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CEO & Cofounder @100xengineers , Founder @alignedtalentai

Bengaluru

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@thesidboson

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When I was 18, I taught a Computer Science course called CS50x for Harvard University. A year before this happened, I couldn't write a single line of code. This happened due to the power of online communities. Here's how - I share a super valuable tip at the end.

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When I met @nasdaily in 2016, he seemed like a fun, smart, curious dude who wanted to do something big in life. 6 years and 20 Million followers later, still the same guy, living his best life.

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7. Lesson : The best way to get the most out of any online community is to FIRST GIVE without expecting anything in return. I did not do it with this intention back then but now when I look back, this is what worked out for me. Give as much as you can. The return will compound

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1. 2014 Jan 1st, I signed up for this interesting-looking introductory CS course on edX - @cs50 . I honestly just wanted to learn how to hack lol. But the course had other things planned out for me.

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Took me exactly 3 hours to make this AI Space-film trailer. Workflow Breakdown : Images - @midjourney Video - @runwayml Narration - @elevenlabsio Music - @suno_ai_ Been doing some experimenting with AI videos and the capabilities are beyond wild! Super fun tho

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6. He invited me to join the international CS50x team to host live physical CS50x sessions in my city. I'm overjoyed and readily accept it. In 2015, I conducted 2 cohorts of CS50x sessions in Chennai and New Delhi teaching 25+ students and taking them through the course.

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2. Few weeks into it, I love the course. The lectures by @davidjmalan were just a treat to watch. His lectures were so entertaining that sometimes I'd watch them while having dinner. The course had assignments called Problem Sets (PSets in short). 10 of them to be specific.

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I started a podcast where I talk to start-up founders and core-team members and it has : 1. Insights that rarely get to see the light of the day 2. Secrets that were never revealed 3. Methods that start-ups use to scale from 0 to 1 Easy no-jargon language, 100% raw and real👇👇

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Advertising v/s Community Advertising : 100K people see your ad. 10K click on it and 2K end up converting. Community : You start with, say 2K members. Each member invites 5 more; scales to 10K members. Repeat the process. Courtesy : @VarunMayya 's upcoming Community e-Book

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5. I loved CS50x so much that I went back to my high school to deliver a lecture and create awareness of the course. Slowly but steadily, I became a popular and trusted member of the CS50x online Community. End of 2014, I get an email from @davidjmalan ....

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3. The PSets ranged from making games like Breakout to using Google Map APIs to create a Virtual Bus Tour around Harvard campus. They were fun to say the least. The course had a Facebook group community with ~50K+ members (290K+ right now). It was very active!

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4. Whenever somebody is stuck, they post on this community for help and in came 'experts' to help em out. So, whenever I'd finish a PSet, I'd answer questions of everyone who is currently working on a PSet that I've already completed. I did this all the way from PSet 0-9.

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Last week, I was building this with a few friends. This LEGO Ferrari is one of many ideas that's come out of the company's Community-Led Growth efforts. In the earlier 2000s, LEGO almost went bankrupt due to increase in video-game sales. Read thread to know how they overcame it

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@VaibhavSisinty Buying "Grammarly Pro" WILL save you from grammar Nazis if not immediately, Definitely* (read eventually) :P

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I dropped out of college 8 months into my 1st year. But I believe 95% of you should NOT drop out! Here's why - (point #6 gives you a direction to think in)

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nobody will remember: - your salary - your fancy title - how ‘busy’ you were - how stressed you were - how many hours you worked people will remember: - how you treat them and make them feel

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I don't usually trust babas but this one was pretty cool. My crypto losses can finally see some greens in the coming days. Would you take financial advice from Finance Baba?

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#Designers and #Illustrators WILL lose their jobs. Period. @VarunMayya let me try DALL-E 2 I being a singer-songwriter, wanted to generate an album cover. My illustrator already had smth made (left). Typed "man sitting on vinyl with moon in middle" and voila! (right). Thoughts?

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Shooting videos at the Virtual Production Set is always fun!

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@GayathriVeliat1 @Ishansharma7390 True. Being smart and knowing it comes with a pre-packaged ego. Efforts should lie in being shameless.

