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Arpan Shah

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5 months

Zuck started wearing a gold chain after attending a massive wedding celebration in India. This is not a coincidence.

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@erikbryn The US has more elastic labor laws than a lot of places, people can overhire faster but also fire faster. Same kind of efficiency in commodities markets. Everything responds more quickly to emerging market realities

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@growing_daniel My guess is that a loud, noisy democracy feels right at home for Indians and the culture that is “The Argumentative Indian”.

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3 months

At @pearvc too, if you’re raising a round at the early stages we’re here all summer, please don’t hesitate to reach out!

Eric Bahn 💛

@ericbahn

3 months

Noticing a lot more OOO from the VC industry this summer. Highly advise founders to hold off initiating their fundraise processes until after Burning Man (early Sep), if possible. Sadly, I’m totally serious.

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@deedydas @swakrikar He’s got a line in the song about “pouring his ashes in the river, cuz the flow bout to carry on” - must be about reincarnating as Freddie 😆

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@nickgraynews Society doesn’t work as a centralized planned top down entity like China or Russia where you can push folks through programs at a young age. Society too poor to prioritize sports from the bottom up so far.

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This would be difficult to watch. I decided to try and get an EB-1 right after I did some math on how long it would take via other paths as soon as I got my degrees. I told myself that if I didn’t get the green card that way, I’d just move to another country/back to India instead

Sriram Krishnan - sriramk.eth

@sriramk

6 months

📺 EP 76: skilled immigration in the US - H1bs, green cards, lotteries and caps and more w/ @deedydas There are few issues @aarthir and I care more about than skilled immigration, certainly few that has impacted us more personally. We have always wanted to do an episode on this

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2 years

Kind of crazy and impressive that India will move to T+1 settlement before the US will. The benefits to all stakeholders are immense in the financial markets .

Indian stock market to shift to a shorter trading cycle T+1 settlement on Jan 27 | Stock Market News

On January 27, T+1 settlement is scheduled to launch on the NSE and BSE of India. The market will have more liquidity as the settlement cycle is shortened to T+1, and as a result, buyers and sellers...

www.livemint.com

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Arpan Shah

@Arpan_Shah_

1 year

It is amazing to work with some of the hardest working people I’ve met, to partner with some of the most ambitious founders at the earliest stages!

Pear VC

@pearvc

1 year

We're thrilled to share that, after spending the last year as a Visiting Partner with us, @Arpan_Shah_ has officially joined Pear as a Partner. Read more about Arpan on our blog today!

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Arpan Shah

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6 months

Good day to remind folks that @pearvc is hiring an associate 😂! Associates at Pear definitely drive deals. Please apply here if interested

Investor, AI and Enterprise

Who we are: Pear VC is an early-stage venture firm based in Menlo Park with offices in San Francisco and Barcelona. We’re specialists in pre-seed and seed and partner with founders at the earliest...

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Arpan Shah

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2 months

@pitdesi Robinhood credit card with 3% cash back 🚀

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4 months

@sriramk @satyanadella @satyanadella and @sundarpichai both probably hand delivering an offer letter as we speak

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@Arpan_Shah_

1 year

The X1 card acquisition for ~95m after raising ~62m shows that CAC in consumer Fintech is the toughest problem. High ARPU products like credit cards are especially difficult in terms of customer acquisition. This is something all Fintech investors should be thinking about. My

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1 year

I couldn’t agree more! I personally went through an EB1 retrogression in the past. It is immensely demoralizing to know you qualify for a high bar that most countries would fast track but instead you have to wait for an indeterminate amount of time based on the country of birth

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2 years

@mohakmangal In the Indian context, the philosophy and religion are intertwined, so a lot of Jain, Buddhist and Hindu texts contain the seeds of Indian philosophy. I’d start with reading the Mahabharata if you haven’t yet, tons of philosophical ideas that still persist today beyond the story

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2 months

I’m excited to speak with @vladtenev later this year to share many of his learnings for the next generation of ambitious founders

