Bharat Kumar

Helping founders & CXOs make sharper decisions at the AI × strategy × marketing intersection.
Real frameworks + anonymized stories from the field.

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80–95% of AI Projects Are Failing. Uber Just Taught Us Why. https://t.co/m8WDsrRUUf

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@usagegate_ You’re right, instead of waiting on the API bottleneck I’ll switch to something like Apify for now.

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I keep wanting a pipeline.

What I have tonight is a spreadsheet and a blocked API.

That is still a workflow. Just an honest one.

Tomorrow: finish the LinkedIn side so I am not blocked on two fronts.

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@Codie_Sanchez #6 and #7 are the same problem wearing different clothes: the business only works when you’re in the room.

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@mattshumer_ Don’t build it. Instant, perfectly tailored video from your every swipe would be the most addictive feed yet.

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@eptwts @EXM7777 😂

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@EXM7777 Thanks for sharing this.

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@thedankoe I’ve watched people quietly build AI workflows they refuse to show their team. They’re faster and better, but they treat it like a secret. That’s going to get awkward fast.

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@newaicourses 👋

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Hey founders 👋

Looking to connect with people building in:

• Tech
• AI
• Marketing
• Sales
• Automation
• SaaS
• Communities
• AI products

Drop what you’re working on below.

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@NavalismHQ @naval Access to knowledge is infinite now. Attention is the last scarce tool.

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@paulg Cool problems attract people who want to look smart. Boring problems attract people who actually are. The second group usually owns the future.

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Market research workflow I actually need:

Who is in pain.
The sentence they use when they are not selling.
Where that sentence already lives.

LinkedIn is good at the first. It is polite about the second.

Reddit was supposed to be rude and useful. Then the API wall.🤔

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@SahilBloom The research high feels like progress because your brain rewards it the same way it rewards doing. That’s why people stay in planning mode for years. Action is the only thing that actually is.

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@paulg Same thing happens in companies. We cling to the old way because it once worked, then it blocks the next change. You never get the new thing right the first time. Cut a little, take the next step.

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@hnshah Most people protect the title. Leone protected the ability to start over at 69. That’s the real compounding skill.

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Founders 👋 drop what you’re building.

Two lines only:

1. Who buys
2. The job they hire you to do (their words, not your homepage)

I’ll reply with the first gap I see.

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@paulg Yeah looks like it, close enough that the roof is doing some of the lifting.

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@paulg Rejection is only useful feedback if YC tracks the misses as carefully as the hits. Otherwise “we hope they succeed” is a sentiment, not a learning loop.

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Plan A was: LinkedIn for who they are, Reddit for how they talk.

Plan A died this afternoon.

Now the question is narrower. Where do I get unpolished buyer language if the free firehose is gone — more manual threads, more LinkedIn comments, or pay for access I do not want yet?

I have not decided. Writing that down so I do not pretend I have.

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@Codie_Sanchez Envy asks ‘why them?’ Curiosity asks ‘how did they do it?’ One keeps you stuck. The other compounds.

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@flytradr_guy Connected🤝