Utkarsh Nanda

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Utkarsh Nanda

Utkarsh Nanda

@NandaUtkarsh

CEO/CTO - MindHub || Ex- DOE Argonne National Lab || Hult Prize 2025 - Global Finalist(Top 8/15,000) @antlerglobal

San Francisco, CA Katılım Ekim 2015
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Utkarsh Nanda@NandaUtkarsh·
@adilmania Social AI Workspace! ChatGPT, you work solo, on trymindhub.com you are exposed to everyone else working on the same thing.
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Utkarsh Nanda@NandaUtkarsh·
@suyog_savalkar @adilmania yeah, though you do work for yourself and then expose the work for others as well, and you are incentivised by the platform to do so.
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Adil Mania.@adilmania·
what are you building? 👋 reply below in one sentence max. if it’s cool, i’ve a surprise for you this week.
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Utkarsh Nanda@NandaUtkarsh·
@NVoitenkov @speedrun @GenwayAI We did alpha launch at our university and among Antler Foundsrs, Week 1-45 users. Week 2- 90 users. Week 3- 200 users. Garnered 500k views on Insta. Prepping for a public launch. Yeah, we applied. If its cool with you, can I put your name on referral.
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Natan Voitenkov
Natan Voitenkov@NVoitenkov·
Application for @speedrun 07 are officially open. The program not only changed @GenwayAI trajectory, but also ours as founders. I am looking for a few folks to mentor, way more valuable than a scout cheque if you ask me. If you haven't done so yet - comment with a blurb of what you are building, and I will reach out via DM. A tip I shared with folks that attended SR06: If you are a team of 3+ crashing in SF/LA for the duration of the program, don't be cheap! Get an apartment with more than 1 bathroom... otherwise it will turn into Sparta quicker than you think 😅
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Utkarsh Nanda@NandaUtkarsh·
Kudos to a16z speedrun to have killer aesthetics! 🤞
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Utkarsh Nanda@NandaUtkarsh·
I think I’ve cracked something guys 🤔, Definitely not something I would have expected a month back. Comment “Connect “if you guys are trying to crack Insta Marketing as well. Let’s help each other out!
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Utkarsh Nanda@NandaUtkarsh·
@pmitu this statement is what claude should use as its marketing
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Paul Mit@pmitu·
Most AI startups are three Claude prompts and a Stripe checkout.
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Utkarsh Nanda@NandaUtkarsh·
@justinbanusing @speedrun @CloutedHQ We're building a social AI workspace, so that knowledge workers can research, validate, and share what they learn/build by exposing it easily into a marketplace.
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Justin Banusing@justinbanusing·
speedrun literally changed our lives. applications for this @speedrun cycle are now open - and if you're an early founder/startup, shoot your shot. more than just funding (because you can find that anywhere nowadays), here's what i found the most helpful for @cloutedhq: 1. mentorship: access to high-touch, dedicated help from the entire firm. seriously, you don't get this anywhere else. working with @tkexpress11, @SamiraBehrouzan, @andrewchen, @tafokints, etc is awesome! 2. community: building startups is tough. but with speedrun, you get to meet so many other awesome founders + operators at the same stage as you. many of whom became good friends like @CocoBuildsStuff, @jjschnyder, @audrlo! 3. credits: insane amounts of credits/savings through their partners. we probably would've run out of money from compute + AI costs alone if speedrun didn't exist. apps are competitive, but there's never a better time for you to pitch and put your best foot forward. if you're applying (or considering) and want any advice before submitting - feel free to DM! also a scout, so happy to make direct intros to the team :)
andrew chen@andrewchen