Pejman Nozad

@pejmannozad

2 months

Pear Studio Speaker Series! Thrilled to launch our speaker series with the world's top tech CEOs and visionaries! 🚀 Exclusive insights and close connections await Pear Studio members! @pearvc @t_xu @vladtenev @dkhos @vkhosla @pedroh96 Adam Foroughi

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@Arpan_Shah_

2 months

As someone who was part of Robinhood quite early, I would just say “it depends” 😆🤷🏾‍♂️

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@venturetwins

2 months

Shipping product > waitlist

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3 months

For some, the dream is to be followed by Elon , Obama or Modi. For me it is @ParikPatelCFA . I am living the dream 🙏. Honored 🥹

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2 years

Increasingly, while it may be difficult to find folks who share your worldview on politics, economics, society around you locally, it is likely that there is a large group with the same perspective globally. @balajis proposed network states amplifies otherwise hidden voices.

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2 years

@JTLonsdale @WSJ @JTLonsdale thanks for speaking about this. My father almost couldn't attend my wedding because of this. Many relatives actually couldn't. There are many families waiting to travel that I personally have heard about

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2 years

@nabeelqu Microsoft probably has one of the best investment + acquisition strategy of all tech in the last 7 years (since satya took over) - Minecraft, LinkedIn, GitHub and OpenAI were all non-obvious when the investments were made

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One of the biggest things I learned through mistakes made at Robinhood was What is engineering in service off at the earliest stages. It is in service of the customers, not technology or quality in and off itself, but only if those things help move the needle for customers.

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3 months

Same experience here! The Bilt for X ideas or innovative credit cards in general struggle because it’s hard to get CAC down without something that’s too good to resist, but if you offer something too good to resist the unit economics on the card itself don’t work.

Sheel Mohnot

@pitdesi

3 months

Wild how many companies I've seen trying to be the "Bilt for X" (I've seen 4 "Bilt for mortgage" companies alone) and every time I dig in to the unit economics there is some hand-wavy answer about how Bilt made it work... Good luck!

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2 years

Folks who have been laid off or are looking to find roles in tech but unsure what’s available, please reach out! Tons of companies in the @pearvc network and other startups I know are still hiring! Many hiring folks on visas too

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@Arpan_Shah_

10 months

I agree with this take. More importantly, in my personal opinion, on reciprocity alone the US should not allow any Chinese social media company to operate in the US given how China has treated social media companies from here

Josh Wolfe

@wolfejosh

10 months

Future historians will show us allowing this—Tik Toxic—in US was historic mistake. It amplifies anything that divides us and hurts western interests…but I repeat myself

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@Arpan_Shah_

8 months

It was amazing to talk to all the @StanfordGSB students to share our theses and views within the Fintech market today. Amazing questions and some really cool ideas too!

Pejman Nozad

@pejmannozad

8 months

Opportunities in Fintech by @pearvc partner @Arpan_Shah_ at @Stanford 👌🍐

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Arpan Shah

@Arpan_Shah_

1 year

It has been amazing to work at Pear and thrilled to continue partnering with amazing founders!

Pear VC

@pearvc

1 year

We are thrilled to announce that we closed our fourth seed fund at $432M. Read all about it from @Katie_Roof at @business :

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Why I am bullish on Fintech and the room for innovation in finance even though Fintech has had a rough year and a half: I tried to turn on options in one of my legacy brokerage accounts. Communicated Time to Resolve (TTR): 3-4 days. 14 days later and after 5 phone calls and 2

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@Arpan_Shah_

2 years

@Jason My understanding is that not many branches of some banks are open on the weekends. This means that while the crowds are larger than usual probably not too concerning on its own

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@Arpan_Shah_

4 months

Amazing to see the work and commitment of @pejmannozad and @MarHershenson recognized on the Forbes Midas list!

Pear VC

@pearvc

4 months

We're excited to see @pejmannozad and @MarHershenson on the 2024 @Forbes Midas List! The list recognizes the 100 investors with top returns, but the thing we're always the most proud of is the amazing partnership between our team and our founders. 🍐

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When you get a chance to work with @pejmannozad it isn’t too surprising to see @pearvc and him top the Midas seed list! The hunger to constantly set bigger targets and do the best for founders has been a hallmark of his whole career :)

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Arpan Shah

@Arpan_Shah_

5 months

Someone could easily do with these mangoes what that one person did with restaurant reservations in NYC and make a killing. Indians in the US have the purchasing power and the same obsession with these mangoes.

