Aditya Nishtala

Early Stage VC

[Andrej Karpathy @karpathy]

The hottest new programming language is English

[Spenser Skates @spenserskates]

Too many VCs are funding AI companies that should be features. 12+ startups have raised $72.8M in the last few months for AI visibility (SEO for LLMs).

We built it in 3 weeks with 3 people and shipped it for free.

[Donita Jose @DonitaJose]

The very fact that Hyderabad has no intercity bus terminal for private buses to board passengers in a dignified and safe mannee should be a red flag. Lives are so cheap in our country, nobody cares.

[Aditya Nishtala @Nishtala]

This is a simple yet effective way to put it. As early-stage VCs, the less we and the ecosystem do to distract them during the 0-1M stage, the better for the company.

[Harry Stebbings @HarryStebbings]

I do not care how long it takes for a company to get to $1M in revenue.

But I do care desperately, how long it takes for a company to get from $1M-$50M in revenue.

The road to PMF is messy, post PMF, it is a game of execution and velocity (speed in a given direction.)

[Varun Gupta @Varungupta]

VCs want founders to get out of the box
LPs want VCs to get into a box and stay in it

[Sundar Pichai @sundarpichai]

An exciting milestone for AI in science: Our C2S-Scale 27B foundation model, built with @Yale and based on Gemma, generated a novel hypothesis about cancer cellular behavior, which scientists experimentally validated in living cells. 

With more preclinical and clinical tests, this discovery may reveal a promising new pathway for developing therapies to fight cancer.

[Narendra Modi @narendramodi]

Delighted by the launch of the Google AI Hub in the dynamic city of Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh.

This multi-faceted investment that includes gigawatt-scale data center infrastructure, aligns with our vision to build a Viksit Bharat. It will be a powerful force in democratizing technology. It will also ensure AI for All, delivering cutting-edge tools to our citizens, boosting our digital economy and securing India’s place as a global technology leader!

@sundarpichai

[Aditya Nishtala @Nishtala]

@priya_nagwani Tried emailing you for a query. The email bounced. So sent a DM. Could you please check and revert? Thank you.

[Deedy @deedydas]

"Manus is just a wrapper"

Cursor, Glean, Perplexity, Moveworks, Windsurf are all just wrappers without their own models. Wrappers with $50M+ ARR and unicorn valuations.

You can build great products and businesses on top of models.

[Aditya Nishtala @Nishtala]

@skodithala Trimulgherry. :)

[Aditya Nishtala @Nishtala]

@airindia There’s absolute silence on this from your side and the airport luggage assistance staff. While I received the luggage 2 days later they are not willing to reimburse me for delay in luggage. Why have you not replied so far?

[Aditya Nishtala @Nishtala]

@airindia I was on a DEL-BLR flight yesterday and my luggage was lost. Your staff says that they are not able to track it. They are now not responding to calls at all. Frustrating to deal with all this. Can you please urgently look into it. I can share more details vi DM

[Aditya Nishtala @Nishtala]

@priyankawriting @airindia Very frustrating yaar! Exp when one is on a short trip.

[Aditya Nishtala @Nishtala]

@airindia Shared all the details via DM. Please acknowledge.

[Aditya Nishtala @Nishtala]

@GS_VCactivist It is one of the most purpose-ful social networks around. Twitter used to be that around a decade ago. Anonymity can become chaotic on a platform like Reddit, but the moderators of each subreddit do a splendid job.

I learned a lot and picked some great hobbies there.

[Mohandas Menon @mohanstatsman]

India's win today means that for the first time in its Test cricket history (since 1932), it has more wins (179) than losses (178)!

#IndvBan #IndvsBan

[anu @anuatluru]

if you look forward to mondays you’re doing something right

[Robby @robby_mtf]

At pre-seed, other investors passing isn't signal.

Ambitious ideas have risk and unknowns. It's natural to have many skeptics.

Some of the best investments I've seen had very few term sheets for the pre-seed & seed rounds. Keep going.

[fintechjunkie @fintechjunkie]

I'm seeing more and more Startup plans project crossing into profitability using Series A proceeds. It's unlikely most will hit these plans or that the Series A will be their last capital raised, but it shows how far the pendulum has swung towards chasing "capital efficiency".

[Mckay Wrigley @mckaywrigley]

We’re at the point with AI codegen where Cursor + Claude 3.5 Sonnet is a legit technical cofounder.