yesterday at the diwali party i learnt that i don’t know how to hold conversation about anything besides work, f1 and indian politics
no one knows how funny this is
Me at a diwali party talking to this guy, after thirty minutes work comes up, he says hes the CEO of this multi billion dollar corporation so i start giggling and say ya me too im the CEO of goldman sachs and we chat for the next thirty minutes this morning i saw his face in the newspaper and apparently he actually is so great im clearly not built for the corporate world i need to do what i actually have the skillset for and open a coord sharara set boutique in pali hill its becoming clearer day by day
i'm doing halloween with a regular girl costume in SF and i'm scared everyone else is going to be claude
The number of times HERA has been approached to sell our CAD and DFM data is not even funny.
I think building for an industry starts with respecting it. Engineering data is incredibly sensitive, and earning the trust of enterprise customers means treating it that way.
That trust is worth far more than the data itself.
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i think one reason indian VCs and companies get a bad reputation is how little they respect people’s time.
during my fundraise, i met GPs at tier 1 seed funds and none of them cancelled or rescheduled. but with indian VCs, it was often a no-show, or an analyst joining because the partner was too busy.
mind you, these people had reached out to me. they wanted the meeting. they picked the time.
now it’s happening with demo calls too.
i’ve had calls with fortune 100 VPs who show up when they say they will. meanwhile, an engineer at a tech consulting company books a demo for sunday at 11pm PT and doesn’t show up.
i don’t care what your title is. if you book someone’s time, show up. if you can’t, let them know.
i understand my sample set is small, but i’ve heard similar stories from other founder friends too. small things like this make a big difference in whether people want to work with you.
Meera retweeted
Only a guy who doesn't make physical products would say, generically, that physical things are a moat.
It can be. It almost never is.
That is the entire reason manufacturing has generally failed to attract venture capital in the US.
we made an emirati friend and met him for coffee. we made the painful mistake of paying bc it was 3 of us and 1 of him. we have given him uncurable depression.
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“We’re probably going to build this internally”
2 weeks later: subscribed to our highest plan
This has happened so many times I’m considering making it our official onboarding flow
