Chethan Shettar

Build: Sell: Repeat! Founder @ Avantro Labs.

[Chethan Shettar @ChethanShettar]

@BrierRat Amazing! What mcp did you use for this?

[Chethan Shettar @ChethanShettar]

@earthtojake Amazing. Can these skill integrations generate any custom non generic objects as well? Assuming a detailed brief of the design and dimensions are given.

[Jake Fitzgerald @earthtojake]

asked claude fable 5 to design a humanoid robot

2 hours and 1.4m tokens later, i got this

absolutely insane

[Pankaj @the2ndfloorguy]

i hooked my whoop to my work calendar to find which coworker gives me the most stress 🚨

thanks to fable, I reverse engineered whoop to pull per minute heart rate. nd matched spikes with cal events and attendees

I now have a leaderboard and I think about it daily.

few info masked for obvious reasons ;)

[ujjawal @ujjawalasthana]

Grabbed coffee with a partner of a 1000cr fund. Was expecting heavy AI talk. Instead we spoke about a bunch of boring businesses he's personally exploring.

He spoke about eyeglass boxes, corrugated boxes, eyeglass cleaning clothes and a few more, but here is a short list of what such businesses could be -

1. Eyeglass boxes, cleaning clothes etc for eyewear brands - they don't make it, they need someone to make it.

2. Packaging for fashion brands - again they need someone to make it, fashion is everygrowing

3. Spray pumps and dispensers for cosmetics and D2C beauty - largely imported it seems when it comes to making non simple stuff.

4. Cardboard packaging and corrugated boxes - riding Amazon, Flipkart, Blinkit, Zepto, all at once.

5. Bottles, bottle caps and closures - ongoing demand from beverage, FMCG, beauty.

6. Hangers, polybags, garment covers for D2C apparel - the entire D2C wave is buying these from someone.

7. Labels and thermal printing rolls - every e-commerce shipment needs them every day.

8. Disposable cups, plates, cutlery for cloud kitchens and food delivery.

9. This one is interesting - cold chain refrigeration units for quick commerce dark stores.

10. Adhesive tapes and branded packing tape - every shipment, every parcel.

None of these will make brands, but once you get a recurring contract, very hard to replace you.

[Royal Challengers Bengaluru @RCBTweets]

“𝘐’𝘷𝘦 𝘨𝘰𝘵 𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘰 𝘴𝘢𝘺… 𝘯𝘰 𝘵𝘦𝘢𝘮’𝘴 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘸𝘰𝘯 3 𝘪𝘯 𝘢 𝘳𝘰𝘸.” 🧿🤩

Wake up babe, Mo Bobat has dropped the line of the season. 😉 🫳🎤

The reactions from the players tell us how much they want it. Here’s more from Mo’s dressing room chat after RCB won back to back trophies two nights ago. 🏆❤️✌️

[Royal Challengers Bengaluru @RCBTweets]

𝙀𝙫𝙚𝙧𝙮 𝙘𝙧𝙞𝙘𝙠𝙚𝙩𝙚𝙧 𝙨𝙝𝙤𝙪𝙡𝙙 𝙤𝙣𝙘𝙚 𝙚𝙭𝙥𝙚𝙧𝙞𝙚𝙣𝙘𝙚 𝙍𝘾𝘽: 𝙑𝙚𝙣𝙠𝙖𝙩𝙚𝙨𝙝 𝙄𝙮𝙚𝙧

Raw emotions, happy families and that gratitude in the faces of our stars - priceless reactions and wholesome scenes from last night’s celebrations as we made it two 🏆🏆 in a row! 😍🥹

[Varun Guru @iamvarunguru]

This is Ravi Assudani.

He has worked his entire life at Apple - helping them build their manufacturing supply chain.

Now, he is coming back to India - to help @AequsLimited build their consumer electronics business.

We need more Ravis and more Aequs' in India.

[Siddhartha Saxena @siddsax]

Anthropic onboarding day: Michael Scott introducing Karpathy like he just signed Wemby in free agency.

[Chethan Shettar @ChethanShettar]

This is the most challenging problem for me right now. Too many folks are still stuck working in employee mode. AI is not yet good enough to take care of end to end activities.

The only combination that works today: high agency + ai native in every single task.

[@levelsio @levelsio]

This is the case in many industries now I think

The quality of people's work is so low that you just simply can't hire for most things anymore, hiring is a net negative because you pay people to do the things you want them to do but they will do them wrong

So hiring now is kinda like doing charity work because all you do is pay people lots of money + lots of tax, and then all you do is teach people stuff (training) but then when they're good they just leave anyway

But then at the same time AI isn't good enough to do most of these human things well (yet)

[Chethan Shettar @ChethanShettar]

Very important progress for India. 28nm node can produce lot of chipsets.

While working in NL, i used to get chipsets within 24 hours of order - no min order value, no shipping charges, no additional taxes.

Cut to India - it take 7 days for compnents to be delivered if you are lucky. If customs officer catches your shipment in a bad mood, add another 2-3 days. Plus shipping charges and custom charges.All these add to the cogs of an Indian electronics product.