Sheel Mohnot

@pitdesi

5 months

It’s that time of year! Alphonso mangoes are in season. Customs restrictions, transport costs, & short shelf life make them tough to get in the US. Call your Indian store to see if they can get you some. They sell out within hours of arriving from the plane, are worth it!

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Arpan Shah

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4 months

Congratulations @willbokuishen and the @apparatelabs team on this launch! Building real time video generation, and making it accessible via easy APIs unlocks a whole set of use cases that are transformative! I and @pearvc are excited to be along for this journey 🚀

Apparate Labs

@apparatelabs

4 months

Introducing Proteus 0.1, REAL-TIME video generation that brings life to your AI. Proteus can laugh, rap, sing, blink, smile, talk, and more. From a single image! Come meet Proteus on Twitch in real-time. ↓ Sign up for API waitlist: 1/11

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8 months

If iRobot $IRBT or Spirit $SAVE go bankrupt because of their failed mergers (a deal that two willing parties couldn’t conclude simply because of regulatory approvals), then the winners are not consumers who get more competition - there is no competition from a dead company. The

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@Arpan_Shah_

9 months

People in India should really not miss this news and this is an example of why I think banning TikTok in 2020 was the right move by the Indian govt at the time

Josh Wolfe

@wolfejosh

9 months

China wants to undermine India 🇮🇳interests too

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1 year

@sriramk This is very true! Also the reason why reference checks from someone from a long time ago in someone’s career is useful only for information on character and rarely on skills and capabilities

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@Arpan_Shah_

2 years

I think the best goal of the world cup already happened

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6 months

We’re quite excited about Fintech at @pearvc . The market opportunities are still very large and preferences across lending, saving, spending and investing continue to evolve

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4 months

Netravalkar getting bought by an IPL team and returning to India next year to play cricket full-time will be the most incredible story arc. Either that or he will at least get an EB1A out of this performance and finally have a green card

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1 year

When Flannel joined forces with @Plaid one of the key reasons @hongxia_zhong and I chose them was the synergistic value faster payments and RTP could provide to Plaid’s ecosystem. It is exciting to see that early vision we had come to fruition:

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Arpan Shah

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3 months

Not a lot of feel good stories coming out of Afghanistan but the story of their cricket team and their progress to the cricket World Cup semi-finals is such an incredible underdog success story! Icing on top is India not having to face Australia in the finals as a result

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Arpan Shah

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1 year

It’s heartwarming to see how much space can inspire an interest in science and innovation! Woke up at 5am to see the Chandrayaan 3 moon landing and was amazed to see millions of viewers on every YouTube stream 🇮🇳🌕

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Arpan Shah

@Arpan_Shah_

2 years

Having interviewed hundreds of engineers, the most underrated trait is strong ownership: most engineers see their job as building something but not being responsible for the impact it has. The best engineers aren’t just shipping but constantly paranoid about outcomes.

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Arpan Shah

@Arpan_Shah_

2 years

People convinced that they have the right solution on a conflict should have some skepticism and humility given the track record of countries in history where group think has lead to tragic escalations. This is why I appreciate @DavidSacks , @elonmusk , @naval and others

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Arpan Shah

@Arpan_Shah_

3 years

Excited to work with @pejmannozad and @MarHershenson and the awesome team at Pear

Pejman Nozad

@pejmannozad

3 years

We’re excited to announce that @arpanshah29 has joined Pear as our newest FinTech Visiting Partner! Arpan is excited to share his operating experiences from building Flannel (acquired by @Plaid ) + leading engineering @RobinhoodApp

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Arpan Shah

@Arpan_Shah_

3 months

Congratulations @imkevinxu and the team on the raise! The financial community they’re building for traders is based on actual positions people have taken so you know whether people have actual skin in the game

