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Building @answersai_ai | @ucberkeley @dormroomfund prev @artemis__xyz @calblockchain Ilahi

Berkeley, CA
Joined February 2021
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I still didn’t get my reply though I’ll try again @nikitabier
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Life update: I’ll be joining @PanteraCapital this summer as an investment research analyst! DMs open to new research/ideas/protocol analysis in crypto and blockchain, WAGMI
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20 days out and we hit Top 10 1 Million + Questions Asked
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7 months
Crossed 150k users 🚀🚀 Building is fun
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Crossed 150k users 🚀🚀 Building is fun
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7 months
On the charts and rebuilding education!
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2 unicorns, 15 venture backed startups in the last 3 years @CalBlockchain is the highest source of College alpha in the Bay and no one can tell me otherwise Goated community
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W ECON 100B
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2 years
Only in Berkeley will you find folks trying to one up how fucked they are 12 hours before a final
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2 years
Being a founder at Cal can be daunting. Here’s a curated list of resources to help you on your way 👇 (1/35)
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We started off as 4 college students stuck in office hour lines last year. Today we’re very grateful to share our $1.5M Pre Seed round led by @arrayvc with participation from @Cal Fund, @DeVc_India , @DormRoomFund , and several silicon valley angels.
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@defi_dua
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Really excited to finally share what we've been building at @AnswersAi_ai for the past few months! 100 Million Views 1 Million Questions asked 120,000 users One mission to personalize education with @0xSatapathy @briwilburn21 @debbagh_mamoun Take a look at our recent feature
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Attending 10% of the lectures and being sad about college ending is my biggest takeaway from Berkeley
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2 years
VC bf meets Tech bro gf needs to be a Netflix special
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2 years
Excited to join the DRF community on the West Coast💜! If you’re a university based founder or a recent grad, hmu 🫡
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2 years
After sifting through and meeting hundreds of incredibly qualified candidates... we are beyond excited to welcome the 35 newest investment partners to Dorm Room Fund. 🥳 🙌 👀 Learn more on our blog -->
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The post internship depression is real, really went from conferences to 200 word discussion responses like nth happened in between
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2 months
My 21st birthday was in Vegas My 22nd would be at a board meeting in SF Adulting is fun
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1 year
Went from an Arts/Humanities student in high school to Biz school to shipping code all within 3 years and before I can legally buy a drink It’s been a wild ride and only just getting started
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@defi_dua
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3 years
Berkeley kids will have you judge your level of friendship based on how informal the GCal invite header is
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2 years
Wait till brown parents hear about the tech/consulting club acceptance rates at @Cal , they’ll have you prepping from middle school
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1 year
Being a boyfriend can be hard Which is why @davisjdylan & I built YourWingman AI, an official project entry at the @UCBerkeley @OpenAI & @sequoia sponsored Hackathon this weekend Explore custom restaurants, date ideas, birthday messages and compliment reminders Take a look 👑
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Econ teaching me opportunity cost the wrong way
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OK BUT DOES YOUR LIBRARY GIVE FREE ICE CREAM AT 4 AM @UCBerkeley 🤌
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I “invested” in a shitcoin for four weeks. Here’s how that experiment went A 🧵 (1/11)
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2 years
Every finance bro intern returning from NYC this summer
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Maybe there are things more beautiful than B2B SaaS
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2 years
Today marks 2 years and a month since I came to this country as an int'l student Grateful for the crazy professional, immense personal and unfortunate vocabulary growth it's brought with it
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@Jason Pivoted to AI and creating best Chat GPT API threads
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1 year
@nikitabier Okay this one was funny
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7 months
5.5 mag earthquake in NYC and not a single person changed their expression on the street, this place is WILD
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4 months
Our work at @AnswersAi_ai just got a highlight at @Forbes ! 300k students -> 1 Billion worldwide If you’re a builder at heart who wants to join the mission, hit us up
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3 years
You don’t realize the intensity of Berkeley till you reach home. Feels like someone suddenly turned down the speed on a treadmill
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8 months
Pretty sure half of Berkeley’s STEM students never see their professor till the final
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3 years
Didn’t imagine myself enjoying learning Solidity as much as I am. Firmly on the cryptobro pipeline.