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Built the International Space Station on a 4 hour sprint. Best 4 hours in June. @LEGOIdeas is awesome!

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@iamsoankitt Best part is that it's all available for FREE!

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@thetanmay Not my earworm cos zyada hi narcissistic ho jaega, but mera gaana sunlo. Acha hai -

Musafir x Wanderer

Yugm, Sridev Ramesh · Musafir x Wanderer · Song · 2020

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Hire AI Engineers at 70% Lesser Cost than US Employees | Aligned Talent

Having a wide network of overseas AI-enabled Engineers, we help you find the right talent for an affordable cost.

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If you could ask Doraemon for a gadget/tech that would make your life easier, what would it be? 1 gadget/tech only!

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Me reading @prvkhvr ke tweets rn

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Bought my first ever @LEGOIdeas set. Always been a HUGE fan of these elaborate sets.

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Curious about Community Building? (especially for brands and businesses) Retweet this and I'll personally DM you a Community Playbook I've made for brands to build and scale their online community. P.S Make sure you're following me.

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This video is ever more true when you read the tweet I’ve shared lol. Try and find AI talent that is never distracted!

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Austen Allred

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The demands: * four-day work week * significant increases in pay * full coverage of all health care premiums for employees and family members * guaranteed RSU grants * non-performance-based annual bonuses (would cost over $100 million over three years) * ban on scented

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Step #1 in community-led growth is realizing and internalizing the fact that Community Managers are NOT Social Media Managers.

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Boson

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@JoselinMane @GrahamTheDev @codewithvoid @localkels @DThompsonDev @FrancescoCiull4 @njong_emy @44JAX44 @RakeshSangem8 @success__hycent @liamsandford @sumitsaurabh927 @CodeByPoonam @mshubhangi12 @neicoree @paolaruizglobal @MagickNET @Lauramaywendel My network cut my voice but it was a fun valuable session nevertheless. I had a good time with y'all!

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Say meow to Tsuki.

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Tsuki - The Prog Rock cat

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@DavidSpinks (after 1-2 months starting community building) No tangible results. Cut budget

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@kunalb11 Not building AI apps - but we’re building an ecosystem that’s building our AI-apps. We train founders, engineers and agency owners in Applied Generative AI product building - @100xengineers . See #0to100xengineer to see what our students have built so far :)

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@RanaMishka Unpopular Opinion : You need both kinds. Only smart talks can make things to saturated. Once in a while, it's good to let loose and talk to a bunch of friends who you can just gossip and chill with.

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What's the most "generic-but-true" advice you've gotten?

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@join2manish Indeed :) Cheers.

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FYI, I pay illustrators 2-5K for an album cover. DALL-E gave it to me in 10 seconds for FREE! Beat that. If you had this tool, why would you ever need a designer to make your YT thumbnails, book images, comics, album covers, ANYTHING? This is revolutionary!

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Shitposting all day about this book cos I can't be prouder of @el28n @VarunMayya and the rest of the team who made this.

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This 377-page in-depth guide to building communities was written by community masters who have scaled a Discord server to 50K members and have built an app with 120K users.

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Y'know what baffles me? Incentivization is core to any community. It's important to reward the Top Members; basically, the ones who engage the most. They must be made to feel special. However, I've rarely seen community platforms with reward systems. @buildonscenes does tho :)

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Happy Birthday to the one and only CTO at @buildonscenes and a stand-up guy, @tejazt !

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Another reason why you should listen to the Ultimate Start-up Building Podcast.

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Morning #Bengaluru ! Any coffee lovers out here?

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Best YouTube video you will watch today. Period.

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@abhnvx @abhinavxarora Bechaara shitposting ke chakkar me pil gaya xD

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3 years

Why do most startups fail to completely adopt a Community-Led Growth approach? Because they don't see immediate results and re-allocate community budgets too soon. But a few indicators can tell you if you're headed in the right direction for the first few months. See thread.

