Ramkumar Venkataraman

Founder | Father | Thinker | Engineer | Joker | Chief Motivating Officer | Building AI agents for finance (

[Ramkumar Venkataraman @Ramthemaniac]

@cerebras Had a ball recording this @cerebras - Cerebras continues to be a core part of our inference stack!!

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Thank you @Ramthemaniac for the demo!
Check them out: https://t.co/iIFkWb5OjT

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@waydegg @waydegilliam @_doyeob_ @modal_labs Did you just run this on a single H100 or H200? I tried and latency was insanely bad ~8-10 seconds for a simple sentence

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@tavus 1. Is it an open model?
2. What languages does it support?

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@sandeepssrin And that's why we tell candidates that they can use AI coding tools during our tech interviews and give them brownie points if they do. We do this in a live coding setting. We look at how quickly they get to the output and if they can debug AI code

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@Suhail I think the real unlock of MCP will be with an enterprise's private data, which makes the second argument moot kinda

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@jim_bisenius @SingleLink is interesting! Looking forward to the cohort!

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👋 #ODF10 - excited to see what's in store and learn from other founders!

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@chrismanfrank Hope you launch soon in India. Selfish: have a newborn so that gives 7-8 years for @synthesischool to launch. Altruistic reason: want more children from developing countries to get access.
P.S: am an engineer in India, please DM me in case I can be of any help in the mission

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@rexsalisbury If I am not mistaken, you still need to be an accredited investor! Thats why I like platforms like @fairmint which makes it even more accessible

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@tristajaye Think @funderbeam does in the EU markets

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@fairremote Another interesting idea would be to give discounts to companies that score high on the "fairness" spectrum (the set of parameters you're tracking)

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PS: I'm new to product and strategy. So any feedback here or in substack is welcome!

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From Zoom to @around_hq and the evolution of customer happiness.

A short thread on how Around can differentiate and succeed 👇

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22/ For a detailed analysis and some more interesting bets that @around_hq can make, head over: https://t.co/bnFVic0jb6

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21/ Other distribution points like Microsoft teams, figma, etc. will work wonders in the workplace vertical. As Around gets comfortable to expand to other verticals, tight integration in video games (already hinted in the landing page), interviewing tools, etc. will make sense

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20/ Around should market its native apps better to get a handle of distribution. Slack can get you far until it cannot. Google will make hangouts prominent than Around's link. I am also not sure how much of the cool features are available on the browser vs the client.

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19/ To combat Zoom's penetration: Around can start at the peripherals - calm companies that want less distractions, companies that recently transitioned to fully remote or hybrid who shoe-horn existing solutions. Partnerships with @fairremote can be beneficial

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18/ It doesn't come without any problems though: low switching costs, no control of distribution and Zoom's penetration and incumbency factors.

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17/ Minutes in a meeting is interesting for Around: it is a negative metric that it should strive to reduce (after discounting for connection drops). It also incentivises businesses to become productive. When that happens, NPS scores will improve and the flywheel spins faster

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16/ As more businesses onboard and as they scale, the potential for introducing usage-pricing metric emerges: tiers based on number of hosts, number of participants in a meeting, minutes in a meeting, etc.