2X founder. Built @peeltv. Building WALT - the next Data Engineer. Runs your data platform. Builds Data Context Graph (ontology, KG, semantic layer). @thewaltai
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Thiru Arunachalam retweeted
Bruh, if I wanted to rummage through random personal shit, I could have done that at PAYPAL. Hello???
Having tens of millions of people marked in Social Security as “ALIVE” when they are definitely dead is a HUGE problem.
Obviously.
Some of these people would have been alive before America existed as a country. Think about that for a second …
Thiru Arunachalam retweeted
America rose to greatness over the past 150 years, because it was a meritocracy more than anywhere else on Earth.
I will fight to my last drop of blood to ensure that it remains that land of freedom and opportunity.
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This is wild
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Thiru Arunachalam retweeted
Root Cause of “Founder Mode”
Everyone’s talking about @paulg’s take on why traditional executive mode doesn’t work anymore - but no one is talking about the root cause.
The old model of hiring executives and delegating to them as you scale your business no longer works for leaders.
And it’s not because executives are suddenly no longer capable of carrying a vision forward.
It’s because the rate of acceleration in the technology industry is forcing the obsolescence of this management style.
In other words, the root cause of the death of traditional Executive Mode is compression of tech cycles.
Think about it - Microsoft took 25 years to become a household name, Google took 8, Facebook took 4, and OpenAI/ChatGPT took a month.
At this breakneck pace, by the time founders explain to their executives and managers what they want, and wait for the delegation to ripple out in their organization, the industry has moved on and their ideas are no longer relevant.
And as the rate of change will only increase with each passing year, “delegate, delegate, delegate” won’t work anymore.
It’s time for a new kind of Executive Mode, one that empowers leaders to have their ears to the ground and adapt to the pace of tech instead of waiting on delegation.
Thiru Arunachalam retweeted
Steve showed us that the future isn’t something you wait for—it’s something you build. His memory lives on in the hearts of innovators and dreamers everywhere—at Apple and beyond.
ALT A black and white portrait of Steve smiling in glasses and a black turtleneck from 2007.
Thiru Arunachalam retweeted
I’m fighting for a city where I can raise my family and others can too.
@GrowSF is running our biggest campaign ever to win a majority on the Board of Supervisors and Board of Education. But we need your help.
Donate here 👇🏽 or DM me to learn more.
growsf.org/donate/
Thiru Arunachalam retweeted
I didn’t plan to get into politics, but I realized replacing our failed leadership was the only way to make San Francisco a liveable place to raise my family.
We’ve accomplished a lot, but it won’t matter unless we win in November. 👇
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Thiru Arunachalam retweeted
This is wild.
Runway AI just dropped Gen-3 Alpha that generates AI video just from text and images.
A step toward building General World Models.
100% AI 🤯
1. Prompt: A middle-aged sad bald man becomes happy as a wig of curly hair and sunglasses fall suddenly on his head.
Thiru Arunachalam retweeted
This is from Apple's State of the Union
The local model is a 3B parameter SLM that uses adapters trained for each specific feature. Diffusion model does the same thing, adapter for each style.
Anything running locally or Apple's Secure Cloud is an Apple model, not OpenAI.
Thiru Arunachalam retweeted
1/5 It’s a monumental day for @RubrikInc. Congratulations to @BipulSinha and the entire Rubrik team on being a publicly traded company! It has been one of the most rewarding experiences of my career to be involved in Rubrik’s growth, from inception to IPO, and I’ll be celebrating with their team - past and present - today. lsvp.com/stories/locking-dow… #RubrikIPO
Thiru Arunachalam retweeted
Consumer AI wave just starting now
Thiru Arunachalam retweeted
I strongly believe that the U.S. is at its best when it brings in talented scientists and engineers from all over the world to study, to be hired into companies to push forward our most advanced science and engineering efforts, and to start new U.S.-based companies. We should continue to expand this approach, not diminish it!
If this were a science paper, you would expect a country that picks its science workforce at random as a “weak baseline” and a leading nation like the US to actively experiment towards state-of-the-art, or at least beat the baseline.
Not providing a guaranteed path for accomplished scientists like @rdesh26, who graduated from one of the top labs in the country, @jhuclsp, to contribute to our progress and security directly is an avoidable tragedy.
I implore the @WhiteHouse / @USAGov OSTP, @StateDept, and @STASatState to look into the ways we are leaching out the best talent in the country, starting with this lottery system for the nation’s most talented.
Many have made this request before to past administrations to no avail, but acting on this now would leave a legacy that will be the envy of future administrations. I hope you do. If you have doubts, ask other best scientists nationwide, including @theNASciences.
Thiru Arunachalam retweeted
Reddit just filed to go public. Some notes:
• $804M in revenue growing 21% y/y
• 86% Gross Margins, -17% operating margins
• 73M daily active users (grew 27% y/y), about half of whom are logged in, >500M monthly actives
• Average revenue per user of ~$12.3/yr/DAU
• Signed a 2-3 yr $203M data licensing deal with Google last month
Thiru Arunachalam retweeted
Critical thinking should be the first thing taught to kids
This is utterly brilliant. A student accuses @jk_rowling of being transphobic. This teacher skilfully dissects the claim and challenges it by asking questions.
He teaches not what to think, but how to think critically.
Watch until the end.
You see the epiphany in real-time.