Jagannath Putrevu

Co-founder @champ_hq. Former Principal ML Engineer @instacart.

[Jagannath Putrevu @jputrevu]

After enduring years of pain and suffering as an @Arsenal fan, this feels good!

[Arsenal @Arsenal]

This belongs to all of us.

[Jagannath Putrevu @jputrevu]

+ 1 to moving to east bay. A lot more to life than hill climbing a net worth number

[Fareed Mosavat @far33d]

Instead of being existentially sad b/c you know people with more money than you, instead be grateful that:

1. You live in one of the beautiful places in the world.
2. With a high density of interesting people.
3. In the most prosperous moment of all time.
4. While you work on fun stuff.

PS. Move to the East Bay.

[Jagannath Putrevu @jputrevu]

@urvashibarooah @patrickachase @mkhandel @Max @topherc @AndreaShuyuWang And thanks to Business Insider for covering our launch: https://t.co/uWy6rNFmTV

[Jagannath Putrevu @jputrevu]

🚀 After a year of quiet building, I’m excited to officially announce @champ_hq out of stealth. We're also announcing our $8.5M Seed round led by @Redpoint with participation from @defyvc , @Max , @svangel, and a great group of angels. Watch the quick launch video below

[Jagannath Putrevu @jputrevu]

Huge thanks to:
Satish Dharamraj, @urvashibarooah, @patrickachase,
@mkhandel, @Max, @topherc, @AndreaShuyuWang
plus our amazing angels and early customers who believed in us.

If your team is drowning in manual docs, portals, or outbound calls, DM me or visit https://t.co/9uMUCK4Cdj to book a demo.

We are also actively hiring AEs, FDEs and SWEs, checkout https://t.co/g9hKA1S15e

[Jagannath Putrevu @jputrevu]

This post struck a nerve. As a frontline builder of a B2B AI startup, here’s how we’re using designers:

1) External brand design

In an era of AI generated slop, most websites look the same. Even human designed websites mostly look the same. But great designers can help you really communicate the value of your product and create a differentiated brand. We’re going through a branding exercise now and had to hire an external agency.

2) New UX patterns

Coding models are pretty good already at creating highly functional features for B2B models. But we’re still early in inventing new UX patterns for human AI collaboration and there’s a ton of work to do here. This still requires user research, taste, design systems that have to be updated frequently as model capabilities evolve and a bit of boldness to try new things.

I do agree with Gokul that the design function will turn more full-stack.

[Gokul Rajaram @gokulr]

DESIGN: THE FIRST AI CASUALTY

I'm increasingly sure that 2026 signals the end of product design as a full-fledged stand-alone function within companies. If so, it will be the first role / function to be eliminated by AI on a go-forward basis.

Instead of hiring FT designers, startups are hiring / will hire design consultants to create a design system that the founder likes (this takes a few weeks max). Once the design system is finalized, PM/Eng feed it into their AI tool of choice to generate prototypes. The design system is refreshed annually by the same consultant.

Larger companies will likely not backfill design roles and will do some targeted attrition to reduce the design department to 20% the size it is today.

If you're a designer, I think you have two choices:
1. Become an entrepreneur: Start a design agency and become the go-to resource for design systems for startups and even larger companies. This can be a good recurring revenue business.
2. Become a builder: Add PM/Eng responsibilities to become a product builder.

Would suggest you embrace this proactively vs waiting for the other shoe to drop.

I'm really sorry about this - some of my best friends and the people I admire most and have learnt the most from are designers - but it seems inevitable.

[Garry Tan @garrytan]

Here's YC's official advice about being truthful and precise about what is pilot, bookings, revenue and recurring revenue.

Founders, particularly first time founders, need to sear this into their brains. Don't mistake one tier for another. Be precise, and always be truthful.

[Elad Gil @eladgil]

New post w/ random thoughts on AI (thread)
I will probably get a # wrong, but here we go :)

1/12 OpenAI & Anthropic now at 0.1% of US GDP *each*
In a year, AI revenue likely to be 1-2% of US GDP

What does AI mean for US GDP growth? Does productivity get lost mismeasured a la internet era?

[Jagannath Putrevu @jputrevu]

Max was the first check into my start-up and has been one of the most helpful people throughout my time at Instacart and now as I go through my founder journey. Excited that he's gonna be focusing on investing full-time!

[Max Mullen @Max]

Some personal news! Recently, I stepped back from the day-to-day at @Instacart to focus on investing full-time. I sat down with my friend @jaltma on Uncapped to talk about building Instacart and my philosophy on early-stage investing — check it out here!

[Jagannath Putrevu @jputrevu]

Exactly the same for me

[Sheel Mohnot @pitdesi]

My approximate AI model usage right now

Grok: Twitter-related searches (2%)
OpenAI: Advanced voice and previous projects (5%)
Gemini: Image generation, and sometimes when I think I’ll get a more accurate answer (5%)
Claude: Thought partner, coding, and writing (88%)

Thoughts?

[Jagannath Putrevu @jputrevu]

The "idea file" idea from @karpathy is wonderfully simple and brilliant!

[Jagannath Putrevu @jputrevu]

@OpenAIDevs embeddings api fix when? Outage going on for a while now

[Matt Shumer @mattshumer_]

https://t.co/ivXRKXJvQg

[Boris Cherny @bcherny]

I'm Boris and I created Claude Code. I wanted to quickly share a few tips for using Claude Code, sourced directly from the Claude Code team. The way the team uses Claude is different than how I use it. Remember: there is no one right way to use Claude Code -- everyones' setup is different. You should experiment to see what works for you!

[Jagannath Putrevu @jputrevu]

Feels like a glimpse into the future of operating systems. All I can think of is how a phone that is not build around apps but built around actions could look like! A universal chat/voice bar for everything and embedded apps? How do apps evolve when you don’t have to click/tap?

[Claude @claudeai]

Introducing Cowork: Claude Code for the rest of your work.

Cowork lets you complete non-technical tasks much like how developers use Claude Code.

[Jagannath Putrevu @jputrevu]

@dittycheria It’s possible to make the chatbots solve even complex requests. But the problem is often companies are too careful and slow and don’t give the bots enough tools/APIs to take more actions. Most companies don’t even have the APIs available.

[Jagannath Putrevu @jputrevu]

ChatGPT basically wrote code to create a deck and overcomplicated it quite a bit. The slide quality was pretty good though.

I went with Manus and it was also nice that I could transfer it over to Google Slides and continue editing there. Very cool product overall!

[Jagannath Putrevu @jputrevu]

I asked Gamma, ChatGPT and Manus to prepare a sales deck for me and gave all of them the same main prompt and a deck outline.

Gamma took 10s
Manus took about a minute
ChatGPT took a staggering 52 mins

[Jagannath Putrevu @jputrevu]

Gamma's deck was "pretty" but didn't quite have the enterprise feel to it. But it was fast and super easy to use.

Manus gave a really solid enterprise grade deck and was easy to make edits through prompting but didn't feel like I had much creative control.