Anand Forestrat

Serial entrepreneur in fintech + AI. Love building software with and for my people in NYC. Obsessed with Pickleball.

[Anand Forestrat @AnandForestrat]

Intro: Co-founder @ForestratAI - https://t.co/5vaddgbVT7 NYC based fintech startup focused on asset management data, research, and trading platform. Previous exit - bootstrapped founder of Foreseer - information extraction for financial services, acquired by S&P global.

[Anand Forestrat @AnandForestrat]

welcome @VikasKalraNY to @ForestratAI ! Excited to have you onboard!

[Ravid Shwartz Ziv @ziv_ravid]

A sunny day in Mountain View. Like every other day.

Jeff, Sanjay, Oriol and Quoc walk into a VC office on Sand Hill. The VC is on his second oat latte and has fourteen minutes blocked for this.

Jeff: So. We decided to build our own company.

VC: Okay, great, love that. Who's "we"?

Jeff: The four of us.

VC: ...All of you?

Jeff: Yes.

VC: All four. In one company. Together.

Jeff: That's right.

VC: I'm giving you $100 million right now.

Jeff: We haven't shown you anyth-

VC: You know what, forget it. A billion. One billion dollars.

Sanjay: We prepared a deck.

VC: I don't want the deck.

Jeff: It's only eleven slides.

VC: Two billion.

Oriol: Slide one is the mission.

VC: Three.

Oriol: "Automate machine learning, science and engineer-"

VC: FOUR. Four billion. Stop reading.

Quoc: Should we talk about the market?

VC: If you say the word "market" I will go to five and I have not cleared five with my partners.

Jeff: We were also thinking about being a Public Benefit Corp-

VC: Five.

Jeff: Do you want to hear the technical approach?

VC: Six billion. Please leave. Please leave...

Jeff: Nice to talk with you!

VC: Seven, please go 😥

They leave. It's still sunny. It's always sunny. The deck was never opened.

[Crémieux @cremieuxrecueil]

Eli Lilly has done it.

They've gone and made what seems to be a powerful, permanent gene therapy for LDL cholesterol.

That means they'll be able to effectively prevent most heart disease with a single infusion!

[Anand Forestrat @AnandForestrat]

Presented @ForestratAI at @PlugandPlayTC in Bay Area last week. First class group of corporates, startups, and investors in a fantastic event. Big thanks to PlugandPlay for having us participate in their summer cohort

[Anand Forestrat @AnandForestrat]

Apply to my job on Contra and get paid commission-free https://t.co/EJEMstGwqs @ForestratAI

[Anand Forestrat @AnandForestrat]

@gokulr @MarathonMP interested, please send a pic.

[Anand Forestrat @AnandForestrat]

This is the most pragmatic article on AI adaption, the pitfalls, and one possible effective strategy I have read: https://t.co/o1oIGJJM6h