Kevin Xu

@imkevinxu

3 months

We've raised $4.5M to build @AfterHour_HQ , the ultimate financial community app for the internet generation. With our raise, we're doubling down on community features that give everyday traders the chance to find alpha faster. A big thank you to our lead investors for believing

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Anyone who has tried to innovate in finance will tell you how important licenses and your relationship with regulators are! is bringing financial licensure to the next era where it is no longer opaque, complex and expensive! I am so excited to partner with

Automate Financial Licensing with Brico

Brico automates financial licensing for FinTechs and Financial Institutions. Manage MTLs, Lending, Collection, EWA, and servicing licenses with ease.

www.brico.ai

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@Arpan_Shah_

2 months

This is accurate. I went from H-1B to EB1a , while the O-1 path is good one it doesn’t necessarily mean your odds are any higher

Deedy

@deedydas

2 months

Immigration News for Entrepreneurs! Founders with 50%+ equity CAN file for an H-1B for themselves. Most usually opt for the higher effort O-1 because there's a myth that it's needed for EB-1A. It's not. In most ways, the H-1B is more convenient so long as you make the lottery.

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@Arpan_Shah_

1 year

It’s no longer possible to get news faster than Twitter for any story that is unfolding rapidly. This on its own makes Twitter a competitive threat to all other media entities

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@Arpan_Shah_

24 days

Build a company that is a small tax on every dollar spent in the whole category Cloud providers: a small tax on all software Ad networks like Google, meta: A small tax on every consumer dollar spent Nvidia: a small tax on every dollar spent on AI

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Arpan Shah

@Arpan_Shah_

2 years

The storm expected tomorrow in the Bay Area sounds like something we are even more unprepared for given this past weekend. Fingers crossed for minimal loss of life and property 🤞

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Arpan Shah

@Arpan_Shah_

7 months

Pear Portfolio company @AfterHour_HQ and @imkevinxu have built an incredibly fun game for people who love the markets and investing! On a personal note, some of my most fun memories in the early days at Robinhood were sitting around the lunch table discussing random investment

Kevin Xu

@imkevinxu

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This has been a dream come true to build We built the sexiest bracket game for the stock market in the world Huge thanks to @papperzz and his team for phenomenal execution

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Arpan Shah

@Arpan_Shah_

11 months

Happy Diwali from our family to yours! Wishing love and light and a prosperous new year

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1 month

All great startups build a strong culture by having a memes/shitposting channel in their internal slack

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Arpan Shah

@Arpan_Shah_

9 months

confident that Robinhood and its impact in driving the whole ecosystem's commissions to 0 had a significant impact in improving stock ownership especially for those below the 60th percentile. 🚀

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@Arpan_Shah_

2 years

@vladtenev @RobinhoodApp Nottingham 😁

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@Arpan_Shah_

2 years

@CoinbaseSupport I’ve got a transfer in pending state for 6 months now. Multiple emails,phone calls and support requests later.I got a note saying that the transfer was cancelled months ago. Those tokens are still not returned to the account and still in “pending” in the app.

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Arpan Shah

@Arpan_Shah_

1 year

It’s amazing how space flight can captivate people from all kinds of diverse backgrounds! Amazing work by @isro to have a successful launch! Hopefully the entire mission will succeed and India will be the 4th nation to soft land on the moon 🇮🇳

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Arpan Shah

@Arpan_Shah_

9 months

This will be controversial, but if the US created unlimited immigration based on a bar for tax collected by the US (I.e high skilled immigration with no cap but a high salary hurdle), then I don’t see a way that China or any other would catch up on total GDP for a long long time.

Josh Wolfe

@wolfejosh

9 months

Agree

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2 years

Craziest news I saw today was how a fintech startup Frank allegedly created fake accounts and tricked JP Morgan Chase into acquiring them. I then saw it happened in 2021, and it made sense how JPM fomo’d in

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Arpan Shah

@Arpan_Shah_

6 months

@pearvc has been one of the strongest supporters and partners for startups at the earliest stages for over a decade. PearX is our program to help founders build the best version of their startup using all the resources and knowledge at our disposal!

Ajay Kamat

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6 months

At @pearvc we have been developing PearX for the most elite founders who have the grit and vision to make their companies succeed.

