Rahul Rana @rrana03_ Twitter profile

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Rahul Rana

4 years

My book is officially launched! Making Moonshots is a deep-dive into the mindsets, philosophies, and strategies that are conducive to building moonshot companies. It's all about deeptech + radical solutions + solving huge problems. Get it today:

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Rahul Rana

@rrana03_

3 years

I have a speaking engagement at a university that rejected me lol nice

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3 years

On a boat party and someone brought @chamath

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2 years

My college put me on a billboard near Newark, NJ and didn’t notify me LMAO I am now the face of Rutgers business school 🫡

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3 years

We need a deeptech shark tank show The normal consumer products are cool but it would be cooler to show people what’s actually possible in science

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@rrana03_

4 years

Life update! Tomorrow I’m starting an internship at my dream firm @Lux_Capital . It’s so crazy, one year ago (oct ‘19) I didn’t know what VC was. Also I’m at a non-target school, so everyone told me it’s impossible to break in haha. Excited is an understatement @wolfejosh

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4 years

Still really surprised at this hahah

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@rrana03_

4 years

Absolutely incredible that my book is listed next to those such as Thiel's "Zero to One," Kupor's "Secrets of Sand Hill Road," and so many more legendary VC/startup books "Making Moonshots" really going down in history: @BusinessInsider

These are the 13 best books written by venture capitalists that every successful startup founder...

The 13 books written by venture capitalists which will prepare any startup founder for success and be knowledgable in the VC industry.

www.businessinsider.com

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Rahul Rana

@rrana03_

4 years

It makes me so happy seeing tik tok celebs investing cause more gen z people will learn about startups and it’ll be ‘cool’ once again More people interested -> more startups

Bryce Hall

@BryceHall

4 years

. @cory is going to make me an animal at angel investing. i’ll have more followers than you on @crunchbase and @AngelList . when can we chat @naval @scooterbraun @winklevoss and @jason ? I want to learn from the best

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1 year

Today's my first day at SALT Fund, a $150m frontier tech VC firm for which I will be an Associate & CoS to Managing Partner AJ Scaramucci ( @SALTConference / ) This is the next step of putting my book, "Making Moonshots," into action: building a

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3 years

Sam Altman is on the cap table of like almost every startup I come across How does this man do it

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Rahul Rana

@rrana03_

3 years

Deeptech startups and vc are just as important for making scientific progress as is academia

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@rrana03_

3 years

Sad day cause it's my last day at @Lux_Capital after spending a year there. Hard to believe it all started cause of a cold email! Easily the best thing to ever happen to my career + learned things that will last my entire professional life

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3 years

@venturetwins @sujude i think their decline actually started once they got rid of the notifications page and replaced it with their e-commerce stuff

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3 years

Today I learned not to do ETH transactions on an intern salary

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2 years

Miami tech week means seeing vcs and founders you respect be unnecessarily horny

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Rahul Rana

@rrana03_

4 years

It’s my 20th birthday today! Feels weird to not be a teen anymore. Would love some advice on living a good life from those older than me😎

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@rrana03_

3 years

Everyone in the startup world is coming to NYC next week

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4 years

@david_perell This reminds me of MIT's Essential Knowledge Series

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@rrana03_

4 years

It's 1am and I am burnt out from internship work, school work, junior year recruiting work, book/speaking tour work, and worrying about my future, hahah. I need to eat dinner too

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Rahul Rana

@rrana03_

2 years

Such a good day today Finished my last final exam of junior year A VC I look up to offered me a spot on the team Finalizing my Nyc summer apartment Immaculate chest and tris day Working on something new with my book

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Rahul Rana

@rrana03_

3 years

Finished my last final exam of soph year! It's now time to build👀 My summer goals: incubate 1 company at Lux, get my first sourced investment, get more press for my book, secure a junior year internship, and become an expert on as many topics as I can Will QT this on Aug 31st

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Rahul Rana

@rrana03_

2 years

Excited to be writing for the Not Boring newsletter :) Doing so mirrors the motivation I had to publish my book: to make progress we must tell stories of progress + inspire the general public to do ambitious things

Packy McCormick

@packyM

2 years

Pumped to welcome 2 new members to Not Boring's Liquid Super Team: @rrana03_ (deeptech & space) & @ElliotHershberg (biotech). Today, Elliot, a Stanford Genetics PhD candidate, takes us on a tour of synthetic biology through the lens of one of its leading companies: @Ginkgo .

