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What Is AI's Place in History? blog.irvingwb.com/blog/2025/12/w… A must read!

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One Bhagavad Gita. Three master keys. The Shrimad Bhagavad Gita was explained by: • Adi Shankaracharya (Advaita) • Ramanujacharya (Vishishtadvaita) • Madhvacharya (Dvaita) ✅ I’ve compiled all 3 commentaries into one Google Drive folder so you can compare perspectives side-by-side. But remember: The Gita is the practical essence of Yoga Shastra. These 700 shlokas become powerful only when you: • internalize them • practice them daily • live them in real life 💬 Comment “700” and I’ll DM you the folder link. 📌 Save this post for your study 🔁 Share it with a friend who needs Gita guidance Follow @TheSanskritChannel for more. Here’s the link: bit.ly/bg-comment #BhagavadGita #Gita #Shankaracharya #Ramanujacharya #Madhvacharya #Vedanta #Advaita #Vishishtadvaita #Dvaita #YogaShastra #SanatanaDharma #Sanskrit #HinduPhilosophy #GitaWisdom #TheSanskritChannel

Very interesting observation by Jensen Huang!

@sabeer Good question. Politicians love to talk about poverty versus prosperity. While GDP has risen, 4.5 times, poverty had declined from 13.1 % in 1988 to 10.6% in 2024. It is classic in any country, not just the US to get votes.

US per capita GDP in 1988 - the year I came to America - was $21K. In 2025 it’s $90K. Not once have I heard a politician boast about this number. Contrast that with our great country… why do you think our leaders avoid talking about per capita GDP?

@sabeer .@sabeer , well said!

Congratulations to the NDA for winning the Bihar elections. The people have given you their mandate - not a license to celebrate, but a responsibility to serve. You’ve inherited their trust; now you must honour it by working sincerely for the development of Bihar.

@ashajadeja That's great .@ashajadeja

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I'm attending this event. RT if you think others will find this helpful 🙌 saastr-ai-day-oct-2025.heysummit.com #saastraidayoct82025

@sabeer no I can't, .@sabeer ! But I am sure you were vert handsome in the picture!!

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@gdb Great initiative, .@gdb! Congratulations. Wishing you and .@fidjissimo all the best ahead.

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@tsheringtobgay Wonderful news! Heartiest congratulations on India Bhutan partnership. Wishing you and Mr Adani a grand success! .@gautam_adani .@tsheringtobgay

This evening, I joined in witnessing the signing of the 570 MW Wangchhu Hydropower Project agreement between Adani Power Ltd. and DGPC, a milestone in Bhutan–India clean energy cooperation.

@harishmehta_ Dear Harish, it was wonderful having you with us last month! Congratulations on your pioneering work and especially building NASSCOM and TiE in India.

“Nothing is possible without men, but nothing lasts without institutions.” Few sessions have been as enriching as KloudData’s recent event in Silicon Valley. At two and a half hours, it was the longest session I’ve delivered, but not a single dull moment. It was intense, honest, and focused on the future. One contrast that stood out was American individualism versus Indian collectivism. Stalwarts like TiE founder A. J. Patel and co-founders @royprasad, Suhas Patil, @kanwal946 and others spoke of how the Valley celebrates individual pioneers. I was pointed to as a central figure in India’s IT revolution. But I had to disagree. I quoted Jean Monnet, also featured in The Maverick Effect: “Nothing is possible without men, but nothing lasts without institutions.” It was never about one person. There were many co-founders, followed by a strong wave of IT entrepreneurs and leaders. A classic example of "log saath aate gaye aur karwan banta gaya". NASSCOM did more than lobbying. We addressed wider challenges to uplift India Inc. and nurture human capital. What we built was an ecosystem rooted in trust, collaboration, and shared values. That is the true spirit of The Maverick Effect. Sincere thanks to KloudData and Prashant Parekh for a meaningful event. Their Fremont office turned into a lively makeshift auditorium, reflecting true Silicon Valley spirit. Gratitude to @rameshchitor for tying everything together and engaging the local tech community. Thanks to Miten for sparking the idea and to A. J. Patel for moderating the session with warmth. What made it truly special was the presence of my family and relatives. It made the evening both professional and personal. P.S. Shoutout to Chaat Corner for the samosas, vada pav, chole bhature and hot chai. A taste of home in California. @harshmanglik, Ramesh Yadav, @tievish, Ravi Thapar, Naqvi, @profitechconsu1, Bipin Shah, Vijay Menon #KloudDataEvent #SiliconValley #FutureFocused #InstitutionalStrength #IndianDiaspora #TiE #NASSCOM #ITRevolution #TheMaverickEffect #HumanCapitalDevelopment #EcosystemBuilding #TrustAndCollaboration #TechCommunity #FamilyAndWork #ChaatCorner #IndianSnacksInCalifornia

