Satvik Puti

JUST BUILD IT — Manifesto. We are the descendants of humans who tamed fire. Who domesticated wild animals. Who eradicated diseases that killed millions. Who survived economic collapses and kept going. Who looked at an infinite universe and said: we want to understand this. And with it comes a belief. That the world you leave behind will be better than the one you were born into. It starts with an idea. A problem. An obsession. Something that keeps you up at night. Something that makes you angry, or curious, or both. Something that, when you close your eyes, you can already see solved. Create value for the people around you. Use technology to play positive-sum games. Make the pie bigger. Don't extract. Contribute. This community honours a specific kind of person. Curious. Relentless. Delusionally optimistic. They don't wait for permission. They don't complain about what's broken, they fix it. They do what needs to be done, whether or not anyone asked them to. The kind who just starts before they're ready, before anyone believes in them. And when they hit a wall? They just build it.

@josephinePqt1 @petergostev @arena such an interesting hypothesis to test. And good job, Joséphine on covering this.

How do you know an AI model is b******** you? @petergostev (@ARENA) built BullshitBench to test exactly that: do models call out bad questions, or play along? The top 8 spots are all Claude. More reasoning often makes detection worse. 🧵

@monali_dambre This is sooooo true. How fast you run and how much you lift depends on how well you rest & recover. Your body is the greatest asset at your disposal to do great things. Take care of it. (Not the self care bullshit, that makes you feel good in the short term).

y'all do not understand how hot it is when someone is genuinely trying to be at their physical best. It does not matter how fast you run or how much weight you lift. What matters is that you care about the perishable things. Body, mind, health. The things literally responsible for keeping you alive. Really shows character. And strictly my personal opinion, I think people with stronger and higher ambition naturally put more effort into being in their best physical + emotional health. Longer the life, longer the impact you can create.

@Riteshxdev @lets_ash @NotionHQ he is not asking for a job. He is offering an opportunity to Notion to do something cool. I respect the hustle.

@lets_ash @NotionHQ is job market that cooked ? that an indian will have to go to sf to record a public video asking for a job ?

Hey @NotionHQ , this is my public pitch to work with you

@GuillaumeGay_ @grok tell him about Stairling.

@satvikputi looks cool! curious how you can do that :)

Building the financial infrastructure to help precarious gig workers work as salaried entrepreneurs in France. What are you building?

It’s the heatwaves week in Paris. Morning Runs only.

@Riley_Ikni Because our CEO is a cracked founder!! It’s him

@satvikputi Super inspiring goal, Playing in France = Hard mode How did you came up with this project?

Empower Entrepreneurs.

@magattew I love that you are not dwelling in victim mindset. Yes atrocities were committed but that's no excuse to not be able to pull oneself out of their own misery.

Walter Rodney was wrong. Africans are poor because too many African countries make it hard to start businesses, get permits, access reliable electricity, trade freely, protect property, enforce contracts, attract investment, and keep the rewards of hard work. Singapore is richer than Britain, its former colonizer. Switzerland, which never built a colonial empire, is richer than Spain and Portugal, two of the greatest imperial powers in history.

@khadri_othmane Bro!! I stopped thinking about that. 😂 Thankfully, I am more future oriented, I just don't spend too much time retrospecting. That comes with it's drawback, I don't celebrate enough, because I think of the next thing I must do

@satvikputi any signal needs ponderation, who knows if where you could be at today if you spent the same time optimizing for another one ;)

School is a ponzi, and understanding why might save you from becoming an NPC. I went to one of the most respected business schools in France. Spent 3 years there. Paid for the brand, sat through the courses, played the game. Honest version of what they taught me i could've learned it in 4 weekends with YouTube, a few good books and a working brain (highly important). "But the network is worth it..." Let's actually do the math on that network. Out of the people i went to uni with, the share who started a company is a rounding error and the ones who did mostly did it despite the school, not because of it. The rest went into consulting and M&A. Growing industries where people thrive and positively impact humanity (absolutely not): Goldman is planning over 1,000 cuts directly tied to AI productivity. Citigroup published a report saying 54% of financial jobs are highly automatable. The entire destination after school that the credential was supposed to gate is being automated as you read this. The thing the diploma signals you can do, an LLM can do in an afternoon and never asks for a bonus. Now why is School a ponzi? Well 80% of the value of a degree is signalling, not actual skill. You don't pay for what you learn, you pay for the right to be screened in by a recruiter who needs a filter. The whole structure only holds while new cohorts keep paying in and employers keep hiring on the signal. AI just removed the second half. Late entrants lose. Classic ponzi mechanic. So the actual question isn't "should you skip school". The question is what to do with the same 3 years, energy, and money. Building or joining a startup is, conservatively, 10,000x better. 1) You learn by shipping things that break in front of real users, not by simulating decisions in a case study no executive will ever read. The first kind of learning is irreversible. The second is forgotten by next semester. 2) Your work is publicly verifiable. Every shipped feature, every closed deal, every post you write becomes a permanent credential nobody can revoke. The MBA grad has one credential, the builder has hundreds, and the builder's by being vocal. 3) You build a network of people who shipped with you, suffered with you, and watched you not quit. That network helps you for life because it's based on what you did, not where you sat. Networks built on credentials evaporate the second the credential stops being relevant. Networks built on shared work don't. If your actual goal is to genuinely help people, build credibility, and assemble support around something that matters, the startup bet isn't even close to the school bet. It's just that the school version has been the default for so long that questioning it still feels heretical.

@BhosalePratim @sachaarbonel @garrytan I could say the same for myself

@BhosalePratim @sachaarbonel @garrytan Hihi oops! 😬 yes 🙌

On my way to becoming a YC wife. @sachaarbonel has entered the YC applications era. So excited for him!

@BhosalePratim @sachaarbonel @garrytan YAYYYYY 🚀🚀🚀

@zmwang this is sooooooo cool!

This afternoon was a movie. My heart is so full. 1st SF Chindian Meetup ✅🎉! Folks went full send on potluck (Szechuan-y parathas, kimchi pani puri, gobi Manchurian, ras malai) +300 people Intergenerstional & intercultural: Grandparents, parents, couples, singles, babies.

@darquandier @babgi That would have been true a few years ago. Not anymore. 1 out of 5 successful startups are founded by Indians.

@babgi Les Indiens sont des managers redoutables mais piètres fondateurs, à quelques exceptions notables

L'origine des fondateurs étrangers de licornes aux USA. Incroyable non ? Assez surpris toutefois par la place des indiens que j'aurais spontanément mis devant les Français.

@babgi Its founders per capita of their country’s population. Israel has high density of founders. India purely beats others in numbers games. But, we don’t do well on density of founders.

Thanks for inviting me !! Had so much fun talking about one of my favourite entrepreneurs @bscholl

Monday 5K done. @davidsenra you are making my runs interesting!! 🙏 Listening to How Jensen Works