ok - dropping big dates/news for a16z speedrun: - starting TODAY, founders can apply for the 2026 program that runs July 27 to Oct 11 in SF here's the link: speedrun007.a16z.com/ac - we will be investing up to $1M and funding 70+ companies over the next few weeks - But there's also $5M in credits/tokens/etc from AWS/GCP/Open AI/Azure/NVIDIA/Deel/Stripe/etc. You'll also work with our amazing operating team (GTM, talent, brand, people, and more), and join our community of elite founders - we offer a Global Founders Program for international founders, to help with visas, banking support, relo recommendations - yes you can be solo (but better if you're further along, and have built a team). No you don't have to have an idea yet. Yes you have to know how to build (even if you're not technical) - Also, in other news: speedun is officially moving full-time to SF. (prev it alternated SF/LA) this is for all the obv reasons - we've continued to have an insane lineup of speakers, including the founders of Carta / DoorDash / Twilio / Figma / Zynga / Airtable / Twitch / and of course, lunch/dinners with Marc/Ben alongside a16z team - and much more - the deadline for applying is May 17!

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Utkarsh Nanda@NandaUtkarsh·
@colorkevin @speedrun We're building a social AI workspace, so that knowledge workers can research, validate, and share what they learn/build by exposing it easily into a marketplace.
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adriel@adrielyong·
have wrote several @speedrun scout cheques over the last couple months and one just finished SR006! hoping to refer some folks successfully into next batch DMs open 📩
andrew chen@andrewchen

ok - dropping big dates/news for a16z speedrun: - starting TODAY, founders can apply for the 2026 program that runs July 27 to Oct 11 in SF here's the link: speedrun007.a16z.com/ac - we will be investing up to $1M and funding 70+ companies over the next few weeks - But there's also $5M in credits/tokens/etc from AWS/GCP/Open AI/Azure/NVIDIA/Deel/Stripe/etc. You'll also work with our amazing operating team (GTM, talent, brand, people, and more), and join our community of elite founders - we offer a Global Founders Program for international founders, to help with visas, banking support, relo recommendations - yes you can be solo (but better if you're further along, and have built a team). No you don't have to have an idea yet. Yes you have to know how to build (even if you're not technical) - Also, in other news: speedun is officially moving full-time to SF. (prev it alternated SF/LA) this is for all the obv reasons - we've continued to have an insane lineup of speakers, including the founders of Carta / DoorDash / Twilio / Figma / Zynga / Airtable / Twitch / and of course, lunch/dinners with Marc/Ben alongside a16z team - and much more - the deadline for applying is May 17!

