Akash Vishwakarma

Operator @ Early Stage VC. Talks about Startups, Kiranas, Retail, Non-profits, Marketing, & Humans.

#SeekingEleganceInChaos

[Akash Vishwakarma @reallyakash]

"Can you remember who you were, before the world told you who you should be?"

- Charles Bukowski.

#mondaythoughts

[Akash Vishwakarma @reallyakash]

@ujjawalasthana I am assuming all different brands would have different FSSAI licenses and that's what they're questioning in their report.

[arnav @arnav_kumar]

Wake up folks, and agents..
Karpathy joined Anthropic

One view of building startups is that the team you assemble is THE product.
And this product compounds, to attract the best and brightest.

Building a talent magnet for the best in the world, is a goal unto itself
Big win

🚀

[Akash Vishwakarma @reallyakash]

Multiple people have asked me this, and I couldn't have framed this better!

[kuldeep @ku1deep]

because the Pav is culture encoded as bread. The pav was how the East anglos adapted the Goan Poi which was in itself a Portuguese aided adaptation of the yeast leavened bread of Europe. The Konkan birthed the pav and its people build the great cities of the western coast. The Pav is how this mumbai integrates you into its fold.

Ashok Vaidya invented the Vada pav in the street outside Dadar station. The homely Maharashtrian batata vada met chutney and the “Christian” pav and the multitudes of mill workers had a meal on the move. This city wipes your past and eating food on the street touched by people of unknown caste provenance was also an important rite of passage. Bombay (Mumbai to those who built her on their backs) did not care where you came from only that your shift starts in 5 mins and you don’t have time for a sit down meal.

The genius of Ashoka Vaidya was to use the pav to wrap the oily vada. So that his customers could eat without needing to wash their hands. That same logic transfers to samosa and pakoras. It makes sense in mumbai because this city is motion. This city runs on a clock.

I could go on but let me stop. The pav is the symbol of this city. It marks it has different. Of all the great cities in this country this was one built for commerce, by people who did not have time.

[Arindam Paul @arindam___paul]

One rule that I have followed almost forever: Never ever work with people/spend any time with people who keep cribbing/whining

They suck the energy out of you and constantly find ways to spread negativity

[Akash Vishwakarma @reallyakash]

@thilak_ch Dmed you

[tobi lutke @tobi]

@elkelk this is false.

source: running $150b company

[Akash Vishwakarma @reallyakash]

Took a rapido bike to Iyer Idly in Vignan Nagar, the driver says that during dunzo days
- People used to order from here to Manyata
- People living in the neighbourhood would order because of weekend lines
- Money that Dunzo used to give us no other platform gives us

[Akash Vishwakarma @reallyakash]

Sam Altman is playing 3D Chess

[Sam Altman @sama]

Peter Steinberger is joining OpenAI to drive the next generation of personal agents. He is a genius with a lot of amazing ideas about the future of very smart agents interacting with each other to do very useful things for people. We expect this will quickly become core to our product offerings.

OpenClaw will live in a foundation as an open source project that OpenAI will continue to support. The future is going to be extremely multi-agent and it's important to us to support open source as part of that.

[Akash Vishwakarma @reallyakash]

I've been at the corner of this & large enterprises doing businesses of 5,000+ Crores dont have a data lake & are expecting AI to change the world for them

IT services will exist project timelines may reduce, employee efficiency may increase but business will not fall, slow yes!

[Chandra R. Srikanth @chandrarsrikant]

"We have seen this argument before, that software or AI will replace everything from brokers to doctors and lawyers. The whole thing with AI is nobody knows how it will run. They are trying to create this kind of hype.

AI is definitely a disruption. It will improve productivity. When you look at AI, there is accumulated software, and installed software is between $20 trillion and $25 trillion.

The world has been spending one and a half trillion dollars, maybe two trillion dollars every year for the last 15 years.

Second, large enterprises spend multi-billion-dollar budgets every year because they have complex legacy systems. Many global banks spend over $15 billion a year on such legacy systems.

Such large complex systems will have multiple databases, 12 to 13 databases for many of them. AI can assist with tasks or do discovery within one database, but it cannot work across multiple databases in large enterprises.

In core systems, when you write new code, AI can help in effort reduction by 30-40 percent. On the legacy code, AI cannot be of much help"

[Dilip Kumar @kmr_dilip]

There’s a strange problem in entrepreneurship that people who’ve never built anything feel very confident telling founders what to do. Most advice comes from people who haven’t earned the right to do that. They haven’t failed or risked their savings. Never hired or fired, never stressed to figure out how to pay salaries when the bank balance looks empty.

Building a company is suffering with purpose. Advice without scars is just noise especially when it comes from someone who has never felt that pain. Everyone has an opinion on the internet- Deepinder Goyal shouldn’t do this. Nithin Kamath should do that. It’s easy to have opinions when you don’t carry the consequences. The world is weird that way because it rewards loud commentary

If you’re a founder-just starting out or already funded, be selective about whose advice you take. Very few people have paid for their lessons in time, money or with stress. Giving chat GPT advice is easy. But it doesn’t build companies.

[Akash Vishwakarma @reallyakash]

However silly it may sound the best small talk to relationships I've made is over bad coffee available at conferences.

[Chandra R. Srikanth @chandrarsrikant]

When I was covering WEF for the first time, a C-suite executive of a very large company asked me what I'm doing about food. I said I'd grab a bite at Migrows or Coop between interviews. He said, "Chandra the first thing you need to learn is to never spend money on food during WEF at Davos. There is enough on the promenade, pavilions and at the Congress centre." Valuable advice. We captured it in our dairy entry piece yesterday.
https://t.co/ZDxhfkM7Ed

[Akash Vishwakarma @reallyakash]

Mumbai has my heart 🎈

[Akash Vishwakarma @reallyakash]

@kawal279 I've rarely seen a single brand/standalone cloud kitchen do well, do you know of any apart from legacy restaurants running in one off places?

[Akash Vishwakarma @reallyakash]

@baboonzero Looks exciting! Signed up! Looking forward to it!

[Akash Vishwakarma @reallyakash]

You either die a hero or see Justin Bieber become a Product Manager

[Justin Bieber @justinbieber]

If I hit this dictation button after sending a text and it beeps and stops my music one more time,

I’m gonna find everyone at apple and put them in a rear naked choke hold

Even if I turn off dictation I somehow hit the voice note thing

The send button should not have multiple functions in the same spot

[Akash Vishwakarma @reallyakash]

It's been 2 hours since I've landed in Bengaluru and spotted 5 folks watching the Elon Musk and Nikhil Kamath Interview!!

[Akash Vishwakarma @reallyakash]

@shikhars_ Pixel user here too
Used to use Gemini a lot but shifted to claude for its reasoning, writing and structure.

Research or web dependent queries I still may go to Gemini?

Curious to know what's working well for you apart from access.

[Akash Vishwakarma @reallyakash]

@kaul_vivek Green lights by @McConaughey