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[Santanu Chakraborty @SantanuChakra]

BSE records Highest-Ever Quarterly Financial Performance with revenue of Rs. 674 crores, net profit of Rs. 265 crores
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[Evan Luthra @EvanLuthra]

🚨A 25 YEAR OLD BUILT THE FASTEST GROWING SOFTWARE COMPANY IN HISTORY.. WITH ZERO MARKETING SPEND.. AND SPACEX JUST OFFERED $60 BILLION TO BUY IT..

His name is Michael Truell.. He started coding at 11.. Interned at Google at 18.. Dropped out of MIT to start a company that built AI tools for mechanical engineering..

That company failed..

So he pivoted.. And built Cursor.. An AI-powered code editor that writes software for you..

Here's how fast it grew..

$100 million in annual revenue in 12 months.. Fastest in SaaS history.. Broke every record ever set by Slack, Zoom, and Wiz..

$500 million by month 21..

$1 billion by November 2025..

$2 billion by February 2026..

Projected to hit $6 billion by end of year..

Zero marketing spend.. Not a single dollar.. Pure word of mouth from developers who couldn't stop talking about it..

Over 1 billion lines of code accepted per day.. Used by 70% of Fortune 1000 companies.. Every single one of Nvidia's 40,000 engineers uses it.. Coinbase hit 100% adoption among their developers..

And he did this with a team of four MIT co-founders.. One of them was a three-time International Math Olympiad competitor from Pakistan.. Another was a college squash captain with zero startup experience who built the entire product strategy..

They spent zero on sales.. Zero on ads.. Zero on growth hacking.. The product sold itself..

But here's where the story takes a turn nobody expected..

Even at $50 billion valuation.. Even generating billions in revenue.. They hit a wall..

Not a market wall.. A physics wall..

They couldn't get enough GPUs to train their next AI model.. The physical chips didn't exist in sufficient quantities for them to buy.. Money couldn't solve the problem..

Enter Elon Musk..

On April 21.. SpaceX announced a deal to potentially acquire Cursor for $60 billion.. The largest acquisition option in tech history..

The structure is insane..

SpaceX gives Cursor immediate access to Colossus.. xAI's supercomputer equivalent to one million Nvidia H100 GPUs.. For nine months of joint development..

At the end.. SpaceX can buy the company for $60 billion..

If they don't buy it.. They owe Cursor a $10 billion breakup fee.. The largest breakup fee in corporate history..

Think about what that means for Cursor..

Either they get acquired for $60 billion.. Or they walk away with $10 billion in cash and nine months of free training on the most powerful supercomputer on earth..

There is no losing scenario..

And here's why Musk wants it..

SpaceX is preparing for an IPO at $1.75 trillion.. The biggest IPO ever.. But aerospace alone can't justify that number..

By merging xAI into SpaceX.. And now acquiring Cursor.. Musk transforms SpaceX from a rocket company into an AI empire that owns the compute, the models, and the developer tools..

Cursor is the missing piece.. The application layer that puts xAI's models into the daily workflow of every Fortune 500 engineering team..

Oh and one more thing..

In 2022.. FTX's trading firm Alameda Research made a seed investment in Cursor.. During the FTX bankruptcy.. Liquidators sold that stake for $200,000..

That stake is now worth approximately $3 billion..

Sam Bankman-Fried called it the worst liquidation decision in venture capital history.. From a prison cell..

A failed mechanical engineering startup.. Pivoted by four kids from MIT.. Zero marketing.. Zero sales team.. Built the fastest growing software company in history..

And now SpaceX is writing a $60 billion check for it..

This is the most insane founder story in Silicon Valley history.. And most people haven't even heard of Michael Truell.

[GREG ISENBERG @gregisenberg]

wake up because this is the GREATEST time in history to start a company with TRILLIONS of dollars up for grabs over the next 10 years

1. consumer mobile is INTERESTING again for the first time since like 2017. apps can actually do things now.

do things. real things. book the flight, draft the contract, follow up with the lead, negotiate the rate, do things. we went from "tap to view" to "tap to deploy." the entire interaction model of software just flipped & most people haven't even registered it yet. OH, and the cost to create these apps is 1/100th of 2017.

2. HARDWARE is back on the table because you can shove Gemma 4 or DeepSeek onto a device that costs less than dinner & it runs locally with zero cloud costs. a year ago that sentence would have sounded insane. you can ship a physical product with a real brain in it now. the last time hardware was this accessible was the early smartphone era & that created a trillion dollar app economy from scratch.

