Mayank Sewatkar

Product Strategy, AI, Tech, Columbia University, Nanyang Technogical University, University of Sheffield

[⚡️ Paul Canetti @paulcanetti]

This all assumes consciousness has something to do with the brain

[Mayank Sewatkar @MayankSewatkar]

@alexatallah Interested!!

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@MilksandMatcha Sent a dm!! Interested

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@benjaminakar Interested

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@LindsayCasale Just shoot me a hi and Ill text you :)

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@annarmonaco Applied! Three things: control theory background, production ML experience, and I've read more of your papers than I probably should admit. Hiring?

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@kodjima33 https://t.co/HaRjlYUOhX

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@dexhorthy 100% down, agentic coding in the park sounds like NYC founder energy

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@jesse_vermeulen @outpacestudios Interested !

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@clarkmkendall Interested! Sent a DM

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@icanvardar What are you building

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@_nicolealonso @jonaswillett1 @eBay @whop @Columbia @trywindmill Cant DM. Could you please suggest another way :)

[Mayank Sewatkar @MayankSewatkar]

@_nicolealonso @jonaswillett1 @eBay @whop @Columbia @trywindmill Hi Nicole. Im based out of NYC. Attend Columbia. Will dm! I know exactly how I can contribute to your team.

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@arno39 Interested! Based in NYC

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@wuseokjung_ Interested in GTM / strategic projects. Columbia grad, strong in enterprise sales motion and cross-functional execution.

[Rohit @rohit4verse]

>be Naval Ravikant
>spawn in New Delhi
>poor immigrant family
>father leaves shortly after they land in Queens, New York
>mother works menial jobs by day, night school after
>age 9, alone in a country you don't understand
>no friends
>no safety net
>no connections
>the library becomes your entire world

>get into Stuyvesant High School
>yes, that Stuyvesant
>the public school that produced four Nobel laureates
>one entrance exam changes the trajectory of your life
>go from blue collar to white collar in a single move
>graduate and land Dartmouth
>double major
>computer science and economics
>pay your way through by washing dishes, delivering newspapers, tutoring, fixing computers

>move to Silicon Valley with nothing but a degree and a bet on yourself
>join @Home Network
>watch a $20 billion company go to zero in the dot-com crash
>work on Intrinsic Graphics
>the thing that eventually becomes Google Earth
>co-found Epinions in 1999
>a consumer review site before Yelp and TripAdvisor existed
>raise $45 million in venture capital
>get screwed by your own co-founder and VCs
>they hide the company's real value during a merger
>the company IPOs at $750 million
>you walk away with $0
>not a typo
>zero

>sue Benchmark Capital and August Capital
>everyone in Silicon Valley calls you radioactive
>one VC tells the press you'll never work in the valley again
>settle the case
>learn the game from the inside out
>instead of quitting, you decide to rewrite the rules

>start Venture Hacks in 2007
>a blog that tears the veil off VC term sheets
>give founders the playbook that VCs never wanted them to have
>launch a $20 million fund called Hit Forge
>back Twitter before anyone cares
>back Uber before anyone believes
>back Stack Overflow, Notion, Postmates, Opendoor, Yammer

>turn Venture Hacks into AngelList in 2010
>50 angel investors
>$80 million committed in year one
>100 new startups signing up per day
>build the https://t.co/WLqfUQ0o7R for founders and investors
>do what LinkedIn tried and failed to do
>actually get people to transact

>realize US securities law is blocking everything
>fly to Washington DC
>spend six months lobbying Congress
>rally 5,000 investors and entrepreneurs for an online petition
>call in 100 favors
>get the JOBS Act signed into law by Barack Obama in 2012
>single-handedly open startup investing to ordinary Americans
>the entire equity crowdfunding industry exists because of this

>AngelList hits $4 billion valuation
>over $3.5 billion invested through the platform
>200+ unicorns funded
>spin off Product Hunt, Republic, CoinList
>companies like Neuralink and Rippling get backed through your Spearhead fund

>co-found MetaStable Capital in 2014
>a crypto hedge fund backed by Andreessen Horowitz and Sequoia
>bet on Bitcoin and Ethereum before it's fashionable
>earn a penny on every Uber ride taken on the planet
>invest in 200+ companies across your career

>drop a 40-tweet storm on May 31, 2018
>"How to Get Rich (without getting lucky)"
>it goes more viral than most product launches
>turns into a podcast series, then a global movement
>Eric Jorgenson compiles your tweets and interviews into The Almanack of Naval Ravikant
>it becomes a perennial bestseller
>you didn't even write the book
>your ideas were so good someone else did it for you

>go on Joe Rogan, Tim Ferriss, Shane Parrish, Chris Williamson
>every episode becomes a top-10 all-time listen
>millions of people re-read your tweets like scripture
>you become the most quoted man on the internet who isn't dead

>launch Airchat in 2023
>voice-first social media with AI transcription
>because you think text-only platforms made us forget humans can get along

>here is what Naval actually taught the world
>you're not going to get rich renting out your time
>own equity or stay a renter forever
>specific knowledge is the stuff that feels like play to you but looks like work to others
>leverage is a force multiplier for your judgment
>code and media are permissionless leverage
>you don't need anyone's approval
>10,000 iterations is not 10,000 repetitions
>one is mastery, the other is a treadmill
>if you can't decide, the answer is no
>when two choices look equal, pick the harder one short term
>stress is an inability to decide what's important
>desire is a contract you make with yourself to be unhappy until you get what you want
>inspiration is perishable
>act on it immediately
>the three big decisions: what you do, where you live, who you're with
>people spend years optimizing careers but pick partners and cities on autopilot

>not optimizing for wealth
>optimizing for sovereignty
>win the game fast enough that you get to stop playing

[Mayank Sewatkar @MayankSewatkar]

@SashrikaKaur Heyy!! Welcome to the Big Apple

[Apurv Khare @KhareApurv]

33 years 😮
Damn
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