Sanjay Varnwal

CEO & Co-Founder, | Tech Entrepreneur | @iitkgp

[Rapinnha @Rapigna7]

OMG 😱!!!
The level of human coordination and choreography here is completely unmatched. Absolute masterpiece.

[Garry Tan @garrytan]

Be your self, not someone you were assigned to be!

Bezos won on time horizon, not AWS or 1-Click.

If your bets have to work in 3 years, you compete with everyone. Every smart, funded team is chasing the same 3-year problems. Short horizon, crowded field.

Stretch to 7 and the field collapses. Investors want returns, employees want vesting, founders want proof. Almost nobody can sit in a bet that doesn't pay for most of a decade. The patience is the moat, and it costs you, that's why it works.

But you can't fake a 7-year horizon on a problem you don't actually care about. Pick the users and the problem Moloch assigned you, the safe ones, the fundable ones, and you'll bail the first hard year. Pick the ones that are actually yours and you'll still be there when everyone else has quit.

So the real prerequisite isn't discipline. It's knowing yourself well enough to choose a problem and a set of people you care about that you'll serve them for decades.

[Joe Schmidt IV @joeschmidtiv]

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[Avinash Raghava 🇮🇳 @avinashraghava]

#71: #AIRadarDaily — Spyne

For anyone selling cars, the fastest way to lose a buyer is a poor online listing. But behind every great vehicle showcase is a hidden, exhausting operational hurdle. Dealerships spend a massive amount of time and money physically moving cars to photography studios, waiting days for post-production, and dealing with inconsistent lighting. It is a slow, expensive grind that keeps inventory sitting idle on the lot instead of reaching customers.

Spyne is stepping in to completely eliminate this friction.

Founded in Gurugram by Sanjay Varnwal and Deepti Prasad, Spyne gives automotive dealers the power of a high-end photography studio, right inside their smartphones.

Sanjay and Deepti have built a deep-tech, AI-native platform that actually understands the complex geometry of a vehicle. A dealer simply walks around the car with their phone, and Spyne’s AI instantly transforms that raw footage into a flawless, studio-grade 360-degree spin. It automatically fixes lighting, creates realistic floor reflections, and places the car in a pristine virtual showroom — all in a matter of seconds.

What makes Spyne so special is its deep empathy for a dealer's daily reality. It completely removes the physical bottleneck of visual merchandising. By bringing the cost down to a fraction of traditional methods and slashing the time-to-market, it allows businesses to list their inventory beautifully and almost instantly. It replaces a heavy, operational headache with quiet efficiency and speed.

The market? Every independent dealer, massive auto group, and digital marketplace globally that needs to build instant trust with buyers through honest, high-quality visuals.

Sanjay and Deepti are true change agents. They looked at a deeply traditional, physical industry and asked how they could give momentum back to the people running it. Watching our homegrown founders take a complex AI problem and turn it into a simple, elegant tool that empowers businesses worldwide is exactly what we mean when we talk about a larger, unfinished agenda.

Let's celebrate the builders.

w/ Jay Ingle & Dikshant Joshi

#AutoTech #ProductNation

[Sanjay Varnwal @sanjay_varnwal]

@Jason I am in

[shouko @shoukointech]

Eric Schmidt shares his weekend habit that led to billion-dollar decisions

[Sanjay Varnwal @sanjay_varnwal]

@BhavnaDevediga Where are they staying? DM me for details

[Sanjay Varnwal @sanjay_varnwal]

My post on being stranded in Kuwait amid the Gulf war was picked up by Mint today. Thanks to everyone for their wishes. Hope the situation gets better soon and all stuck including me get to their destinations !

https://t.co/gfO6pqGcIr

[Sanjay Varnwal @sanjay_varnwal]

Never imagined a routine Delhi to New York trip could turn into something like this, and I would get stuck in the middle of all of it that world is watching from outside.