3. literally EVERY category is open to be rebuilt AI-first. the incumbents know it & they're paralyzed. they can't move fast because moving fast because incumbents move slower than you (usually). that paralysis is your opportunity. build the app. build the SaaS. build the AI agent

4. distribution is FREE. you can go from zero audience to 10,000 people who trust you in 90 days on X or YT or IG your first 100 customers are sitting in your replies right now. the old playbook of "raise money, hire sales team, buy ads" is being lapped by a solo founder with a twitter account & a working demo. Oh, and you can use AI to automate a lot of it (ideas, research, AI avatars etc)

5. Idk about you but it feels like companies are doing LAYOFFS like it's the great depression and it's only getting started. No job is secure. So, building a side project that could turn into the main project is more important than ever.

6. the ENTIRE economy is being repriced in real time. the surface area for new companies has never been wider. the tools to build are free. the models are open source. the incumbents are running committees about their "AI strategy" while you could have already shipped.

and somehow the predominant response from most people is to watch youtube videos about it & go back to their 9-5.

not saying this is easy

not saying everyone will win

but im saying right now is a time worth trying

YOU ARE LIVING through a mass reshuffling of who owns what & who builds what. the last time this happened was the internet itself. before that, electricity.

this almost never happens.

& you're sitting there doing nothing about it?

wake up.

[Dhairya @dkare1009]

🚨 Anthropic just launched its first official AI certification
And it's FREE !

Here's everything you need to know 👇

📌 What it is:
The Claude Certified Architect, Foundations (CCA) launched on March 12, 2026
It's a proctored, 60-question exam testing real production architecture decisions

📌 What it covers:
1. Agentic Architecture & Orchestration → 27%
2. Tool Design & MCP Integration → 18%
3. Claude Code Configuration & Workflows → 20%
4. Prompt Engineering & Structured Output → 20%
5. Context Management & Reliability → 15%

The biggest chunk is agentic architecture
That tells you exactly where the industry is heading

📌 How to access it :
Prep courses → Free for everyone on Anthropic Academy
Exam → Free via the Claude Partner Network (any org can join)

🔗 Register : https://t.co/nIg4ghl0FL
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[Hanako @hanakoxbt]

an MIT quant showed me his lab's trading model on a napkin after his third whiskey

bar near kendall square. friday night. he was celebrating a paper acceptance. i was checking my phone.

he noticed the red P&L curve on my screen.

"is that a live heartbeat monitor on a prediction market"

i nodded.

"what's the execution backend"

a Chinese AI. $20/month.

he almost spit his drink.

"we have 6 researchers and $800K in grant money building this exact system. it's been in simulation for 18 months"

i asked what's stopping them from going live.

"IRB approval. faculty review. risk committee. three layers of bureaucracy before a single dollar moves"

he grabbed a napkin. started drawing.

"the model is simple. BTC 5-minute binary markets. 288 per day. YES and NO. crowd trades direction. direction is noise"

he drew a spread diagram.

"YES at 71c. NO at 29c. fair. crowd panics. YES crashes. NO spikes. combined drops to 93c. 7 cents of free alpha. buy the cheap side. repeat 288 times a day"

he wrote three variables underneath:
> edge = YES_fair - YES_market
> kelly_f = edge / variance
> threshold = 6c minimum

"that's the whole model. three variables. everything else is noise"

i memorized the napkin. went home at midnight.

gave the Chinese AI one repo and the three formulas.

https://t.co/BTkIEnVypl

35,000 stars. unified exchange API. connects to every major platform through one interface.

the model read the codebase. cross-referenced the formulas. had the system live by 6AM. heartbeat monitor. streak tracker. edge table. whale flow scanner.

edge table live:
BTC+100K 5m. 25c. +8.6c edge.
BTC+99.5K. 56c. +9.6c edge.
BTC<99K. 40c. +7.0c edge.
BTC+100.5K. 80c. +7.2c edge.
BTC+102K 15m. 47c. +8.7c edge.

259 trades. 81% win rate. sharpe 3.68. drawdown -1.6%.

whale flow caught 233 events this session:
YES 0xf08...8c53 BTC+100.5K $3,048.
NO 0x454b...d98d BTC<99K $2,370.
YES 0x22c0...5ca4 BTC+99.5K $2,362.

+$13,621 from $800 seed.

my setup:
> AI - $20/mo
> VPS - $5/mo
> everything else - free

i copied the setup here: https://t.co/PTZuvexxtE

texted him monday with a screenshot of the equity curve.

he called immediately.

"is that my napkin running live"

technically it's a Chinese AI running your napkin.

"my lab has 6 people, 18 months, and $800K. you did this over a weekend with a $25 subscription"

the napkin didn't need IRB approval.

long pause.

