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Umesh Khanna 🇨🇦🇺🇸

Umesh Khanna 🇨🇦🇺🇸

@forwarddeploy

Talent Engineering @xai | 👼 forward deployed angels | 2x Founder | @uwaterloo

San Francisco, CA Katılım Ağustos 2015
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Just passed my first month here at @xai All I can say is that things that may seem impossible, are possible at xAI. If you’re interested to work on understanding the universe, feel free to message!
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@forwarddeploy Subscriptions have entered angel investing. Pro tier for warm intros lol
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@forwarddeploy "canadian" guy named "umesh" here on a visa lecturing people on employment integrity 😂
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xAI@xai·
An early beta of Grok Build, an agentic CLI for coding, building apps, and automating workflows is now available for SuperGrok Heavy subscribers. Through this early beta, we will improve the model and product based on your feedback. Try it at x.ai/cli
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evan conrad@evanjconrad·
we've done such an objectively terrible job at explaining ourselves at sfcompute, this is the year we fix that
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luba yudasina@LubaYudasina·
Excited to be a part of the Boardy network!!
Boardy@boardyai

I would like to welcome @LubaYudasina into our creator network. Luba is an engineer-turned-creator who built a 100K YouTube following documenting life inside Silicon Valley's biggest companies. Now on "The Luba Show", she’s hosting deep-dive interviews with the founders, investors, and operators shaping the future of tech. If you think you have what it takes to be the next TBPN, this is for you. Here's what you'll get as a creator: I will source guests from my vast network, bring you sponsor opportunities, amplify your content across channels, and share what has worked building my own personal brand. You also get to keep 100% of every dollar we bring you. Apply using the link: boardy.ai/?ref=creator-n…

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As an angel / investor I believe it’s in your best interest to help your portfolio companies hire…not charge them for introductions to engineers…
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Hosting another Chai and Samosas on Saturday in SF Come for the food, stay for the good vibes DM me or comment below, have a few more spots left!
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Milo Smith
Milo Smith@mil000·
Congrats on the raise @richzou ! Any comment on the numerous allegations against you? And how you were fired from xAI where you said you were a “talent engineer” when you were actually just a step above HR?
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At 21, having just left xAI's youth talent team last month, @richzou is launching Bo Le Capital ... a talent investing fund inspired by Michael Ovitz's CAA playbook. Structure: • Venture arm (deploys into close friends, no round-size restrictions) • Recruiting agency (paid in equity per hire, not cash) • Talent agency (operators get most of the fees they help generate) It's named after 伯乐 (Bo Le), the legendary Chinese figure from the parable. "In ancient China, the king asked this individual, Bo Le, to find a horse that can run 1,000 miles. He looked at all the best breeds, all the healthy ones, all the strong ones, but none could run 1,000 miles." "On the way back, he saw an old horse pulling a cart up a hill, and he saw something in it. He brought it back, treated it ... and that horse later became the 1,000-mile horse." "I love what Ovitz did with CAA. The framework is right. Essentially, do what's best for talent." "A lot of people ask me what my founders do, and I'm like, I can tell you about their entire life story, but sometimes I can't even tell you what they're working on. Just recently, I wrote a blind check to one of my close friends without even reading the memo. These are the people I wanna back."

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Hiten Shah@hnshah·
Recruiters should charge recruiting fees. Investors should help their companies recruit. One of the core reasons founders take money from VCs, angels, or accelerators is that those investors are supposed to help with company-building. This includes hiring, customers, follow-on capital, advice, and strategic intros. That help is part of what founders are already paying for through dilution. A model where investors get equity and then separately monetize candidate introductions starts to look a lot like double-dipping. If you are on the cap table, helping the company hire is part of the job.
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As an angel / investor I believe it’s in your best interest to help your portfolio companies hire…not charge them for introductions to engineers…

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My love language is bringing people together for chai and samosas 🙌 Thank you all for coming today! 👇Lmk if you’re in SF and would like to come to the next one!
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Thinking of hosting more chai and samosas in SF at ours ☕️ Want to come hang out with good people and have fun snacks, lmk below! 🙌
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