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2/6 These were the problems I had in college: - Teachers had very little real-world experience - Their main goal was to complete syllabuses, not ignite curiosity - Some classes never happened - Most of my peers were least interested in learning

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Scratch everything. Back to the drawing board.

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Motion Capture without fancy MoCap suits, tracking points etc. GameDev efficiency >>> This is done using an iPhone and the @MoveAI_ app -> transferred to UE5. Done by Liam Bailey. I've tried it as well, pretty sick results.

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@VarunMayya Interestingly, pink is the only colour that's not in the light spectrum - you see green cos pink is white without green. Makes sense to call pink as minus green as well.

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3 years

Greetings Twitteratis! A boson has entered the space.

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3 years

According to the Lindy Effect, if humans still do something we did 200K years ago, it's probably going to continue for a long time We have progressed only by doing things together. Communities are here to stay and is the way forward. Communities are the future of the internet!

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Been using the Meta Rayban AI glasses for 3 weeks now. Honest opinion : 1. I use it everyday to listen to music whole cycling to office. Great speakers but I sometimes wish they were slightly louder. Transition lenses are nice to have outdoors. 2. It’s absolutely awesome to

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@Boemo_KML @iamsoankitt

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reply with 👋🏽 & i’ll send you the next steps

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abhinav gupta

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we’re hosting the coolest tech party in bangalore this saturday 🥂🎸🪩🥳 it’s an invite only thingy (limiting it to 42 folks only) 🫶🏻 reply with 👋🏽 & i’ll send you the next steps p.s: we’re starting a new club called ‘the circle’ for the most driven & ambitious folks in bluru

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Squash after ages.

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Ultimate Start-up Building Podcast

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3/6 How I tried fixing them : - Learning the subject via Youtube videos - Having a chat with the HOD regarding the problem (it backfired lol) - Filling my "free time"(supposed to be lectures) with side-projects - Trying to get my peers involved in interesting things

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Coffee is a NEED when you're working out of #Bangalore . The skyline makes it better.

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4/4 Building their products alongside their community and engaging with them constantly enabled LEGO to become the world's leading toy company, surpassing Mattel.

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4/6 I really tried everything I could before I took the final call before dropping out. It was never my first choice and it seemed even scarier cos I had no idea what I'd do after leaving college. I got to a point where my side-projects consumed more of my time than college.

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5/6 And I was truly enjoying them and felt like I was learning, upskilling and getting somewhere. I was already doing quite a lot like taking multiple online courses, making music, etc It became crystal clear that I could do even more if college got out of the way.

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Moral : The leaders have already adopted community-led growth. Maybe it's time you should, as well. DM me if you want to know how to go about it.

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@RajatKapoor59 I can make it 98

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Boson

2 years

Step 1 : Get a new phone number and create a new email ID in the name of a fake person who will act as my 'Artist Manager'. For the lack of a better name, I called him Rohan Mehta. Rohan "manages multiple artists" out of which I was one of them.

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@ananyyye Yup. I was a CS50x Teaching Fellow (TF)

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Boson

3 years

Couldn't agree more. Adding on : It's critical to instill a sense of purpose in the initial members right from the start. Have a strong narrative and motive and encourage member participation as much as you can.

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Successful communities build trust from the start. Set expectations, follow through on habits, show up, talk to members, ask for feedback and communicate changes before they happen.

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Every single second of this video is HIGH VALUE for anyone looking to guage where the world is headed in the next few years. With @waitin4agi_ Feat. @EMostaque

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Boson

2 years

Guess who's early to the party.

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3 years

The biggest companies in the world will hire Chief Community Officers. If you’re already working in community, you’re early.

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I got an ad for a space trip from @virgingalactic What a world we're living in. What a time to be alive!

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@peakbengaluru If you look closely, he's just trying catch all the Pokemons lol

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@el28n Elson v/s CID would be a thing

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3/4 Here, enthusiasts could share ideas of what megasets they wanted LEGO to manufacture. Fans can upvote ideas they like and after the product team vets it, it goes into production. The idea-giver also gets 1% royalties from sales.