"don't tell my advisor where you got the model"

the napkin is still in my pocket.

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[Noisy @noisyb0y1]

A regular American developer bought $1,400 worth and stacked seven Mac Minis on top of each other and connected them with metal cables.

Neighbors thought he was building a mining server. His wife thought he'd lost his mind. He just didn't want to pay $15,000 a month for a dev team.

On the screen - a diagram. Seven Mac Minis connected via Ethernet working as one machine. EXO framework distributes tasks between them automatically. 11.44 TFLOPS each. Together - more than most cloud servers that companies pay thousands for every month.

He paid $1,400 for the hardware once.

38 agents from GitHub, 156 skills. A system that learns from session to session and in two weeks writes code just like he does - but seven times faster because it runs on seven machines in parallel.

A task that took a junior dev 10-12 hours - the tower closes in 20 minutes.

One founder with this setup ships a product like a team of eight people.

For $20 a month instead of $120,000 a year.

This 7 Mac Mini setup helped him win the Anthropic hackathon and make $26,000 without a team.

[Hanako @hanakoxbt]

a Palantir data scientist saw my trading terminal from across a hotel lobby in manhattan

i had my laptop open. wasn't hiding it. entropy gauge pulsing. cryo scanner running. live P&L climbing.

she was checking in. stopped mid-sentence at the front desk. walked over.

"that's a signal intelligence grid. who do you work for"

i told her i don't work for anyone. i built this with Claude Opus 4.7 and one GitHub repo.

she sat down on the couch next to me.

"i build these for defense clients. anomaly detection. propagation analysis. entity clustering. we charge seven figures annually"

she asked to see the screen. i turned the laptop.

the cryo scanner had just frozen a market. entropy below 1.86. price flat. volume dead.

but underneath three fresh wallets were accumulating the same obscure contract. Platinum $12. nobody trades platinum on Polymarket.

"that's a latent coordination detector. we have a classified version. yours is running on what?"

$25 a month. Claude plus a VPS.

she didn't respond to that.

i told her Opus 4.7 built the whole system from this:

https://t.co/oJsuSEkZsS

29,500 stars. agentic coding framework. multi-agent orchestration. skill system. plugin architecture.

i gave it one prompt friday night: build 8 parallel detectors for prediction market anomalies

it read the framework. spawned sub-agents for each detector. entropy. mempool. topology. propagation. cluster analysis. flow pressure. oracle lag. cryo freeze.

live by saturday morning. first trade by noon.

she pointed at the topology map.

"you're tracking price deltas across four platforms simultaneously. Polymarket. Kalshi. Betfair. oracle feeds. in real time"

i nodded.

"with latency under 200 milliseconds"

31ms on the Polymarket API. 54ms on oracle. 14ms on chain.

copy mirror tracking 6 positions:
> NK summit deal +$788. entropy signal.
> Lunar gateway +$918. cluster signal.
> Typhoon Pacific +$889. mempool signal.
> BTC 150K Mar +$661. topo signal.
> ECB cut Dec +$587. propagation signal.
> AMZN split +$721. cryo signal.

516 trades. 78% win rate. avg hold 3h. sharpe 2.86.

+$19,796 from $1,400 seed. 4 weeks.

copytrade setup here: https://t.co/PTZuvexxtE

she closed my laptop lid halfway and looked at me.

"we bill $1.2M a year for a system that does less than this"

i said i know.

she handed me her card.

"when your AI builds something for defense let me know"

it already did. she just saw it on a prediction market instead.

[Santanu Chakraborty @SantanuChakra]

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[GREG ISENBERG @gregisenberg]

2026 is the GREATEST time to build a startup in 30 years

I’m 36. I’ve sold 3 startups, helped build companies that raised billions, and backed teams from seed to unicorn.

20 MEGA shifts that make this the BEST time to build in a GENERATION:

1. Hardware got smart. Download open-source AI models from HuggingFace to cheap robots and they're suddenly smart. Opens up tons of use-cases.

2. SaaS is imploding. AI can replicate $500K software for pennies. Enterprise software that took 30 engineers now requires 1 and a Claude Code subscription. Founders will go more niche and more custom and outprice incumbents.

3. Outcome-based pricing is eating subscriptions. With AI agents handling work automatically, founders can guarantee results instead of selling features. This creates a massive arbitrage opportunity to steal market share from rigid subscription models.

4. Vibe marketing is the new marketing. AI agents/tools like Lindy, Gemini and Claude Code Using agents to do personalized outreach, ads and content creation it’s getting good. This is like getting on social in 2005.

