Shantan Marepally

Technologist, engineer and an aspiring entrepreneur

[Shantan Marepally @mshantan]

Another treasure trove. A real world lesson on how to manage a tech business.

[Internal Tech Emails @TechEmails]

Steve Jobs outlines Apple's strategy for 2011

October 24, 2010

[Vals AI @ValsAI]

Moonshot just made history. Kimi K3 is the #2 overall model on the Vals Index, surpassing GPT 5.6 Sol and only slightly behind Fable 5 on the Vals Index.

[Shantan Marepally @mshantan]

Beyond the big 3/4 of tennis, realizing the retirements of 2026: Wawrinka, Nishikori, Monfils and Raonic, it does finally feel like an end of an era!

[Shantan Marepally @mshantan]

https://t.co/Jz7DZLYN8c, GLM 5.2 currently ranks 5th on coding tasks (the most meaningful metric at this time). My gut feeling, we are not far off with the opensource models matching the efficacy of frontier AI labs.

[Shantan Marepally @mshantan]

Anthropic is *the* bubble.

[Shantan Marepally @mshantan]

The Caspian tiger is such a beautiful creature, I wonder how the last one must have felt. My imagination, it must have roamed, hunted everyday and when dusk sets in, must have found a vantage point to see as far, roar as loud, to see for signs of its kind. Extinction is haunting.

[El Panthera @ApexPredator227]

A Caspian tiger resting in a hill in Afghanistan.

Artwork is by Willem Sternberg De Beer

[Shantan Marepally @mshantan]

Glad Zverev won. Sad tennis doesn't have competition anymore.

[Roland-Garros @rolandgarros]

THE WAIT IS OVER 🏆

#RolandGarros

[Shantan Marepally @mshantan]

This year, we had the privilege of building ottobooks with the @pearvc team. The small cohort, experienced operators and help across areas like recruiting, GTM was all incredible add ons!

[Pejman Nozad @pejmannozad]

PearX Summer 2024

13/Ottobooks
The AI Stack for Accounting

Accounting is highly manual; consumer goods accounting is even worse. We automate the tedious work so accountants can focus on what really matters.

[Dave Anderson @scarletinked]

I know this for a fact: If you ask a random HR Partner if a person is ready for promotion to Director, do you know what they're going to ask first? "How many people are reporting to them?" This system is broken.

[Shantan Marepally @mshantan]

Replicating the success at OpenAI may be too hard. If it does come down to this, I wonder how many will really join Microsoft or just quit OpenAI. I hope all though..

[Shreyas Doshi @shreyas]

An unfortunate but inevitable effect of a company’s growth is that at some point optics will rule everything around you and you must either adapt to that reality (not very fun) or create a little corner within the company where that isn’t true (very hard) or leave (most common).

[Sam Altman @sama]

colleges prioritized making people feel perfectly safe over everything else and produced a generation afraid to fail, and thus afraid to take risk, and thus on pace to accomplish extremely little

[Shantan Marepally @mshantan]

Can't agree more!!

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

I strongly believe that all managers in a technical area must be technically excellent.

Managers in software must write great software or it’s like being a cavalry captain who can’t ride a horse!

[Shantan Marepally @mshantan]

Even though I am a believer that FB received more than its fair share of criticism, this one still cracks me up!

[The Daily Show @TheDailyShow]

Nobody asked for this new Facebook feature

[Shantan Marepally @mshantan]

That was not too long ago!

[Jon Erlichman @JonErlichman]

On this day in 1997: Google domain name registered.

[Shantan Marepally @mshantan]

A new star is made today. https://t.co/9aPIK1SOAk

[Shantan Marepally @mshantan]

Considering how fast countries like China are reigning in big tech, this, however small, is still a victory for the startup ecosystem in US. https://t.co/FHPJoAi1I0 via @theinformation

[Shantan Marepally @mshantan]

They should investigate this. The FTC should also investigate why they discontinue some very good flavors :)

[The Wall Street Journal @WSJ]

The machine that makes McFlurry goes on the blink so frequently a federal agency is now looking into it https://t.co/l5B8UKSkLM

[Hadi Partovi @hadip]

It’s hard to overstate how consequential a position this is: that SpaceX’s Starlink satellites will offer free, uncensored internet access, even to regions whose governments block or censor the internet.

[Jon Erlichman @JonErlichman]

In 2007, Steve Jobs was asked about Apple’s low computer market share.

His answer?

“We just can’t ship junk.”

[World of Engineering @engineers_feed]

In 1969, IBM engineer Forrest Parry had the idea to affix magnetic tape to a plastic card. Every adhesive failed. He went home and his wife was ironing. She suggested he fuse the tape onto the card with the iron. This is how the magstripe card was born.

Photo: Jerome Svigals