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2 years

Just paid my first month of nyc rent A stab to my intern heart

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2 years

Founders Fund party last night was wild lol so much shit happened @zebulgar knows how to throw a party

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Rahul Rana

@rrana03_

3 years

The metaverse is still pretty confusing. Here's what helped me understand it: @ballmatthew 's @jradoff 's @packyM 's @pierskicks 's @rex_woodbury 's

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@rrana03_

4 years

Hypothetically do y'all think it's possible to start another legendary research park? Like 1900s Bell Labs type status. Or, how does a research lab get to that level?

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Rahul Rana

@rrana03_

3 years

Turned 21 today!! Can’t wait to one-up what I did this past year‼️

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@rrana03_

3 years

I actually really wanna start a dao or something that can buy one of those old money clubs in NYC If anyone’s down let me know lol

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Rahul Rana

@rrana03_

4 years

Holy shit my book is officially off to printing!!! It's done entirely! Launching it in ~2.5 weeks let's gooooo

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Rahul Rana

@rrana03_

3 years

Super close to making my first (very very small) angel investment and I’m HYPED All of it came from my book sales too

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Rahul Rana

@rrana03_

3 years

Y’all ever feel like you’re not doing enough even though youre working at your max

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@rrana03_

3 years

I always think of random ideas of startups so I’m going to compile them here going forward

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@rrana03_

3 years

If you're a climate founder that's raising DM me cause I got money for you!! Anything related to climate change—bio, energy, manufacturing, etc

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Rahul Rana

@rrana03_

3 years

There's a generation of students who only have their diplomas cause of Chegg and Quizlet

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Rahul Rana

@rrana03_

3 years

Late night writing a thesis on crypto x gaming I think gaming in the future won't look like just video games but rather digital social + economic universes Invest in things that start off as toys...

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Rahul Rana

@rrana03_

4 years

This is a dream come true! Be sure to check this podcast out :)

Anthony Pompliano 🌪

@APompliano

4 years

New episode with Lux Capital Associate @rrana03_ is live! - what a moonshot is - why they are important - how the best entrepreneurs go after moonshots - why iterative progress in science and technology is not enough Enjoy!

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Rahul Rana

@rrana03_

2 years

Made an angel investment into a legendary deeptech company Got carry in another one Slowly but surely the master plan will happen

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Rahul Rana

@rrana03_

2 years

Absolutely thrilled to share my newest piece on @notboringco It’s a primer on deeptech and an update to my book, “Making Moonshots” Read it, share it, and support the mission :)

Making Moonshots

Rahul Rana joins Not Boring to discuss the history and future of deeptech

www.notboring.co

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Rahul Rana

@rrana03_

3 years

@TurnerNovak Hi Turner, my name is Rahul Rana, a rising junior at Rutgers University. I’d love to schedule a quick call to pick your brain about breaking into VC. Here is my calendly link and my resume is attached. Let me know what you think!

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Rahul Rana

@rrana03_

4 years

It’s over for yall I’m officially a VC @joinEVCA

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Rahul Rana

@rrana03_

3 years

Hosted my first ever board meeting a few weeks ago and it was daunting to say the least People twice my age were looking to me to lead. So crazy.

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Rahul Rana

@rrana03_

3 years

I wanna ring the NASDAQ bell one day

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@rrana03_

3 years

Phineas and Ferb did more to inspire kids to build cool things than school has

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@rrana03_

3 years

Been seeing so many diff people complaining about young people doing vc or pm or whatever like bro just let people work wherever they want

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Rahul Rana

@rrana03_

4 years

Did a quick photoshoot with my sister hahah Will post the unboxing video soon👀

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Rahul Rana

@rrana03_

4 years

College students: this is your reminder to send that cold email

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4 years

AHHH im gonna be on a podcast i literally watch EVERYDAY NEXT WEEK THURSDAY

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2 years

Crazy how so many of the companies I've scouted in the past have grown so much by now in valuation or ARR or whatever and yet no investor believed me back then

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Rahul Rana

@rrana03_

3 years

Used my internship money for some blazers 😈

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Rahul Rana

@rrana03_

4 years

. @FrancisSuarez nice to meet you. I’m all about deeptech + moonshot companies and I’d love to work with Miami on promoting advanced science/tech 😎

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@rrana03_

3 years

I just know every creator economy startup had an emergency meeting today in light of the onlyfans news Theyre all gonna pivot

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4 years

@AshleySLiu “We back breakthrough companies that make social impacts” Yet another dog walking app 😳

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@rrana03_

4 years

Never met someone who gave a good argument against building things in space lol

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Rahul Rana

@rrana03_

3 years

Finished @APompliano ’s podcast with @zebulgar and I’m so fired up right now someone hold me back

