Preet Batavia

A Photographer by heart and an Engineer by art , or the other way round works too | MS ECE Georgia Tech.

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There is a lot of CUDA in a marriage now. Ifykyk.

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@JohnCarreyrou I figured out a few things :

1. She is a master manipulator.
2. Billy is fucked in the head.
3. Together they are fucked in the head.
4. Nathan is borderline fucked in the head because how tf is he able to keep his calm all throughout ? Mad respect 🫡 .

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@ParasBatavia Happy New Year !!!!

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The only people excited about current Apple product launches are those so called social media influencers.

Like dude… Duo isn’t a new thing, it doesn’t even support the apps for that screen configuration.

Jobs himself discouraged the touch sensitive laptop screens.

Wonder what Apple is upto, launching products just to get on the hype bus!!

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@TheBengaluruGuy @Swiggy @zomato @DoorDash Truth has been spoken. Doordash is crap.

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I really don’t want to accept this but its true!!

[Deedy @deedydas]

The smartest Indians continue to come to build in the US for the simple reason that the economic incentives are far far better.

Perplexity ($20B), Skild ($14B+), Baseten ($13B), Together ($8B), Glean ($8B), Modal ($5B), Rubrik ($25B), Harness ($5B), Blacksmith, Parallel, Greptile, CodeRabbit, Composio, Distyl ($2B), Resolve, Luma, Cartesia, Wispr, dMatrix, Arize and many more - all started by at least one Indian-born founder.

The US is a far easier to raise capital in with far less dilution. Most Indian companies are switching where they're domiciled to get access to the US capital markets. Every single Indian venture firm is trying very hard to invest in the US or risk not participating in the AI race (ironically, the management fees of venture firms are so high in India relatively that this is the one group that net of carry actually has incentive to be in India because they take home well north of a living wage whether or not funds perform do)

While Zomato ($35B now, $8B at IPO) might be the biggest outcome in Indian venture, Cursor ($60B), Reflection (potentially $20B+), World Labs ($8B), OpenRouter ($8B), HuggingFace ($12B) and of course the $1T+ big labs quickly make those outcomes seem small and happen on a much smaller time scale, with much higher IRR.

Engineers at these startups regularly get paid $1M/yr, and make $10M+ on exit. Even in BigTech, it is trivial to pull up levels fyi and see that if you're L6/L7+ with ~10 years of experience, you're making $1M/yr there too. And of course, we all know the slew of Indian CEOs of companies here, not to mention a huge bench of lesser known executives across the board in public and private companies.

I say all this because every time there is a slight immigration hiccup in the US, I hear the online pleas to "build in India", I struggle to understand why most engineers, academics or founders would do that net of desire to be close to family, failure to obtain visa and devout patriotism.

This is not a superiority thing or a US v India thing. The economic incentives at least for technologists to being in the US outweigh India by at least an order of magnitude.

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@ParasBatavia @mybmcwardKW @mybmc Someone had a rough night it seems !!!!

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@peeleraja India superpower plan pro max ultra lite edition!

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My X premium cost can be justified finally. Elon and Rahul talking to each other on X , what a combo.

[Rahul Gandhi @RahulGandhi]

Welcome to India, Elon.

Wait till you discover the other guy.

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@itsasmolsush Yeah ain’t a fan of proper “LA”. I don’t get to say this while I live in the south bay, its boring af. But it is what it is I guess.

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A pretty interesting read. The way social media can shift narratives is insane.

[rosie @therosieum]

https://t.co/F2G1usjT2E

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Listening to Saint Levant at 4 in the morning at the airport …. Its actually eye opening!!!

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@ParasBatavia Insanee !!! Keep going !!!

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@ParasBatavia Congratulations for the Kushaq !!!! Enjoy the ride mate !!!

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March isnt marching!!!

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@janwhyy Well the truth is engineers are too lazy to write code themselves, thanks to AI.

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Ran a 5k in scorching sun in 36 mins and then played badminton for an hour. Did not think Id be able to do all of this within a 7 hour span.

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@ParasBatavia Keeeppp going !!!!!!

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@ParasBatavia Happy Holi !!!!