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If you are a contrarian about everything, you are simply following a different herd than the one that you think exists.
Quite funny tbh.
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Abhishek Shah
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Abhishek Shah
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Bengaluru, India Katılım Temmuz 2021
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i completed 3 whole years in blr today. what a ride. feels like a lifetime and a minute all at once.
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Hightime @WhatsApp gets a feature where I can disable incoming video calls from a chat without outright blocking them.
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chat. we’re looking to hire a growth intern @StimulerApp - come work w me and a super young team.
ideally looking for someone w some experience & a keen eye for content. office is in hsr. you’d make 50K/month as an intern.
send some recommendations, pls.
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Imagine buying an Anthropic 3rd layer SPV thinking you escaped the permanent underclass and BOOM voided straight to the cobalt mine
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Admire just how much designing a home consumes you.
It has me dreaming about tile patterns and marble veining at 2 am.
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woke up craving some cake so ordered myself this 90s og classic chocolate cake slice from lubov patisserie
it was decent. won’t order again.
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Had a Jane Street phone interview in 2016. "Price a 6-month forward on carrots."
There's no carrot futures market, so I build one from scratch: seasonal harvest cycles, USDA demand elasticity, cold storage decay rates.
One trader stops me. "Your storage cost function– you're modeling the carrot as dead inventory. Like grain in a silo." He asks me the metabolic respiration rate of a post-harvest carrot at 2°C. I estimate.
"Your forward is overpriced by exactly that shrinkage. The underlying is consuming its own sugars. It's alive." Good correction. I adjust the model. I think I've recovered.
Rejection email comes the next morning. Subject: "Ethical Review." My framework, they write, "relied on the severance of the root organism from its growth medium." The question about respiration was a test. The carrot was still alive and I'd built an entire derivatives structure on top of its death without questioning whether harvest was an acceptable act.
I pull up the recruiter's original email. It doesn't say Jane Street. It says Jain Street– a non-violent quantitative commodities fund.
The carrot was never supposed to be priced. It was supposed to be refused. I later learn the only candidate who passed that round was a former monk from Gujarat who sat in silence for eleven minutes and said, "I cannot put a price on life." He's now a partner.
Deedy@deedydas
Jane Street made ~$40B in 2025 with 3,500 employees, a ~2x from the year before. At ~65-70% profit margin, that's $8M profit / employee, the highest for a 1000+ ppl company. High-frequency trading continues to be the most efficient money making engine. I want to share an old story about my Jane Street interview in 2014. Jane Street was known for hiring a lot of math, physics and CS olympiad winners from top universities and putting them through many rounds - including, for trading roles, a gauntlet of mental math. It was my 6th interview and my final round and I recall being asked "What is the next day after today in DD/MM/YYYY where all the digits are unique?" They'd toy with you and say "You can use a pencil and paper, if you want" but you knew that was an instant no. Painstakingly and as quickly as I could, I came to an answer. "How confident are you that this is correct on a 0-1 probability scale?" the interviewer said. "0.95", I blurted out, not fully knowing how to answer that. "Are you sure?" After thinking harder for a few more seconds, I realized I could've flipped the digits around to get a closer date. I gave the interviewer my answer. It was correct. "0.95 huh?" he chuckled. That's when I knew I failed. Note: fwiw, other companies that come close in efficiency are - Tether ($90M+ profit/emp) - Hyperliquid ($80M+ profit/emp) and on revenue: - Valve ($50M/emp) - OnlyFans ($37M/emp) - Craigslist ($14M/emp) - Anthropic ($12M/emp, run rate) - OpenAI ($8M/emp, run rate) For comparison, Nvidia is very efficient at scale and is $4.4M/emp.
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In 2019 my girlfriend (now wife) sent Patrick Collison a cold email for the ages. Patrick replied 3 minutes later, warmly, with a yes.
A few weeks later I met Patrick at Nopa at 9pm. He ordered tea, I ordered something stronger. He was congenial and energetic, and 90 minutes flew by.
The whole episode was special. My wife sending that email was a remarkable gift. Ditto Patrick's generosity.
They say never meet your heroes but I think the better advice is to choose the right ones.
Stuart Buck@stuartbuck1
We need a "Day in the Life of Patrick Collison." Most people in his position would be drowning 24/7 in emails and Slack messages, prepping to meet with everyone from direct reports to investors to board members, tied up with strategic decisions like "does Stripe buy company X or not," screening daily invitations to public appearances, deciding who to recruit for top positions, and much more. And yet he's doing this--how? Is he amazing at delegation? Does he have an AI-system to help him process incoming emails/texts/calls? How does he prioritize what to focus on? Does he never sleep? What is his secret??
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This tennis court by Gizem Akdag is the stuff of dreams 🎾
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Asked someone from the industry whether foreign investors are still interested in allocating to India. The TLDR:
Interest has pretty much died out. India is seen as geopolitically exposed, especially to an oil shock. There are no real AI plays. Valuations are rich. And the rupee situation doesn't help.
On top of that, investors who were sitting on gains have taken money off the table and are now looking at markets like Japan, Taiwan, Korea, Europe etc instead.
He also pointed out that our LTCG/STCG structure and the increase in STT have made India less attractive compared to other markets that are seeing inflows.
If we need to attract FPIs back, and we do, fixing this feels like pretty low-hanging fruit.
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when you right click copy and paste something does it ever feel like your mouse is pregnant with information. or is that just me
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You must travel to 2 places in Europe:
- South of Spain
- South of France
It’ll change you.
Max@MaxxingDelusion
Sevilla looks like it was built for people who know how to live
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started writing a random piece on 'the constants' at 1am. one of those rare days where i actually love feeling things the way i do.
am i gutsy enough to put it out? teehe. we shall find out soon (or never? lol)
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