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2 years
Seeing Silicon Valley for the 568th time scares me how realistic the show feels, we really out here living a movie
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2 years
Ask my CTO has been the most common phrase at @EthereumDenver so far this year
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10 months
Grateful for the people who made 2023 awesome 2024 will be a game changer 🚀
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2 months
Hi @Apple @AppleSupport @AppStore @AppStoreGames We’ve started building @AnswersAi_ai with a goal to change education. You’ve been instrumental in helping us reach to hundreds of thousands of subscribers and is getting to #6 on apple store in us and #2 in australia. We are
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One of my biggest learnings was seeing a mentor say "I don't know" to new stuff he actually didn't know So refreshing when everyone pretends to have their stuff sorted here
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The same $40 Uber for a mile showed up as $11 on Lyft Price gap has become wider esp since I switched to Uber One
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So grateful to be a part of the amazing @Xcelerator @CalBlockchain and Demo Day. 1200+ registrations. 18 Portcos. 8 months in. W
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Berkeley's gone through the 5 stages of grief already
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2 years
Following non American sports live at weird times is gonna cost me 10 years off my life expectancy
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1 year
You vs the guy she tells you not to worry about
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Now that finals are over, it’s time for every tech and finance bro at Cal to move to New York and shill it till next Thanksgiving
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The trauma of crossing Asian roads is apparent in me when I look both ways before crossing a one way road in Berkeley
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2 months
Having an existential crisis about my circle after receiving invites to three Peter Theil podcast watch parties
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9 months
Asked a tech bro about his favorite rapper and he told me the GPT Store has too many of them
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6 months
So easy to lose track of all the things you’re grateful for My friends, family and the most amazing people I call co founders and know in this valley and beyond 💙
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Pre product crypto unicorn founder from a16z should be a 🚩 tinder bio in Palo Alto at this point
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3 years
Feeling like a failure cause I didn’t exit my crypto startup for 30 Million at 18 😔
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“If you’re a smart person how does it even matter if your work doesn’t impact lives deeply” Truth bombs from @SharadVSagar at @Berkeley1India today damn
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You know you’re actually becoming friends when they stop using exclamations as punctuation
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Will always be in awe of US institutions, the scale of execution here is insane
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Having genuinely dope mentors who invest time in you>>>
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3 months
150 M views. No paid marketing on the format - @briwilburn21 🐐
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AI Study Apps is the most competitive niche. The best apps are doing millions of views on TikTok. AnswersAi: 150M views w 1 format JotBot: 20M from 1 series Cramly: 200M with 3 hooks Kipper & Plume: 20M with 1 faceless format 5 AI Study Apps smashing the TikTok game 🧵
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🫡 Applications for @DormRoomFund ’s 2023 Summer Diversity Tracks are open — if you’re a student who is an aspiring founder or interested in investing, learn more here:
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@ali_debow That’ll be $100 a month
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@KabirGoel They’ll find common app essays out of it
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Bay Area, where the promise of 100 year legacy companies is funded by 2 month hype cycles based on 1 week long trends
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Oppenheimer was so unrealistic, when has Berkeley ever had happy STEM majors anyway?
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2 years
Maybe @splitwise was the real immutable ledger after all
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2 years
The extent of the SV/Bay Area echo chamber becomes clear when you go home, the stakes feel so fake and self fuelling
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7 months
My last two visits to NYC have seen a car on fire and an earthquake within 4 hours of landing. This city’s an irl simulation
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2 years
My dehydrated over caffeinated self compulsively craves the 2x button during in person lectures
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SF might be the only city around where the guy walks inside for the sidewalk rule
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2 years
Came across a biz major running market research in Moffit for an app that teaches guys how to talk to girls, the bottom ain’t here yet
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Explaining use cases is actually so gatekept within crypto, like tell me why your automated smart contract bridges help retail if it really is a retail product
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9 months
Convinced NYC is the most iconic GTA simulation gone wrong Day 1 has seen a snow storm, a car on fire and a subway knife pull, it’s poetic
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7 months
Headed to NYC this weekend because I miss the seasonal depression Who’s around?
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Been working on a data analytics problem all day for @AnswersAi_ai At 6 PM the CEO of a YC Company walks in solving the exact same niche SF is insane
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She’s a 10 but she watches YouTube on 2x speed
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9 months
Headed to NYC till next Monday because I’ve lost my love for all things warm in the world Would love to meet any cool folks building/working in consumer, have something cooking too 👀
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Why does finding the right price matter so much in crypto? DEX aggregation and lessons from the SEC A 🧵 (1/11)
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1 year
Had an amazing time hosting the @Xcelerator companies for our Kickoff Week! With 16 founders overall and many in attendance, Cohort 6 is shaping up well with the best 📈 @BerkeleyRDI @CalBlockchain
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Seeing Swades again made me realize the immigrant paradox of wanting to return home and make a difference but getting an unnecessary god complex for doing so
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2 years
ETH Denver was the largest crypto conference in 2023 with 15,000+ attendees and 100+ projects on display Bringing the takeaways, key narratives and changes from 2022 A 🧵 (1/8)
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Hey @stripesupport might be worth checking on consumers who've been calling in for 12 days straight for a recurring, clear and simple to resolve error ‼️
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Both @sequoia and @SoftBank_Group make big bets on Web 3.0 today with @0xPolygon and @AleoHQ respectively. Influx of revered institutional capital is this space’s next big leap. Landmark day.
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When I say I miss berkeley, it’s the WarnMes y’all
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Company naming, California edition
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The way Bay Area is allergic to collars in clothing is fascinating
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3 years from now every single VC - B2B or B2C - will index more on the distribution co founders CMOs > CTOs soon
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2 years
Heading out to NYC this weekend! Hmu if you’re around or wanna talk about anything tech, crypto, VC or tell me for the 42690th time how SF is dead
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A consumer fund with better App Store support connects as its value prop will win the market
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Not sure if it’s even possible to discuss VC merch without the good ol Patagonias
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2 years
UST’s collapsed, USDT is sus and USDC too centralized, with Fei susceptible to attacks. The stablecoin trust issues do not align well with finals week
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OH in SF: posting African Chai pics in GC is peak girlhood
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Centralization is finding all of FiDi SF in one @MendocinoFarms
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Twitter without liked tweets is a dark place
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8 months
Twitter is the self prescribed creative outlet of every tech bro I’ve met
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1 year
The only GPT assistant tech bros really need 🤝
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Getting through immigration in 10 minutes at SFO is the stuff of legends I’ll tell my grandkids about
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2 years
The existential crisis that hits you about growing old is the stuff of nightmares
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2 years
Being at peace with yourself is a different aura altogether, so easy to underrate “normalcy”
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7 months
Community notes should be at an all time high today, I’m too gullible for half of these April 1st posts
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2 years
Berkeley Math's too egalitarian
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Most crypto companies build along supporting infra but most AI companies we've seen are application first In terms of Infra vs application, crypto could do a lot better
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10 months
For the capitalism utopia it is, Silicon Valley barely has people who have a nose for monetisation No wonder people outside call it a tech bubble
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Just realized I helped an int’l student friend get a full time job and that feeling>>>
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Boy math is building options for international flight tickets
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