Ash Bhoopathy

@PeterDiamandis @elonmusk Will doctors be available from UberEATS?

@elonmusk believes FSD + Starlink may reverse urbanization in America. This is a plausible possibility... The US has <50 people per sq km.

Meh, just merge that shtuff, it’s fine they say

Someone asked what's the most underappreciated quality in startup founders. I realized I could answer this by asking what's the most underappreciated aspect of startups. That's easy: how hard they are. So the most underappreciated quality in founders is sheer toughness.

This is the age of CEOs crushing 10 people’s work with Claude Code in nights and weekends and I am so here for it The fire in your belly that got you here never really goes out and now we are all cooking 20 hours a day

Granola rebranded into super ugly logo and colors before vibe creating an API that would have taken an afternoon. Get your priorities right, product folks. @meetgranola Leaving the door wide open for competitors / alternatives

Everytime I get mad at people in the cheap seats criticizing founders in the arena, I remind myself of what Giannis said. Arguably my favorite response to a reporter ever.

BREAKING: Zohran Mamdani is expected to require ALL New York Elementary school students to learn Arabic numerals. As a Jewish American I still support this 100%

Admire people with principles

@shaunmmaguire @vikasreddy qq What makes you think you have more context than anyone else re Mamdani? How are you claiming to have interpretive authority… is it based on familiarity with Mamdani’s work and its intellectual lineage, or a personal relationship?

@vikasreddy That's fair criticism. I accept this feedback. To me saying "Islamist" is like calling someone a "communist" but I learned the hard way that's not how people interpret the word I also learned that people don't have as much context on Mamdani as I do

Mamdani comes from a culture that lies about everything It’s literally a virtue to lie if it advances his Islamist agenda The West will learn this lesson the hard way

@shaneparrish It's a mistake even to frame the problem as bringing "back" American industry. The real problem is simply to increase economic growth, and chances are the best way to do that is by focusing on growing new industries rather than repairing old ones.

@pitdesi I can ship you one. will be slinging these at the seattle home show in feb

@ashbhoopathy amazing - i've thought about getting these

When I interned at Amazon, my office had a stunning view of Mount Rainier… which I discovered a full 2 months into the internship on the first clear day. I got to experience that stunning view for 3 days that summer.

@hkarthik 100%

It feels like there's a Cambrian Explosion of new vibe coding apps. Every day I'm seeing some new competitor to Lovable and Replit that claims to do it better. In the end, the winner here is going to figure out how to scale distribution. Getting someone to use your app is way harder than actually building it in the first place.

Jessica: Do think one day people will look back and ask how America could let this this happen? Me: A lot of people are already asking that today.

Now, do the Epstein files.

@georg3 @paulg ... But.... he didn't rush the stage. 😂 Why do people just say things?

@paulg They're within moments of each other sure but we still don't get to rush the stage past security. Anyway, it should be obvious he wanted this publicity with the selective partial clips and he's getting it.

This is so fucked up. A sitting US senator being handcuffed for trying to ask a question at a DHS news conference? No matter what your political party, you can't think this is a good thing.

Let's talk about what happened today.

@pitdesi @akshay__mehra @AkshatGoenka You're still vegetarian right? Did you do the veg tasting menus at these... I'm surprised to see some names on here that I didn't feel were that awesome for vegetarians. p.s. Now I want to go to Cape Town to go to an Indian restaurant, thanks :P

A new #1 in my fancy Indian food ranking! 1) Ambassadors Clubhouse (London) 2) Ettan (Palo Alto) 2 (tie) Semma (NYC) 3) Bungalow (NYC) 4) Dhamaka (NYC) 5) Rooh (SF) 6) Thali (Cape Town) Ones I would not eat at again: Indian Accent (Delhi) Gaggan (Bangkok) Copra (SF) Tiya (SF) Campton Place (SF) Honorable mention: Ekaa (Bombay) is very good but not really Indian food by my definition (even though they claim it is) RIP August 1 Five (SF), gone from this world too soon. There are many other really good ones that aren’t fancy enough for this list like Bombay Canteen (Bombay) and Besharam (SF)

@paulg @nntaleb @JDVance It's possible for both of these to be true. That is in fact the likeliest alternative.

@nntaleb @JDVance Either he gets it and he's pretending not to, or he just doesn't get it. I.e. he's either evil or stupid. There is no third alternative.

I can't believe that @JDVance doesn't get that it is not about a specific case, but a grand principle; for the violation of due process is the mother of all slippery slopes.

@thdxr @t_blom ☠️☠️☠️

@t_blom AI can already post better than this how come there's still demand for your posts

Software engineers are highly-paid farmers, tending their crops by hand. We just invented the combine harvester. The world is going have a lot more food and a lot fewer farmers in very short order.