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@victoralazarte Wishing you all the best Victor in new adventure!

After 2 great years at benchmark, I’ve made the difficult decision to leave the firm in order to pursue a new adventure. Benchmark simply excels in the craft of early stage investing and forming deep partnerships with founders. I’ll always be grateful to have had the opportunity to partner with and learn from great investors at benchmark, both current and past. I especially want to thank Peter for his mentorship, first on my board and later as a colleague over the past 6 years. While I’m eager to start investing my personal capital, I’ll certainly miss the great colleagues here. The best part of investing is to partner closely with generational founders and help them at the start of their journeys when faith and support matter the most. During my two years at benchmark, I’ve had the privilege to join the boards for remarkable founders like @BrendanFoody at @mercor_ai , @DLeitersdorf at @DecartAI, @joshua_xu_ at @HeyGen_Official , @ypatil125 @lindensli and Rhythm at Applied compute , and other incredible companies that are still unannounced. I’ll also continue to serve on the board of Brex, one of my first seed investments, with appreciation for Pedro and Henrique who trusted me as one of their first board members. These founders have pulled off feats that would have seemed impossible when they started. Mercor has grown run rate over 100X into 9 figures in 1 year, Decart has created realtime generative videos that feel like magic, HeyGen is helping businesses create 10M minutes of AI video every month, Applied Compute is bringing frontier RL to any enterprise, and Brex has now provided credit cards to over 30K businesses. It’s an honor to continue to support their growth. Before benchmark, I was a founder for 12 years, so I know how much that word means. Nothing has brought me more joy over the past 2 years than to have some of you describe me as a co-founder to your business. As for what’s next, I’ll continue leading rounds personally (including one where I am partnering again with my benchmark colleagues!) and plan to build a new investment practice. I look forward to sharing more soon. Thank you again to Benchmark for the wonderful experience.

.@ssankar makes a good case for AI.

@jeffwsurf Dear .@jeffwsurf , thank for sharing this very open , informative and instructive piece! It sure is going to benefit a lot of people. And it sure is a masterpiece!

