Nikhil Basu Trivedi

Co-Founder & General Partner at Footwork (@footworkvc)

[Nikhil Basu Trivedi @nbt]

Announcing our new firm and first fund: Footwork (@footworkvc). https://t.co/eFiJkv5Cda

[Nikhil Basu Trivedi @nbt]

@nikesharora @HarryStebbings Yes, as long as some of it is about 🏏

[This Week in Startups @twistartups]

Power laws rule everything around me. That’s the core takeaway from today’s venture capital roundtable with Footwork’s @nbt, Cendana Capital’s @mkrocks and @alex. Nikhil reckons that the Valley has never been more power-law-pilled than it is today, a dynamic impacting who raises, how much, and from whom. Hit play for the state of play in the secondary markets, why data is once the talk of tech, why the SaaSpocalypse may fade, and more!

0:00 Introduction: Nikhil Basu Trivedi (Footwork) & Michael Kim (Cendana Capital)
1:59 The Anduril vs. USVC secondary market blowup
4:08 Why Silicon Valley is 'power-law-pilled'
8:23 Plaud: If your work depends on conversations — interviews, meetings, calls — you need a Plaud NotePin. You can check it out at https://t.co/AhhYi7Bzen and use code TWIST for 10% off!
9:37 Information asymmetry in the secondary markets
9:45 https://t.co/euF2nCvx0Q — For all of your incorporation, banking, payroll, benefits, accounting, taxes or other back-office administration needs, visit https://t.co/vGH52tTqeh
15:02 Is SPV fraud smoke or fire?
16:32 Superhuman acquires GPTZero
19:54 https://t.co/xQao2Q9LNf - Stop chasing invoices and automate your entire contract-to-cash stack. Go to https://t.co/1LJvXhyz3p and tell them Jason sent you to get 50% off for life!
21:10 The M&A wave
27:19 The SaaSpocalypse debate
29:59 DigitalOcean - Head to https://t.co/YCLFZ4OMDZ to start building on DigitalOcean's AI-Native Cloud today — and cut your AI workload costs by up to 50%.
30:44 Data's moment in the energy → compute → data loop
35:01 Where will AI value accrue?
40:04 What could cause an AI correction?
42:17 Why some companies are "too big to miss"
46:23 China's possible open-weight model ban
53:28 Young founders: Etched, Thiel Fellows, Z Fellows, Neo
55:33 Portfolio spotlight: WindBorne's weather balloons and data moat
58:47 Michael's favorite fund manager: Josh Browder

🎥 Watch the full episode here 👇

[Nikhil Basu Trivedi @nbt]

🇺🇸😮‍💨 @maliktillman10

[Nikhil Basu Trivedi @nbt]

@vicusventures congrats!

[Nikhil Basu Trivedi @nbt]

@trueventures @om 💔

[Nikhil Basu Trivedi @nbt]

https://t.co/XlhdKSsBKj

[Nikhil Basu Trivedi @nbt]

Have kids. Take them to the World Cup. Highly recommend.

[Luke Sophinos @lukesophinos]

The best companies don't fit neatly into boxes.

@nbt breaks down why the most durable businesses today combine consumer and enterprise DNA from day one, instead of choosing one lane and hoping to expand later.

His observation: almost all of the world's largest companies serve both individuals and enterprises. Yet venture firms still organize around separate consumer and enterprise teams, missing the companies that transcend category.

Footwork's portfolio reflects this thesis. Three-quarters of their companies self-identify as hybrid: consumer motion with enterprise depth, or enterprise infrastructure with consumer-grade UX.

The takeaway for founders: If your product can legitimately serve both markets, don't let traditional GTM frameworks force you into a single box. The audacity to tackle both simultaneously might be your competitive edge.

What matters is not the label. It's whether you understand the mechanics of both motions, and can execute across them.

Full episode below.

[Tanay Jaipuria @tanayj]

slides from the original pitch deck for what ended up becoming canva

(h/t: @nbt)

[Nikhil Basu Trivedi @nbt]

@pladevall @morahq congrats on launch! 🚀

[John Dean @johndeanl]

We are releasing WeatherMesh-6 today, a huge step forward in weather forecasting.

Its a fully end-to-end AI-based weather model. Observations in, weather forecasts out.

[Nikhil Basu Trivedi @nbt]

@JayaGup10 @swaritjoshipura @_shreya_s actually laughed out loud @nikesharora 🤣

[Nikhil Basu Trivedi @nbt]

@CommitCapital excited for you and the founders you'll back!

[Nikhil Basu Trivedi @nbt]

@FDavidsonT would love to try!

[Nikhil Basu Trivedi @nbt]

@rexsalisbury i count 11 people in their 30s on Midas and Midas Seed:
@YasminRazavi @daniel_levine @saranormous @LucasSwisher1 @ramtinnaimi @andrew__reed @Mike_Robinson10 @reidRMC @beyroutey @sabrinahahn @nbt

[Nikhil Basu Trivedi @nbt]

@tjparker https://t.co/KhlaRAF691

[Nikhil Basu Trivedi @nbt]

The best old place of all 🧡🖤

[Brandon 🎉 @brandonhli]

Hiring in data, marketing, and sales

Power is in a special spot: 8 figures of revenue, grew 5x last year and will 3x this year

We have ~1/3 of the headcount of startups our size which means everyone has nonlinear contribution

We are building the operational infrastructure to run medical research

If you are excited about AI + Bio but nervous about the clinical trial bottleneck then DM me :)

[Anything @anything]

BREAKING: Apple is no longer the final boss

every app you vibe code on Anything now ships to the Play Store too

[Nikhil Basu Trivedi @nbt]

@HarryStebbings ingredients for success i've learned from Jensen:
-unbelievable work ethic
-insatiable love of learning
-real care for the people you work with
-audacity
-optimism