Nishanth Prabhu

All things Data @Stanford | Master's Student @GeorgiaTech | Toastmaster | Ex Cantern Education Analytics

[Nishanth Prabhu @prabhu_nishanth]

Code is cheap. Taste is rare.
The advantage will be in imagining clearly, articulating precisely, and engineering well.

https://t.co/DWOGhhvFvA

[Nishanth Prabhu @prabhu_nishanth]

@EthanChoi7 Perfect framing, especially when everyone is just waiting for the other shoe to drop!

[Nishanth Prabhu @prabhu_nishanth]

Isn’t that just human nature? Doesn’t make it right!
We see a founder’s success, not the sleepless nights. We want the six-pack without the discipline, diet and difficult workouts. The wealth without the years of risk and failure. Everyone wants the highlight reel, not the BTS!

[Hiten Shah @hnshah]

Most people have no idea what it actually takes to be a founder. They talk about vision, grit, or passion. Those words are props.

What you really sign up for is a life where every decision feels like it costs something real. You will spend years being misunderstood. By your team, your family, even the people you hire to help you. You will fail in public and still need to keep the energy up in private. Every founder lives with the weight of knowing that you can do everything right and still get crushed by luck, timing, or somebody else’s mistake.

Founders aren’t braver than anyone else. They just get used to uncertainty, then stop waiting for clarity. Most of your wins won’t feel like wins at all. The first revenue will be too small. The first team will outgrow you or leave. The first product that feels right will barely matter to the market. You will doubt yourself in private, sometimes every week. The founders who last figure out how to keep moving while the ground shifts underneath them.

Most outsiders want the founder badge but none of the scars. They want the upside, not the drag. The hardest part is sticking around after every plan gets blown up and you have to rebuild with less optimism and more scar tissue. What makes it work isn’t relentless hustle or some mythical trait. It’s learning to make peace with constant discomfort, and then making decisions anyway.

If you need constant reassurance, you’ll give up before the real work begins. If you want everyone to like you, you’ll never make the calls that matter. If you can’t handle months where nothing feels certain, this life will eat you alive.

But if you can hold your own in chaos, get better at being wrong, and still want to show up and try again, you just might have a shot at building something that matters.

That’s what it actually takes. And nobody cares until you make it work.

[Nishanth Prabhu @prabhu_nishanth]

@ankurnagpal Can you share this? Thanks

[Nishanth Prabhu @prabhu_nishanth]

@PrajwalTomar_ Hero

[Eddy Quan @waronweakness]

Set a deadline

[Nishanth Prabhu @prabhu_nishanth]

@kdwarakanath @Appyg99 Have you tried the Andhra Kara Benne Masala Dosa in Mylapore Fremont location? It has the red chutney which is very similar to Blore style dosa.

[Nishanth Prabhu @prabhu_nishanth]

😭

[Roger Federer @rogerfederer]

Vamos, @RafaelNadal!

As you get ready to graduate from tennis, I’ve got a few things to share before I maybe get emotional.

Let’s start with the obvious: you beat me—a lot. More than I managed to beat you. You challenged me in ways no one else could. On clay, it felt like I was stepping into your backyard, and you made me work harder than I ever thought I could just to hold my ground. You made me reimagine my game—even going so far as to change the size of my racquet head, hoping for any edge.

I’m not a very superstitious person, but you took it to the next level. Your whole process. All those rituals. Assembling your water bottles like toy soldiers in formation, fixing your hair, adjusting your underwear... All of it with the highest intensity. Secretly, I kind of loved the whole thing. Because it was so unique—it was so you.

And you know what, Rafa, you made me enjoy the game even more. 

OK, maybe not at first. After the 2004 Australian Open, I achieved the #1 ranking for the first time. I thought I was on top of the world. And I was—until two months later, when you walked on the court in Miami in your red sleeveless shirt, showing off those biceps, and you beat me convincingly. All that buzz I’d been hearing about you—about this amazing young player from Mallorca, a generational talent, probably going to win a major someday—it wasn’t just hype.

We were both at the start of our journey and it’s one we ended up taking together. Twenty years later, Rafa, I have to say: What an incredible run you’ve had. Including 14 French Opens—historic! You made Spain proud... you made the whole tennis world proud.

