Sandeep T Shelvan

Co-Founder sapioagents | @Carnegiemellon | @IITG| @wharton | Physicist| Data Scientist |

[Sandeep T Shelvan @sandeeptshelvan]

@realvincenttodd @garrytan Aura

[Sandeep T Shelvan @sandeeptshelvan]

Any VCs in DC now
#vc

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@vkhosla Are u here

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@garrytan What abt getting into yc?

[Sandeep T Shelvan @sandeeptshelvan]

@Jason I am in

[Yasser @yasser_elsaid_]

When you go to a yc event at 27

[Sandeep T Shelvan @sandeeptshelvan]

@jonathanzliu She is so dumb

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@nur_daulet_ bro why dont you invest in DC. Angels are bit unaware of government contracting how it is chnaging

[Sandeep T Shelvan @sandeeptshelvan]

@snowmaker @snowmaker YC should have fund for india, definitely have a serious convo with @PMOIndia

[Shikhar @shekhu04]

Meet Thomas Kurian
(The 5th highest paid tech executive in all of America)

> A boy born in Pampady, a small village in Kottayam, Kerala, 1966
> His father was a chemical engineer. They moved cities constantly
> He and his identical twin brother George were sent to boarding school in Bangalore
> Same school. Same grades. Same dream
> Both cracked IIT Madras.
> Then both cracked Princeton on the same day
> Two brothers from a Kerala village. Both heading to America
> https://t.co/TMjo4uhO8z in Electrical Engineering from Princeton
> MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business
> Joined Oracle in 1996. Nobody knew his name yet.
> 22 years later he was running software products worth $35 billion in annual revenue
> Leading 35,000 engineers across 32 countries
> The 5th highest paid tech executive in all of America
> Then he had a disagreement with Larry Ellison about the future of cloud
> Larry Ellison did not change his mind
> So Thomas Kurian walked away
> From the salary. From the power. From everything he spent 22 years building
> Most people would have retired. He was just getting started
> In 2019 Google Cloud was a distant third behind AWS and Azure
> Nobody believed it could compete. Analysts wrote it off.
> Google hired Thomas Kurian as CEO
> He restructured the entire sales team from scratch
> Hired enterprise veterans
> Rebuilt the product strategy. Went customer by customer
> Google Cloud revenue in 2019: $2.8 billion per quarter
> Google Cloud revenue in 2025: $15.2 billion per quarter
> That is not growth. That is a complete transformation.
> His twin brother George is CEO of NetApp
> Two boys from a village in Kerala. Both running billion dollar empires

Nobody in Pampady could have predicted this
A boy who left a small village for boarding school
Left boarding school for IIT
Left IIT for Princeton
Left Princeton for Oracle
Left Oracle for Google
And turned Google Cloud into a monster

He never announced his next move. He just made it

"Execution eats strategy for breakfast."

Every quarter. Like clockwork. $15 billion says he meant it

[Julia Turc @juliarturc]

Why so many of us feel career-homeless in tech:
>Startups full of fraud, grifters and short-term thinking
>FAANG full of politics and slightly behind
>Frontier labs in a race with no morals
>Academia full of title collectors
>Content creation ridden by AI fakes and sensationalism

Who is starting the renaissance and how do I get in touch with them?

[Sandeep T Shelvan @sandeeptshelvan]

@darrenmarble Wbt shroom or lsd

[Sandeep T Shelvan @sandeeptshelvan]

@yanabana @nucleusgenomics Luck??

[Sandeep T Shelvan @sandeeptshelvan]

@darrenmarble No

[Sandeep T Shelvan @sandeeptshelvan]

@deedydas Yes, deedy, richi rich kids like u do undergrad in the USA, with father's safety net.

[Sandeep T Shelvan @sandeeptshelvan]

@AnnieLiao_2000 fuck off

[Deedy @deedydas]

– O-1B is mostly OnlyFans girls
– Minnesota is taken over by Somalis
– 500k Venezuelans trying to cross the border last 2yrs
– 500k green cards a year from chain migration on family visas
– 1M illegal immigrants a year

America: "Yep, I see the problem. It's the 85k H-1Bs."

[Sandeep T Shelvan @sandeeptshelvan]

I truly hate when people brag about their 2025 achievements.

[Sandeep T Shelvan @sandeeptshelvan]

Dear algorithm show this post to smart and bold investors that do pre-pre-seed

[Sandeep T Shelvan @sandeeptshelvan]

@Kritika_Kabra @aryan_kochhar Obviously, raig bait. If your parents are not rich.