He Built A Factory To Launch Into Space!! | Pomp Podcast #588

This is an episode of The Pomp Podcast with host Anthony "Pomp" Pompliano and guest, Delian Asparouhov, an investor with Founders Fund and a co-founder and c...

www.youtube.com

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Rahul Rana

@rrana03_

2 years

Lately I've been trying to balance the ambitious/"know what I want and won't stop until I have it" mindset with the realistic/"need a job in a recession" mindset and it's pretty interesting

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Rahul Rana

@rrana03_

3 years

Im skeptical if investment DAOs will actually work because if by design they’re 100% democratic then every decision will revert to the mean In science and VC investing, the “obvious” things to put money towards are rarely the best in the long run Happy to be proven wrong tho

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3 years

@davefontenot Venture is about picking outliers vs getting consensus. I’ve chatted with @rrana03_ and agree that conviction and outlier-ship gets diluted by consensus.

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3 years

The trick to seeing your friends win is mentioning their names when they're not in the room Super grateful for those that do that for me so I'm gonna continue doing that for others

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Rahul Rana

@rrana03_

4 years

The Shoot Your Shot room was probably the most entertaining room in clubhouse history

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Rahul Rana

@rrana03_

2 years

Who’s going to the VC firm ghostwriter meet up in Miami???

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Rahul Rana

@rrana03_

4 years

I’m at college and last night someone, who was clearly high off coke, came to me and said “you’re the book guy! I read your book like 92 pages in 6 minutes.” Does that mean I made it?

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@rrana03_

4 years

This thursday, I'm going to be hosting a deeptech investing panel + book event as part of the Gen Z VC slack group! Who are some deeptech investors that I should ask to join the panel? (tag them!) Also what are some questions y'all have for such a panel?

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Rahul Rana

@rrana03_

3 years

Just recorded a TEDx talk in my grandmas bedroom‼️ Had to move all the pictures of bhagwan so I could have a clear background

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Rahul Rana

@rrana03_

2 years

If anyone has been affected by the tons of recent layoffs, I’m always happy to help with finding new opportunities especially if they’re interested in deeptech (across all roles)

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@rrana03_

3 years

Today I was interviewed in a mini documentary for my university I am officially a movie star

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Rahul Rana

@rrana03_

3 years

Bio startup strategy calls give me so much respect for how these founders build such insane companies Like damn they have to think through molecules and proteins and pathways and complex systems as well as business things in general, all to reduce human suffering in some way

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Rahul Rana

@rrana03_

4 years

I'm convinced that barely anyone on tech or politics twitter have actually read anything from Orwell. Everyone's just throwing his name around hahah

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Rahul Rana

@rrana03_

3 years

Niche tweet but Ivan from Notion, Taco from Trello, and Alex from Upstream keep flooding my inbox

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Rahul Rana

@rrana03_

4 years

Oh my gosh the Lux team is so nice!!! @zavaindar @Lux_Capital I’m so excited to read it 😎

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Rahul Rana

@rrana03_

4 years

Super inspired by @balajis 's essay on the purpose of tech. I'm thinking of applying it to my book— we gotta start evangelizing deeptech Y'all know the feeling after you watched The Social Network (I know it's not just me) Just tryna motivate people to build cool things👀

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Rahul Rana

@rrana03_

3 years

Decided that I'm gonna use most of my book's sales for angel investing so if you bought it just know you're contributing to actually making moonshot companies

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Rahul Rana

@rrana03_

4 years

Lots of people were asking me for how to get into VC, so I wrote up a quick post.

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Rahul Rana

@rrana03_

4 years

Featured on @BusinessInsider 👀 I am amongst some VC legends in this:

Margaux MacColl

@margauxmaccoll

4 years

From @gaby_goldberg to @mrsharma , Gen Z is very much determined to change the venture capital industry (for the better). Here’s my list of 29 Gen Z VCs you should look out for:

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Rahul Rana

@rrana03_

8 months

Closed out a sold-out rave in a Brooklyn warehouse for my 23rd bday 1300 people absolutely jumping 🦹🏾‍♂️ With my best friend @abiola_familusi

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Rahul Rana

@rrana03_

4 years

Omg the hat came I’m officially a VC

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@rrana03_

4 years

I'm shocked by the amount of sales I made from one day of the book launch, yet the vast majority of them (almost all) were from twitter this place is crazy🤯

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Rahul Rana

@rrana03_

3 years

Not sure what's next but it will obv be something deeptech related in vc/startups

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@rrana03_

3 years

Today��s furniture shopping process is broken In the future, you’ll be able to buy a sofa and start sitting on it 60 seconds later because of the blockchain

