Aarthi Ramamurthy

Founder, Schema Ventures. Builder. Ex - FB, NFLX, MSFT. Married to @sriramk. aarthi at gmail.

[Aarthi Ramamurthy @aarthir]

It's been a little over 9 months since I wired my first check as a solo GP at my firm, Schema Ventures. 

Here’s a few observations:

[Aarthi Ramamurthy @aarthir]

“And also, tell us a fun fact about yourself” - <digs a hole and disappears>

[devseb @astrohound]

So before we start the meeting, let’s go around the room and introduce yourself

[Aarthi Ramamurthy @aarthir]

Relatable

[kache @yacineMTB]

5:00 am: wake up
6:00 am: get two years worth of work done on a hobby project in two hours with coding LLMs, become extremely anxious about the fact that we are currently in the singularity
7:00 am: wake kid up, feed him breakfast
9:00 am: go to the park
11:00: snack
12:00: lunch

[Aarthi Ramamurthy @aarthir]

@hnshah Yes but maybe publish them as video series? You’re going to get inundated and think a lot of the questions/challenges are similar across companies

[Aarthi Ramamurthy @aarthir]

@chrispisarski I do most of this and have automated (built persistent, self improving, agents for) the rest. Depending on how early the startups are, I’d expect the founder to do almost all of this with help from agents

[Aarthi Ramamurthy @aarthir]

@snpal2000 @saranormous yeah maybe a bit of both?

[Aarthi Ramamurthy @aarthir]

@nikunj @andrewfarah This is great, thank you! Built my own janky sync + bookmark search this weekend but will use ft-CLI instead

[Aarthi Ramamurthy @aarthir]

So smart. Need to do this for the thousands of X bookmarks that I never end up reading

[Charlie Kerr @charliekerr]

My girlfriend has thousands of TikTok’s saved- day trips, vacation ideas, restaurants, gifts, etc. I couldn’t keep track of it.

Now she texts the videos to Hermes, it watches them + stores in a vault, I text the agent to pull from her lists and plan. Magic.

[Aarthi Ramamurthy @aarthir]

This is absolutely right. YC startup school is an amazing effort to get more people interested in entrepreneurship. I attended it last year and met tons of people working on some cool ideas. We need more of these events that normalizes wanting to build things.

[Dan Gray @credistick]

Something that @garrytan understands better than most:

The bottleneck on progress is the rate at which individuals with great ideas and insane determination can be converted into founders.

Venture capital has an "if we build it they will come" mentality that manifests as a zero-sum competition for attention within the pool of surfaced talent.

This assumes that the interface between capital and talent is as good as it can be; that every potentially great founder is able to engage with that opportuniy.

It's a supremely silly (and fairly arrogant) point of view that bears an unknowable cost.

(This is why I have deliberately profiled firms like @1517fund and @BoostVC, or individuals like @arian_ghashghai, @cyantist, @alexlmiller and @Besvinick, who genuinely expand the frontier of what and who is fundable.)

We have come nowhere near the ceiling of human entrepreneurial potential. Many of the impediments are regulatory, institutional, systematic. One key constraint is simply a lack of competent investors with the courage to back unusual founders and ideas, particularly in hot markets.

This is the gap that @ycombinator helps to fill, by encouraging people to engage with entrepreneurship.

On top of this, they apply a refined process which displaces many of the less worthy signals and credentials that investors lean on. It is the gold standard for screening for talent at scale and giving the market confidence to take the baton.

My only hope is that they take this on the road, to spread their cultural footprint further across the US, and beyond.

It is important that the messages reaches everyone.

[Aarthi Ramamurthy @aarthir]

Well played Denny’s, well played.

[Denny’s @DennysDiner]

@JensenHuang @nvidia

[Aarthi Ramamurthy @aarthir]

@eddie_yakubov @midjourney @banu__guler Underrated tweet

[Aarthi Ramamurthy @aarthir]

I do not want to be chased by one of these things

[Unitree @UnitreeRobotics]

Unitree Super Athlete AS2-W 😉
Fluid movement, compact yet exceptional. Supports a continuous 16kg payload, with 30+ km unloaded driving range

[Aarthi Ramamurthy @aarthir]

Awesome side effect of the open vs closed models battle is that we now have Jensen on X

[Jensen Huang @JensenHuang]

For my first post, I’m sharing a letter @NVIDIA signed on why open models matter.

AI will transform every industry, power every company, and be built by every country.

Open models strengthen safety and cybersecurity, accelerate innovation and diffusion, and enable sovereignty.

The world needs both frontier closed models and frontier open models.

https://t.co/AUKzoQ5Ikb

[Aarthi Ramamurthy @aarthir]

Cosmic Robotics is an incredible company and @JamesAEmerick and @thelcjones are special founders who are uniquely qualified to build it. Schema was one of the earliest investors because it was a no-brainer to me. Thrilled that they’re in @ycombinator’s current batch.

“$7 trillion will be invested in data centers and the energy to power them over the next six years.

The Hoover Dam was built almost 100 years ago. One of the greatest feats in construction. It's a drop in the bucket compared to the buildout happening now.”

[James Emerick @JamesAEmerick]

Today, @thelcjones and I excited to announce @cosmic_robotics has joined @ycombinator's summer batch to accelerate our mission:

Building autonomous construction robots to build a city on Mars.

And our systems are already at work today on some of the largest energy projects in the US.

[Aarthi Ramamurthy @aarthir]

My guilty pleasure is scrolling through X just to find good Odyssey memes

[Gwdihŵ 🦉 @youwouldknow]

Ryanair when it’s time to disembark the plane

[Aarthi Ramamurthy @aarthir]

Love the product, and these videos are so good!

[akshay @AkshayNarisetti]

Meet Pocket: The Future of AI for the Real World

[@jason @Jason]

@heyblake They’re called customers

[Aarthi Ramamurthy @aarthir]

Beautifully written, beautifully photographed. We should all aspire to build and be a part of enduring, long term projects

“Govan pushed back on the idea that land art requires plentiful ego. With the typical monument, he said, powerful people “caused workers to build things in honor of gods, heroes, battles won and the usual.” Works of land art like “Star Axis” are “specks in the scale of the landscape. They’re not monuments to anything except the fragility of our own perception and experience.””

[Long Now Foundation @longnow]

Star Axis is complete. Fifty years in the making, land artist Charles Ross has finished his monumental observatory on a mesa in New Mexico. A staircase, aligned with Earth's axis, climbs to a open lens that tracks Polaris and the 26,000-year cycle of Earth's gravitational wobble.

Read the beautiful feature in the NYT: https://t.co/vXco4bZcNB

[Aarthi Ramamurthy @aarthir]

Makes so much sense for Cursor to build this. Getting the “intelligent” part of intelligent model routing is going to be key, and I’m excited to try this out

[Cursor @cursor_ai]

Introducing Cursor Router, our intelligent model router that selects the right model for the task at hand.

Router delivers frontier-quality results at 60% lower cost.

[Aarthi Ramamurthy @aarthir]

“Please tell me what I should be worried about, especially whether I’m signing away my first born child”

[Justine Moore @venturetwins]

How I handle every legal document now