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I'm officially an Alien of Extraordinary
Abilities 🇺🇲🇺🇸 – at Tadigadapa, India
I think it's time for a re-introduction since I see a bunch of new followers.
Welcome to my X profile. I am here because the industry I work in won't consider me 'legit' if I am not here.
Not to sound very Linkedin-like, I have worked for 8 years but the coolest part is that I have worked with like... 20 companies in these 8 years. Across the breadth of blockchain and AI companies - Payments, L2s, L1s, DAOs, Privacy, DA, Messaging, Storage, Sequencer Auctions and now a lot of RAG. I get to work with them all upclose! In the cockpit with the founders. Long enough to see these companies either scale or die.
Yes, I am a consultant. Went from being a freelancer to owning a consulting firm now. I love solving, discussing, brainstorming and absolutely being wrong about business, GTM and Monetization. In fact, I have made many terrible mistakes like arguing with ct on "Governance will win" when in reality, it is entirely dead.
But I am the kind that will continue to make more of such arguments. My brain will generate ideas, fail at building them, try again but never... never will I leave the hands of the founders and companies I work with.
Thank you for following along. I hope my chaos is valuable to you. :)
Tanisha Katara retweeted
Trillions are pouring into the race to build the first general superintelligence, but leveraging your own specialized know-it-all is now possible as of today.
I built the knowledge systems at @stripe and @uber. Then I helped Anthropic, Metronome, and Graphite build a killer developer experience. Everyone wants Stripe-level quality, but that bar is too low.
Falconer gives you and your customers complete, specialized intelligence: an internal knowledge base and external documentation in one beautiful package. Falconer is the ultimate trust engine to manage your context: self-driving, observable, and agent-friendly.
I co-founded @falconer_ai with @mbenedetto212 and assembled a team of know-it-all builders. We're backed by fellow know-it-alls @thegp, @BoxGroup, @svangel, @karimatiyeh, @benln, @zachlloydtweets, @CeciStalls, @MerrillLutsky, @scottmac, @malthe, and @adamjstevenson, with angels from Anthropic, Stripe, Meta, Cursor, Replit, and more.
Frontier intelligence companies like @FireworksAI_HQ and @⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛; fintech companies like @payabli and @vori; and healthtech companies like @thatch_ai use @falconer_ai because they all share the same vision as us: the knowledge you earn should belong to you.
Now you can know everything, so you can build anything.
Adding to this - I know a lot of beautiful, honest local businesses in Mumbai.
While I am not going to be there, I can connect anyone looking for indian swags, food, tea spots or guides in Mumbai.
Don't forget to grab some hot vadapavs every now and then! 🤤
im very sad that I won't be able to travel to devcon this year. i was looking forward to go to india and show my crypto friends around.
but, if you are considering going to devcon but are hesitant to go because it's in India, i ask you to have a little bit of open mind.
it's an overstimulating country for first 2 days, and you would think everyone is there to get you or steal from you. but that's not true at all. there are bad parts in every country -- remember Bogota? or Brussels?
if you have some local crypto friends, they will be a great guide. i will personally help you in anything needed.
but the point is that devcon needs more ethereum people aligned. EF needs more ethereum people aligned. this hasn't been the best year for EF, but im still an eth community member. i love devcon and india. i think it's going to be great.
some tips:
- food is great. if your white/euro genes cant take the spice, go to nicer restaurants
- use Uber Black everywhere
- Mumbai is LA of India. women do walk alone during night, but if you're concerned, then always have +1 in ubers.
- a lot of people can understand english and speak broken english so you should be fine.
- you do need cash or any of travel card with 0% transaction fee. amex platinum works great or similar visa/master cards.
- you need cash because you won't get UPI as non-indian and it's not worth the hassle.
- dont get scammed into paying 3x more at streets for anything. always have an indian bro lmeow
- on similar note, mostly tuk-tuk people will charge you 3x or souvenir places on the street
- try indian sweets and desserts. you will love them.
- try street food for the love of god
- if you're a founder or working at bigger orgs, you will be surrounded by a lot of folks for job opportunities or funding, try to be patient with them or ask for space. they are still learning.
overall, india has some of the best talents in crypto: from building products to marketing, some of them are exceptional and those 1% people are the ones you wanna connect to.
I often get asked - How do you have clients in such times as a consultant?
Yes, blockchain applications are struggling to find PMF. Especially some categories.
Yes, I know. I started in Governance and Decentralization and those areas are more dead than they've ever been.
Yes, there is a huge stigma around blockchain. I get really mad when I'm targeted as a scammer just because I work in blockchain.
I have clients because I refuse to believe that this technology is like segway bikes.
You will use blockchain for your payments, privacy, financial markets and predictions and you will not even realize it.
You won't sign transactions and be on a scanner waiting for your bridge to complete.
You won't care about governance unless it is aligned to your incentives which smart protocols will focus on.
There is so much work to do. So much to improve and launch in this space. With AI, things have gotten more exciting for me.
I may be without clients someday but I don't think I will ever run out of work.
The Golden temple in Amritsar is such a good vibes place. It's a whole other world!
Highly recommend.
Tanisha Katara retweeted
There's a lot of trading desks, funds and crypto whales that aren't using Hyperliquid... but they desperately want to.
