Shankarsun Sahu

Venture Fellow @ Product Manager

[Shankarsun Sahu @Shankarsun]

@ericbahn @AndrewYang How far we are from AGI and UBI? chaos lead to breakthrough tech/models/ flying cars / supersonic or orbital flights / Mars ? Oil / new-cold war race will lead to new things?

[Ali Moiz @ali_moiz]

3 Startups, 40 Pivots: How to Not F****G Give Up launches TODAY 🚀 labor of love writing this w/@mecolalu and @scribemediaco

Story from the book below on how we missed out on investing in OpenAI at a $20B valuation 3 years ago (they're valued at $780B today) 👇

[Shankarsun Sahu @Shankarsun]

@ericbahn @HustleFundVC 🤣 look at the puppy eyes…dunky thinking what is clawd upto? And now that’s a happy dunky!

[Alex Cooper @alexgoughcooper]

Introducing Parker: The world's first AI Creative Director.

100+ brands like Grüns, Lume and Legends use us already.

RT + Comment "Parker" and I'll send you 100+ AI prompt engineers for hire.

[Shankarsun Sahu @Shankarsun]

@ericbahn 🤣

[Shankarsun Sahu @Shankarsun]

@ericbahn 🤣

[Haley Bryant 💛 @haleymbryant]

Healthcare is drowning in data, and https://t.co/EidRqymwaM is hiring across customer support, engineering, product and operations to support clinicians and patients.

Keebler Health is building an AI-native platform that turns healthcare’s messiest inputs into real leverage: accurately identifying chronic conditions and helping providers act sooner, with confidence.

They’re starting with the $10-15B risk adjustment market, a space accelerating fast thanks to regulatory tailwinds and the industry-wide shift toward value-based care. It’s complex, high-stakes, and deeply underserved, exactly where great infrastructure companies get built.

Keebler’s product makes dirty data (think handwritten notes, faxes, scanned docs) work out of the box. And the scale is wild! The World Economic Forum reported that by 2020, the healthcare industry was generating 2.3 zettabytes of data annually (that’s ~2.3 trillion DVDs, for my fellow millennials).

Keebler’s customers are seeing results in weeks, not months, with reported ROI of up to 75x. That kind of impact compresses sales cycles, accelerates rollouts...and opens up awesome opportunities to work with their team!

The company is led by @isaacpark, a repeat founder who’s been working with neural networks since high school and built 50+ products before Keebler. He’s has both technical and lived experience, and is surrounded by a powerhouse team:
⚙️ Andrew Stickney, COO
🛠️ Kevin Hill, PhD CTO
📣 Terrell Bacchus, M.D, FAAFP CMO
🫱🏼‍🫲🏾 Jeremy Powell, CCO

Keebler also raised an oversubscribed seed from awesome investors, including @freestylevc, @mbxcapital, @NewStackVC, @Underdoglab_ @EverywhereVC, @ludlowventures, https://t.co/EpLrWyyoRp, and @HustleFundVC (good work @dunkhippo33!)

Join the team to build the future of healthcare data:

💛 Director of Customer Support
🛠️ AI Engineer (LLMs for healthcare)
🛠️ Data Engineer (Health Data Metrics)
🛠️ Full-Stack Engineer (Healthcare Platforms)
⚙️ Chief of Staff
🧱 Product Manager

[Elizabeth Yin 💛 @dunkhippo33]

Investors! We're starting the new year with a banger. On January 8th, we're bringing you Batter Up x H-On Dream SF!

If you've been to Batter Up before, you know the drill: founders pitch, investors give real feedback, everyone learns.

But we're doing things a little different this time: we're bringing founders from Korea to pitch in front of a US investor audience.

This is a Korean founder showcase + feedback session where you'll see live Q&A, real-time feedback, and get direct access to cross-border impact deals you wouldn't normally see.

RSVP: https://t.co/CsJR8nucB5

[Joe Magyer @Magyer]

I love my job, which is running @SeaplaneVC. I have a pretty fun hobby, though, which is hosting @InvestNStartups. I get to quiz wicked smart early-stage investors about their strategies, stories, and more.

