Muhammad Peerzada

21 | undergrad @iitbombay | Building @gradpipe - finding the engineers who don't apply | Kashmir 🍁 | Biscoit | GSW forever 🏀

[Muhammad Peerzada @Pz_Muhammad]

hi, i'm Muhammad. i'm 21, senior undergrad @iitbombay, and i'm building @gradpipe.

we're an AI-native headhunter for elite engineers. the ones who don't apply to job boards, the people writing CUDA kernels, optimizing inference, doing compiler and systems work, the researchers publishing at top labs.

@ycombinator startups are our customers. they come to us when they need someone genuinely hard to find, a founding engineer, an inference specialist, the kind of hire that makes or breaks an early team. we read what people have actually built, their code, not their resume, and that's how we find the ones everyone else misses.

we've placed founding engineers at frontier AI startups. one founder hired through us and didn't meet me in person until after the engineer had already started.

i'm here to meet elite engineers and the startups that want to hire them, if you are one shoot me a dm.

[Muhammad Peerzada @Pz_Muhammad]

@GJarrosson i just listened to @paulg's podcast with @jesslivingston some time ago, got to know about Robert Morris, Trevor Blackwell and pg's journey building viaweb

(https://t.co/eio7IBOZtg)

[Muhammad Peerzada @Pz_Muhammad]

@JordanNanos seems like a good place for quant devs to go

[Muhammad Peerzada @Pz_Muhammad]

@Raghav_b11 no one tells you to make a broken prototype, here is an excerpt from @paulg's essay about what it means by releasing early (from 2006, but stills stands today):

[Muhammad Peerzada @Pz_Muhammad]

@Rush26agarwal yo Rushil, we can help you guys hire, had sent a message on linkedin as well, we recently placed a founding engineer at another YC startup via @gradpipe (https://t.co/Rx6cgarr0W)

[Muhammad Peerzada @Pz_Muhammad]

@gabriel1 for me linkedin is "write-only", since it has nothing but AI slop, i just post on linkedin, reply to human comments, and use dm's

[Muhammad Peerzada @Pz_Muhammad]

@cthrin we help startups hire crackmaxxed engineers via @gradpipe , we can help you guys in your hiring

[Muhammad Peerzada @Pz_Muhammad]

@siddharthwv damn defo, my first month on X seems worse than my first month on linkedin (but i have seen compounding work on linkedin, so am gonna keep going)

[Muhammad Peerzada @Pz_Muhammad]

@richzou from our experience at @gradpipe , we've also seen that the best engineers never apply, and good hiring outcomes don't usually come out of spray and pray, instead you've to look in places where a common curiosity between the startups problem and the engineer is satisfied

[Muhammad Peerzada @Pz_Muhammad]

@vchennai2 @ArdentAI we help startups hire cracked engineers via @gradpipe, we are currently working with multiple YC startups to help in their hiring, interested to hire via us?

[Muhammad Peerzada @Pz_Muhammad]

we got our first customer at @gradpipe when one of my posts got 300k impressions on linkedin in 24 hours, it was my first taste of superlinear returns (building in public seems to give superlinear returns)

for superlinear returns - check out https://t.co/kpDgpnDEIO by @paulg

[Muhammad Peerzada @Pz_Muhammad]

we got our first customer at @gradpipe when one of my posts got 300k impressions on linkedin in 24 hours, it was my first taste of superlinear returns (building in public seems to give superlinear returns)

for superlinear returns - check out https://t.co/kpDgpnDEIO by @paulg

[Muhammad Peerzada @Pz_Muhammad]

@sridharfyi $200k MRR

[Muhammad Peerzada @Pz_Muhammad]

we are hiring a loop engineer at @gradpipe

[Muhammad Peerzada @Pz_Muhammad]

bro how tf does twitter work, i am not getting posts from anyone i follow, i am just getting bs "connect me 'random keywords' blah blah" posts

[Muhammad Peerzada @Pz_Muhammad]

a @ycombinator startup needed someone for one of the hardest roles to fill: realtime inference infra.

the person they hired had a @TXInstruments offer, had already walked away from campus placements, and wasn't applying to a single job, we actually found him via @gradpipe by reading what he'd built and connected him to the founder. he's now MTS there.

imo you should stop looking for the engineers that you want in your hiring pipelines and job posts, that actually should be a counter filter

[Muhammad Peerzada @Pz_Muhammad]

if you want a list of people you should never hire for a role, just check the applications on your job post.

[Muhammad Peerzada @Pz_Muhammad]

if you want a list of people you should never hire for a role, just check the applications on your job post.

[Muhammad Peerzada @Pz_Muhammad]

a @ycombinator startup needed someone for one of the hardest roles to fill: realtime inference infra.

the person they hired had a @TXInstruments offer, had already walked away from campus placements, and wasn't applying to a single job, we actually found him via @gradpipe by reading what he'd built and connected him to the founder. he's now MTS there.

imo you should stop looking for the engineers that you want in your hiring pipelines and job posts, that actually should be a counter filter