The problem?
Their reputation, strategies & alpha will be publicly available and seen by everyone, including competitors, media and copy-traders.
Imagine building your strategy for weeks, testing, iterating and executing, only to be followed by 50,000 copy bots in under 30 seconds.
Or having your positions exposed by crypto media, hunted down by whale hunters, and watching a $100m account get wiped in weeks.
This isn't made up, it's happening now and every data point is publicly available.
Now imagine having built the same strategy. You still have access to every single Hyperliquid perp market, 24/7, but it's completely anonymous...
You trade what you want, whenever you want. Your orders are executed on Hyperliquid, but they don't link to you.
No one can link the trade directly to you.
Not your competitors, not crypto media and not the +50k copy-bots watching your every move.
Access by invitation only.
Request yours at shieldtx.xyz/request-access
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Yes, I am learning SQL and it's fun! 🤓
Don't tell me it's not worth learning SQL in the AI age. As a non-tech who wants to deploy high ROI workflows, it has become more important than ever to understand databases.
The new ShieldTX branding (still not public) looks so good. 🤤
You will want to shield your perps just for the experience. I cannot wait to share a sneak peek 🥲
NGL and not biased but it has the potential to break the internet.
It's comfortable to sell. I love to sell.
It's comfortable to sell. I love to sell.
It's comfortable to sell. I love to sell.
It's comfortable to sell. I love to sell.
It's comfortable to sell. I love to sell.
Debt changes you. Especially when it's not yours.
You chase money because you learn very young and very soon that money is what controls people's behaviour towards you and those you love.
But once you've chased money, you don't feel as good as you would have expected to feel. So you chase some more! And then some more!
And that's how my friends, you live a miserable life. The debts may go but its impact doesn't.
What's that 1 interesting enterprise AI use case I was proud of this week?
afterdeal.ai - Basically, a credit memo automation and quarterly loan monitoring tool for private credit firms.
It is custom created for each family office, credit issuer, LP, lender, wealth management and private credit company.
They all have such different lifecycles and varying levels of emphasis on due diligence.
3 big and super interesting lessons I learnt -
1. Not every step of every workflow needs an LLM call. Deterministic workflows first.
2. Humans in the loop are very, very important. Augment humans > Replace humans. Data sovereignty and compliance are important too. Be well-read here!
3. Business ROI in this segment is very clear. Better monitoring means reduced losses, less ambiguity, more due diligence, more regulator-aligned and time saved.
Can I please call out and say that @16vchq feels very scammy?
At best, it is a "fake it until you can make it" story.
A bunch of my friends joined 16vc slack group and showed me how absolutely useless it was. He claims to have funds to invest but he doesn't even have a team on his official slack.
I have nothing personal but as a heads up, just DYOR before you engage with this. – at Tadigadapa, India
any founders or creators in singapore attending @token2049?
i'm looking for someone who can represent @16vchq during the week, meet founders, create content, and help us build the 16vc network in singapore.
if you're interested, dm me.
Who will be at Token2049 Singapore?
If you are there and there's one team that you should meet, it is the ShieldTX team (the team behind @AvailProject)
If you trade perps on Hyperliquid, your wallet is basically public... Copy bots and everyone else can see every position and easily tie it back to you. ShieldTX opens each trade from a fresh HL wallet and with so many fresh wallets floating around, you become unlinkable.
Pro tip: Ask them about PP - Perks for Perps 😄 Like, seriously, you might get some fee waivers or free deposits for your perp trades on Hyperliquid.
Shielded perp trading is early and I'm extremely bullish. ShieldTX is built on the rails of @HyperliquidX and @arbitrum 💚
Here is a quick watch to prep you for a conversation:
I just owe so much of my growth to consuming information written by extremely busy and talented people.
I learnt about values, leadership and work culture from @AdamMGrant. I learnt about blockchain, governance, ZK, coordination from @VitalikButerin. I learnt how to view the world from @balajis and a lot about AI, LLMs and Neural networks from @karpathy
Great minds writing/vlogging is the greatest service to mankind... and for future LLMs to train on. – at Tadigadapa, India
Haha! Yes. Strong believer of "You can just do things" too! – at Tadigadapa, India
I’m going to @EFDevcon Mumbai from 3rd to 6th November!
@governingweb3 tweeted she had a FREE pass, so I DM’ed her and got in!
you can just do things!
And it has been claimed!
Thanks to all those who reached out. Bummed I won't be there this year but I will make up for it by coming back with a solid case study for next year's conference.
The Story of Shielded Perp Trading! – at Tadigadapa, India
Tanisha Katara retweeted
I build a lot of fun, random stuff but this one is serious.
afterdeal.ai
To all my private equity, tradfi and private credit friends, this shift is exciting. You can track, monitor, alert and keep tab on loan issuances against the credit note.
It works with any system you use. It's fully local with complete data sovereignty. It truly solves a pain point.
Afterdeal is safe, compliant, intelligent and replaces no one.
Hold the door! Hold the dooooor! – at Dubai, United Arab Emirates
I find it pretty amusing that a magazine would publish my story thinking it would amuse its readers.
Apparently Amusing.
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