Deep Vaghani

Kitesight Data Systems

[Deep Vaghani @DeepVaghani]

@travisk LFGGG!!! I love jet skiing on Lake Austin from time to time! Will be on lookout to bump into you maybe next time 😂

[Deep Vaghani @DeepVaghani]

@sama it would be elon

[klöss @kloss_xyz]

imagine you’re Travis Kalanick

you built Uber from nothing into a $70 billion company and changed how every city on earth moves

then in the worst three weeks of your life, family tragedies hit, and five of your investors hand you a letter demanding you resign

so you step down

the board replaces you, your successor and board sell off the self driving division you created, the thing you believed was Uber’s entire future

gone

$4 billion to Aurora

the mainstream media tries to write your obituary: toxic culture, bad leadership, and a cautionary tale

silicon valley moves on
as they always do

but you don’t

you don’t really forget

you go quiet, completely quiet

you take $150 million and buy a ghost kitchen company called CloudKitchens

you raise over a billion dollars, hit a $15 billion valuation, build a company with thousands of employees

and nobody even knows the name
eight years in stealth, employees aren’t even allowed to put your company on their LinkedIn

then today you rename the company Atoms, and it’s not a kitchen company anymore

it’s a robotics company

1. food
2. mining
3. transport

your first move?

acquiring Pronto

the autonomous vehicle startup

built by Anthony Levandowski, the same engineer you originally swooped away from Google to build Uber’s self driving program

oh and he went on to deploy 100+ autonomous trucks for one of the largest materials companies on earth

now he’s coming back to work with you
and the reports say Uber itself

the same company that pushed you out, is now backing you to go after self driving harder than Waymo

the guy they removed is the guy they end up needing

poetic justice

your framework aka everything in civilization is mined or grown, manufactured and moved

you call it the golden age

your manifesto ends with three words:

“I never left”

eight years of silence

then this

but here’s what people keep getting wrong about your situation

everyone wants to call it a comeback or a revenge story

it’s neither

you just went quiet and built for eight years while everyone who wrote you off had stopped paying attention

that’s not revenge, that’s just what true builder obsession looks like

most founders would’ve stayed bitter

most would’ve written a book and done a podcast tour, most would’ve taken the $2.5 billion in shares and disappeared off to a beach or Epstein’s island

you didn’t do any of that
you just kept building

and now the same people who pushed you out need you again

so whether you love him or hate him

the most dangerous person in any room is the one who goes quiet yet never stops building

karma is real

welcome back Travis

[travis kalanick @travisk]

@nikitabier Thanks for making x great again…

[Deep Vaghani @DeepVaghani]

@techNmak LLM

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Deedy on X: "I have it on good record that Meta and Zuck indeed offered $1 BILLION offers over 4 years to some of the Thinking Machines team. This is the highest any individual contributor was paid in liquid compensation in tech history." / X https://t.co/t6LJ3rW49X

[Deedy @deedydas]

I have it on good record that Meta and Zuck indeed offered $1 BILLION offers over 4 years to some of the Thinking Machines team.

This is the highest any individual contributor was paid in liquid compensation in tech history.

[Deep Vaghani @DeepVaghani]

@engineers_feed

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@elonmusk is this the new marketing campaign? @X looks like SpaceX collaborating with X 🙌

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@MagnusCarlsen Must be a nice watch tho!

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@debarghya_das Don’t forget EB-5 is also the option if you have Enough FAANG stocks 🤑

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@elonmusk Why not just get a Bowers & Wilkins system in Tesla? I would buy one if you can make it happen

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@businessbarista @IRALIPPKESTUDIO @iviejoyflowers congratulations 🎉 it will be one of the best moments you will ever experience!

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Excited to attend @DataCouncilAI and learning from some of the best minds in this space #data #datacouncil #datacommunity #DataAnalytics

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@warikoo @noahkagan if you are Indian listen to your parents first then markets ;)

P.S. above advice is subject to market risk. Please read all documents before starting the company 😆

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@businessbarista Newton third law in action here: Every action has an equal and opposite reaction

[Deep Vaghani @DeepVaghani]

@AbhilashaPurwar Personally think these kind of mindset are some of the core reasons we lack to fund moonshot ideas and also India being a developing country traditional ideas still makes a ton of sense in the context than reinventing the wheel

[Deep Vaghani @DeepVaghani]

@AbhilashaPurwar The most recent example I can give is: whenever I try to explain a simple moonshot ideas to my nearby friends and family in India they tend to be defensive and takes the conversation to why are we looking for blackholes (invest millions) while millions in India lack basic food

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@marcrandolph 💯 thats what @elonmusk is currently doing with twitter! Will get to a place where twitter will be completely different