Sujoy Golan

@Jason I’m in!

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SFO - CCU - DEL - COK - BLR - LHR - SFO - LAS - SAN - SFO That’s all the ✈️ that Anita and the kiddo did over the past 14 days. Thanks to a hastily planned family trip and two flight disruptions (Lufthansa and again Lufthansa).

What happens in Egypt stays in…

Leaving Egypt with lots of great memories..

AIbirds

Founder with the firm belief that any publicity is good. Don’t do this, guys.

We’ve seen repeated examples recently of what young startup founders should NEVER do. Instead learn from the founder of the other company about what you should do: Firmly defend your company, put yourself out there, don't hide behind your team, and of course be generous with people.

@heat_bender Founder with the firm belief that any publicity is good - reddit.com/r/ycombinator/…

@VishalBhargava5 Maybe I’ll get a bungalow someday. But I’ll never fly in a helicopter in India.

Helicopters are the bungalows of Indian aviation. They are few. They are not intimating. They are pleasant to look. And you wish you were inside them.

@levie Very insightful

Another week on the road meeting with a couple dozen IT and AI leaders from large enterprises across banking, media, retail, healthcare, consulting, tech, and sports, to discuss agents in the enterprise. Some quick takeaways: * Clear that we’re moving from chat era of AI to agents that use tools, process data, and start to execute real work in the enterprise. Complementing this, enterprises are often evolving from “let a thousand flowers bloom” approach to adoption to targeted automation efforts applied to specific areas of work and workflow. * Change management still will remain one of the biggest topics for enterprises. Most workflows aren’t setup to just drop agents directly in, and enterprises will need a ton of help to drive these efforts (both internally and from partners). One company has a head of AI in every business unit that roles up to a central team, just to keep all the functions coordinated. * Tokenmaxxing! Most companies operate with very strict OpEx budgets get locked in for the year ahead, so they’re going through very real trade-off discussions right now on how to budget for tokens. One company recently had an idea for a “shark tank” style way of pitching for compute budget. Others are trying to figure out how to ration compute to the best use-cases internally through some hierarchy of needs (my words not theirs). * Fixing fragmented and legacy systems remain a huge priority right now. Most enterprises are dealing with decades of either on-prem systems or systems they moved to the cloud but that still haven’t been modernized in any meaningful way. This means agents can’t easily tap into these data sources in a unified way yet, so companies are focused on how they modernize these. * Most companies are *not* talking about replacing jobs due to agents. The major use-cases for agents are things that the company wasn’t able to do before or couldn’t prioritize. Software upgrades, automating back office processes that were constraining other workflows, processing large amounts of documents to get new business or client insights, and so on. More emphasis on ways to make money vs. cut costs. * Headless software dominated my conversations. Enterprises need to be able to ensure all of their software works across any set of agents they choose. They will kick out vendors that don’t make this technically or economically easy. * Clear sense that it can be hard to standardize on anything right now given how fast things are moving. Blessing and a curse of the innovation curve right now - no one wants to get stuck in a paradigm that locks them into the wrong architecture. One other result of this is that companies realize they’re in a multi-agent world, which means that interoperability becomes paramount across systems. * Unanimous sense that everyone is working more than ever before. AI is not causing anyone to do less work right now, and similar to Silicon Valley people feel their teams are the busiest they’ve ever been. One final meta observation not called out explicitly. It seems that despite Silicon Valley’s sense that AI has made hard things easy, the most powerful ways to use agents is more “technical” than prior eras of software. Skills, MCP, CLIs, etc. may be simple concepts for tech, but in the real world these are all esoteric concepts that will require technical people to help bring to life in the enterprise. This both means diffusion will take real work and time, but also everyone’s estimation of engineering jobs is totally off. Engineers may not be “writing” software, but they will certainly be the ones to setup and operate the systems that actually automate most work in the enterprise.

@banglani @amuldotexe Lovely story. Yes, Dosa it is. Now onto the debate about what type… 😁

What firangs get most wrong about India is our national dish. It's not chicken tikka masala (not Indian); it's not "curry" (not a dish); it's the humble dosa. All of us have an unlikely dosa story. Here is mine.

Asha ji most recent song, named Shadowy Light, was a collab with @gorillaz. She performed this is at 92. The lyrics of the song are surreal. What an angel. youtu.be/P0gLOXQM6-c?si…

The fam’s onward flight on Lufthansa was disrupted and had to be rebooked. Now the return flight too has been cancelled due to Lufthansa’s pilot strike on 13th and 14th. We all need a Lee Kuan Yew - youtu.be/kGDqLeRuyCA?si…

stop trying to solve problems with AI (premature product ideation) and solve problems with AI (do the work).

@deedydas Great example of product and revenue that compounds with time. Have used BuiltWith on and off for the past 10 years. And their branding too hasn’t changed at all!

BuiltWith has ONE employee and brings in $14M+ revenue every year. It was started ~20yrs ago by Gary Brewers in Sydney to tell you the technology stack behind every website. Now that's what I call a lean, profitable, bootstrapped business!

Great example of product and revenue that compounds with time. Have used BuiltWith on and off for the past 10 years. And their branding too hasn’t changed at all!

@pitdesi @BasedTorba I remember Medobed (YC 23) getting kicked out - techcrunch.com/2023/08/31/y-c…

I’m sure there are more but the last time I can think of off the top of my head is when they kicked out Gab founder @BasedTorba news.ycombinator.com/item?id=129343…

@deepaknautiyal @eurofounder lol 😆

@sujoygolan @eurofounder One thing is true, I am down to my undies .... 🫣 Bas, utna hi bacha hai ... 🙄

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