Gana

Building in AI x Finance // ex-VC & PM // Maths grad - IIT Roorkee 🎓 // Running-Poker-Books // DMs open 📥

[Jay Yang @Jayyanginspires]

I'm convinced that everyone should take a big swing at some point in your life and experience what it's like to truly go all in on a meaningful pursuit otherwise they grow bitter with age.

[Gana @gmisrag]

@hiakshayy let’s gooo!

[Gana @gmisrag]

Watching "how finance teams use Claude Cowork" webinar live - Antrophic is really going function by function inside the enterprise. Land grabbing maxx 🫣

[Gana @gmisrag]

DM Tushar to know more!!!

[Tushar Varshney @tushaaar19]

cfos at public companies still draft 100-page filings in software nobody actually likes using.

we're fixing that.

hiring a full-time engineer in bangalore to help us ship. dm me.

[Benji Taylor @benjitaylor]

“I’ll figure it out” has gotten me further than any plan I’ve ever made

[Gana @gmisrag]

@yugkha3 Me too!

[Beff (e/acc) @beffjezos]

Average startup founder experience first thing in the morning while you're still booting up

[Garima Mann @MannGarima]

Today we’re launching Nometria!

Vibe coding made building apps easy.
But getting them to production is still broken.

We fix that.

Nometria lets you deploy vibe coded apps to production grade infrastructure in one click.

100+ apps already live.
Customers are already launching faster and closing enterprise deals.

If you built it, you should be able to ship it - https://t.co/NDrqyHiZl2

[Divye jain @Divyejain1]

~2 years at @FinrepAI

built a lot, but one thing that keeps coming up is this: problems that look solved usually are not.

pdf search was one of those. looks fine until you deal with 1000+ page documents. most solutions are heavy, expensive, or just not built for real product usage.

we stepped back and rethought it end-to-end. got it from ~60 seconds to ~50ms.

wrote about it:
https://t.co/p3a6pbVYPH

[Peer Richelsen @peer_rich]

i wish more founders understood one simple fact

0 to 1 is basically unteachable

past experience helps you to not die 

but it doesnt magically predict where pmf is hiding

[Gana @gmisrag]

@JJEnglert Gtm Guide

[Gana @gmisrag]

@shriyanevatia Is this still up, Shriya? No showing up for me. Cannot login via Google account either

[Yug @yugkha3]

dm me with your resume and a short note, you will receive a mail within 2 days if you are cool enough

[roon @tszzl]

do your duty while weeping if you must, there is nothing clean and gentle in the crooked timber of human relations

[Gana @gmisrag]

This is still the piece I send to everyone wanting to write better. You work touched millions, Scott.

Rest in Peace.

[Scott Adams @ScottAdamsSays]

A Final Message From Scott Adams

[Gana @gmisrag]

Happy to be following the footsteps with @FinrepAI , we have 6 former founders in a team of 18.

[Ben Lang @benln]

• 50 former founders work at Cursor
• 35 former founders work at Notion

What other companies do this?

[Gana @gmisrag]

You got to believe that you can find the answer and that's all can focus on.
Sometimes you have to play the odds and sometimes you have to play the calculus.
I graduated studying Applied Mathematics for five years. When I was in VC, I would have met close to 1,200 start-ups. Probabilistically, to think about building a really large successful company, odds are stacked against yourself.

[Startup Archive @StartupArchive_]

Ben Horowitz on how to deal with “The Struggle”

Ben is asked about his famous blog post “The Struggle” and how to deal with it.

He recalls Business Week writing a cover story about his company Loudcloud titled “The IPO from Hell.” The Red Herring wrote an article speculating that Ben was taking the company’s cash and setting it on fire in his parking lot.

“These things hurt my feelings… But most of the stress doesn’t come so much from what people in the press and people on Twitter think. It’s more how people in the company start to feel about it. You’ve brought all these people in. They believed in you. Things aren’t going as sold. And you feel that, and it’s going badly. And then it’s amplified if they read that you suck in the press, as they did about me many times.”

He continues:

“I didn’t care that they said I was an idiot. What bothered me was people who work for me would go home and their spouse would go, ‘You know your CEO is an idiot? I just read it here in Business Week.’”

As an entrepreneur, Ben had never really found a great outlet for this. He vented to his friend Bill Campbell who had similar bad experiences running a company called Go. But that didn’t help that much:

“We’d talk about it and he would understand, but it didn’t help that much. It’s still a struggle. It’s still difficult. You just have to focus your mind on what you can do… You can’t focus on what’s going wrong and what that might imply.”

He recalls an analogy from a class Peter Thiel taught on startups:

“He says there are people who believe in statistics — they believe there are probabilities, that things happen, and all you can do is run a process and it is what it is… And then there are people who believe in calculus, and they believe there’s a right answer. If you’re a startup CEO, you have to believe in calculus. You have to believe you can find the answer and that’s all you can focus on… And trust me, there’s always an answer… But that’s really all there is. There’s not that much comfort out there.”

Video source: @StartupGrind (2014)

[Gana @gmisrag]

“The indeterminate future is somehow one in which probability and statistics are the dominant modalities for making sense of the world.”

https://t.co/SW9bWA9Cjh

[Gana @gmisrag]

@pratikpoddar Reminded me of this blog by @hunterwalk

https://t.co/hsa68ica1z