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Arpan Shah

@Arpan_Shah_

7 months

Doesn’t matter if you love Satya / $MSFT or you hate Sundar / $GOOG management. The natural evolution of a mature American public company is to appoint an Indian CEO 🇮🇳 $SNOW

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3 months

This can no longer be organized this year. Most of the good varieties are already out of season. For example, no good Alphonso is produced after the end of May. This party is a great idea but will be mid unless you wait to do it next year and organize it last week of May latest.

darshil

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3 months

organizing a mango eating party in sf soon. dm or reply if you love mangoes

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1 year

Canada permitting any H1b holder to work at any company in Canada + the ease of converting to permanent residency without country quotas makes Canada an obvious choice for all h1b holders. My own personal green card journey was time consuming enough that I know this will

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Arpan Shah

@Arpan_Shah_

5 months

The single biggest thing a country can do to become rich is to stop looking down on wealth and progress due to some utopian ideal on how evenly progress should occur and in what order

Sadanand Dhume

@dhume

5 months

Good to see Modi echo Deng Xiaoping on Aaj Tak just now. When asked about inequality Modi turned the question around and asked the journalist ( @rahulkanwal ) if he would prefer it if everyone in India was equally poor. It’s okay if some people get rich first, said Modi. That’s how

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Votes will be counted today on the elections in India with ~1b eligible voters and ~650million votes cast. It’s a remarkably lively, intense contest. Whoever wins, there should be an acceptance of the results. For the first time, there are some parties already trying to call

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Arpan Shah

@Arpan_Shah_

3 months

As always from @paulg : extremely important ideas communicated with remarkable clarity. Worth a read!

Paul Graham

@paulg

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The Right Kind of Stubborn:

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2 years

Incentives guide behavior: If the prerequisite for a manager to go to the next level in the career ladder is having more members in the team, you can be sure that smart, ambitious managers will be able to come up with a way to justify (even argue it is essential) hiring people..

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Arpan Shah

@Arpan_Shah_

5 months

Not sure if this is a comment suggesting the left >> right. The extremes are always bad but no Marxist country (or any other leftist ideology) has succeeded. Meanwhile capitalist countries produce higher quality of life for their people again and again. Capitalism >> socialism

Arnav Gupta

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Oh it is just that grifting the left wing is a tad bit harder because they are big on thinking logically and being skeptical of everyone and cancel their own messiahs at the first hint of ethical issues

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@sdamico @theallinpod @Jason Exactly! I remember interning at Tesla and after the internship feeling like I should buy stock at some point when I had enough money since it was an option at least!

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Arpan Shah

@Arpan_Shah_

8 months

Excited to partner with the incredible team at @guardrails_ai ! @ShreyaR and her team are building the best platform for validating and enforcing expected behavior in AI applications

Guardrails AI wants to crowdsource fixes for GenAI model problems | TechCrunch

Guardrails AI is a startup that aims to crowdsource approaches to fighting and mitigating the worst of GenAI models' tendencies.

techcrunch.com

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Arpan Shah

@Arpan_Shah_

2 years

This is the best resolution and in my view reinforces trust in the banking system of the largest financial system in the world #SVB

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Arpan Shah

@Arpan_Shah_

27 days

@paulg Great essay! As companies get bigger, one of the reasons simply delegating doesn’t work is most of the actual work is being done in the leaves of the tree. It’s impossible to “game of telephone” via process up and down with the CEO accurately. All effective companies have some

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Arpan Shah

@Arpan_Shah_

2 years

I still don’t quite understand why England in spite of having one of the top 3 football leagues in the world (some would say top 2) hasn’t won a World Cup since 1966. Surely they have the talent, interest ecosystem, money, coaches, fans etc etc 🤷🏾‍♂️

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This is a great summary of why I am long India. Most important point is that Indians know that we’re not number 1 or number 2 or even 3 ... There is a long way to go but there is a realization that there is a shot at being a very prosperous society by doubling down on

