neil

Founder, SigmaSolo Private Equity | Co-Founder, EduAvenues® | ex @GoldmanSachs , UVA, TJHSST

[shaurya @shauseth]

do you think genghis khan had a dashboard to give him operational insights

[Geiger Capital @Geiger_Capital]

Pre-2020 was a different world.

[Boring_Business @BoringBiz_]

Private equity firms when the CFO misses EBITDA target by 0.2%

[Daniel Idfresne @danielidfresne]

Are NYC's specialized high schools racist?

You'd think so from the headlines from the Gothamist and NY Times.

I graduated from Brooklyn Tech. From personal experience, the alleged "racism" is wrong.

The SHSAT is revealing NYC's education crisis 🧵
https://t.co/Cnjzf6rbV8

[PrivateEquityGuy (Mikk Markus) @PrivatEquityGuy]

A firm started by a 25 and 27 year old.

So far 160+ acquisitions
$1.5B in sales and $250M in EBITDA

Wildest part?

Forty-seven (!!!) acquisitions in 2025 alone...

A true masters at sourcing, deal execution and everything else included.

[litquidity @litcapital]

The irony of using a data center to generate this image and post it on X is outstanding

[atlas @creatine_cycle]

man-made horrors beyond our comprehension as a comms strategy is completely optional btw

[Merriam-Webster @MerriamWebster]

Why is it ‘cancelled’ in the U.K. but ‘canceled’ in the U.S.?

Because we gave them that L in 1776.

[litquidity @litcapital]

Permanent_Peace_Deal_vFFF_v26(1)(1)

[Vivek Ramaswamy @VivekGRamaswamy]

This is from UC Berkeley’s own faculty, but I couldn’t have said it better myself: “Admitting severely underprepared students to advanced programs at the wrong schools serves no one but administrators who build careers by promoting ideological goals.”

[neil @kothari_neil]

@CoreyWriting Vanderbilt is effectively operating this way, hence their meteoric rise

[Chris Pisarski @chrispisarski]

stop asking prospects for a "quick 15 minute call"

if your prospect is a c-level or vp, 15 minutes of their time is incredibly expensive. they literally won't give it to you just because you asked nicely

during YC, we stopped asking for time and started asking for permission to send information:

"hey mark, i analyzed how your sales team is doing outbound and noticed you have a huge bottleneck in step 2. i recorded a 2-minute video showing exactly how to fix it. opposed to me sending it over?"

people will happily say "sure, send it". once they watch the video and realize you actually know what you are talking about, they will ask you for a meeting

[neil @kothari_neil]

@neetu_arnold ‘Sustained classroom performance’ is only meaningful if the classroom standards are consistent. They’re not, and everyone in K-12 knows it.

[neil @kothari_neil]

@marcportermagee So the one metric that’s identical for every applicant in the country is less compelling than a subjective read of a transcript on a grading scale that varies across 27,000 high schools. This is the whole problem with holistic admissions in one clip.

[litquidity @litcapital]

Every day is April fools when you truly believe your AI wrapper startup won’t get steamrolled by OpenAI, Anthropic, or Google

[Erika Lee @erikalee]

"I'm at my limit"

emotional or claude?

[neil @kothari_neil]

@BoringBiz_ Accurate. The industry is incentivized to lie to you about work life balance

[mir.i.am #PrayForSnooki @moll11y]

I love March Madness because I always learn about a new school. Never heard of University of Michigan in my life

[neil @kothari_neil]

@WallStreetMav Lobbyists

[Riley @Ri_S_OB]

LeBron never did that