Varun Vohra

co-founder @vaareehome. Previously co-founded @aknamed_IN @geniitech

[Varun Vohra @Binary2Boot]

@vaibhavbetter I think Shillong, Mumbai, and of course at @vaareehome :)

[Kushal Bhagia 🇮🇳 @kushalbhagia]

This week felt like the beginning of the reversal of International investor sentiment on India :

> Blackstone COO was here and announced their $100B investment target in India
> Trump waived off the russian oil sanctions
> Murmurs of the US trade deal finally getting signed
> Fairfax bought 60% of IDBI for $5.6B
> the AI trade is showing some signs of cracking with coreweave debt spiking , Anthropic ARR slightly off
> India looking good as an AI hedge , well diversified large economy with booming consumption and manufacturing

People short India should ask themselves if we are growing at 8% with oil at $100 and two global wars, what will India do when the macro turns.

LFG 🚀

[Varun Vohra @Binary2Boot]

A must read book written by someone who not just knows the facts and has the insight, but also genuinely **believes** in what the future may hold.

[Rajan Anandan @RajanAnandan]

Ready. Lift-Off Nation

[CNBC-TV18 @CNBCTV18News]

🚀 @RajanAnandan believes India will have its first $100 billion venture-funded company by 2030. Today, it doesn't have a single one.

💰 What makes the bet even bolder is the money. Last year, the world poured around $450 billion into startups, and only $12 billion of it came to India. That's less than three cents of every venture dollar, for the world's third-largest startup ecosystem.

🤔 So how does a country lift off on so little fuel? And where will that first $100 billion company come from?

���️ Peak XV Partners' Rajan Anandan and veteran investor Saurabh Srivastava, co-authors of 'Lift-Off Nation', join Shereen Bhan on Young Turks Reloaded.

📺 Full episode drops Thursday | 6:30 PM

@ShereenBhan | @TheSaurabhSri

[Surge @_surgeahead]

We’re thrilled to announce the 18 companies joining our 12th cohort of Surge!

From swipes to satellites, Surge 12 brings together an insanely ambitious group spanning AI, deeptech, consumer and fintech, with ideas stretching from healthcare and music to robotics and space.

What connects them is a willingness to question the default. These founders are rethinking how people create, shop, date, hire, invest, educate and access care; building using AI at the core of products; and pushing technology further into the physical world.

We can’t wait for you to meet them!
Meet the 18 companies of Surge 12 👇
https://t.co/icnaSAriaj
@RajanAnandan @sjs_day1

[Shivani Poddar @shivanipod]

I led engineering at Google DeepMind.

Today, I'm proud to introduce Fo to give personal AI something no lab ever has... Humans.

Other personal AI's pretend AI can do everything. Fo employs humans to do tasks that AI cannot.

- 2x better at real-world task completion (beats other agents by 69%)
- 94% trust rate (4x less likely to leak private info vs Muse, Instinct)

Sign up for free: https://t.co/9ndFhcN5mO

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

The reason you never swung over the top bar as a kid comes down to one property of a chain. It can pull you, but it can't push you.

To loop a chain swing you'd need to be moving fast enough at the very top that the arc holds itself together. On a standard 10-foot swing set, that means passing the bottom at roughly 27 mph. No kid pumping their legs gets close. Come up short and the chain goes slack near the top, and gravity handles the rest.

Estonia fixed it.

In 1993 a man named Ado Kosk built a swing with rigid steel arms instead of chains and strapped the rider's feet to the base. Steel can push. So you can creep over the top at almost zero speed, hang upside down for a second, and drop through the other side. That's what's happening in this clip, and it's why the bars stay perfectly straight while he's inverted.

Kosk turned it into a sport called kiiking. You pump by squatting and standing, the arms telescope longer as you get better, and whoever loops the longest arms wins. The world record is a 7.43 meter shaft, set by Sven Saarpere in 2022. At the top of that loop, his feet were 15 meters off the ground, about the height of a three-story building.

Every kid on a playground had the right idea. The chains were the only thing in the way.

[Tibo @thsottiaux]

We will give one banked reset for every day you don't have access to Astra on your paid ChatGPT plan, starting today. Team is moving mountains to give access as fast as we can.

First one will land in ~ 3 hours. There is still time to create your account if you don't have one.

[Varun Vohra @Binary2Boot]

@innernet_name Badhiya! Keep crushing bro.

[Varun Vohra @Binary2Boot]

Exciting times.

