Mainak Bhattacharya

Student of Policy and Development.
Teach empathy to early stage entrepreneurs. Previously worked in impact investments and capacity development.

[Mainak Bhattacharya @mainak_mb]

4) This sector and stage agnostic curriculum designed, is a result of 1) multiple failed attempts 2) having spoken and mentored few 100 startups 3) trying to help make the first few sales of many of my portfolio companies 4) 1000s of customer interactions with early adopters

[IIMA Ventures @IIMAVentures]

✨ Day 2⃣:

Experts Mr. @Sombodhi Ghosh & Mr. Mainak Bhattacharya (@mainak_mb) discussing about product market fit with the cohort.

#ShelterTechAccelerator #Bootcamp

[Mainak Bhattacharya @mainak_mb]

@vaibhavbetter That's a great idea

[Andrew Piper @_akpiper]

If you haven't seen Anthropic's AI in Education report, it is a must read for higher ed profs. A few highlights: 🧵

[Mainak Bhattacharya @mainak_mb]

@tazbaalz @shasnthegame Damn, I wanted to try this game too :(

[Mainak Bhattacharya @mainak_mb]

@KokonutNetwork @Meta_Cartel @boilerrat @climate_program @gitcoin @glodollar So exciting 😃

[Mainak Bhattacharya @mainak_mb]

@KokonutNetwork

[Mainak Bhattacharya @mainak_mb]

Hey @KokonutNetwork congrats for Celo QF!
#CeloGather

[Mainak Bhattacharya @mainak_mb]

@KokonutNetwork https://t.co/kpKC9ZAVji

[Celo Public Goods ♻️ @CeloPublicGoods]

The prelim #CeloRPGF0 and #GG20 results are in! ♻️

Thanks to all builders (over 80 projects) who have supported the @Celo ecosystem and received rewards.

More details and reward claim information coming next week!

Full CeloRPGF prelim results here 👇
https://t.co/JBtvzMOaEm

[Mainak Bhattacharya @mainak_mb]

@KokonutNetwork Yup!

[Mainak Bhattacharya @mainak_mb]

@inhouseconomist 😄 so proud to be in your company

[Chamath Palihapitiya @chamath]

I was sent this chart and found the implication, if true, important.

Many people derided the reduction in force that happened at Twitter/X and the firing of 80% of the company. But it turned out that the company wasn’t only no worse for wear, but are seeing record usage since streamlining their workforce and OpEx.

Well if the chart below is true, it is a path that many other companies will have to take.

If you’re a public company, I don’t see how you can defend yourself from activists as AI tools proliferate. You have two choices:

1) double your work product and quantity of code shipped and product value as you keep headcount steady.

OR

2) reduce your R&D/OpEx by 50% and have half the team + AI tools do the work that the entire team used to do before.

FWIW, I don’t see how companies can empower their employees with tools and claim they have doubled their productivity unless revenue also doubles.

So the latter (#2) seems like the most obvious path that shareholders will push for. In no small part because of the SBC- based dilution they would also save if this happened.

[Mainak Bhattacharya @mainak_mb]

Love the cool hat @NounsFair #ETHGlobalParis

[Mainak Bhattacharya @mainak_mb]

@sajithpai @BhavanaIssar

[Mainak Bhattacharya @mainak_mb]

@policytranslate If you wish to make them go away - My name is Maximus Decimus Meridius, commander of the Armies of the North, General of the Felix Legions and I will have my vengeance, in this life or the next.

[Paul Graham @paulg]

A huge policy mistake in one graph.

[Mainak Bhattacharya @mainak_mb]

@IsmiNabila @HTM_Reisinfo :(

[Mainak Bhattacharya @mainak_mb]

@arpiit Super congrats Arpit!

[Mainak Bhattacharya @mainak_mb]

@policytranslate Been digging through some practitioner led courses on complexity

[Nishanth Vijayan @nishanth_who]

I know everyone's tired of ChatGPT screenshots, but this is legit GOLD.

Prompt:

"Write a paragraph explaining my leave of absence tomorrow at work, due to 'not feeling the vibes', in the style of Shashi Taroor"

@ShashiTharoor

[Mainak Bhattacharya @mainak_mb]

Standard practice to do fail check but advance kill criteria takes strategy a notch further https://t.co/s7wBNiHSsZ

[Nachiket Mor @nachiketmor]

This is wonderful to learn about. Meghalaya government spends amongst the highest amounts per capita in India on healthcare and is well placed to offer such care. I look forward to reading more about this seminal effort.