Shorya Jain

I work at EF. We back people before they have a cofounder, before they have an idea, sometimes before they even believe they can build a company. I've watched hundreds of people go through this process. Starting to share what I see.

hey everyone, I have 2 3090s and 4L4s available. If anyone’s looking for gpus, hmu!

@shashanksapien In Amsterdam I casually got an S-class a couple of times and felt like a King

No way Uber casually sent a Lexus😭

The applications for the next cohort starting in August are live!!

Why am I getting the latest updates about hantavirus from polymarket

@arushi_ressl Need Murthy to get the Indian public service to put in 70 hours a week

i think it’s time to get tech moguls into indian politics

Woohoo super bullish on space tech in India!

Last year, 10% of @join_EF's seed rounds were led by Founders Fund, Benchmark, Index, or Khosla. Want to meet the next generation of break out companies? Check out the link in the comments.

Discover the highest-traction batch in EF history. > 17 teams from London and Bangalore > 25% already have millions in revenue or LOIs > Every company is live with customers across defense, dev tools, health, construction, fintech and hospitality

11/ What I'd want for a real version, in order of importance: 1. Paid corporate-data access (Tofler/Probe42) to pull financials for unlisted donors - Megha, Future Gaming, Quick Supply etc. 2. Scrape the GeM portal for contract awards - gives a direct measure of "did donating buy government business?" 3. Propensity score matching to pick non-donor controls systematically rather than by hand 4. Pre-registered DiD specification before running regressions - the discipline that separates a finding from a fishing expedition

10/ My conclusion: the access hypothesis is alive and worth a full study, but mostly in sectors where it should theoretically matter most.

1/ I was curious whether firms that bought electoral bonds for the eventual ruling party actually grew faster than non-donors, so I ran a pilot on 57 listed Indian firms across 6 sectors (FY20→FY24). The answer turns out to depend almost entirely on the sector. 🧵

@ankurnagpal Aperitivo!

I’ll be working from Milan for 2 weeks in May I’ve never been before, what are the best things to do in town? And, if there are any interesting people building cool things over there