Vartika 🕊

Networking is not “who you know.” It’s about “who you’ve helped.”

friendship is two ppl whose presence makes the other more themselves.

Many situations in life are similar to going on a hike: the view changes once you start walking. You don't need all the answers right now. New paths will reveal themselves if you have the courage to get started.

it's better to die in the pursuit of excellence than live in the acceptance of mediocrity

High-agency people seem to have insane luck. They don't. They just tried 47 things while everyone else tried two and gave up. The conviction that reality is negotiable is generative, it makes you creative. Because if you believe there's always another angle, you start looking for angles other people don't see.

sequoia put out a blog post called "services is the new software" look at this map of over $1T in services being replaced by AI agents

High intelligence is being delusionally optimistic, not having a PhD.

You can get a lot of free time back by simply not having an opinion on everything.

Act like you already have it, and soon, you will.

Curiosity is more useful than confidence.

This chart has been bothering me for a while. Why, with all the new methods we have to build startups, have failure rates stayed the same? So I wrote about it

A business grows as fast as the founder’s sense of urgency.

if your value compounds across domains rather than within one, there’s likely no ladder for you in a corporate environment.

as long as you have more ideas than you can implement, you're safe

A man’s greatest weapon is consistency. It outlasts talent, talk, and luck.

You will never regret walking away from what’s not for you. Only staying too long.

the only way to win minds & more importantly hearts when you’re a nobody trying to be somebody is to speak closest to the truth as possible. this is how most major movements are born.

@jedgar Good luck!

@VManasvi The chances of me coming to a founder I'm not aquatinted with is below zero, too much deal flow, sorry. I'll be at Socratica tonight.

I'll be here for the next 3 hours: 151 Charles St W, Kitchener, ON N2G 1H6 You can come pitch me. Better be good tho...

the internet made knowledge free and focus expensive

The secret everyone in the top 1% understands is to be delusionally optimistic.