Madhav Lavakare

YC F25 (@tryaircaps)

[Madhav Lavakare @madlavak]

@fivosaresti @fivosaresti How do you guys use in-person meetings as context source for your company brain? Assuming that’s a rich source of tribal knowledge?

[Madhav Lavakare @madlavak]

@SinProper @thsottiaux Hey Roberto would love to have your team try out our solution (https://t.co/twBlJeSgJH), it’s meant exactly to record spur of the moment talks, feature requests etc. Let me show you a demo!

[Madhav Lavakare @madlavak]

@jan_damm_ Would love to have you pilot us (https://t.co/jCAfXkctGd). Records all in person convos, everything fully open via API, SDK, webhooks, MCP. We’re F25, few YC cos already piloting!

[Madhav Lavakare @madlavak]

I love YC. Grew monthly revenue 6.5x from $14k to $93k from September to October.

Sales & marketing used to be the bane of my existence as a technical founder.

Had to hammer it into myself until I was Stockholm syndromed.

[Madhav Lavakare @madlavak]

Most people in the Bay don’t give a shit about privacy anymore the way people used to a few years ago.

Recording conversations is the de facto, and in some cases, actually expected.

But, the people who do care about it, care about it a lot. They get MAD about it.

Two questions:

1) how prevalent is this mindset in say, Tulsa, Oklahoma?

2) is the population of people who get mad going to increase or decrease in the next 2 years?

[Madhav Lavakare @madlavak]

I was this close to building a property tax compliance B2B SaaS Al but I thought it was too “moonshot”

[Madhav Lavakare @madlavak]

@TurnerNovak You telling me I don’t have 139 zillion in ARR even though I got $5000 in 10 seconds from stripe transaction????

[Madhav Lavakare @madlavak]

@BenjaminDEKR Would be cool to have a Best Buy for software - showroom with bunch of laptops running cool compliance B2B SAASes all at once

[Madhav Lavakare @madlavak]

I’m so addicted to my stripe notifs now it’s not even funny I need to be less obsessed with revenue.

Dopamine hit from even a morsel more of MRR is crazy

[Michael Grinich @grinich]

feels like the era of hype is over.

signups, views, free users, github stars.. all meaningless vanity metrics

what matters now is revenue, margin, retention, and the sound of cash hitting your bank account

the tide is changing. and we're about to see who’s been swimming naked

[Madhav Lavakare @madlavak]

@thatguybg Used to get pissed off at this then I started using it as an opportunity to troll, you should definiteyl try it

[Madhav Lavakare @madlavak]

Didn’t know my Indian dad was a contributing author at MIT Technology Review

[Madhav Lavakare @madlavak]

That feeling when someone hits u w their Calendly link before u can.

Like bro I was just gonna send it to u why u gotta do my ego like that.

[Madhav Lavakare @madlavak]

MASSIVE data moat, classic VC move

[TJ Parker⚡️ @tjparker]

I installed mics at this bar and successfully captured and transcribed all of these private conversations. Got some really good stuff — will release transcripts soon.

[Madhav Lavakare @madlavak]

@growing_daniel @sama “nGL bRo I bE closing hELLa SaFE MFN no meet no text”

[Madhav Lavakare @madlavak]

Stripe dashboard

[Madhav Lavakare @madlavak]

Genuinely curious, would you actually wear Mark Zuckerberg’s glasses with cameras & microphones on your face?

Feel like no one would but lots of people seem to be saying sentiment around Meta / privacy etc is getting better. Is it tho?

[Madhav Lavakare @madlavak]

@dmarcos Very true if they don’t have a burning problem. It’s just annoying, even people who need vision correction find them annoying. Mojo tried smart contacts but didn’t work. Although niche use cases with critical need still work (eg captions for Deaf people)

[Madhav Lavakare @madlavak]

@EvenRealities Drop an actual SDK bro everyone waiting

[Madhav Lavakare @madlavak]

@antoine_os @sandbar Love the ring but imo it’s more about conversation capture than form factor. What about a pen, for example? People often play with a pen, especially at work, keep it close to their mouth / face when thinking etc