Rahul Desai

My non-linear pathway as a 22 year old from Sydney 👇

@ethanabuck This is sick man - reminds me of the paddle pop stick mansion videos I used to watch. Keep kicking

Lego is boring. Enter BYLT - real construction using real practices. From architect drawn blueprints to finished product... on a tiny scale. Get your kit or order a la carte from the supply yard 👇

this budget should be applauded for its bold changes to shake us out of housing complacency. hell, we've been crying out for this kind of vision. but without tweaks, it risks undermining the very foundations of the australian spirit. trying, failing and winning isn’t just the domain of our athletes. it is a serious story we tell ourselves. it is what our national psyche and shared prosperity are built on. it is australians with the ambition to have a go, from inventors and engineers to tradies, cafe owners, retailers and panel beaters. small business owners, some of whom grow into very large businesses and underwrite much of our future prosperity through job creation, tax revenue and wage growth. it’s kids saving for a home, putting their time and money into productive assets — shares, ETFs and employee share ownership plans — to grow the pie for all of us. as a nation, we need to be mature enough to believe that when some of us win, we all win. anyway, i wrote an op-ed:

We profiled the most hyped energy startup in America. Exclusive look inside the $4B startup, Base Power, with co-founders @JLopas & @ZachBDell A former SpaceX engineer & a Thrive capital investor, rebuilding American energy dominance. Trying to do what SpaceX did to NASA and Anduril to Lockheed. But for energy. Yep, a lot of ambition. So, what do they have to show for it? 0:00 Meet Zach & Justin: Raising $1.3B To Fix America's Grid 1:16 How The Grid Came 4 Minutes From Collapse 1:56 Zach: Why The U.S Desperately Needs A SpaceX for Energy 3:25 Justin Explain's Their Home Battery Installation 4:14 Why Thrive Capital Bet on Zach & Justin (feat. Avery Klemmer) 5:16 How Justin & Zach Met? (Anduril Factory Tour) 6:32 Zach’s Secret Co-founder Test on Justin 7:20 How Base Build Their Competitive MOAT... 10:34 Justin: “Everything you do more than once is a factory” 11:17 Zach: This Is How To Raise $1.3B from Tier-1 Funds... 13:38 How to Build An Elite Team & Culture 14:26 Zach: "I'm Never Stoked To Fire People, But..." 15:33 The Personal Cost of Being An Entrepreneur 16:35 Energy, China and America’s future 18:22 Unpacking The Chip on Zach's Shoulder 19:13 Zach: “I Am Not the CEO This Company Needs in 5 Years” 19:49 Sachin & Adam: Our 3 Biggest Takeaways

RT @Sachin_and_Adam: We got exclusive access to the startup building BCI’s for brain cancer survival Two Cambridge neuroscientists, @Woodi…

@gauravsbuilding Let’s fricken go brother, so sick

Today, we’re releasing Tinder for marketing. Enter your website, and it creates thousands of videos about your product based on trending content in your niche. All you have to do is swipe right:

You keep: - Exploring instead of declaring - Refining instead of choosing - Learning instead of staking a claim - Keeping doors open instead of closing the wrong ones This feels smart but it is actually delay disguised as sophistication.

I asked ChatGPT to tell me something I don't want to hear but need to implement in 2026. 👇

Life is too short for: Me: “what’s been happening?” Him: “same old, hey”

@nikunj Thanks for sharing, this is a good place for inspo - my solve for this previously was a notion doc

So I made a launch video about a website that showcases ALL the launch videos.. so you can watch more launch videos 😅 > ALL the best launches of 2025 on a timeline > swipe or pick random > search for your favorites > submit any missing ones Live ➡️ launchwrapped dot com

@justinskycak @RyanHoliday Appreciate you sharing this

"Developing Talent in Young People" by Benjamin Bloom (published 1985). That's the same Bloom as Bloom's two-sigma problem, Bloom's taxonomy, etc. This guy is one of the most influential scientists in the history of education ... yet, relatively few people know about Developing Talent in Young People, which was his final masterpiece! Here's what the book's about. Everyone seems to have their own opinion about how talented people become talented and what roles working hard, working smart, and getting lucky play in that process. But Bloom, being a scientist, didn't want to settle for subjective opinions. He wanted to formulate conclusions based on real data. So, Bloom studied the training backgrounds of 120 world-class talented individuals across 6 talent domains: piano, sculpting, swimming, tennis, math, & neurology. And what he discovered was that talent development occurs through a similar general process, no matter what talent domain. In other words, loosely speaking, there is a "formula" for developing talent -- though executing it is a lot harder than simply understanding it. What's great about this book is the level of detail presented. This is not one of those corny pamphlets where someone tells you about their "3 keys to success" framework and all the information is obvious and too abstracted to be useful. Each chapter covers a different talent domain and goes into extreme depth making heavy use of direct quotes from interviews with the world-class individuals and their parents. Instead of handing you some kind of abstract framework and expecting you to accept it at face value, the book walks you through the process of starting with first principles -- detailed interviews and backstories -- and zooming out to identify general trends. You go from micro-structure to macro-structure. The big conclusion is that talent development occurs through a similar general process no matter what talent domain: 1. first fun & exciting playtime, 2. then intense & strenuous skill development, and 3. finally developing one's individual style while pushing the boundaries of the field. It's an older book so you can get a used copy really cheap.

Don't just read books, re-read them. What is your favorite book to re-read?

Whatever people say, if you want to be on the frontier of technology, surrounded by the most ambitious people in the world and play the VC game, SF is the place to be. But also, not everyone building a company needs to raise VC. raadesai.substack.com/p/san-francisc…

We create false requirements for ourselves as damage control in case things don't work out

My definition of success is waking up energized and going to bed exhausted. Waking up energized means I’m doing meaningful things with people I love. Going to bed exhausted means I gave my all for those things. That’s a good life.

@edmundtian This is so dope

Timelapse of New Amsterdam 1650 -> Manhattan 2025

My grandfather thinks I’m god’s gift from heaven because I solved his android phone speaker issue… Yes, I restarted it.

@hy3na_xyz @MarcusMilione @ThriveCapital I think about that X often

a thought I am constantly fighting in my head... am I swinging big enough? would love to hear if others have dealt with the same

everyone watch Pantheon

Send it to the boys

@craigzLiszt Moral obligations according to net worth? $1M: serve your family $10M: serve your community $100M: serve your country $1B: serve the human race 🤔