Pradip Khakhar

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@neeraj Looks delicious!

@pradipcloud Thank you, buddy! Got to eat mom-made Ghujiya after a long, long time.

Happy Holi!

@neeraj Not to bad. We were not as lucky

@pradipcloud Thx, buddy. It’s turning out to be a good sunny day since the AM.

And less than 24 hours later... RTP area, NC.

@arvidkahl Congrats Arvid! 🎉

A few days ago, I got the best birthday present ever: I became a dad. My son and I share a birthday. Still can't believe it! 🥰 Everyone's healthy and happy. And I can't imagine any greater joy. I'm in tears most of the day. Time to stock up on dad jokes. Got a good one? 🤣

Progress is easy to fake. You stay busy. You launch things. You talk about traction. Everyone claps because motion looks like momentum. The team feels alive. The investors nod. But the market is silent. Real progress feels different. It feels like doubt. It feels like rewriting what you thought was true. It feels like deleting work you were proud of yesterday. The real thing leaves a scar. The illusion is cleaner. It rewards confidence. It fills calendars and slides and updates. You can build a whole company inside that illusion and never notice the ground stopped moving beneath you. Failure starts the moment momentum becomes memory. When learning turns into storytelling. When speed becomes nostalgia. When everyone starts describing what worked instead of discovering what’s next. Progress only happens when reality moves with you. When customers change what they do, not what they say. When a product earns a second use without a discount. When a system starts teaching itself what to fix. The real work is noticing the difference. Anyone can measure activity. Only a few can measure learning. The rest keep sprinting through fog, mistaking the noise for forward motion. The illusion never feels wrong until it’s too late. It rewards the surface. It punishes reflection. It tells you to stay busy. It hides the only metric that matters. How fast the company is getting smarter.

@joshmanders Happy for you!

@pradipcloud Everything I thought and more

No longer staying in hotels. New home, who dis?

@joshmanders Right back at you buddy! How’s the golden state?

@pradipcloud Pradip! I miss you buddy!

@jjen_abel Always a fun conversation with revenue recognition.

startups when someone says they closed a $1MM enterprise deal seldom is that over 12-months often it’s over 3-5 years with an opt-out

@neeraj @sarbjeetjohal @rohitprabhakar Hide from the aunties and grandmas pls 😂 Will be interesting to see adoption vs reaching out to a human during important stages in life

While exploring GPTs, I came across this Astrology Birth Chart. This could gain significant traction in India and revolutionize the entire astrologer industry. @sarbjeetjohal, @rohitprabhakar, @pradipcloud, Thoughts? PS: No, I didn't try as sending more PII ain't for me.

Genuine take: normalize fractional IC roles. I could handily PM 5 products and would probably be made better by exposure to diverse problems & cultures. How much of anyone’s 40 hours is performative nonsense? With AI I think we’re going to see the rise of gig economy knowledge work either within or between companies. Either engineers working at 5 companies or PMs pinch hitting as marketers on sprints. The only hard limit on capacity for an individual is waking hours, and with bg agents and the like, even that as a cap is starting to blur. Now before r/overemployed or whatever starts cheering this on: comp structures would have to change too. No more “if I do my assigned work I should get paid the same no matter how long it takes.” Everything becomes coin op, and the fungibility of talent devalues it. But at least it’s honest: employees get paid to produce. And employers stop pretending something magic happens at 40-or-whatever hours a week. This also feels like the natural conclusion of a talent base raised on ZIRP that has loudly insisted on full remote, get-out-of-my-room-MOM distributed operating models. Will the full remote revolution lead way to the full fractional team? Why not?

@petergyang you cannot outsource thinking!

My hot take is that management skills will actually become more important in the AI era. I'm talking about skills like: 1. Giving specific instructions 2. Setting clear expectations 3. Giving examples of what “good” looks like 4. Editing and evaluating work These are the exact skills that you need to become good at AI prompting and evals. And in the near future, everyone will be managing a team of AI agents. For example, I rarely write a PRD from scratch anymore. Instead, I "manage" my AI intern to draft it based on my guidance. I wrote a new post about this and 4 other steps I'm taking to future proof my career with AI. 📌 Sign up to get it tmr: creatoreconomy.so

@JamesIvings The best biscuit ever!

It's a big week in Britain, the chocolate digestive biscuit is officially 100 years old 🇬🇧

@robertoblake Glad to hear they are both ok.

My Mom and Sister were just in a car accident in my SUV but thankfully they are both okay 🙏🏾🙏🏾🥺 So is the driver that hit them. You just never know when you’re going to get a call like that out of nowhere… or what news you’re going to hear 😔 Don’t take anyone or anything for granted…

@joprado16 @andruyeung 🙏

@pradipcloud @andruyeung Little Island

NYC is basically heaven

@joshmanders That sucks. Glad you are ok. Material things can be replaced.

I got robbed today. First time in my life. Okay I forgot to lock the doors in my car last night and someone ransacked it. Okay, it was probably just some kids. But they took like $8 in loose change and dollar bills and my phone charger :( :(

@tibo_maker When my instructor did that my stomach was not happy. But best feeling ever once aircraft is brought back into control

3rd lesson today 🛫 Instructor: "ok Tibo, close your eyes now" ** Nosedive. 45°. No warning. ** Instructor: "open your eyes, save us now" Me: 😱😱😱

@hnshah Been thinking about this recently. Couldn't really get clarity on my thoughts. What you said sums it up perfectly.

Signs Your Team Has a Batman vs. Robin Problem: You rehash the same debates every week. (Two Batmans) You make a decision but nothing happens. (Two Robins) No one knows who owns the final call. (Leadership vacuum) People complain about alignment when the real problem is clarity. Your hiring process is a mess because you keep hiring the wrong Batman or Robin. Think about your team. Are you stuck because you have too many Batmans? Or because no one is stepping up as Batman at all?