[Kyronis @kyronis_talks]

Chinese researchers have developed the best shortest-path algorithm in 41 years!

Dijkstra’s Algorithm has been the undefeated king of the shortest path for over 40 years.

Whether you’re using Google Maps, booking a flight, or routing internet packets, Dijkstra is the engine running in the background.

Since 1984, textbooks have taught that its efficiency was hit by a "sorting barrier."

To find the shortest path, you have to sort the points by distance. And sorting has a mathematical floor you can’t cross.

Until now.

A research team from Tsinghua University just published a paper that shatters the 41-year-old record.

They proved that Dijkstra is not optimal.

By combining the logic of the Bellman-Ford algorithm with a revolutionary "recursive partial ordering" method, they figured out how to find the path without fully sorting the nodes.

The results are a massive shift in theoretical computer science:

- The first deterministic improvement to the Single-Source Shortest Path (SSSP) problem since 1984.

- A new time complexity of $ O(m \log^{2/3} n)$, officially beating the long-standing $ O(m + n \log n)$ limit.

- On massive sparse graphs (like the web or global logistics), this means finding the best route significantly faster than previously thought possible.

For four decades, the greatest minds in algorithms believed this limit was absolute.

Last year, even the legendary Robert Tarjan won an award proving Dijkstra was "optimally efficient" at sorting distances.

Tsinghua’s answer? Stop sorting.

The world’s most settled problem is suddenly wide open again.

If we can break a 40-year-old law in basic graph theory, what other "impossible" speed limits are waiting to be crushed?

[Vaibhav Domkundwar @vaibhavbetter]

AI has vanished the software moat. Similarly, why won’t it do the same to hardware.. eventually?

Would it remain equally hard to build a new drone, robot or a car?

Operating them to deliver outcomes would be where the magic would lie.. similar to software.

Ops is the new software…and hardware.

[Tejeshwi Sharma 🇮🇳 @tejeshwi_sharma]

As a company, either you die too young or you live long enough to have an India office.

[Digantara @Digantarahq]

Built in India. Built for deterrence. ����🇳

Our founders presented Digantara’s Gen 2 optical payload to Hon’ble Prime Minister @narendramodi, built for Space Domain Awareness and now advancing towards missile defence. After hearing about what it could do, he smiled and asked, “Is this for me? Then I’m keeping this.” A moment our team will remember for a long time.

The Prime Minister’s curiosity and depth of interest in what we were building was remarkable. It is this belief in Indian technology and its builders that has made this an extraordinary time to build for India.

@INSPACeIND

[Ravi Handa @ravihanda]

I love how real the Jaipur Nagar Nigam website is.

Yes. This is the official website.

[Hiten Shah @hnshah]

https://t.co/md25hcoBb4

[Varun Vohra @Binary2Boot]

India makes home décor for the world.

Yet at home, we still equate “imported” with premium, and expect Indian-made to be cheaper.

The opportunity isn’t just to "support local".
It’s to value Indian design, quality and craftsmanship for what they’re actually worth. 🇮🇳

[vaareehome @vaareehome]

There’s something special about growing up with so many colours, cultures, traditions and stories all around us. 🇮🇳

This Independence Day, celebrating everything that makes India feel like home. ❤️

#IndependenceDay #India #IndianHomes

[Varun Vohra @Binary2Boot]

@_RajanRian @shadowfax_in Looking. Will do all we can.

[Varun Vohra @Binary2Boot]

@Dktaim @RajanAnandan @GariLuthra @vaareehome Hi @Dktaim, Fair point 😅 We add 4–5K new products every month, and your wishlist still managed to beat us. DM us what you were looking for. Let’s see how quickly we can get it on Vaaree 👀

[Varun Vohra @Binary2Boot]

@RajanAnandan @GariLuthra @vaareehome Thank you, Rajan. For believing in us from the early days and backing us through every phase. We’ve come a long way, but it still feels like day one. Excited to keep building Vaaree into India’s most trusted destination for everything home. This is just the beginning! 🙌

[Rajan Anandan @RajanAnandan]

Rs 2 lakh crore market in India: Home decor, furnishings and premium small appliances.

Only 18% online.

Building a platform in this giant market is non-trivial. Thrilled to see the perseverance that @GariLuthra @Binary2Boot and team have shown in building @vaareehome into a superbly interesting platform for this highly unorganized category

Congratulations team @vaareehome on the series A

@_surgeahead @KaustubhMundra3