Sagar Mandhani

Impact innovator | Built Therapy Companion for everyone @mybeingapp | @stoahq fellow | IIT-Bombay

[Sagar Mandhani @sagarmandhani_]

@Codie_Sanchez SMB!

[mehul 🏆 @mehulg10]

Oh this will be truly incredible. I wondered if we would get a final season documentary, but I absolutely LOVE that it will cover the dreadful 24/25 season too. We've always seen Pep as the God, but I am guessing we will see the most human version of him.

[Sagar Mandhani @sagarmandhani_]

The more initial feedback of the Fitbit Air I consume, the more I realise how much the Mi Fit band was ahead of its time.

[Geronimo Morgans @GeronimoMorgans]

Full trophy bearers all 20 of them. Featuring Vincent Kompany, Txiki, Fernandinho, Ederson, Pep's kids, and the City players. 🩵🏆

[Sagar Mandhani @sagarmandhani_]

I'm not crying 😢

[City Xtra @City_Xtra]

The Pep Guardiola era is over.

A message from our manager. ⤵️

[Sahil Bloom @SahilBloom]

Nobody tells you this: Emotional control is the ultimate sign of growth. The ability to remain unshaken by the little collisions and inconveniences of life. To avoid assigning false narratives to everyday slights. That’s when you take control of your own life.

[Manchester City @ManCity]

We believe 😤

[Sagar Mandhani @sagarmandhani_]

@rohanbabu I had the same thought recently. And a big reason why we haven't been able to catch up since we last met more than a year ago!

Let's catch up soon 🙃

[Dr. Nicole LePera @Theholisticpsyc]

Your weight is not just calories in and calories out. If your parents, grandparents, or great grandparents experienced inconsistent access to food, it primes your metabolism to store fat even when food is abundant. Their experiences live in your body.

[Matt Shumer @mattshumer_]

https://t.co/ivXRKXJvQg

[Sagar Mandhani @sagarmandhani_]

This is an incredible ad series XD

[Claude @claudeai]

Ads are coming to AI. But not to Claude. Keep thinking.

[Dr. Nicole LePera @Theholisticpsyc]

There's a radical shift in relationships happening in 2026.

People are no longer sacrificing their nervous systems for friendships or love.

Here's Why:

[Nithin Kamath @Nithin0dha]

If you take money out of a business as dividends, the effective tax rate is 52% (25% corporate tax + 35.5% on personal income). Through capital gains, it's just 14.95% (with cess).

Why does this matter? Here’s what you should know if you invest in IPOs.

If you're an investor (especially a VC), the math is simple: reduce corporate tax by showing minimal profits or losses. Spend (Burn) on acquiring users, build a growth narrative, and then sell shares at a higher valuation while paying much lower tax.

This spending also makes it harder for competitors to survive. To be clear, we're not discussing R&D spending here, which, incidentally, is very low in India (0.7% of GDP).

What's often overlooked is that VCs are essentially playing a tax arbitrage game. Look at most VC-backed businesses listed in the last few years, the reason they show little or no profit is partly due to this. Once you run a business this way, it's extremely difficult to switch.

Every startup that's 7-8 years old from the time of raising the first round faces constant pressure from VCs for an exit. With almost no M&A opportunities in India, IPO is often the only way out.

The government probably designed this tax arbitrage to incentivize companies to spend money and not just accumulate and distribute. But I'm unsure if the balance is correct. I think it's also creating businesses that aren't very resilient. One prolonged market downturn, and many of these unprofitable companies would struggle to survive.

Two things that make this more interesting:

Unprofitable growth gets valued at much higher multiples than steady profits. A company doing ₹100 cr revenue with 100% growth might get 10-15x, while a profitable one with 20% growth gets 3-5x. So VCs aren't just saving on tax; they're in essence creating a 3x higher exit valuation.

If you're competing against someone burning cash, you almost have to match it to defend market share, even if you don't want to, because of the quirks I mentioned above.

