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The most important skill of an entrepreneur is the ability to make decisions based on incomplete, inconclusive, and frequently contradictory information.
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arkadeepkumar
@arkadeepkumar
Applied Materials| nano-manufacturing|UEC @molecularfndry| former ITRI-Rosenfeld Fellow @BerkeleyLab @UCBerkeley| PhD @GeorgiaTech| Energy, Water, Environment
Katılım Şubat 2019
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“Costco Wholesale (COST) has effectively become a de facto startup accelerator for emerging consumer packaged goods brands, with short-term tests, aggressive volume expectations, and very specific operational demands.”
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@udaysy Thanks for the nuanced perspective, followed, look forward to see more builds
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my twitter account is 10 years old
had 67 followers until last week
in that time i:
- finished masters at TU Munich
- quit corporate after 2 years
- bootstrapped 3 companies from India
- built a team of 25
- shipped products used by 100K+ students
posted maybe 50 tweets total
biggest mistake? not building in public from day 1
fixing that now. following everyone whos on the same journey
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Today's a special day for @LightspeedIndia. Introducing INDIA ASCENDS'2026, a program purpose-built for India's youngest (>25yo), boldest, cohort of world shapers & change makers. If you are one of them, put your headphones on, turn to volume to max, click on the video, and read on :)
Building something is hard but building something the world has never seen before is nigh impossible. There is this concept of not just building a kingdom, but building a kingdom at the edge of a precipice -- founders who want to go all the way to the edge of what’s possible, beyond which there is no land, there is no road, the compass stops working, and they look into the abyss, and say ‘yes, this is for me, this will be my life’s work’. These are the rarest of birds that take the plunge and know they’d fall before they fly, but when they fly, oh how glorious do they look.
We @lightspeedindia have been fortunate to partner with several of these founders. We met @PixxelSpace when the founders @awaisahmedna @kshitijgokul were just 22yo. We backed @Airbound_Aero when @TheRealNamzoo was just 17. We’ve backed many others doing their life’s work at absolute cutting edge of what’s possible - @Arun_Vinayak_S of @ExponentEnergy, @pratykumar & @vivekrag of @SarvamAI @devdutdalal & @XaviLaguarta at @MittiLabs and more. Beyond our portfolio, there is some amazing founders doing their life’s work - @PawanKChandana @SkyrootA , @sohamsankaran @PopVaxIndia , @khushhhi_ @AsperaAero, @nagokul @CynLr00, @adrnschm @sarlaaviation, @deepigoyal @lataerospace & @temple, @Manu_J_Nair @EtherealXTech & many more.
We need more of these founders coming out of India. Not just that, we need to fill gap that exists in this market which is in backing really young (<25yo) founders who are tinkering in school or college labs, or spending their weekends building, experimenting and failing fast, and are truly building globally competitive and de novo tech that, if it works, can have huge consequences in the world. To that end, we are proud to launch INDIA ASCENDS'2026 -- our flagship yearly program for the most cracked young builders in the country doing incredible cutting-edge research in robotics, quantum, space, energy, AI, bio or more.
Our program applications open today and we’ll select 12-15 of the best, boldest ideas that we think has the potential to shape the future. We’ll bring them all to BLR for a 2-day program. Each participant will get ~$100K in support from our partners @AnthropicAI @GroqInc , @googlecloud @awscloud and we’ll also select 3-4 winners who will get venture funded to build their dream starting from $200K all the way to $3M and almost $500K of non-dilutive credits & grants from our partners. We look forward to seeing the boldest ideas you've been working on. Link to apply in the first comment:
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@ishaanpreet Admire the deadline kept as 12th Jan, being National Youth Day commemorating Vivekananda birthday!
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A dramatic change in the past decade has been the audacity of India's youngest founders, and the awe inspiring missions they've set out (and made a dent in).
We've backed companies ranging from drone makers to satellite launchers to jet engine manufactures and pet robots.
All founded by founders who were young, ambitious, and just the right amount of delusional.
If you're building something hard and important, apply for India Ascends - applications close 12 Jan.