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6/6 The question you should ask is "Why should I NOT drop out?". Try fixing the problem - only when you've tried everything in the book, should you truly even CONSIDER dropping out. College does have perks - evaluate those. Dropping out should be your LAST RESORT. Thoughts?

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@ankitandmel I now wish I was stuck in indranagar - chai sounds good rn

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@roshrise Shitposter looking to become a wannabe gyaani

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2/4 The company brought together this scattered audience into a community on a project landing-page called LEGO Ideas.

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Boson

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"cityscape with a bowl of ramen in comic style" - was the text input. Click "Generate". Generated in 5 seconds by @OpenAI powered DALL-E. Static visual creators will become obsolete in a few years. No more illustrators, graphic designers, comic book sketchers, 3d illustrators.

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@_interestingguy I'm a simple guy. I want followers. Social capital.

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Boson

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Always a happy feeling when our cohort students do well!

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Siddhant Goswami

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Excited to share a success story from our entrepreneurship track @100xengineers . @muzicorn has just launched Sally, an AI SDR. It is one of the most effective AI agents I’ve used for SDRs. Upvote Sally on the product hunt and get a free one-month trial! 🔗 Product Hunt:

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One of my serious hobbies has been music. I write songs and play them at cafes, pubs and music festivals. In 2019, I wanted to go all-in on music and play as many shows as possible in one year. So I made a plan!

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Boson

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2024 has truly been the year for video and 3D models in AI.

@StabilityAI

Stability AI

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We are excited to introduce Stable Fast 3D, Stability AI’s latest breakthrough in 3D asset generation technology. This innovative model transforms a single input image into a detailed 3D asset in just 0.5 seconds, setting a new standard for speed and quality in the field of 3D

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Something every Community Manager must-have in their artillery. Cheers to @el28n and @VarunMayya for creating this!

@graphycommunity

Graphy Community Platform (Formerly Scenes)

@graphycommunity

3 years

Attention all Community Managers We've launched the ultimate community building playbook - Community Masters. If you're looking to take your community from 0-1 and scale it, this is your guide. Tag someone who needs this. Authors : @el28n & @VarunMayya

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Step 1 : Make a list of all the cafes and pubs in Delhi, Mumbai and Bangalore with the Manager's phone numbers. Took me like 4 hours.

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1/4 LEGO realised that they had a thriving audience who loved building their painstakingly intricate sets. It took hours to build but it gave people great satisfaction.

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@techinmartin Kitna attention chahiye Martin?

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@Ravisutanjani By forcing yourself to sit on things. Atomic Habits is a great read that has multiple frameworks for this.

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10 things I learnt in 10 years : 1. Stop wasting time. kthxbai

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@meltyourcheese built a LinkedIn AI copywriter and got hired by LinkedI! Another OG 100x story.

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Divyansh Raj

@meltyourcheese

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Something crazy happened here! Thanks for the shoutout @100xengineers @thetanmay @waitin4agi_ @thesidboson @geeksiddhant ! #poweredbyAI

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Step 2 : Make a 'pitch deck' and call em them one by one to pitch myself as an artist. My calls went smth like, "Hi, I'm Sid - a singer-songwriter. I was wondering if you could take a look at my music profile and give me a slot at your venue." 25 calls in - ZERO conversions.

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The Managers didn't seem to take me seriously enough. I knew something was wrong. So I changed the narrative to command more 'authority' and look 'more professional. I decided to fabricate a story! Here's the new plan.

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Boson

2 years

Saw DALL-E 2 live in action today and I'm blown away!

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Varun Mayya

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Mark Zuckerberg variants are ready to defend me

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@warren_munger It's free, wherever you are in the world.

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2 years

Weekend @peakbengaluru moment watching Peter Cat Recording Co. and Parekh n Singh live!

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2 years

Best meet-up ever. What a baller night!

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Last week, me and 300 people in Bengaluru had the best party ever. We met, ate, drank, and danced. Why? Just for the heck of it! This is the power of bringing people together.

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Breast cancer detection 5 years prior is a reality now. Crazy how AI is impacting healthcare.

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@sahilpng @VarunMayya Hahaha, I hate to say it man but probably Yes.

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