5. Social is FYP-ified. Distribution no longer requires massive followings, just content that hits. Founders can build audience from zero without ads and then convert them to owned media channels (text/email).

6. Interfaces are vanishing. Conversations are replacing dashboards across industries. This removes training barriers and means customers can use sophisticated products immediately.

7. Companies are obsessed with efficiency and cutting costs right now. Corporate budgets are getting reallocated to AI. Companies are cutting traditional software spend to make room for AI-powered alternatives. This creates fast-tracked approvals for startups delivering 10x efficiency.

8. 99% of MVPs won't need VC. Low-cost MVPs combined with creator partnerships and AI automation allow bootstrapped scaling. For most software businesses, outside funding is now unnecessary.

9. Global teams. You don’t need to hire in your own city anymore. Opens up tons of arbitrage opportunities and ways to create products unlike before.

10. Millions of creators want to get paid. If you have the right product, the right network of creators, you can hit scale insanely efficiently. Never before did this exist. Next gen founders are building startups community first, software second.

11. Prototyping is nearly instant. With Lovable, Rork etc, you can test ideas in days, not months. MVP speed is basically 1x/week. This creates room for multiple products from small companies (multipreneurship), helps get to PMF faster,

12. LLM APIs create building blocks weekly. I can’t even keep up with how many new APIs/tools coming out from LLMs weekly. Example: Nano Banana pro comes out, probably 1000 ideas built on top of that can be $5M/year businesses.

13. $1m+ revenue per employee. With the leverage of LLMs, community and agents, employees are way more efficient. It won’t be uncommon to generate $1m per employee. This will lead to a rise of "multipreneurship", small teams owning multiple products /businesses. Holding companies will be as common as startups.

14. Superniche is the new niche. Because costs to create software startups is 1/100th, you can service little niches (i call them superniches) and still have a life-changing business.

15. Mobile app ecosystem about to 10X. 2 reasons. First is, adding AI to apps make apps more useful. More useful apps, make more money. Second,

16. Compliance and boring workflows are suddenly buildable. Permits, audits, insurance, payroll edge cases, filings, RFPs. These were “too annoying” for startups before. Agents thrive on rules, checklists, and repetition. The least sexy problems now have the best unit economics.

17. Claude Code killed the “engineering bottleneck.” The constraint is no longer “can we build it,” it’s “do we understand the workflow deeply enough.” The winning founders are ex-operators who encode tribal knowledge into agents. Code is cheap. Taste + domain insight is scarce.

18. The long tail of software is now profitable. Niches that capped at $200k ARR can clear $5M with near-zero marginal cost.

19. Services are quietly becoming software. Manual agencies are one agent away from product margins.

20. if AI can replicate $500K software for $20/month, what’s your moat? distribution, customer service, brand, data etc. REALLY good time to be a world class designer/marketer.

(and even more.... but this is getting long already!)

We've entered the rarest of windows...

when multiple technological shifts collide at once, creating a brief period where small teams can build things that were previously impossible.

THE FUTURE OF BUILDING STARTUPS IS DIFFERENT.

I know this...

This unique moment won't last forever. Markets will adapt. Giants will respond. The window will close.

But right now, a founder with clear vision and bias for action can build more in six months than was previously possible in years.

(note: if you need an idea to get creative juices flowing, grab one at @ideabrowser)

The next generation of great companies is being created right now, many by founders you've never heard of.

Some by people who would never have had a shot in previous cycles.

That's the beauty of these rare windows. The playing field briefly levels, and the future belongs to those who see it clearly and move first.

It's a sacred time, don't bookmark/share this, build something in 2026, will ya?

Happy building, my friends. 2026 is yours.

Am I wrong?

[Fundamental Investor ™ 🇮🇳 @FI_InvestIndia]

3 young dynamic kids. Managing a Bhojanalay in Noida City Centre. One girl and her two brothers. The smallest one Sharan is making hot hot rotis. The girl is super dynamic and brilliant at speaking and marketing.

This video is one of the most inspiring stories I have seen. I would love to meet these kids one day and have food from this cart.

Those who are in Noida should visit them. These kids deserve to go viral.

They are supporting their mother and family, showing that dedication, patience and service can be cultivated at any age. No barriers. She didn't hesitate to ask for help. She explained everything beautifully. And she didn't take any extra cash. These are learnings at various levels. I think a lot of credit needs to go to her mother who would have given them this culture.

Sharing this with you all. Watch fully. Then share.

India has so many such stories. Super Inspiring.

Lots of love to the person who shot this video which randomly popped up on my Arattai today.

True Viral content.... Made my day...

#FI

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