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Ruben@rdominguezibar·
it's official, I'm a a16z @speedrun scout founders: let me know what you are building + traction (if any) + team I can write checks in 24 hours and help you get into the program 🔥
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TK@sumoru·
a16z SR007 applications are open: speedrun.a16z.com If you are building something awesome and are considering applying or have already applied, DM me on what you are building. As a scout I can refer you and write a check for a small investment < 24hr if I like what I see.
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Utkarsh Nanda@NandaUtkarsh·
They say, 6th time is the charm 🙏
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Silicon Mania@siliconmania·
last week in tech was looksmaxxed.
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Utkarsh Nanda@NandaUtkarsh·
@brivael Politicians, Bureaucrats, Money People job is just to allocate resources in a better way. They don’t create anything. If society values them over creators (entrepreneurs, engineers, doctors, artists), what do you think is gonna happen?
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Brivael Le Pogam@brivael·
Elon Musk avait dit un truc qui m'avait marqué sur l'allocation de ressources. En substance : passé un certain niveau de richesse, l'argent n'est plus de la consommation, c'est de l'allocation de capital. Cette phrase change tout. L'économie, dans le fond, c'est juste un problème d'allocation. Tu as des ressources finies et des usages infinis. Qui décide où va quoi ? Imagine une cour de récré. 100 enfants, des paquets de cartes Pokémon distribués au hasard. Tu laisses faire. Très vite, un ordre émerge. Les bons joueurs accumulent les cartes rares, les collectionneurs trient, les négociateurs trouvent des deals. Personne n'a planifié. Et pourtant chaque carte finit dans les mains de celui qui en tire le plus de valeur. Le système maximise le bonheur total de la cour. C'est ça, la main invisible. Maintenant fais entrer la maîtresse. Elle trouve ça injuste. Léo a 50 cartes, Tom en a 3. Elle confisque, redistribue, impose l'égalité. Trois effets immédiats. Les bons joueurs arrêtent de jouer, à quoi bon. Les mauvais n'ont plus de raison de progresser, ils auront leur part. Les échanges s'effondrent. La cour est égale, et morte. Elle a maximisé l'égalité, elle a détruit le bonheur. Le problème de la maîtresse, c'est qu'elle ne peut pas avoir l'information que la cour avait collectivement. C'est le problème du calcul économique de Mises, formulé en 1920. L'URSS a essayé de le résoudre pendant 70 ans avec le Gosplan. Résultat : pénuries, queues, effondrement. Pas parce que les Soviétiques étaient bêtes, parce que le problème est mathématiquement insoluble en mode centralisé. Quand Musk a 200 milliards, il ne les consomme pas, il les alloue. SpaceX, Starlink, Neuralink, xAI. Chaque dollar est un pari sur le futur. Et lui a un track record. PayPal, Tesla, SpaceX. Il a démontré qu'il sait identifier des problèmes immenses et y allouer des ressources avec un rendement spectaculaire. L'État aussi a un track record. Hôpitaux qui s'effondrent, éducation qui décline, dette qui explose, services publics qui se dégradent malgré des budgets en hausse constante. Le marché identifie les bons allocateurs, la politique identifie les bons communicants. Le profit n'est pas une finalité, c'est un signal. Il dit : tu as alloué des ressources rares vers un usage que les gens valorisent suffisamment pour payer. Plus le profit est gros, plus la création de valeur est grande. Quand Starlink est rentable, ça veut dire que des millions de gens dans des zones rurales ont enfin internet. Quand un ministère est en déficit, ça veut dire qu'il consomme plus qu'il ne produit. L'un crée, l'autre détruit, et on appelle ça redistribution. Dans nos sociétés il y a deux catégories d'acteurs. Les entrepreneurs et les bureaucrates. L'entrepreneur prend un risque personnel pour identifier un problème, mobiliser des ressources, créer une solution. S'il se trompe il perd. S'il a raison, ses clients gagnent, ses employés gagnent, ses fournisseurs gagnent, l'État collecte des impôts. Il est la cellule de base du progrès humain. Le bureaucrate ne prend aucun risque personnel. Son salaire est garanti. Au mieux il maintient une rente existante. Au pire il la détruit par excès de réglementation, mauvaise allocation forcée, incitations perverses qui découragent ceux qui produisent. Mais dans aucun cas il ne crée. Regarde les 50 dernières années. iPhone, internet civil, SpaceX, Tesla, Google, Amazon, Stripe, mRNA, ChatGPT. Toutes des inventions privées, portées par des entrepreneurs, financées par du capital risque. Pas un seul ministère n'a inventé quoi que ce soit qui ait changé ta vie au quotidien. La France est devenue le laboratoire mondial de la dérive bureaucratique. 57% du PIB en dépenses publiques, record absolu. Une administration tentaculaire, une fiscalité qui pénalise la création de richesse. Résultat : décrochage face aux États-Unis, à l'Allemagne, à la Suisse. Fuite des cerveaux. Désindustrialisation. Dette qui explose. Et le pire c'est que la mauvaise allocation s'auto-renforce. Plus l'État prélève, moins les entrepreneurs créent. Moins ils créent, moins il y a de base fiscale. Plus l'État s'endette et taxe. Boucle de rétroaction négative parfaite. La maîtresse pense qu'elle aide, et chaque année la cour produit moins. Dans nos sociétés, ce sont les entrepreneurs, toujours, qui font avancer la civilisation. Les bureaucrates au mieux maintiennent une rente, au pire la détruisent. Aucune société n'a jamais progressé en taxant ses créateurs pour subventionner ses gestionnaires. La question n'est jamais qui a combien. C'est qui alloue le mieux la prochaine unité de ressource pour maximiser le futur de l'humanité. La réponse depuis 200 ans n'a jamais changé. Ce ne sont pas les fonctionnaires.
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Utkarsh Nanda@NandaUtkarsh·
Almost every company is making tools for people who already know ehat to do. The problem is people don’t know what to do.
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