I keep thinking about the memories we’ve shared. Promoting the sport together. Playing that match on half-grass, half-clay. Breaking the all-time attendance record by playing in front of more than 50,000 fans in Cape Town, South Africa. Always cracking each other up. Wearing each other out on the court and then, sometimes, almost literally having to hold each other up during trophy ceremonies.

I’m still grateful you invited me to Mallorca to help launch the Rafa Nadal Academy in 2016. Actually, I kind of invited myself. I knew you were too polite to insist on me being there, but I didn’t want to miss it. You have always been a role model for kids around the world, and Mirka and I are so glad that our children have all trained at your academies. They had a blast and learned so much—like thousands of other young players. Although I always worried my kids would come home playing tennis as lefties.

And then there was London—the Laver Cup in 2022. My final match. It meant everything to me that you were there by my side—not as my rival but as my doubles partner. Sharing the court with you that night, and sharing those tears, will forever be one of the most special moments of my career.

Rafa, I know you’re focused on the last stretch of your epic career. We will talk when it’s done. For now, I just want to congratulate your family and team, who all played a massive role in your success. And I want you to know that your old friend is always cheering for you, and will be cheering just as loud for everything you do next.

Rafa that!

Best always, your fan, 

Roger

[Nishanth Prabhu @prabhu_nishanth]

Not sure if there are other institutions who come close to this

[taimur @taimurabdaal]

Y Combinator is turning 20 next year — 

We painstakingly gathered data on 4,500 YC companies and crunched the numbers in Causal to see how YC's been doing over the last 2 decades. Check it out 👇

https://t.co/b4AqbhuMjR

[Nishanth Prabhu @prabhu_nishanth]

Playing Guess the Policy with @BLRAirport & @SingaporeAir! Today's mystery: One cabin bag + laptop bag - allowed or not? Seems like the rule changes faster than flight status display! Anyone else confused? 🤔 Let's solve this riddle together. #AirportChronicles

[Nishanth Prabhu @prabhu_nishanth]

👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

[Sarvam @SarvamAI]

🚨New model alert🚨
We're super excited to release OpenHathi-Hi-v0.1, the first Hindi LLM from our OpenHathi series of models. This model is trained under compute and data constraints to show that we can get GPT-3.5-like performance on Indic languages with a frugal budget. 1/5

[Nishanth Prabhu @prabhu_nishanth]

This is really sad!

[Sheel Mohnot @pitdesi]

Holy shit - @sama fired from @OpenAI by the board for not being candid in his communications.

@miramurati taking over

[Sheel Mohnot @pitdesi]

Holy shit - @sama fired from @OpenAI by the board for not being candid in his communications.

@miramurati taking over

[Nishanth Prabhu @prabhu_nishanth]

@__mrlinus__ Boss man! 😎

[Nishanth Prabhu @prabhu_nishanth]

Way to go! @Replit

[swyx @swyx]

.@Replit just announced their own LLaMa style code LLM at their developer day!

replit-code-v1-3b

- 2.7b params
- 20 languages
- 525B tokens (“20x Chinchilla?”)
- beats all open source code models on HumanEval benchmark
- trained in 10 days with @NaveenGRao @MosaicML

[Nishanth Prabhu @prabhu_nishanth]

This is amazing ! Hands down one of the best uses of AI 😅

[Pratik Desai @chheplo]

Kissan GPT updates (1st month):
- 30k+ voice based Agriculture Q&A
- 51 News article covered it (0 PR)
- 7+ potential customer shown interest in integrating API in their platforms
- Launched Android app (today)
- Expecting and scaling for 60k this month

[nandiniv @nandiniv]

Have 300 odd such bottles. Want to sell it. Pls RT and have someone buy it off us, pls! Bangalore only

[Zainab Bawa @zainabbawa]

If you are a journalist on my timeline, and interested in knowing more about the demos which took place at Deep Hack hackathon last Saturday, check out the press release here - https://t.co/enXqfzSO4A @NirantK @dementorSam @rasagy @gayathrimeka @anudeepy_

[Nirant @NirantK]

Founding Engineer at a startup — looking for his next opportunity:

BITS Pilani, Pilani campus alumni, 2 years of full stack experience, comfortable with MERN

Open to Gurgaon and Bengaluru. DM me for intro with your company and role, can share resume.

Please RT for karma!

[Nishanth Prabhu @prabhu_nishanth]

@NirantK Congrats Nirant. The way it was all put together was amazing. 🤘🏼