Angik Sarkar

Founder @IxanaHQ. Building Wi-R: the non-radiative physical layer for multimodal AI. 100x lower energy than BT | 10x faster than NFC.

[Angik Sarkar @kyunbit]

How you interact with computers will completely change in the next decade!

Watch the video with the sound on.

Introducing Wi-R: wire-like wireless that communicates with touch.

Science fiction is now a reality!

[Angik Sarkar @kyunbit]

@harjtaggar Any startup sale is a failure: whether it is 60k, 60m or 60B.

It's an admission that the team is unable to take it a generational company.

[Angik Sarkar @kyunbit]

Good to have stories come to light. But, I want to stress majority of investors are super nice.

They ghost after meeting, don't give true feedback to preserve optionality. But, they have to do it as responsibility to LPs.

[GREG ISENBERG @gregisenberg]

I was once pitching in a board room at a top 3 VC firm for a $15M Series A.

12 people in the meeting. One of the GPs fully fell asleep. Out cold for 30+ minutes. Nobody acknowledged it. Everyone just kept going.

I kept presenting my Series A slides to an unconscious man in a Herman Miller chair and somehow that was considered normal. That's venture capital.

You might fly across the country to perform for people who may or may not be conscious.

It's a dance.

And sometimes you lead and sometimes you follow and sometimes your partner is unconscious.

If you're raising right now, just know: every founder has a story like this. The process is weird. The power dynamic is weird. You're not crazy for thinking it's weird.

No one talks about it because they want to continue raising. But I'm happy to stick my neck out there.

It is weird.

[Angik Sarkar @kyunbit]

@tomasmas @augmentaltech This looks awesome

[Angik Sarkar @kyunbit]

@andrew__reed 😅

[Angik Sarkar @kyunbit]

One idea I keep coming back to:

The org chart is partly a map of expertise.

But it is also a map of friction.

Every handoff software could not understand became a role, queue, dashboard, meeting, manager, or process.

[Angik Sarkar @kyunbit]

I think most companies are asking the wrong AI question.

Not:

“How do we use AI?”

But:

“Which parts of this org chart only exist because execution used to be expensive?”

Here's why agents are eating the org chart. The end of "work between the work":

https://t.co/4e2F2rR8EK

[Angik Sarkar @kyunbit]

@sampritibh 🚀🚀🚀

[Angik Sarkar @kyunbit]

@mvernal Very well put.

I told the team something very similar. Every startup now has to start with the vision of being a multi product, compound startup and start thinking of the platform from day 0.

[Angik Sarkar @kyunbit]

Beautifully put

[Seth Bannon @sethbannon]

@biglithium No, it's really not.

It's American to stay private forever if someone wants to. It's American to never have any outside shareholders if someone wants to. It's American to go public early if someone wants to.

That's the beauty of America. It allows that kind of freedom.

[Angik Sarkar @kyunbit]

@sampritibh @navierboat Congrats. 🚀🚀🚀

[Angik Sarkar @kyunbit]

@pitdesi Either A or F(Greek Islands), depending on the month. It's all expenses paid. You want the most expensive areas.

[Angik Sarkar @kyunbit]

Orchestrating multiple agents is mentally exhausting.

Am I the only one to feel this way?

[Angik Sarkar @kyunbit]

@ivanburazin @JWLevitt I have that globally due to alliance benefits. Every frequent flyer with one of the global alliances at least in the US has that. I have to do at least 2 red eyes every month. Sometimes consecutive e.g. tyo-hnl red-eye then again hnl-sea red-eye.

[Angik Sarkar @kyunbit]

@ivanburazin @JWLevitt If you are flying that much, you can choose seats towards the front of the plane. I fly every week, in economy.

There are other arguments for flying business. Time savings is not it for business travelers.

[Tom Blomfield @t_blom]

Burnout isn’t caused by hard work.

Instead, it’s a decoupling of effort and outcome.

You push as hard as you can and nothing moves. Your company has become a supertanker with its own inertia.

[Angik Sarkar @kyunbit]

@aaron_epstein Bingo. This is why I already have clocked ~115K miles in 2026.

[Angik Sarkar @kyunbit]

@pitdesi The best topping I have found is

a. Kasundi: a mustard based chutney
b. Mango pickle, but a special version from north Bengal

[Angik Sarkar @kyunbit]

Don't do this. Building something customers love is hard enough. Getting an exit is an anomaly. There's so much to do. Don't over complicate your life

[Dan Hightower @Danhightower]

Founder hack: form a startup as an LLC first, then convert to a C‑corp once the LLC is worth several million (but under the QSBS $75M cap) so that the higher fair market value becomes your “basis” for QSBS and you can exclude up to 10x that amount from federal tax on exit, potentially turning hundreds of millions of gain into 0%-tax QSBS instead of being limited to the flat $10–15M cap. You're welcome have a good weekend.

[Angik Sarkar @kyunbit]

@sethbannon Unfortunately, @fiftyyears is one of the few funds excited by the true non-consensus frontier. Most funds are chasing the obvious. Bragging about oversubscribed rounds is the way for founders to get the herd of investors in line for their next round.

[Angik Sarkar @kyunbit]

A market bet is early to demand.

A technical bet is early to a constraint.

AI will create plenty of good market-bet companies.

But I think the most important companies of the next decade will come from technical bets.

https://t.co/rCexoddaTY

[Angik Sarkar @kyunbit]

@cerebras just had a very successful IPO’d.
But the interesting part is not the IPO.
It is that the company was founded around a technical bet the market could not fully name yet.
That is the pattern I think matters now:

AI eats the obvious.

[Angik Sarkar @kyunbit]

At @IxanaHQ, we see this in wireless.

Customers did not ask for a new physical layer.
They ask why devices cannot be smaller, operate on micro-watt power budgets, or work in form factors today’s radios make impossible. The constraint comes first. The product category follows.