[Tara Viswanathan @TaraViswanathan]

Most people focus on executing because it's far easier to measure, but thinking is far more important.

It's hard because thinking is not observable to the outside world. To others, it looks like you're doing nothing or wasting time.

Thinking looks like sleeping well, carving out large blocks of time without interruption, going on long walks, staring into space, reading a lot, writing a lot, and not talking to anyone.

And it’s the most important thing you can do.

Execution only matters if you’re thinking correctly.

The things that look like you’re working hard: late nights, lots of meetings, responding to DMs and emails immediately, etc. are actually the opposite of thinking.

The social pressure to look like you’re hustling is the biggest blocker to thinking clearly.

If you want to be successful, it’s not 996. It’s 24/7. Every hour should be an input into maximizing the quality of your thinking. The point of sleeping, eating healthy, etc. is to think clearly.

It’s just the most important thing you can do.

And most people won’t do it bc it doesn’t “look like hard work”.

But the person who does it will win.

[John Rush @johnrushx]

I’m feeling so pessimistic about AI today. After building dozens of AI agents for many years, here is what I got to say:

The biggest challenge in building AI agents is agent’s long term memory.

LLMs with huge context windows are pretty much scams, cuz they compress the text under the hood making it completely unreliable for any serious task (the error accumulation and forward propagation when run in an agentic loop ).

Existing LLMs would be capable of replacing humans if only the memory problem was really solved. But..nobody has come even close to solving this yet, and it may take a decade until this is solved.

I won’t even be surprised if it turns out that our general intelligence comes from our insanely amazing memory engine in our brains coupled with the logical apparatus. Right now the LLM can only apply logic, but it can’t memorize things as our brain does, therefore we’re very far from AGi or even a basic 100% autonomous ai agent. Unfortunately :(

But, I have an idea to solve this at least for business ai agents. I’ll present my solution soon in my next ai agents release.

[Łukasz Chludziński @lukasz_app]

Managers have been vibe coding forever by @thekitze :D

[Sagar Mandhani @sagarmandhani_]

@PanIITAlumniFdn

[India in New York @IndiainNewYork]

@IndiainNewYork hosted Pan IIT Alumni Impact 2025, bringing together senior alumni and global industry leaders. Minister of State for Skill Development & Entrepreneurship Shri Jayant Singh @Office_ChJayant interacted with participants on “Nation Building Towards Viksit Bharat 2047”, highlighting IITians’ role in innovation, skill development and entrepreneurship.

Discussions through the evening focused on the future of skilling and start-ups in India, strengthening India–US innovation corridors, scaling FinTech and digital public infrastructure, expanding access to higher education, building global research linkages, and leveraging diaspora expertise to mentor next-generation entrepreneurs.

A fireside chat explored FinTech & Financial Inclusion, opportunities in cross-border investments, and pathways to drive inclusive growth. A panel discussion examined Evolving Paradigms in Higher Education & Tech Innovation, the role of IITs as global talent hubs, new models of industry–academia collaboration, and how diaspora networks can accelerate India’s journey to Viksit Bharat@2047.

@PMOIndia @narendramodi
@MEAIndia @IndianEmbassyUS @IndianDiplomacy @paniitindia

[Sagar Mandhani @sagarmandhani_]

Nation-Building with the @PanIITAlumniFdn ✨🇮🇳

[Press Trust of India @PTI_News]

VIDEO | Under the leadership of Jharkhand CM Hemant Soren, the ITI Kaushal College in Ranchi is transforming the lives of girls from SC, ST, OBC, and minority communities. Run in collaboration with PanIIT & Prejha Foundation, the college offers manufacturing and culinary courses with job-linked training. Over 800 young women have already secured placements, gaining the skills and confidence to succeed in India and beyond.

#Jharkhand

[Chief Nerd @TheChiefNerd]

The good old days of critical thinking 🤣