Vipul Venkataraman

Trying @ DoorDash

[Vipul Venkataraman @VenkatVipul]

Our retention metrics for Ask: 📈📈📈

[Andy Fang @andyfang]

This is a great example of real value people are getting from Ask DoorDash. (1) Snapping a recipe photo and converting that into an orderable grocery list; (2) Recipe inspirations from what's in your fridge + direct add-to-cart.

Many such cases we're seeing from usage metrics

[Blake Robbins @blakeir]

a surprising number of successful games aren’t power fantasies.

they are work fantasies.

- farming (stardew valley)
- building (minecraft)
- construction (factorio)
- managing (sims)

the work is just stripped of friction and paired with visible progress.

[Vipul Venkataraman @VenkatVipul]

There are 3 hard problems in computer science: cache invalidation, naming things, and helping customers decide what to eat/cook for dinner

Our crack at the third one 👇

[Andy Fang @andyfang]

Today we’re launching Ask DoorDash — a new conversational way to search the app in your own words through chat, voice, a recipe link or photo. Ask DoorDash can build you a grocery cart ~5x faster than doing it manually. It takes a single prompt to complete your cart in under 2 minutes.

In early testing, nearly half of all restaurant orders made with Ask DoorDash were from a place the customer had never ordered from before, and grocery baskets built with Ask DoorDash were over 35% larger than those without. [1/3]

[Anand Sankar @saybwala]

Rooting for PSG today in the champions league final because I am from Coimbatore.

[Sachin Tendulkar @sachin_rt]

Well done, Arjun. ❤️
Proud of the way you’ve carried yourself through this season, always believing in your ability, staying patient, working hard quietly, and remaining positive despite having to wait for your opportunity till the very last match.
Cricket tests patience as much as skill, and you handled both beautifully today.

Keep your feet on the ground, and continue being in love with the game like you always have.

Love you always.👏

[Vipul Venkataraman @VenkatVipul]

Worst take of all time

[SK @7_5_Cobra]

Chennai holds virtually zero appeal for even for non-resident Tamils who grew up in major metros like Mumbai, Bangalore, Kolkata, or overseas.

Having spent my formative years on the West Coast across Mumbai, Daman, Goa, and Gujarat which sensitised me to an urban, highly cosmopolitan lifestyle mindset. But transitioning to Chennai for university feels like hitting a cultural brick wall; the city comes across as incredibly homogeneous, insular, and flat-out boring.

The city completely lacks a distinct, independent youth culture.

Instead, the social fabric is entirely dominated by an older demographic, conservative boomers and culture kangers who fiercely enforce traditional norms. Tamils outside TN don't do such antics themselves.

Because the lifestyle is dictated by elder-approved routines, there is a massive deficit of casual public activities, vibrant nightlife, or engaging weekend avenues to build a high-quality, modern social life.

The economic landscape also mirrors this rigid, old-school mentality.

Chennai is highly rewarding if you are in the manufacturing or blue-collar sectors, but it is an incredibly difficult terrain for white-collar career growth.

The tech ecosystem is overwhelmingly dominated by massive, process-driven IT service companies with strict hierarchies.

Outside of a highly concentrated SaaS pocket, there is a severe deficit of aggressively funded, product-based tech companies or global R&D hubs, creating a definitive growth ceiling for ambitious professionals.

Over the time, the emigration of highly skilled educated graduates and professionals in TN to overseas or to other cities in India is only going to intensity. It already has started BTW.

And people in TN will still continue to remain the same and vote for people in TVK, DMK etc. Even the BJP in TN is the same as the other parties.

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[Natural Philosophy @Naturalphilosy]

"The day you teach the child the name of the bird, the child will never see that bird again."

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

[Vipul Venkataraman @VenkatVipul]

@vinodgansan Hopefully the jadhagam also matches!

[Vipul Venkataraman @VenkatVipul]

2026 OKR: introduce filter coffee at Starbucks across North America to increase market cap by an additional XX%

[NDTV @ndtv]

Starbucks Names Indian-Origin Amazon Veteran Anand Varadarajan As Top Tech Officer
https://t.co/1dmkjgcWHY

[Vipul Venkataraman @VenkatVipul]

Great squad barring the VC pick

[Harsha Bhogle @bhogleharsha]

Really like the team that has been picked. Big call on leaving out Gill and that tells me that 'Fire & Ice' has been replaced by 'Fire & Fire'. The options Ishan Kishan gives are too tempting to ignore especially given his form. Sadly, that means Jitesh had to go and you feel for him but Rinku is an excellent player. It makes this team left heavy but that is a by-product of an otherwise brave call. Lots more explained in the vlog I have just recorded and which will be up later today

[Vipul Venkataraman @VenkatVipul]

@vinodgansan @nikitabier Eat dosa

[Vipul Venkataraman @VenkatVipul]

@vinodgansan @VCBrags Seems like I wasn't alone in that read: https://t.co/KoTndtMUsG

[Vipul Venkataraman @VenkatVipul]

@vinodgansan Agree da.. I found his tone a little self aggrandizing which coming from a VC isn't surprising; @VCBrags might chuckle at the Tweet

[Vipul Venkataraman @VenkatVipul]

@avataram @DheerajSanghi @agrawalmanindra Forever grateful to Prof. Meena Mahajan for taking me under her wing and allowing me to do a research internship with her as a first year undergrad.

In hindsight, I was so raw and dumb back then (still am) but she was so gracious and kind with her time.

[Vipul Venkataraman @VenkatVipul]

@vinodgansan @paraschopra His criterion doesn't pass the "having a child" unit test :) Hence disproved

[Vipul Venkataraman @VenkatVipul]

@avataram @JackRangaswami Another solution is to invest in UCITS funds that track S&P, for instance. These are Irish-domiciled and aren't subject to estate tax. Look it up!

[Vipul Venkataraman @VenkatVipul]

None of this will surprise you if you know why people get MBAs.. The "problem to solve" was never learning to begin with

[GBR @GayBearRes]

Incredibly damning article about 1 of the Top 3 MBA Programs in the country.

I’ll try to get some key excerpts here but I would suggest reading the whole article.

[Vipul Venkataraman @VenkatVipul]

Our batting let us down the last game. So we replaced a batting all rounder with a bowling all rounder for this one 🙏