Rahul Desai

just tryna build things and tell stories • former international tennis player

[Rahul Desai @raa_desai]

My non-linear pathway as a 22 year old from Sydney 👇

[Rahul Desai @raa_desai]

@ethanabuck This is sick man - reminds me of the paddle pop stick mansion videos I used to watch.

Keep kicking

[Gearside @gearside]

this budget should be applauded for its bold changes to shake us out of housing complacency. hell, we've been crying out for this kind of vision.

but without tweaks, it risks undermining the very foundations of the australian spirit.

trying, failing and winning isn’t just the domain of our athletes. it is a serious story we tell ourselves. it is what our national psyche and shared prosperity are built on.

it is australians with the ambition to have a go, from inventors and engineers to tradies, cafe owners, retailers and panel beaters. small business owners, some of whom grow into very large businesses and underwrite much of our future prosperity through job creation, tax revenue and wage growth.

it’s kids saving for a home, putting their time and money into productive assets — shares, ETFs and employee share ownership plans — to grow the pie for all of us.

as a nation, we need to be mature enough to believe that when some of us win, we all win.

anyway, i wrote an op-ed:

[Sachin and Adam @Sachin_and_Adam]

We profiled the most hyped energy startup in America. Exclusive look inside the $4B startup, Base Power, with co-founders @JLopas & @ZachBDell

A former SpaceX engineer & a Thrive capital investor, rebuilding American energy dominance. Trying to do what SpaceX did to NASA and Anduril to Lockheed. But for energy.

Yep, a lot of ambition. So, what do they have to show for it?

0:00 Meet Zach & Justin: Raising $1.3B To Fix America's Grid
1:16 How The Grid Came 4 Minutes From Collapse
1:56 Zach: Why The U.S Desperately Needs A SpaceX for Energy
3:25 Justin Explain's Their Home Battery Installation
4:14 Why Thrive Capital Bet on Zach & Justin (feat. Avery Klemmer)
5:16 How Justin & Zach Met? (Anduril Factory Tour)
6:32 Zach’s Secret Co-founder Test on Justin
7:20 How Base Build Their Competitive MOAT...
10:34 Justin: “Everything you do more than once is a factory”
11:17 Zach: This Is How To Raise $1.3B from Tier-1 Funds...
13:38 How to Build An Elite Team & Culture
14:26 Zach: "I'm Never Stoked To Fire People, But..."
15:33 The Personal Cost of Being An Entrepreneur
16:35 Energy, China and America’s future
18:22 Unpacking The Chip on Zach's Shoulder
19:13 Zach: “I Am Not the CEO This Company Needs in 5 Years”
19:49 Sachin & Adam: Our 3 Biggest Takeaways

[Rahul Desai @raa_desai]

RT @Sachin_and_Adam: We got exclusive access to the startup building BCI’s for brain cancer survival

Two Cambridge neuroscientists, @Woodi…

[Alfred Lin @Alfred_Lin]

https://t.co/0328m6FbEI

[Rahul Desai @raa_desai]

@gauravsbuilding Let’s fricken go brother, so sick

[Rahul Desai @raa_desai]

You keep:
- Exploring instead of declaring
- Refining instead of choosing
- Learning instead of staking a claim
- Keeping doors open instead of closing the wrong ones

This feels smart but it is actually delay disguised as sophistication.

[Rahul Desai @raa_desai]

I asked ChatGPT to tell me something I don't want to hear but need to implement in 2026. 👇

[Rahul Desai @raa_desai]

Life is too short for:

Me: “what’s been happening?”

Him: “same old, hey”

[Rahul Desai @raa_desai]

@nikunj Thanks for sharing, this is a good place for inspo - my solve for this previously was a notion doc

[Rahul Desai @raa_desai]

@justinskycak @RyanHoliday Appreciate you sharing this

[Rahul Desai @raa_desai]

Whatever people say, if you want to be on the frontier of technology, surrounded by the most ambitious people in the world and play the VC game, SF is the place to be.

But also, not everyone building a company needs to raise VC.

https://t.co/W3Wu5Low9W

[Rahul Desai @raa_desai]

We create false requirements for ourselves as damage control in case things don't work out

[Sahil Bloom @SahilBloom]

My definition of success is waking up energized and going to bed exhausted. Waking up energized means I’m doing meaningful things with people I love. Going to bed exhausted means I gave my all for those things. That’s a good life.

[Rahul Desai @raa_desai]

@edmundtian This is so dope

[Rahul Desai @raa_desai]

My grandfather thinks I’m god’s gift from heaven because I solved his android phone speaker issue…

Yes, I restarted it.

[Rahul Desai @raa_desai]

@hy3na_xyz @MarcusMilione @ThriveCapital I think about that X often

[roon @tszzl]

everyone watch Pantheon

[Rahul Desai @raa_desai]

Send it to the boys

[Cai - The Outside Insider @OnTheHouz]

@craigzLiszt Moral obligations according to net worth?

$1M: serve your family
$10M: serve your community
$100M: serve your country
$1B: serve the human race

🤔