While big players get PLI and exempted from these charges, startups still have to bear the burden.

Its about time India makes electronics components easily accessible for all.

[Chenthil @jcrajan00]

Tata Electronics just signed ASML for India's first 300mm front-end semiconductor fab. Gujarat.

ASML makes the machines nobody else can make. Their EUV lithography systems cost ₹1,500+ crore each. Only 3 countries had access to these machines till recently — Taiwan, South Korea, Netherlands.

India is now the 4th.

I think people underestimate what 'front-end fab' means here. This isn't packaging or testing — this is where the actual transistors get etched onto silicon. The hardest part of the chip value chain.

Two years ago we had zero fabs. By December we'll have four operational facilities. The pace is genuinely unprecedented for a country that wasn't even in the conversation five years ago.

[THE SKIN DOCTOR @theskindoctor13]

An Indian W that didn’t get the eyeballs it deserved today is the Netherlands agreeing to share their expertise in water management at Afsluitdijk for India’s Kalpasar Project.

What’s Afsluitdijk? The Netherlands kept getting flooded because seawater from the North Sea entered deep into the country. The 32-km-long dam and sea barrier called the Afsluitdijk solved this by acting as a giant wall across the sea (red line in image 1), blocking seawater and turning the area into a controlled freshwater lake.

India is planning something similar with the Kalpasar Project. Gujarat faces water shortages, uneven rainfall, and large amounts of river water flowing into the sea without being stored. The project aims to solve this by building a giant barrier across the Gulf of Khambhat (red line in image 2) to store freshwater, improve irrigation, and supply water to cities and industries.

The signing of the Letter of Intent between India and the Netherlands for technical cooperation on the Kalpasar Project could finally bring this project, pending since the 1970s/80s, to life.

[Vasant Shetty | Building Mundhe Banni @vasantshetty81]

Top 1% wealth creators must build dedicated pools of patient capital and R&D funding to strengthen deep tech and scientific capabilities for true self sufficiency. They also need to channel serious capital toward entrepreneurs from Tier 2 and Tier 3 towns.

There is immense talent and energy in these regions, but almost no access to capital. With the right handholding, a significant number of these entrepreneurs can become investor ready. We need to build institutional capacity around that as well.

Easy access to IT services jobs is drying up fast, and it is difficult to see how we navigate the next decade without making serious investments in education, skill building, and entrepreneurship.

[Chethan Shettar @ChethanShettar]

If you are building products, print this below image forever in your mind. Literally, place it somwewhere you can see daily until your mind has captured the complete essence of it.

An user experiences the product at different touchpoints and each touchpoint is a net multiplier of the product experience.

Imagine if any of these touchpoints becomes zero - the whole product becomes null!

Build by @tfadell (Ex-Apple VP - iPod, iPhone) absolutely changed my perspective about product building.

[Lenny Rachitsky @lennysan]

Love this reminder from @tfadell

"Makers often focus on the shiny object—the product they’re building—and forget about the rest of the journey until they’re almost ready to deliver it to the customer. But customers see it all, experience it all. They’re the ones taking the journey, step-by-step."

[Chethan Shettar @ChethanShettar]

@prakdadlani @ivishaltejwani Is this a pick and place completely made in India? Looks prettty good. I am exploring such machines for setup of an ESDM lab.

[Chethan Shettar @ChethanShettar]

@saaiyer Add the poor absorption of grain protein and incomplete amino acid profile to this - net protein actually reaching body will be quite low.

[Chethan Shettar @ChethanShettar]

I worked in Europe for 4 years and then moved back to India. Struggled a lot to adapt to this change in work culture.

Had got used to fixed timings, no interruptions and focused work. It felt like absolute chaos after coming back.

I had the same mindset - to bring work discipline in my team. However, after much efforts realized its a futile effort. Its not the fault of employees though.

Companies cant have an isolated culture that does not gel with the broader society. All Indian employees have lot of moving parts in their life that demands attention according to the society.

European social norms are very different. They are cold and highly schedule oriented.

My suggestion - bring a culture of accountability rather than european discipline. You cant solve employees taking personal calls, however you can make certain their responsibilities are not deferred or avoided due to these interruptions.

[Vasant Shetty | Building Mundhe Banni @vasantshetty81]

At Hubballi, I got a chance to meet Sachin Arakeri, founder of Tangy Tong, a beverage brand trying to popularise non-coffeneited, non-carbonated, relatively lower sugar beverage options.

Sachin comes from an industrial production background and has worked as an R&D head at Vibhava Industries, an FMCG brand. His co founders Rohit and Abhijit bring strong R&D and marketing experience respectively.

What they are building is interesting.

Their belief is simple. Most soft drinks today are carbonated, high on sugar, and unhealthy. Instead, they are building fruit based functional beverages that are non-carbonated, hydrating, filling, and relatively low on sugar.

For context, their 250 ml drink contains about 10-12 grams of sugar per serving size of 100ml.

They have spent the last 12-18 months on R&D, working on taste, texture, and viscosity. I tried their lychee flavor and it was genuinely impressive. The kind of drink you would expect at a premium restaurant, but currently priced at Rs 50.