Balaji

@balajis

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INVESTING IN INDIA IS IMPROVING INDIA If you see a startup growing, does that mean it doesn't have any flaws? That it's the best in the world? That you're going to use it for everything right away? No, of course not. But you might start using it, and putting money into it, and

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2 years

People who think @elonmusk will fail with twitter or are hoping for it to happen amaze me with the lack of understanding of the history of his companies. Tesla almost failed multiple times. Spacex almost failed multiple times. Mistakes will be made but I wouldn’t bet against him

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Arpan Shah

@Arpan_Shah_

4 months

One of the important things coming out of Apple’s announcement today is the start of what I think will be a long trend to models being smaller and on-device. We will see this happen increasingly over all major computing platforms and across all major device makers.

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Arpan Shah

@Arpan_Shah_

2 years

A sign of a good growth team is one that pays attention to getting deep links right. Apps that drop you into the right spot within the app from whichever mechanism you received a link is key to a great experience So many apps get this wrong when links come through email or text

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The best possible scenario for startups is one where LLM models at the cutting edge become and remain hyper competitive. The lower the margins and profitability these providers have, the more startups will flourish as the cost of producing AI applications will be low. If most of

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Arpan Shah

@Arpan_Shah_

2 years

Reflecting on 75 years of Indian independence as the anniversary approaches, there have been few success stories as big and as profound as India 🧵

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Arpan Shah

@Arpan_Shah_

3 months

This is the ideal onboarding experience and a significant innovation only a player like Plaid can produce. Why shouldn’t a person who has already been vetted and verified at say Coinbase and Chime not get the benefit of that when they sign up at Robinhood! CAC is incredibly

Alain Meier

@alain

3 months

Today, we're announcing something very simple: Sign up with Plaid. That “simple” thing increases end-to-end sign up rates by 10 - 25%, and we're calling it Plaid Layer. Here’s how we give you the Internet’s fastest, highest converting financial onboarding experience 🧵

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Arpan Shah

@Arpan_Shah_

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If this is indeed just labeling, it is shitty. That being said, it seems like Intuit has >18000 employees. It is totally possible that 5% of the workforce wasn’t meeting expectations. Actually in every company I’ve seen or been part of , at scale at least 5% of folks aren’t.

Rahul Pandey (joinTaro.com)

@rpandey1234

3 months

Pretty shitty thing to do by Intuit. Since this is a performance-based layoff of "𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘬𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘸𝘩𝘰 𝘥𝘪𝘥𝘯'𝘵 𝘮𝘦𝘦𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘣𝘢𝘳", two critical consequences: 1️⃣ Employees terminated for performance reasons might be denied unemployment benefits 2️⃣ Laid-off workers

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Arpan Shah

@Arpan_Shah_

2 years

As someone from a “elite” school, something people don’t want to admit or talk about is how many doors in the tech industry are only opened for people from such schools This is a part of diversity we don’t focus on or talk about and as an industry we can do a lot better.

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Arpan Shah

@Arpan_Shah_

2 years

I took delivery of my Tesla two days ago, and now the discount for folks taking delivery this month is 7500 🤔. I wonder if @Tesla will give the rebate to folks who just took delivery in the same week. Seems odd to not let folks know this was coming Cc: @elonmusk

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Arpan Shah

@Arpan_Shah_

2 months

India’s best ever performance at the International Math Olympiad and surprised at how little coverage there is on major Indian news sites. These performances are a leading indicator to scientific excellence and should be celebrated 🇮🇳

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Arpan Shah

@Arpan_Shah_

7 months

Days like today are a good time to remember Warren Buffet’s investing advice to focus on great management always! I remember attending this event in 2016 with some folks from the data team at Robinhood. It was amazing to see Jen-Hsun focus on the AI researchers and deep learning

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Arpan Shah

@Arpan_Shah_

30 days

Meta missed the cloud market but has incredible data centers. Creating a managed offering on top of Llama + access to frontier models not yet open sourced may give them an opportunity to be a cloud provider after all if they are willing to do the Capex!

