Prashant Sharma

Ex- Head Growth & Marketing @emergentlabs | Prev- Built & Sold @buildbystl ❤ @shree_niti

[Prashant Sharma @nitprashant]

Today is my last day @emergentlabs

I joined when we had 0 users, 0 revenue, as one of the first 20-25 people and the first person doing growth & marketing

15 months later: Seed → Series C, 12M+ users across 190+ countries, $100M+ ARR and a $1.5B company

Still feels slightly unreal. I got to build much of the growth, marketing and narrative engine behind that journey. Creator marketing from zero to our largest growth channel, global PR, social, Reddit, community, partnerships, OOH, events, launches and campaigns that crossed 100M+ impressions.

Almost everything I came here hoping to build, I got the chance to build. That feels like the right time to get off the treadmill and eventually go chase an even bigger mountain.

I continue to believe deeply in Emergent and the team building it. There is a lot left to do, and I’ll be cheering loudly from the sidelines.

I’m not rushing into what’s next. For a while, I want to spend time with a small set of ambitious AI founders working through the thing I’ve spent the last 18 months obsessing over: distribution.

Going from a great product nobody knows to something millions of people use is a very different problem.

I have a few scars, playbooks and opinions on that now

If you’re in the middle of figuring it out, we should probably talk

[Mehul Nath Jindal @mehuljindal18]

Introducing Aurora - the Search Engine for IRL

Have you ever had to go shop-to-shop, or ask your friends and family, or spent hours browsing online for weeks, to find out - which business has what you want?

Could be anything from a renting an Apartment, to a Doctor's appointment? Maybe just your favorite shoe in your size at a store nearby?

Now - you can just Ask @aurorax_ai , and it will tell you who has it!

[Prashant Sharma @nitprashant]

@mehuljindal18 @aurorax_ai @_shyam_king_ congratulations team 🙌

[Rabi Shanker Guha @rabi_guha]

We killed every dashboard we had.

Posthog dashboards, Google Analytics reports, our Monday spreadsheets. All gone.
Now we just ask and the dashboard builds itself.

Today we're open sourcing it: Claude Dashboards but open source.

[Prashant Sharma @nitprashant]

Netflix thriller is born today with Jensen Huang’s resignation

[Prashant Sharma @nitprashant]

Thank you for all the prayers and wishes. Jerry survived a horrible surgery today 🙏 🧿

[Prashant Sharma @nitprashant]

🚨 URGENT: Blood Donor Dog Needed in Bangalore 🚨

My dog needs an urgent blood transfusion. We are currently at Bozo Wags, Bangalore, and are looking for a suitable blood donor.

Requirements:

- DEA 1.1 positive blood group
- Large-breed dog
- Age: 2–8 years
- Healthy and fit for donation
- Not pregnant or in heat
- Should not have undergone any previous surgery

If your dog meets these requirements or you know someone who might be able to help, please contact me immediately.

Please share this with your pet parent groups and networks. Every lead matters right now. 🙏

[Prashant Sharma @nitprashant]

Update: Thank you everyone for your genuine concern and willingness to help. We got a donor. Jerry is in surgery now, we are praying she fights this through 🙏

[Prashant Sharma @nitprashant]

🚨 URGENT: Blood Donor Dog Needed in Bangalore 🚨

My dog needs an urgent blood transfusion. We are currently at Bozo Wags, Bangalore, and are looking for a suitable blood donor.

Requirements:

- DEA 1.1 positive blood group
- Large-breed dog
- Age: 2–8 years
- Healthy and fit for donation
- Not pregnant or in heat
- Should not have undergone any previous surgery

If your dog meets these requirements or you know someone who might be able to help, please contact me immediately.

Please share this with your pet parent groups and networks. Every lead matters right now. 🙏

[Prashant Sharma @nitprashant]

@heybrosai sent

[Prashant Sharma @nitprashant]

this is for my golden retriever Jerry. She is ~10 years old

[Molly O’Shea @MollySOShea]

BREAKING: Mercor Raises $750M at $20 BILLION Valuation

I sat down w/ Co-Founder & CEO Brendan Foody (@BrendanFoody) to discuss the explosive growth of one of AI's fastest-growing companies & his ambition to build a trillion-dollar business.

Founded in 2023 by college dropouts, @Mercor is building the human intelligence infrastructure behind frontier AI models.

Mercor by the Numbers:
› $750M Series D, backed by Nvidia, Benchmark, General Catalyst, Funds managed by affiliates of Apollo, Salesforce & others
› $20B valuation
› 5X+ growth on a mid-nine-figure base since last September
› 5M+ experts in its network
› $5M+ in daily expert payouts, up from $1M annually just 2 years ago
› 7M+ AI interviews conducted

Brendan's thesis: Every Fortune 500 company will eventually operate like an AI lab, training its own models on proprietary data, workflows, and expertise.

