Parminder Singh

Entrepreneur && Engineer | co-Founded (acq), ex

[Sagar Awatade @SagarAwatade]

I don't know who else to tell this to, so I am going to tell my story here.

Every day is a struggle for a young business, but the last few months have been harder than usual.

We are a small Indian company. For more than ten years we have been building a homegrown brand in a product category dominated by big foreign players.

There are almost no Indian names in this space. We set out to be one.

We started in 2014. Over the years we began making parts in India instead of just importing, and we started selling in the US, Dubai, Nepal, Malaysia and South Africa.

We showed up at global trade fairs to represent an Indian brand on the world stage.

In 2023 we changed the import code we use for our product. We did not do this quietly. Every shipment was declared. Nothing was hidden. We didn't invent our approach.

We followed written professional advice and the way this product is treated in markets around the world.

And now we are facing a government demand running into tens of crores in duty recovery and penalties, plus personal penalties on the founders and even on an employee.

For a company our size, this is not a fine we can pay and move on from. This ends us.

We have not run from any of this. I am not built like that. It is not how I was raised. We have written to the authorities, met officials in person, and we have now filed a writ in the High Court.

All we are asking for is a fair treatment.

I set out to build in India and sell to the world. I am asking only that the system back honest founders trying to compete globally, instead of breaking them.

The process is the process, and it exists for a reason. But process should not feel like punishment.

From where I am standing today, it does.
I am not giving up. I have worked too hard for this. If you have read this far, please share it. If you know someone who can help, point them my way. Help me get the word out.

[Paul Graham @paulg]

How to Earn a Billion Dollars: https://t.co/WeWBUkKym6

[Parminder Singh @TheParminderS]

SpaceX is going public tomorrow and the buzz is overwhelming.

Don't outsource your thinking to the crowd. Do your own research, make your own decisions.

Great companies can still be bad investments if the timing is wrong. This isn't about the company, it's about the timing.

[Parminder Singh @TheParminderS]

Sure. Sounds like something everybody can get behind. 😆

[unusual_whales @unusual_whales]

BREAKING: Anthropic has urged for a global pause in AI development as artificial-intelligence models are nearing capability to improve without human intervention, per WSJ

[Parminder Singh @TheParminderS]

Use Agents.md.

And point claude.md to Agents.md (soft link or redirect the Claude to use Agents.md in claude.md).

Problem solved

[Theo - t3.gg @theo]

There is a standard.

It's Agents.md.

Anthropic refuses to use the standard.

[Parminder Singh @TheParminderS]

Been there, done that. Switched back to a reliable @Toyota

[Chirag Barjatya @chiragbarjatya]

Life advice: I don’t care which car you drive currently but please go and do a test drive of BMW or Mercedes this week at showroom. Just go, show some interest, and get a test drive. That’s about it.

[Kritika @kritikakodes]

GITHUB>>>

[Harshil Mathur @harshilmathur]

“Skills are just Markdown files.”

Sure. And code is just text files.

Compilers gave code power.
Agents do the same with skills.

[Parminder Singh @TheParminderS]

Very disappointing 😢

[Debayan Roy (Gadgetsdata) @Gadgetsdata]

Broo 😆😆😭😭

At this point he is lying so much they he do not even remember what lie he said during the last call ‼️

[Pete Soderling @petesoder]

I'm thrilled to welcome @tristanzajonc back to @AICouncilConf as the curator and host for our new Agent Infrastructure track!

Tristan is the co-founder and CEO of @continual_ai, an AI agent platform, and has over a decade of experience in the trenches of AI infra and operations.

Tristan is curating talks that break down the architectures, planning systems, memory representations, and tool-use loops that make agents work, from orchestration layers to runtime environments for agentic workflows.

Some of what's already on the schedule:
Glauber Costa from Turso on why agents will need trillions of databases and how to give it to them. Parminder Singh from Redscope AI on building durable, long-running autonomous agents.
Jacopo Tagliabue from Bauplan on running agents on production data with a "forgiveness, not permission" approach.
Linus Lee from Thrive Capital on context engineering at the frontier.

Make sure you’re following our AI Council LinkedIn page (we’re also on X) to stay in the loop as new talks drop.

Join us May 12–14 in San Francisco: https://t.co/JgiORdxjXN

[Jack Fields @OrdinaryInds]

Passkeys just showed up one day and the general public has absolutely no clue what they are nor how they work.

[Parminder Singh @TheParminderS]

Spot on. Every market has its nuances and you need to have a deep understanding of those to succeed.

[Beats in Brief 🗞️ @beatsinbrief]

🚨 Mario is giving only half the story on Tesla and India.

🇮🇳 The bigger reason Tesla walked away from a factory is simple 👇🏻

INDIANS ARE NOT BUYING Teslas in meaningful numbers.

Tesla started importing Model Ys and opened showrooms in mid-2025. Sales so far?

• Just ~225 cars in full-year 2025
• & around 340 total by early 2026
• Many months see only 20-80 units sold.

Meanwhile, India sold over 200,000 electric passenger vehicles in the same period.

Tata, Mahindra and local brands dominate because they offer affordable cars for Indian roads and pockets.

A ₹60 lakh+ Tesla is simply too expensive for most buyers here.

Weak demand is why a $500 million factory never made sense, especially with Tesla’s existing plants running at about 60% capacity.

The full picture shows low market pull is the real story.

[Ankur Warikoo @warikoo]

Stop reading productivity books.

Just delete the 4 apps that are stealing your attention.

That is the entire productivity stack.

[Mark Manson @Markmanson]

Beware: learning more is a smart person’s favorite form of procrastination.

[Parminder Singh @TheParminderS]

🤣

[Sheel Mohnot @pitdesi]

Painting at an Indian restaurant in Santa Clara
(Garam Mirchi)

[Parminder Singh @TheParminderS]

Nope. It never was!

It became cheaper now.

[sunil pai @threepointone]

remember when programming was free

[M @mister_whistler]

Never again did they make a phone as beautiful as this

[Parminder Singh @TheParminderS]

@thorstenball Try Bear app. You'll live it.

[Parminder Singh @TheParminderS]

@sugandh What is that? Some sort of faultline like we have here in California? 😁.

I'm clearly a vibe coder. 🤣

[@jason @Jason]

Never stop selling