To put it mildly, the past week at Windsurf has been crazy. There have been a lot of different rumors and reports, so I want to share a transparent account of how it actually went down. Before I start, I just want to say that Varun and Douglas were great founders and this company meant a lot to them, and it should be acknowledged that this whole situation must have been difficult for them as well. One week ago, last Friday, I walked into the office for our all-hands, where our ~250 people were expecting to hear that we were getting acquired by OpenAI. By that time, I had already learned what was really about to happen and had broken the news to Graham, the new President, and Kevin, the new CTO. You can imagine the shock when the team found out. It was my job to explain to the company our path forward as a company. In my view, there were a few options: try to raise more money (VCs were offering), try to sell the company (we had interest from multiple parties), try to distribute (although there were liabilities to wind down), or try to keep running the company. Although we had lost some great people and taken a serious blow to morale, we still had all of our IP, product, and strong talent including an excellent GTM machine - the core components of the company were still there. The mood was very bleak. Some people were upset about financial outcomes or colleagues leaving, while others were worried about the future. A few were in tears, and the Q&A had been understandably hostile. In distress, people asked if we could distribute the cash immediately, but we also needed it to pay bills and keep the product working for customers. After trying to steady the team as much as we could, Graham and I spent the rest of the evening on calls, trying to identify every available option. Out of the blue, we got a text and email, from Scott and Russell, with the message, “Chat?” It was around 5:30pm, exactly this time last week. I immediately called Graham and told him I thought this combination made sense. Cognition had been the one team our people had respected the most. While they had overinvested in engineering, they had frankly underinvested in GTM and Marketing, and our teams in those functions are nothing short of world class. On the other hand, we now were missing a Core Engineering team, and there’s no better group of AI engineers than the lineup Cognition has assembled. Then, there was the product logic. Devin would benefit from a foreground synchronous agent, while we needed a remote asynchronous agent. The teams and products together would be able to create an unrivaled end to end platform. We took the Cognition approach very seriously from the start and launched right into negotiations. Scott and his team moved fast, and while the timeline was exploding with memes and commentary between Friday and Monday, Scott and Russell spent that time in our office, working tirelessly to get a deal done in record time. Saturday rolled in, and I brought Kevin to the office. At this point, we were still having 1:1s with our enterprise engineers to retain them, and at the same time, we were trying to get more information to diligence Cognition while reviewing other potential partners. Saturday, I was still getting inbound interest from potential acquirers, including one we had all looked up to for a long time. But by then, Scott was already in our conference room with physical papers to sign and was handing me a pen. We had already made up our minds that there was no better partner than Cognition, even with other excellent and impressive companies interested. We quickly brought in lawyers to review the LOI and signed that day, a little over 24 hours after Scott’s cold outreach. Saturday had been spent understanding each other’s businesses, and when the sun came up Sunday morning while we were in the office, we prepared to move on to getting the deal finalized. The Windsurf team had been through too many twists and turns, so both Scott and I felt that the next transition for them had to truly be final. The other priority during this process, which Scott and I aligned on and was one of the things that helped me realize he was the right partner, was that we needed to take care of all Windsurf employees. Their work and talent had gotten us to this point; they deserved to be paid for that, and we wanted to give them a better price than any of the previous scenarios. That resulted in a key part of the deal: structuring it to give a payout to every employee, to waive all cliffs, and to accelerate all vesting for Windsurf equity. On Sunday, an army of lawyers from both sides descended on the office, having been challenged by Scott and Russell to get this deal finalized within 24 hours. We ate and slept (or at least tried to grab quick naps between discussions) in the office through the weekend to get it done. Our teams and lawyers stayed up all night Sunday working out the final details. On Monday morning, we went over every detail again, got board approvals, and the documents were ready to sign. One of our lawyers said it was one of the fastest deals they’d seen. Monday 9:30am, we signed our definitive agreement for Cognition to acquire Windsurf. Scott had given a heads up to Cognition employees, and we had another all-hands scheduled for Windsurf employees at 10am that morning. After the traumatic announcement on Friday, Scott and Russell wanted us to be able to open Monday with good news and we wanted to handle this new announcement in a much better way for employees. In fact Russell took a red eye the night before and somehow made it to the Austin office just in time. We held Monday’s all-hands in the same room as Friday’s, and this time Scott was by my side at the front of the room. It was a blur, but the highlights I’ll always remember were getting to tell employees what we had negotiated for them (“We’ve decided to give you 1 year of vest, OH, and years 2, 3, and 4 as well!”) and Scott saying, “A founder goes down with the ship.” The applause from our people seemed to last forever, and I was on the verge of tears myself. Now comes the real work. We are officially one company, operating as two entities, but with much to do both internally and externally. We have work to do on both our team and on our product, to realize our shared ambitions. It was a wild ride this week, and now the story has been told. We are excited to move on to the next chapter. We’re putting our heads back down to focus on building the future of AI together.