The show has been going up-and-to-the-right throughout 2025 thanks to our amazing guests and listeners. As a little celebration and shout out, I wanted to highlight the 10 most listened episodes from 2025:

@dunkhippo33 at @HustleFundVC
@mpd at @interplay
@_Han_Shen_ at iFly
@jasonfreedman at Orange Collective
@GigiLevy at @NFX
@chudson at @precursorvc
@hunterwalk at @homebrew
@ColinGardiner at @yonderventures
@ssahney at @SNAKVC
and Morgan "Not on X" Flager at Silverton Partners

Thanks to all our amazing guests and listeners!

[Elizabeth Yin 💛 @dunkhippo33]

The one and only Hiten Shah @hnshah is on the 24 hour startup advice hotline now. He is dishing out dental advice (and he can talk about finding product market fit as well) Bring questions:

https://t.co/EkZAmrfjOS

[Haley Bryant 💛 @haleymbryant]

We're doing it live @HustleFundVC

Come hang with me tonight 5P-8P PT / 8P-11P ET

https://t.co/mWLi2kpibs

[Eric Bahn 💛 @ericbahn]

Our 24-hour call in show, Uncapped Notes Live, has just started! I’m hosting in a few hours to relieve @dunkhippo33, see you all soon! 💛

[Martin Tobias (Pre-Seed VC) @MartinGTobias]

M&A is back. Yea for startups!

Unfortunately so is the bad behavior.

Founders, beware of the M&A bait and switch. This happened to a portco recently.

Company signs an LOI for an acquisition. Yea!
Exclusive agreement for 4 months to close.
Company stops fundraising, runs down cash in expectation of closing.

Two days before close acquiring CEO says board did not approve and deal off.

Company goes bankrupt (out of cash)

Acquiring company buys IP out of bankruptcy for $0.05 on the dollar of acquisition price. Gets 95% off the acquisition. Even hires a couple unemployed people.

Founders: keep operating the company as if the LOI won’t close. Keep optionality.

[Rory O'Driscoll @rodriscoll]

Looking back at SaaS, the number 1 predictor of retention was the number of integrations. If it’s easy to rip it out, you will rip it out for a cheaper product. If it’s hard to rip it out, you won’t bother. For AI, right now, the ease of switching is resulting in high churn. As enterprise adoption accelerates, we’ll see more integrations. More integrations = lower churn = the winners come into focus.

[Martin Tobias (Pre-Seed VC) @MartinGTobias]

As I have been saying. Integrations. Are sticky

[Shankarsun Sahu @Shankarsun]

@dunkhippo33 🤣

[Elizabeth Yin 💛 @dunkhippo33]

Happy Labor Day! Here’s what we’ve got lined up in the next couple of weeks

Save the dates:
• Founder Friends NYC Finovate — Sept 8
• Batter Up Vancouver — Sept 16
• Founder Friends SG — Oct 3
• Founder Friends #SFTechWeek — Oct 9
• Founder Friends DC Tech Week — Oct 20
• Founder Friends SG Fintech Festival — Nov 12

RSVP: https://t.co/GkLnoHtO4d

[Shankarsun Sahu @Shankarsun]

@jefielding @jasonlk Key question for early stage investor as well! Sell at 50mm or wait for another 5-10yrs for B exit with similar situation. I am imagining the growth was good more linear but not outsized given similar outcome for founders. Terms of later rounds also matter.

[Will Hubbard @wbhub]

Agree’s growth has been incredible, and we couldn’t have done it without an amazing team and investors (aka the “Agreeables”).

Huge shoutout to @thogge, @blank_vc, @abrams, @pitdesi, @sophiaamoruso, @dunkhippo33, @jefielding, @Simrans96, @simonchannet and the entire Agree team!

[Elizabeth Yin 💛 @dunkhippo33]

Yesterday, I spoke with some students at UCLA about entrepreneurship, and people asked me what makes for a good startup idea.

Here are some "layered" thoughts...

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