Daryn Nakhuda

Head of Software and Product at Waabi. Repeat founder passionate about making lives better (and all things food).

[Daryn Nakhuda @daryn]

You're inside of a self-driving truck (🤯), that truck is "wearing" augmented-reality goggles (🤯🤯), and it's interacting with virtual actors performing tests in the real world that would be impossible to do in a traditional closed course environment (🤯🤯🤯)

[Waabi @Waabi_ai]

Introducing Mixed Reality Testing: The comprehensive safety solution the AV industry needs.

We've developed a totally new paradigm that combines real trucks with virtual scenarios generated in real-time by Onboard Waabi World. Like augmented reality goggles that blend physical and virtual worlds, MRT enables the Waabi Driver to drive autonomously down a real test track while simultaneously sensing and reacting to intelligent, simulated actors that create complex safety critical situations.

MRT eliminates the traditional constraints of closed-course testing. We can conduct exponentially more tests than ever before and in a continuous fashion, with extraordinary levels of diversity and realism. Traffic jams materialize instantly, pedestrians jaywalk unpredictably, aggressive drivers weave through traffic, children dart into the street - all tested safely without real-world consequences.

This breakthrough builds a foundation for AVs we can truly trust and accelerates the path to safer roads for everyone.

See MRT in action: https://t.co/4AQaziYAPq

[Daryn Nakhuda @daryn]

If you’re interested in pursuing a career in venture capital, this is an amazing opportunity to work with and learn from world class people at a world class firm.

[Albert Wenger 🌎🔥⌛ @albertwenger]

Please share this widely, especially with people who would not otherwise see it. Applications are a completely open process.

[Daryn Nakhuda @daryn]

@DavidLazoCh @rafaosoriomalca He’s 28, she’s 44, and this wasn’t some random fan jumping on stage.

It’s @rolemodel and Natalie Portman and a regular part of his act where he brings out someone to dance to this song.

[Daryn Nakhuda @daryn]

@StanleyLo_4 @bryce Gets the people going

[Daryn Nakhuda @daryn]

@albertwenger @usv So many hiring announcements focus solely on past success and pedigree, this intentionality around bringing the right voices around the table is what makes USV so special. Congrats!

[Daryn Nakhuda @daryn]

Classic post and great reminder to all founders from @bryce

[Bryce Roberts @bryce]

Choose your “lifestyle” wisely https://t.co/Sw403kMCbi

[Daryn Nakhuda @daryn]

@jheitzeb Makes sense for you and I, though agentic coding has way more impact societally. Also, artful design is more obvious to a user than artful code, so while ai tools are great and making things look slick, human designers excel at creating truly special experiences

[Daryn Nakhuda @daryn]

By that time, the evolution from unknown mom-and-pop salumeria to a nationally known shop with lines out the door every day, run by the family of @Mariobatali, the biggest celebrity chef of the time, but those early days and Dino’s hospitality will forever live on in my memory

[Daryn Nakhuda @daryn]

Many fond memories of Dino from the early days of Salumi - meatballs, porchetta, all of the salumi sandwiches, and watching his sister Izzy making gnocchi in the original storefront window. Rest in Peace! @Mariobatali

https://t.co/aOprOYHI0M

[Daryn Nakhuda @daryn]

In 2007, my startup had an office upstairs from the shop. Pro: could always get in line early for a sandwich, Con: the entire building smelled like warm aged meat in the summer.

[Daryn Nakhuda @daryn]

In 2004, I cured my own prosciutto there. https://t.co/b8kcXiYlUQ

[Daryn Nakhuda @daryn]

Some of the absolute best (and none of the worst) coworkers I’ve ever had with came from seeing the potential in inexperienced folks.

[RebootHQ @RebootHQ]

The inexperienced person you hire today could become the leader who carries forward everything you've built. @jerrycolonna on investing in potential over résumés: https://t.co/47Z6FNlGO8

[Daryn Nakhuda @daryn]

This was the ideal “spare five” minutes we always talked about at @spare5/@mighty_ai.

Great for micro-labeling, even more powerful for location-based crowdsourcing where Uber has a massive and unique position compared to any other player in the space.

[Balaji Krishnamurthy @_balaji_km]

Good take from @treiner5
"~33M trips per day * ~8.8M drivers and couriers = An ocean of micro-idle windows the company already optimizes with heatmaps and batched dispatch.

Even single-digit participation and minutes-per-day can translate into millions of labeled units at U.S.-grade quality, a supply pool that rivals specialist shops and Mechanical Turk while avoiding their cold-start and QA headaches. If ads became the high-margin “second engine” for delivery networks, RL/labeling can rhyme for mobility: a capital-light, counter-cyclical revenue line that monetizes the long tail of driver downtime without cannibalizing trips. Turning operational exhaust into P&L is the same discipline I’ve highlighted in marketplace S-curve stacking and incremental margin engines before."

[Daryn Nakhuda @daryn]

@XfinitySupport : "[blah blah blah] Was this response helpful?"
Me: "no"
@XfinitySupport : "I'm having trouble following our conversation."
🤦🤦🤦🤦🤦🤦

[Daryn Nakhuda @daryn]

@dkhos @Uber Congratulations! This was always the dream of @mighty_ai @spare5 - love seeing it become a reality in the Uber driver app!

[Daryn Nakhuda @daryn]

@gilbert I’ve never been there - i just remember hearing that Waymo had their own private space and know that TRC has rentable area on the same campus, but your photos very well might be Waymo’s

[Daryn Nakhuda @daryn]

@gilbert IIRC Waymo’s property in is/was separate from TRC’s. TRC has a big site in Ohio too and many AV companies use them

Wired had a big article on Castle awhile back: https://t.co/7TMhfZOLxb

The fence is more to keep people from watching tests than the course itself being secret

[Daryn Nakhuda @daryn]

You HAVE to at least watch this video and be blown away by the sorcery: https://t.co/wmjhLW4a8S

[Daryn Nakhuda @daryn]

I’m so excited for this product. The e-bike of knives! (Disclaimer: I’m an investor, because it is so freaking cool)

https://t.co/jDOKeY445i

[Daryn Nakhuda @daryn]

@geekwire Some of your best work yet @Taylor_Soper! 🙃