Their insight about consumption is simple. Young consumers today repeatedly consume sugary, caffeinated, carbonated drinks through the day. Why not offer something that is refreshing and hydrating, without caffeine and with lower sugar.

They have already built around 10 flavors and have tested the product across hotels and small stores in Hubballi. There are repeat orders coming in, and early signs of product market fit are visible. So far, they have sold around 8000 to 10000 units in the last 2 months of launch.

What stood out even more was the hustle.

They are currently using Dharwad's agricultural university bottling unit on rent. The team runs production, packaging, and distribution themselves. From running boilers in the morning to selling in the market, everything is hands on.

They are now looking to scale through contract manufacturing and expand distribution to cities like Bengaluru.

The team has been working without salaries so far and is now beginning to explore fundraising. It is early, just about 2 months into the market, but the intent, domain knowledge and execution are strong.

Personally, I feel a product like this could see strong traction in Bengaluru as well. They do have plans of introducing more premium options for the ultra health conscious segment too.

If you are in the beverage space, understand distribution, or are interested from an investment perspective, happy to connect you to Sachin.

Cheering for Sachin and the team.

@mundhebanni @akaranth @Shishir_S_U

[Prakash Dadlani @prakdadlani]

“Every imported product you buy is a factory India never built.”

I’ve been saying this for YEARS.

And now Narendra Modi Ji is saying it to the whole nation: support Swadeshi, build in Bharat. 🇮🇳

But let’s be honest.

Slogans are not actions.

The real action is much harder.

Because today, in most industries, importing is still easier, cheaper and faster than manufacturing in India.

That is the uncomfortable truth.

Indian entrepreneurs are ready to build.

But we are still fighting:
* cheap dumping
* smuggling
* under-invoicing
* endless compliance
* high costs
* slow approvals
* lack of funding
* limited incentives from GOI

You cannot ask people to “Swadeshify” while making imports economically smarter.

The Government must now push beyond the 'talk'

Because until building in Bharat makes financial sense at scale…

most people will continue taking the easy way out.

That is human nature and business sense.

I built the BUILD IN BHARAT Community because I believe India can become a true manufacturing powerhouse.

But belief alone is not enough anymore.

India now needs bold economic action.

Swadeshi cannot survive on emotion alone.

It must survive on policy, protection and execution.

JAI HIND 🇮🇳

@PMOIndia
@narendramodi
#VocalForLocal #AtmanirbharBharat

[Abhishek AB @ABsay_ek]

Krunal Pandya was never supposed to be the headline. For years he was just the other Pandya, elder one who carried the kit bag while Hardik got the slow motion entries. But cricket has a way of rewarding the hungry & Krunal’s hunger was never metaphorical.

At 16, he & Hardik ate Maggi once a day. Their father Himanshu had shut his car finance shop in Surat & moved to Vadodara so the boys could train at Kiran More Academy. Brothers shared everything. Once Hardik’s only bat broke during a Ranji match & Krunal had to borrow from a teammate.

Then came the speed post. A government job offer for Krunal. 15-20k Rupees, stable money. His father said take it as family was tired. Krunal was 22 & had just been dropped for a game from Baroda Under-23. He tore the letter. Chose Syed Mushtaq Ali trials instead. That was not a supporting character move. That was a man who thinks he is the lead.

People call him a defensive bowler, as if that is an insult. Since 2016, only 4 spinners in IPL history have a better economy than his 7.56 (Min 50 wickets). 2 are all time greats in Narine & Rashid Khan, third is Axar Patel; a regular in Indian T20 team.
But here is the thing: none of those 4 have scored more runs than Krunal since his debut. Not Narine who opens many times. Not Axar who bats at 5 these days. Krunal has 1897 runs at 22.85 while keeping the runs down better than almost everyone.

He left Mumbai Indians in 2022. Since that exit, his IPL economy is 7.81. Only Narine has taken more wickets with a better economy in this period. Meanwhile Mumbai’s best spinner in these 4 years has been Piyush Chawla at 8.4.
Look at what happened to Mumbai Indians after he left. Bottom of the table twice. Already eliminated this season. On the other side, Krunal’s teams have made the playoffs every single year since 2022. LSG first, then RCB. Trophy in 2025. Top of the table right now in 2026. This is not coincidence. This is what happens when you remove the glue & wonder why the furniture is shaking.

Hardik gets called clutch. Fair. But Krunal is the only player in IPL history with 2 Player of the Match awards in finals. 2017 with MI. 2025 with RCB. The elder brother, the one who supposedly just does the dirty work, has delivered on the biggest stage twice.
In 2025 final against Punjab, he took 2 for 17. Got Prabhsimran & Inglis. RCB fans who once abused him for taking AB de Villiers wicket were now calling him legend. That is the thing about sports. It does not care about your Instagram followers. It cares about who shows up.

11 seasons, 2 final POTMs, 1 trophy that RCB waited 17 years for. All from a boy who once ate Maggi for dinner & travelled 25 kilometers to prove he could be something. Bollywood got it wrong this time. Elder brother was the main character all along. He just needed a different city to prove it.