Ramnik Arora

Another small step on the exponent. This is incredible!

@dvbydt @peakxvpartners @Ishaanmittal2 @tejeshwi_sharma Good luck @dvbydt and TJ!

After 13 years at @peakxvpartners / Sequoia Capital India, I have decided to take the entrepreneurial plunge. I am excited to be teaming up with longtime partners @Ishaanmittal2 and @tejeshwi_sharma to start a new venture capital firm. I am deeply grateful to all my partners - @sjs_day1, @mobhat , @gvravishankar, @RajanAnandan, @i_sakshichopra, and @rohitagar_wal - for a truly wonderful partnership. These years have shaped me not just as an investor, but also as a person. Today, the firm is stronger than ever - the next generation of investors, the operating leaders, and teams are exceptional. I thank all of them for their support over the years. It has also been an incredible privilege learning from Michael Moritz and Doug Leone, and the entire Sequoia leadership. Few institutions have refined the model for venture capital as thoughtfully as Sequoia, and it is an inspiration as we think about building our firm. The last few years have given me a ringside view of the best in entrepreneurship. Watching @_groww, one of the first investments I led, become the second most valued new-age public company in India has been extraordinary to witness first hand. Over time, I led ~20 others including Agrani Labs, @ambak_official, @Clarisights, @hellodezy, @Eduvanz_Finance, @gokwik, @LeapFinanceIn, @lightmetrics, @MSE_Exchange, @OnFinance_ai, @OrbitShift_AI, @OsfinAI, @PagarBook, @PayGlocalHQ, @getplumhq, @PristynC , @progcap, Stanza Living, @toddle_edu, @Wobot_ai, and @Zanskar Research. I am deeply thankful to all the founders who trusted me to be a part of their journeys. I am especially thrilled to be starting up with the two partners I have shared much of my life with. TJ and I have known each other for 13 years. Ishaan and I go back over 28 years - we were one year apart in middle school :) Together, we look forward to building a venture capital firm that supports the ambitions of the next generation of founders.

Congrats @leilavclark on the launch. Excited to use Stardrift!

Public blockspace needs high throughput and fast finality. Excited to see @ackinackichain and @Futurizt deliver on mainnet.

Today we're announcing Gauss, our first autoformalization agent that just completed Terry Tao & Alex Kontorovich's Strong Prime Number Theorem project in 3 weeks—an effort that took human experts 18+ months of partial progress.

Time for sapient intelligence moment!

1. Acki Nacki has 2 native tokens: NACKL & SHELL. Together they form a "Binary System" of tokens. Let's unpack quickly how this works: NACKL = value token (deflationary), SHELL = utility token (≤coin).

I’m excited to announce Ash by Slingshot AI, the first AI designed for therapy backed by $93M in funding from the world’s top mission-driven investors.

Cloudflare is suffering degraded performance and just seems like the entire internet is down. The internet is highly centralized.

For the first episode of Development & Research, I spoke with @meribeckwith on: • being a patient in an incompetently-run clinical trial, • how many drug trials fail b/c of bad paperwork, • who benefits when trials are expensive, • just how quickly biotech founders lose control to investors, • why no one is picking up the billion-dollar bills on the sidewalk. Timestamps: 00:01:51 - "Eroom's Law" 00:03:12 - The gap between new science and new medicine 00:04:51 - Clinical trials: the patient experience 00:08:19 - The lifecycle of a biotech startup 00:10:22 - Clinical Research Organizations 00:13:19 - 10% of trials fail b/c of clerical errors 00:17:27 - Lindus Health (Meri's Series-B startup) 00:19:03 - Recruiting more patients won't save badly-planned trials 00:23:36 - Meri's skepticism of international trials 00:27:04 - Biotech culture vs tech culture 00:32:54 - What'll it take to get biotechs to act like tech companies? 00:35:13 - *Adaptive* clinical trials 00:39:10 - "Sidebar on the FDA..." 00:43:06 - *Decentralized* trials 00:46:13 - *Who* makes clinical trials expensive? 00:48:43 - (Not) picking up the billion-dollar bills on the sidewalk 00:53:22 - What does "better" look like? 00:56:08 - "...a lot of alpha if you're willing to disregard all of this b——..." 00:58:42 - What's changing with AI? 01:00:57 - What's going on with China? 01:03:10 - What's ahead for Lindus?

The way we develop new drugs is broken. The process costs too much, takes too long, and far too often it simply doesn't work. I sat down with five leaders in the field—from industry, VC, academia, and government—to hear their takes on how, and why, and what we can do about it.

Hyperliquid, Farcaster and others feel consumer-grade applications because of Privy.

Excited to announce that we raised our Series A for @Slingshotai_inc, led by @a16z to help advance our mission of using AI to help scale access to mental health care.

"All intuition about AI capabilities will need to get updated for o3." -- Francis Chollet

o1 --> o3 in 3 months

We announced @OpenAI o1 just 3 months ago. Today, we announced o3. We have every reason to believe this trajectory will continue.

We’re thrilled to announce that we’ve raised an Angel Round from some of the leading figures in Web 3: @sandeepnailwal, @0xMaki, @thiccyth0t, @degentradingLSD, @gajeshnaik, @rogeravax, @TakayamaJoe, @0xrooter, @SukhansAsrani, @abrkn, @VictorCheng7, @zion_sensei, and many more.

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