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Rahul Rana

@rrana03_

4 years

Just got off a call with a stealth moonshot company, yet this one is more "deep humanities" than deeptech. Super cool concept—theyre literally going reinvent something that affects everyone👀

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@rrana03_

4 years

December 10th y'all. 5 more days til the book launch👀 My mom pulled out a religious calendar for this that's why I'm choosing Thursday next week hahah

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Rahul Rana

@rrana03_

2 years

Ive been seeing so many "whos investing in deeptech" type tweets My favs are from firms that explicitly told me they're no longer investing in deeptech lol

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Rahul Rana

@rrana03_

4 years

Omg this is literally a game except Miami keeps winning by simply being nice and welcoming

Mayor Francis Suarez

@FrancisSuarez

4 years

Another one bites the dust. This is fun.

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Rahul Rana

@rrana03_

2 years

Turned 22 today! Still trying to one-up what I did this past year

Rahul Rana

@rrana03_

3 years

Turned 21 today!! Can’t wait to one-up what I did this past year‼️

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Rahul Rana

@rrana03_

3 years

@TurnerNovak As a representative of contrary capital, dorm room fund, rough draft ventures, and every college vc out there, I have access to every deal on campus. I have an e-commerce social audio AI neobank that’s raising a $30m pre seed. Unfortunately, Tiger has been emailing as well

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Rahul Rana

@rrana03_

3 years

I always told everyone it’s cool to write about deeptech but it’s way better to put it in action Building @ArcadiaScience makes me excited for the future

seemay chou

@seemaychou

3 years

Think we'd stop this weekend? Nah, today we're featuring our interns on #meetthearcadians . I get to highlight @rrana03_ - Rahul is helping w translational strategy & our internal 'moonshot' factory, which is appropriate since he literally wrote the book "Making Moonshots" 1/3

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Rahul Rana

@rrana03_

1 year

Today was a special 4th of July. Got to see fireworks with my family from the top of the Freedom Tower Also cause my mom got to see the 9/11 memorial — she’s a survivor of the attacks. She was on floor 65 of the north tower and ran all the way down!

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@rrana03_

3 years

@Jai__Malik jai im noticing a trend LMAO

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Rahul Rana

@rrana03_

3 years

Of course I get sick on the day I was gonna go to nft nyc😐 Miss all my crypto friends hope to see y’all soon

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Rahul Rana

@rrana03_

2 years

Honestly shoutout to all those people who I follow/follow me who quietly engage with my tweets I do the same and hope y’all are doing well. Some of y’all are super cool

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Rahul Rana

@rrana03_

4 years

1/ "Making Moonshots" (New Degree Press) is a deep-dive into the strategies, mindsets, and philosophies that are conducive to building moonshot companies. To me, a "moonshot" is a startup/project that uses radically-creative advanced tech to create a huge impact in the world.

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Rahul Rana

@rrana03_

3 years

i keep telling myself "buy the ETH dip" but it just keeps going down wtf

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@rrana03_

3 years

@0xJim @eshita hey man thanks for letting me borrow your lamborghini and for saving my dog from the fire the other day

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Rahul Rana

@rrana03_

4 years

Writing a piece on this decade's biotech moonshots. What do y'all think will be the boldest companies in that space in these next few years?

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@rrana03_

4 years

@defaultalive Don’t forget the classic “Pls fix, thx”

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@rrana03_

1 year

Out of a graduating class of 13,700 people, I was interviewed by Rutgers University and featured in an article: After 4 years, 1 published book, 3 awesome VC roles ( @Lux_Capital @generalatlantic @notboringco ), helping start @ArcadiaScience , countless

You Might Recognize This Senior as the Face of Rutgers Business School

Rahul Rana discovered a passion for entrepreneurship and cutting-edge technologies during his first year at Rutgers Business School and ran with it.

www.rutgers.edu

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@rrana03_

3 years

It’s funny working on startups or projects with people from tech/crypto twitter cause I’ve only known them as shitposters but then turns out they’re hustlers who are amazing at what they do

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3 years

The best feeling is when founders reach out to me saying that my book inspired them to make their company😈

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@rrana03_

4 years

Literally I am next to Ben Horowitz, Renata George, Reid Hoffman, Brad Feld, Elad Gil, and so many others wtf this is the coolest thing ever

Making Moonshots

www.amazon.com

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3 years

This weekend, the world is connected over sports & we’re going to space Wish every week was like this. Science and sports, what more can you ask for?

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3 years

Some super talented friends and I are building a really cool DAO but I'm new to the space, does anyone have good resources on the tech stack for running one? Also if y'all know of web3 grant-giving orgs that would be appreciated!

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