Neel

@wrsrsh @aadit_palicha couldn’t miss it

@Neel1027407 @aadit_palicha didn't you sneak in or smth?

heart is full @aadit_palicha 🙂

We had room for 2,000 people at Startup School India. More than 25,000 applied. No Startup School anywhere in the world has ever had this many people apply. Not SF, not NYC, not London. India blew them all away.

Has Nike considered pivoting from shoes to AI datacenters?

I wrote Buildit so that anyone looking to build in India knows about the challenges and perhaps that will encourage more people to not be afraid and start up. India needs more builders.

got mine @albinder

much needed feature thank you @letsblinkit

@heyshipz model quota reached 😳

ts can’t be real bro acadmaxxing

unseen was such a good read, can’t wait what’s in store for this one. gonna be the first reader fs :))

Small accounts tweeting to absolutely ZERO engagement

@0xratnakar @innercircle_so @aiweekendsxyz HAHAHHAHA this is sick

yc is coming to india and 90% of you got rejected introducing whycombinator.in - india's first rejection powered startup show, only top 1% [rejected] come pitch on stage. judges roast them. audience votes live. everything is filmed. and you might get rich. once a legend said : "you only fight when the fight is fair, when you have a chance of winning."

Harshita Arora (@aroraharshita33) just became a General Partner at Y Combinator, making her the youngest in the accelerator’s history. She’s 25 years old, which is young enough that most VCs her age are still grinding as associates, hoping to make principal in five years if they’re lucky. She also dropped out of school at 15, which is the kind of detail that would normally disqualify you from every traditional path to venture capital. Between dropping out and becoming a partner... she discovered coding at 13, built a crypto portfolio tracker at 16 that Apple featured in the App Store, got it acquired, and won India’s Bal Shakti Puraskar (one of the country’s highest honors for young achievers). Then she got an O-1 visa, moved to SF, and applied to YC with her co-founder. Their idea got killed by Covid three weeks into the batch. They had zero background in trucking, zero background in payments, but had a dead startup with 3 months left to figure something out. So Harshita spent weeks visiting truck stops across California, talking to drivers, watching how they paid for fuel, and realizing that the entire payments infrastructure for trucking was totally broken. Ancient systems, hidden fees, rampant fraud, still running on technology from the 1990s despite moving billions of dollars. She built AtoB to fix it. Stripe for Trucking. A modern fuel card with transparent pricing, instant payouts, and financial tools that don’t feel like punishment. Today AtoB is a Series C company serving over 30,000 fleets across the US, processing millions in payments daily, and building the financial infrastructure that the backbone of the economy actually deserves. Now she’s a YC partner at 25, which is absurd when you consider that most VCs spend a decade climbing the ladder at banks or consulting firms, collecting the right credentials, and Harshita skipped the entire ladder and built a $700M company instead. Credentials stop mattering when you build something that works, and this is one of the embodying principles of YC, so it is great to have seen her so active this last year in supporting YC batches as visiting partner, and now a GP. Maybe as batches skew younger (like my post yesterday) partners will too...

@fastshot_ai hahaha you just can't build with gemini tho lol ;))

If you had 3 hours to build something that could raise $5M… This is your shot. Stanford x DeepMind x Fastshot Hackathon — April 12 We’re bringing together top builders, cutting-edge AI tools, and VCs who are actively writing checks. ⚡ Build a web or mobile prototype in just 3 hours   🧠 Use @GoogleAIStudio + @fastshot_ai  💰 Pitch directly to investors writing $500K–$5M checks   🏆 What you win: • 30-min pitch meetings with top-tier VCs   • $70K+ in prizes ($60K IRL + $10K online)   • Serious exposure to funds that matter   👀 Judges & investors from: Investors & Angels: @AnithaVadavatha (AB Plus Ventures) @CCgong (Menlo Ventures) @DanielDarling (Focal VC) @denwezoh (Susa VC) @gstuto (Offscript VC) @omri_drory (NFX Bio) @ShahramSN (Civilization Ventures) @vigsachi (Gradient Ventures) @francescagnuva (Audacious Ventures) @i_arp1t (Threshold VC) @NancyZWang (Felicis) @prateekj (Moxxie Ventures) @brianzhan1 (Striker Venture Partners) and many more. Google / DeepMind: @jocarrasqueira (Product Lead, DeepMind) @ivanleomk (DevEx, DeepMind) Amit Vadi (Head of Community, DeepMind) Stanford: Prof. Nikesh Kotecha (Head of Data, Stanford Health) @tagrtagr (VP Startup Development, Stanford Bases) Co-organizers: @elvirafortune, @dmitryfatkhi, Jesse Z., Arpiné Arakelyan, Kate Polet Approval required. Spots are limited.

@Thevirofficial @fdotinc Viral

just applied to @fdotinc I built a platform that turns one selfie into 30 founder videos — with your face and your voice. Trained on 5000+ viral videos that actually performed. Rt & comment “viral” and I’ll send free credits.

@star_yutish spotted in the back same setup 🤑

whats you're desk setup?

You have no experience. You’ve never started a company. You’ve never had a full time job. Nike is going to kill you. You’re a kid. You don’t have technical skills. You shouldn’t build hardware. Apple is going to kill you. You can’t build hardware. You can’t measure heart rate non-invasively. Athletes don’t care about recovery. Under Armour is going to kill you. It won’t be accurate. You don’t listen. You’re an ineffective leader. You can’t recruit great talent. You’re going to have to pay every athlete. You can’t measure sleep non-invasively. It’s too expensive to research. Athletes are a small market. The product costs too much to make. The product costs too much to sell. Your valuation is too high. Consumers aren’t going to want it. Hardware is too hard. You should measure steps. Fitbit is going to kill you. You can’t build a marketing engine. You can’t raise enough money. You need a real CEO. Google is going to kill you. You can’t be a subscription. You can’t build a brand. You can’t do consumer in Boston. Your valuation is too high. You shouldn’t make accessories. You shouldn’t make apparel. Lululemon is going to kill you. You can’t predict Covid. Stay in your niche. You are going to run out of money. You can’t build a health platform. Amazon is going to kill you. You can’t measure blood pressure. You can’t get medical approvals. The market is too small. You don’t understand AI. The market is too competitive. It won’t work internationally. The supply chain is too complicated. You can’t build an AI. You can’t raise enough money. It’s too competitive. Healthcare isn’t going to want it. … Just keep going ✌️

We locked the most obsessive young builders together in a villa. Here's a lil peek into Forge Residency Cohort 0. Glad to say we had founders who made it to @ycombinator, @join_ef, @fdotinc and many more.