Hemant Mohapatra@MohapatraHemant
Today's a special day for @LightspeedIndia. Introducing INDIA ASCENDS'2026, a program purpose-built for India's youngest (>25yo), boldest, cohort of world shapers & change makers. If you are one of them, put your headphones on, turn to volume to max, click on the video, and read on :) Building something is hard but building something the world has never seen before is nigh impossible. There is this concept of not just building a kingdom, but building a kingdom at the edge of a precipice -- founders who want to go all the way to the edge of what’s possible, beyond which there is no land, there is no road, the compass stops working, and they look into the abyss, and say ‘yes, this is for me, this will be my life’s work’. These are the rarest of birds that take the plunge and know they’d fall before they fly, but when they fly, oh how glorious do they look. We @lightspeedindia have been fortunate to partner with several of these founders. We met @PixxelSpace when the founders @awaisahmedna @kshitijgokul were just 22yo. We backed @Airbound_Aero when @TheRealNamzoo was just 17. We’ve backed many others doing their life’s work at absolute cutting edge of what’s possible - @Arun_Vinayak_S of @ExponentEnergy, @pratykumar & @vivekrag of @SarvamAI @devdutdalal & @XaviLaguarta at @MittiLabs and more. Beyond our portfolio, there is some amazing founders doing their life’s work - @PawanKChandana @SkyrootA , @sohamsankaran @PopVaxIndia , @khushhhi_ @AsperaAero, @nagokul @CynLr00, @adrnschm @sarlaaviation, @deepigoyal @lataerospace & @temple, @Manu_J_Nair @EtherealXTech & many more. We need more of these founders coming out of India. Not just that, we need to fill gap that exists in this market which is in backing really young (<25yo) founders who are tinkering in school or college labs, or spending their weekends building, experimenting and failing fast, and are truly building globally competitive and de novo tech that, if it works, can have huge consequences in the world. To that end, we are proud to launch INDIA ASCENDS'2026 -- our flagship yearly program for the most cracked young builders in the country doing incredible cutting-edge research in robotics, quantum, space, energy, AI, bio or more. Our program applications open today and we’ll select 12-15 of the best, boldest ideas that we think has the potential to shape the future. We’ll bring them all to BLR for a 2-day program. Each participant will get ~$100K in support from our partners @AnthropicAI @GroqInc , @googlecloud @awscloud and we’ll also select 3-4 winners who will get venture funded to build their dream starting from $200K all the way to $3M and almost $500K of non-dilutive credits & grants from our partners. We look forward to seeing the boldest ideas you've been working on. Link to apply in the first comment:
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.. "all the mental energy... Could be far better used.."
Z Fellows@zfellows
Co-founder of Andreessen Horowitz: Nobody Cares
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@jefielding Got the old adage of asking advice from my college HOD years back. Seems still works!
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I met a thoughtful founder last week asking for advice on building moats for his AI product. He didn’t mention any fundraise. But this week, he over subscribed his seed round. Seems that Everyone he asked for advice last week offered him a check. I guess the old adage still works!
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It’s a bird, it’s a crane! The world’s largest crawler crane has landed in Silicon Valley to help build Applied Materials’ new EPIC Center. 🏗️ Standing as tall as two Statue of Liberties and just a few feet shy of Seattle’s Space Needle, this powerful crane will help to lift the roof trusses onto our state-of-the-art lab later this summer. #AppliedEPICSiliconValley appliedmaterials.com/us/en/semicond…
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Early-stage market analysis for tech startups is often useless and misleading. Take Canva and Adobe. Instead of having its market share cannibalized by Canva's stunning growth to over $3B in ARR, Adobe's value has 8X-ed since Canva launched.
We tend to treat markets like fixed pies where one company's gain must be another's loss. But the reality is much more interesting. When Canva made design accessible to millions who had never touched Photoshop before, it created new users. It expanded the very definition of who could be a designer.
Canva massively expanded its TAM.
We can see similar patterns across industries.
• Uber created a market of people who'd never hailed a cab while multiplying the number of professional drivers
• Airbnb unlocked millions of empty rooms that were never part of the hospitality market
Great technology products create their own demand.
The same principle applies even more dramatically with the proliferation of AI. Those tiny niche markets that seem too small to matter can become enormous when AI makes previously impossible things possible.
Of course, there are limits. No matter how good your software is, it's not likely to reverse an end market that is in terminal decline. AI for post offices is unlikely to expand the post office market. But generally speaking, I've learned to be extremely open-minded about market size, especially when great founders are involved.
That's because the best founders push the boundaries of any market they enter. That's what Canva, Uber, and Airbnb did. And that's what the next generation of AI companies will do.
So when evaluating opportunities, I ask myself: What could this market become if this product succeeds?
While the traditional VC playbook says to analyze TAM, SAM, and SOM, those metrics assume static markets.
The most successful startups create new markets or radically expand existing ones.
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@naresh_sunkara Thanks for calling out the contrast. And insightful post!
