Amy Jain

happy valentines sf

claude bless america where the best xmas gift is 2x productivity

a very good morning to everyone up at ๕: ๕๕ ha ha ha

@SahilBloom load testing irl

Everyone should read this story… One day, a young warrior was walking to his training when he spotted his teacher, a master warrior, tending to plants in the garden. He approached cautiously and stood quietly, not wanting to disturb the man from whom he had learned so much. “What is it you want?” Asked the master warrior, without breaking focus from the plants. The student replied, “Why do we train for war? Would it not be more tranquil and serene to be a gardener and tend the plants?" The master paused, turned to the student, and smiled. “Tending the garden is a relaxing pastime, but it does not prepare one for the inevitable battles of life. It’s easy to be calm in such a serene setting. It’s hard to be calm when under attack.” The student nodded and turned away, satisfied with the answer, but the master wasn’t finished. “It is far better to be a warrior tending his garden than a gardener at war.” I think about that story almost every day. Because here’s the truth we all know: Life is hard. Chaos, uncertainty, failure, struggle, pain, loss. All of those things are a natural part of being alive. They’re not good or bad. They just are. And most of the time, you don’t get to choose the battles that come to your doorstep. You don’t get to pick the adversaries you prefer. You can’t negotiate the timing or the terms. There’s no “timeout” if you’re not ready. There’s no holding period if you don’t like what you see. The simple truth is that you meet life‘s inevitable battles at precisely the level of your preparation. That preparation is built upon the hard things you chose when you didn’t have to choose them: • The early mornings you endured. • The focus you engaged. • The boundaries you held. • The commitments you honored. • The difficult conversations you initiated. Every single time you embrace voluntary struggle, you prepare yourself for the involuntary struggle that will inevitably come. You don’t become invincible. You become capable. Capable of staying calm when others panic. Capable of thinking clearly when things fall apart. Capable of leading, serving, protecting, and persisting when the moment calls your name. Because one day, it will. A loss. A setback. A betrayal. An unexpected blow. And when that day comes, you will not meet the moment at the level of your hopes. You will meet it at the level of your preparation. So, choose the hard things today. Choose the habits, the disciplines, the conversations, the commitments. Choose the voluntary struggles. This is how you face the chaos of war with an internal calm. This is how you become, as Marcus Aurelius once wrote, “like the rock that the waves keep crashing over...unmoved and the raging of the sea falls still around it.” This is how you stand ready when the battle arrives at your door. Remember: It’s better to be a warrior in the garden than a gardener at war.

@meh_agarwal @KoyalAI @tbpn rishta aunties have 10x more rigorous DD and close the round with pheras

Missing YC Demo Day for my sister's wedding. But that doesn't mean we're not cooking @KoyalAI What would happen if Demo Day took place in the middle of an Indian wedding? What would @tbpn indian edition look like...

actually, early bird does get the worm

@sarwal_varuni congratulations! love seeing more badass women building in tech :)

My O-1 visa was recently approved and I just got it stamped in Delhi, India! I'm officially an Alien of Extraordinary Ability building full-time based out of SF 🇺🇸 🇮🇳 Five years ago, I came to the U.S. for my PhD. Today, I get to keep doing what I came here for, pushing the frontiers of medical intelligence and building things people love 🫡 I’m grateful to be in this amazing country, where ambition is rewarded and big, crazy ideas are considered worth pursuing. #founder #sf #building #O1 #Visa #startup #tech #Immigration

we live most of our lives sinusoidally the highs are high, the lows are low and in oscillating between them, become slaves to the curve reducing the amplitude → path to equanimity more : • upeksa (buddhism) • samatva (hinduism) • sehaj (sikhism) • fudoshin (bushido tradition) • ataraxia (stoicism) • menuchat nefesh (judaism)

signs in and from the universe on a late night walk (pac heights, 2025)

ramp is so aptly named (0 → $1B+ annualized revenue in six years, doubling year-on-year) i’m naming my next company hockeystick

sexy how @tryramp used the corporate card as a trojan horse to own the transaction layer by 1) making a card people love 2) earning interchange revenue and reinvesting in financial software 3) cross-selling software till it’s all finance teams use no wonder their money talks (and thinks)

@eglyman the fintech ice age is thawing

Today, Ramp raised another $300M at a $32B valuation. In the past year our revenue has doubled to over $1B, growing 10x faster than the median public SaaS. We all know money talks — we're teaching it to think. Getting big no longer means getting slow.

a little something to take the edge off after a long week

Agency > Intelligence I had this intuitively wrong for decades, I think due to a pervasive cultural veneration of intelligence, various entertainment/media, obsession with IQ etc. Agency is significantly more powerful and significantly more scarce. Are you hiring for agency? Are we educating for agency? Are you acting as if you had 10X agency? Grok explanation is ~close: “Agency, as a personality trait, refers to an individual's capacity to take initiative, make decisions, and exert control over their actions and environment. It’s about being proactive rather than reactive—someone with high agency doesn’t just let life happen to them; they shape it. Think of it as a blend of self-efficacy, determination, and a sense of ownership over one’s path. People with strong agency tend to set goals and pursue them with confidence, even in the face of obstacles. They’re the type to say, “I’ll figure it out,” and then actually do it. On the flip side, someone low in agency might feel more like a passenger in their own life, waiting for external forces—like luck, other people, or circumstances—to dictate what happens next. It’s not quite the same as assertiveness or ambition, though it can overlap. Agency is quieter, more internal—it’s the belief that you *can* act, paired with the will to follow through. Psychologists often tie it to concepts like locus of control: high-agency folks lean toward an internal locus, feeling they steer their fate, while low-agency folks might lean external, seeing life as something that happens *to* them.”

all great truths are simple in the end don't die, never quit, lock in, do hard things, play by the rules, put something back.

proof that you can have insane comebacks anytime 2025 still has 67 more days lock tf in

it’s crazy that trillion-dollar companies put their entire backend faith in a single data center in virginia

turning off dark mode so my IDE can also celebrate the festival of lights #happydiwali

convinced there’s no better place in the world for young + ambitious people than sf right now god, i love the energy of this city