We discuss Mercor's expansion into enterprise AI, its acquisition of Deeptune, reinforcement learning environments, why AI training data is still undervalued, competition with Scale AI, and how companies like Harvey are building proprietary AI capabilities.

Plus, why Brendan and his co-founders have turned down opportunities to walk away with significant cash, Mercor's IPO ambitions, and what it takes to build a category-defining company.

𝐓𝐈𝐌𝐄𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐌𝐏𝐒
(00:00) Brendan Foody, Co-Founder & CEO Mercor
(01:00) Mercor's Path to a $1T Company
(02:22) Mercor's 3 Products
(04:05) $5M a Day in Expert Payouts on Stripe Connect
(05:40) Why Mercor Is Not a Marketplace
(08:51) Is Human Data a Durable Category
(12:20) How Mercor Finds and Evaluates Experts
(15:45) Holding Category Leadership With a Founding Team in Their Early 20s
(18:00) Chips on the Shoulder and Avoiding Mimetic Competition
(28:25) Why Mercor Acquired Deeptune
(31:22) Turning Down Acquisition Offers
(34:40) Harvey, LAB and Why the Model Is the Product
(41:30) Why Data Is Mispriced in the AI Stack
(43:40) Every Fortune 500 Becomes a Neolab
(49:55) IPO Timeline and the Next 12 Months

[Arsh Goyal @arsh_goyal]

was with the team of https://t.co/d09L7EL6xA in Bangalore last week and we made a curry from one of my Youtube videos:

https://t.co/Y2xsMWdQ2m

(the above curry tells you how MongoDB has changed with latest announcements)

go checkout and explore new form on anti brain-rot social content with @dhariwalrajat and team Curry Space.

cc @nitprashant @shalakulkarni so glad meeting you 👀

[Rabi Shanker Guha @rabi_guha]

Absolutely agree. Give it a few years and Generative UI will become the default for all Human Computer Interaction.

Once people get used to intelligence, they would expect intelligence in every surface they touch. All software will end up being agentic, and the default for Human Agent Interaction will end up being the default for Human Computer Interaction.

And it won’t be just chat either.

LLMs are turn-based, so the first default was chat. But chat is clunky with or without Generative UI. It turns everything into a transcript, and the actual thing you need is buried 2 scrolls up.

The primitive is the “turn”, not the “chat”. And what a turn produces doesn’t have to be a message. It should be a screen (a fragment of a screen, to be precise) that is assembled on the spot from your context, surfacing everything you need. A screen can be an entire ephemeral app like AppLess, a Claude Dashboard that stays long after the chat ends, or just a reply in the chat. There’s no one-size-fits-all approach to Generative UI.

Used properly, this is one of the most powerful output modalities for intelligent software

[Rabi Shanker Guha @rabi_guha]

Didn't expect this many teams to reach out about integrating OpenUI Dashboards into their products this fast.

The team has been working round the clock on every piece of feedback. We're cooking!

[Prashant Sharma @nitprashant]

Interactive responses on ChatGPT- Intelligent UI

Interactive responses on Claude- Claude Dashboards

Interactive responses for every app and agent- OpenUI

[Rabi Shanker Guha @rabi_guha]

Today, we're shipping OpenUI Dashboards.

Your users are taking their data to Claude to build dashboards. Now your agent can build them - right within your product. Your own components and APIs, any model.

Claude's best feature, now for every agent.

[Rabi Shanker Guha @rabi_guha]

Today, we're shipping OpenUI Dashboards.

Your users are taking their data to Claude to build dashboards. Now your agent can build them - right within your product. Your own components and APIs, any model.

Claude's best feature, now for every agent.

[Mahima @letsgomahima]

what an insane pitch man, 10/10 @tankots
https://t.co/rhnn3YWsXB

if tanya doesn't get hired after this, we'll be collectively disappointed 😔
@WisprFlow

[Prashant Sharma @nitprashant]

@biscuitweb @sama in the morning :)

[Prashant Sharma @nitprashant]

Raj Shamani bringing on @sama on podcast is fitting given Raj has been on a tear for the last 12-18 months

listened to it last night and made an interactive version of some of the takeaways

https://t.co/pwBTiDtZwq

[Rabi Shanker Guha @rabi_guha]

Unlike ChatGPT, Claude Dashboards actually write raw code. We took it apart.

tldr; Claude writes HTML and JavaScript, but never types a single number. It writes the wiring once, and a runtime renders it for every reader with no model call https://t.co/53NU8AXqOp

[Ojasvika (Oz) @Ozacle23]

are you tasteful? we figured out a simple way of knowing how :) https://t.co/i0wBlePZRT