Aatish Nayak@nayakkayak
After a rewarding journey at @harvey, I’m excited to share I'm joining @kleinerperkins as a Partner to back the next generation of AI-native founders!
When I joined Harvey as the first PM, we were just 20 people with 5 customers quietly building in a world that still ridiculed GPT wrappers. Thank you to @winstonweinberg and @gabepereyra for showing that with a relentless focus on the customer and a constant dissatisfaction with the status quo, nothing else matters. I remain incredibly bullish in @winstonweinberg, @gabepereyra, @aniqued, & @sgurumur's leadership to take the company to the next level, raising the bar for the whole application layer.
Company building is when you learn the hard lessons that don't show up in any pitch deck; it’s chaotic but addictive. And I’ve had the privilege to do it early at three AI decacorns at three different layers of the stack: Harvey (apps), @scale_AI (data), and @shieldaitech (physical). The pattern I’ve observed is that great founders don't just build great products, they paint the AI transformation vision for their industry, redefining how work actually gets done.
The winners of this cycle will combine unique domain insights, customer-centric decision making, and nimble, talent dense teams all with the goal of becoming the canonical deployment of AGI in their space. We are still only at the beginning of an industrial revolution much bigger than the last, and the opportunities are infinite.
That conviction in the future, while respecting the history, is what drew me to Kleiner Perkins. @mamoonha, @ilyaf, and the team are backing the founders seizing that opportunity right now, including Harvey, @p0, @tryprofound, @JoinNooks, @getavoca and more. And they’re doing it with both the ferocious conviction and intellectual humility this moment requires. I’m excited to dive in with this team and the founders they’ve backed.
If you're an AI-native founder in any domain, I'd love to chat! There’s so much left to build.
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