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Arpan Shah

@Arpan_Shah_

5 months

This is the right take. It is really bad for the capital market structure that fosters innovation if the best companies stay private too long. If folks outside the ecosystem can’t participate in the upside of the best American companies via the stock market, they will resent

Bill Gurley

@bgurley

5 months

IPOs & robotaxi. For the record, I disagree with @altcap on size you need to be public. Also suggest the late stage group of investors may be biased!! They want a non-jump ball bite at apple. Or one not controlled by banks. If you are at $100mm and growing nice you can IPO

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Arpan Shah

@Arpan_Shah_

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Feature request: autocomplete in the claude and chatgpt interface 🙏 My patience for fully writing long words in a text bar has been systematically reduced by years of conditioning.

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Arpan Shah

@Arpan_Shah_

1 year

The announcement of FedNow launching is very exciting and if every American FI joins, it will be the beginning of a new wave of innovation. One key capability that I hope the Fed enables is third party applications and payment processors being able to power request for payment

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Arpan Shah

@Arpan_Shah_

2 years

To understand how much of a head start US financial markets have on India, The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) was founded in 1792 : 230 years ago. India got independence in 1947: 75 years back. For context: in 1792 Tipu Sultan had just lost the third anglo mysore war 🤯

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Arpan Shah

@Arpan_Shah_

2 years

So will Bing beat Google as the preferred search engine in the next 12 months or GPT 4 isn't there yet?

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Arpan Shah

@Arpan_Shah_

4 months

India needs a stable government, as long as the coalition is stable growth will continue. The pace of reforms will slow down as tough decisions could lead to a coalition partner walking away. Decisions like the Indo US nuclear deal almost didn’t happen because of coalitions

Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼

@Noahpinion

4 months

This is why my India-stanning has never been Modi-stanning, despite certain Twitter dipshits who claimed it was. Put someone from the opposition in Modi's place, and my support India's rise won't even slightly change. Countries are bigger than people.

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Arpan Shah

@Arpan_Shah_

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@sriramk Old school Indian remedies seem to work for me: turmeric milk, ginger tea, tons of water and sleep

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Arpan Shah

@Arpan_Shah_

2 years

Some thoughts on and gpt3. It is quite impressive! It replaces Google’s Knowledge Graph quite effectively. Things like who? when? what? I used to think the search algorithm Google has is insurmountable. Starting to think it won’t be the edge long term.

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Arpan Shah

@Arpan_Shah_

5 months

Every wealthy country became wealthy by understanding that wealth comes from innovation which comes from valuing private property. Socialism leads to economic ruin. Anyone in India advocating it should be forced to live and work in West Bengal for the rest of their career to

Dr. Ruchika Sharma

@tishasaroyan

5 months

So many dodos crying about 1991 reforms, as if India gave up socialism post 1991. India continues to be socialist, its welfare schemes all come from socialism. The entire idea of a welfare state is a socialist concept. How badly are 91 reforms taught to dodos in schools that

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Arpan Shah

@Arpan_Shah_

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One interesting dialect difference between India and the US in company building: In India you hear founders say “We decided to Startup” vs “We decided to do a startup” here. Both make sense if you think about it 🙂

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Arpan Shah

@Arpan_Shah_

1 month

My little story about Cheyenne: I stopped there on the drive back from Kansas City to the Bay Area overnight. I thought it was just another small town we were driving through. The whole city feels like a small Bay Area suburb! Still had a pretty good Indian restaurant 🙏

Sheel Mohnot

@pitdesi

1 month

One of the candidates for mayor of Cheyenne, WY (pop: 65k) created an AI bot that he says will run the city. Victor will be on the ballot but 100% of the decision-making will be by AI; half the mayors salary will go to a non-profit, the other half to improve the AI

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Arpan Shah

@Arpan_Shah_

2 years

With Trump announcing his candidacy for 2024. There will be enough content in the next few years for Twitter DAUs and MAUs to 🚀 to the 🌕. @elonmusk purchase of Twitter just got incredible tailwinds . There will be no shortage of controversy

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Arpan Shah

@Arpan_Shah_

3 months

Turned off the Cricket World Cup final after only 1 run per ball was needed. I was certain India had lost. So glad I turned it on again in time to see the last over 🥹. What a roller coaster! A game deserving to be a World Cup final

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