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They are at the crossroads of using electronic tools to function efficiently but also living in poverty. Transactions/payments are frictionless.
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The deeper I go into the countryside (India), the tastier and cheaper the food! I doubt if you’ll get such tasty food at some of the star hotels around the world! 😊. I spoke to the workers and the owner- super nice people!
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Great to see Dr. Melkote take on leading ME Georgia Tech- excellent leader to lead the department! He has been my PhD advisor, and beyond grad school he has been a mentor, champion, overall a great human! @MEGeorgiaTech @gtalumni @GeorgiaTech
Georgia Tech College of Engineering@gatechengineers
Long-time faculty member Shreyes Melkote will step in as interim chair of @MEGeorgiaTech starting May 15. Dean @rbeyah says Melkote's achievements & dedication make him an ideal choice to lead through this time of transition in the Woodruff School. b.gatech.edu/3Y1BEtI
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Materials Science and Mechanical engineering students coming up with a PCB board manufacturing alternative! Go jackets @gtalumni @MEGeorgiaTech more here: commercialization.gatech.edu/leading-charge…
Georgia Tech@GeorgiaTech
Team Convexity won last night’s 2025 InVenture Prize, taking home $20,000 and a U.S. patent for their game-changing electronics 3D printer that revolutionizes printed circuit board manufacturing. ⚡ | c.gatech.edu/423AdNB #WeCanDoThat #InVenturePrize
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@DeveshRanjanGT congrats! And thank you for being one of the most inspirational leaders from GT! From connecting with him in 2014 (I was PhD student),getting to know over the years, I am fortunate for his mentorship. @MEGeorgiaTech will miss you! @GeorgiaTech @gtalumni
UW-Madison College of Engineering@UWMadEngr
We’re thrilled to welcome back alumnus @DeveshRanjanGT as the 10th dean of the College of Engineering @UWMadison! He comes from @MEGeorgiaTech, where he led one of the country’s largest and highest-ranked engineering programs. engineering.wisc.edu/news/devesh-ra…
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We’re thrilled to welcome back alumnus @DeveshRanjanGT as the 10th dean of the College of Engineering @UWMadison! He comes from @MEGeorgiaTech, where he led one of the country’s largest and highest-ranked engineering programs.
engineering.wisc.edu/news/devesh-ra…
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@SarbajitBanerj1 @ETH_DCHAB @ETH_en @psich_en Congratulations @SarbajitBanerj1 ! All the best for the times ahead!
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Grateful for the blessings that have come our way in Aggieland the past decade and for the kindness and support of the Aggies. In 2025, we will start a new chapter @ETH_DCHAB @ETH_en @psich_en -excited to join two storied institutions and looking forward to what comes next
D-CHAB@ETH_DCHAB
Welcome @ETH_DCHAB : Sarbajit Banerjee @SarbajitBanerj1 , currently Professor at Texas A&M University in College Station, USA, is appointed as Full Professor of Battery Materials in the Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences! ethz.ch/en/news-and-ev…
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We are proud to once again be ranked as the #1 Public Mechanical Engineering program in the nation and No. 2 overall. It's an honor to work alongside members of the Woodruff School community — remarkable students, faculty, staff, alumni, and friends — who make this all possible.
Georgia Tech ME@MEGeorgiaTech
The George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering is ranked No. 2 in the nation, according to the 2024 U.S. News & World Report Best Colleges rankings of undergraduate mechanical engineering programs. Bit.ly/Rankings2024
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Advancing decarbonization is critical to the future of the semiconductor industry. In our latest blog, Chris Librie outlines three priority areas where systems engineering practices can move the needle in the right direction. Read more here: bit.ly/3F2zU9U
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We are the leader in materials engineering solutions used to produce virtually every new chip and advanced display in the world. Over the next 5 days we'll be honoring our 55 years of technology leadership. Come back each day to celebrate with us! #WeAre55 bit.ly/3sXZ3Mz
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@molecularfndry @sineatrix Awesome, all the best to the Foundry connections!!
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The Foundry's @sineatrix, former SLAM winner, is MCing the event today. Good luck to our #postdocs Alex Pattinson & Gan Chen, and our users Sabari Ghosh and Sarah Gleeson!
Berkeley Lab@BerkeleyLab
Join us LIVE today at 3p PT for our Berkeley Lab Research SLAM, where our finalists will bring you compelling three minute presentations on their research. Make sure to vote for your favorite talk! #LabSLAM2022 ➡️ streaming.lbl.gov @LBNLpathways @BerkeleyPostdoc
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