of the post-work economy will be 1 to 3-person teams and Result will be the platform for them. ok time to lock in

@andrew_locke @avipat_ @Preston_Mecky @useKled Fr this doesn’t make sense from the VC perspective

@avipat_ @Preston_Mecky @useKled Any idea what they "saw" that made them decide to jump ship to these guys? Or is it they're really fucking good at talking/selling.

General Catalyst just co-led a $31.5 million seed round into a blatant rip-off of my company, Kled. (skip to 40 seconds if you want to skip context) I would typically not speak on things like this, but this level of blatant copycatting is egregious and completely unacceptable, and needs to be made an example of. This is one of hundreds of YC startups who have conducted this disgusting behavior. Unimaginative slop that continues to get rewarded due to nepotism.

@marcelochaman @alexch3n @coca__colaa__ real some ppl have little difficulty getting 4.0 even at tougher schools

@alexch3n @coca__colaa__ ur assuming school is difficult for everybody which is simply not true

hot take but 4.0 GPA is arguably low signal

@LayerxSecurity LayerX saw early that the browser would become a critical security layer in the AI era. Huge congrats to the team on today’s announcement with @Akamai. Shoutout to @zsparta, @saayanath, @GlilotP, and @DellTechCapital.

@mildjosh00 @ishankunam Yo Josh you got me too right

@ishankunam igu

finally got the blue checkmark. thanks @mildjosh00

@ishankunam @krayondev @V1Michigan Love V1 🐐

i joined @V1Michigan ~10 months ago now and have led it for less than a third of that time. it's been a pretty insane, and not to mention a very fun, adventure so far. this semester, we ended up pulling off the most successful Demo Day we've ever had. so i just want to take a moment to thank my team for making it possible, my co-exec @ArhanKaul for putting up with me, and our w26 cohort for all their hard work. and a huge thank you to our judges @verorellana02, @MikeVichich, and @crtinch for all their support!

@nlvaidy Thanks bro

@JainamBlueprint gws

Health is easy to take for granted until it’s gone. I came into summer with momentum. - 19 days of hitting my macros. - Ready to get back in the gym. - Ready to build the projects I had been putting off during finals. Then I got sick right after moving home. For almost a week, I was basically bedridden. Couldn’t train. Couldn’t eat well. Couldn’t think deeply without my head hurting. All I could really do was sleep, scroll, and watch videos. Felt like a reverse dopamine detox. And honestly, it felt terrible. It felt terrible because I genuinely want every day to move me forward, and for the first time in a while, I physically couldn’t make that happen. The gym, deep work, building, studying, creating... ALL of it depends on your health first. So yeah, I’m very grateful that I'm feeling better now. Don’t wait until you’re sick to appreciate being healthy.

@maheshbusiness_ 100%

@JainamBlueprint always take care of it fr

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Meet @dylanli09, a CS student applying to hundreds of internships. Keeping track of every status update was a hassle. So he built ApplyMail on AgentMail. Every company email gets parsed and piped into a dashboard. No more inbox archaeology. Just ship.

@anna_kislenkova Yeah exactly It’s weird how hard it is to break away from something that’s so normalized Appreciate your input :D

@JainamBlueprint Well said Jainam, it hits hard because spending all of our mental bandwidth on a singular number is so normalized and expected in society, but breaking the standard is counterintuitively the only way to get to the life that you’ve been dreaming of :)

I might have traded my GPA for startups this semester... Now I am cramming for finals. What I learned: - Discrete math is not something you learn in 2 days - Being this underprepared for exams sucks At the same time, there were real tradeoffs: - Secured a SWE internship at a VC - Built and shipped projects + demoed one in front of 100+ people - Got more exposure to VC and startup environments - Met interesting people and opened some doors - Became more consistent with gym, sleep, and eating So the real question is whether that trade was worth it. I do not know yet. But trading all of that for an A instead of a B+ is hard to justify. Getting a B in EECS 280 or discrete math is probably not a big deal. It just feels worse because I am not used to it. Breaking that standard hits harder than it should. (Sorry mom)

I appreciate this, and I agree on the diminishing returns. It also kind of goes against the idea that the “A student” is the one who’s winning. In CS especially, that just doesn’t seem true. If you are only chasing a higher % and not building or staying current, it doesn’t translate to much. Especially since the CS curriculum is outdated. Ideally you do both. But if I had to choose, I would rather optimize for becoming actually useful than squeezing out a few extra percentage points. This was the first time my own definition of progress really clashed with the “normal” one. I feel like in a year it won’t matter what letter grade I got, more whether I am actually capable of doing valuable work.

@JainamBlueprint As someone who has consistently been making this trade-off, I don't regret it. Whatever gap there is between you and the A student is so small/nonexistent that there are diminishing returns as you continue to chase a higher percentage.

About 1.5 months ago, I made a video on the dilemma I was having. Overall, I'm pretty happy with the way things turned out. I just hope I don't shit the bag too badly on these exams and then it's onto the next big thing :D youtube.com/watch?v=JON7T0…