I took my 3am flight from Delhi to Kuwait, landed in Kuwait at 5:30am. And, waited at the airport to take my flight to JFK at 9am. Everything felt completely normal when our flight took off from Kuwait at 8:45 AM on February 28th. I was just settling in, reading a book, totally unknown to what's happening outside.

Then, maybe 45 minutes in, the pilot announced mid air that because Iraqi airspace suddenly closed, we can't go forward. And, in the air, the flight reverted its route back to Kuwait. Was bit annoying then. I did not realise the mess I was getting into.

My first thought was that maybe something was wrong with the plane and they just weren't telling us the full story. I thought, "Okay, fine, I’ll probably just land in New York three hours late." Even after we touched back down in Kuwait, I still didn't grasp the gravity of the situation.

At the airport, the Kuwait Airways staff too were clueless, and had zero info on when we’d leave. Though the news started flashing that some conflicts have started in the region and Iran, US, Israel are involved. But, due to this Middle East conflicts always in news, I thought it to be routine, nothing to be worries about so much.

Kuwait Airways gave us a revised departure: 1:30 PM in the same flight. They re-issued boarding passes, checked us back in. We waited and waited, but the flight did not take off. An hour passed, I was still hopeful that the flight would take off (naive?). Around 3pm, airline staffs said that the planes are grounded and there is no way that flights can operate now. This is when the seriousness of the situation hit me hard. I realised - shit, I am stranded here now !!

Most of the locals who came in to board various flights, went back their home. But, the ones who were in Kuwait as transit destination stayed. Close to 1000 odd people, or may be more, stranded at the airport. We waited and waited.

At about 5pm, someone from the airways told that all of us would be moved to hotels provided by the airline. I thought to book another accommodation earlier, but realised that in these circumstances, it is better to stay together in the mix. God knows, when the flight would resume, and because you are outside, you won't know. Not worth taking the risk. I went along. We managed to move out of the airport by 8pm. And, it was pure chaos - over a thousand people, a fleet of buses, and police everywhere trying to keep the peace. Kudos to authorities, the way they managed the situation.

Finally, about 10pm, we were all checked in to 3-4 hotels in the city. And, this is how one of the most interesting days of my life ended. Now stuck here, waiting for the airspace to open, with war outside!

Big thanks to friends and Indian Embassy for always being around and being so helpful. So proud to be an Indian 🇮🇳 🇮🇳

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[India in Kuwait @indembkwt]

Embassy @indembkwt officials continue to be in touch with and assist the Indian nationals stranded in Kuwait due to temporary airspace shutdown.

The Embassy is constantly following up the matter with the local Authorities concerned, the management of the hotels in which the stranded passengers are staying as well as the respective Airlines. All possible assistance is being provided to the Indian nationals.

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[Naruto @NarutoNolimits]

Jensen Huang on the smartest person he's ever met;

[Sanjay Varnwal @sanjay_varnwal]

@Wisdom_HQ Garbage

[Today In History @historigins]

One of the greatest lecture in the world.

[Bill Ackman @BillAckman]

Worth two minutes

[Sanjay Varnwal @sanjay_varnwal]

The most expensive part of automotive retail isn’t hardware.
It’s hesitation.
Hesitation to list a car.
Hesitation to follow up.
Hesitation to automate.
Margins live in the seconds you save.
#Automotive

[Pratik Agarwal @_pagarwal]

There is a subtle lack of pride in Indian venture.
“US is more exciting.”
“They build trillion dollar companies, we build dhanda.”
“Big ideas are gone.”
This view misses a crucial perspective.
Let me explain.

1/n

[Sanjay Varnwal @sanjay_varnwal]

Last 30 days at Spyne:
• 5+ rooftops onboarded
• 1M+ cars processed
• 10x faster listing turnaround
Momentum compounds when workflows become AI-native.

[Camus @newstart_2024]

Roger Federer broke the internet with one statistic that will change how you see every setback in your life.
1,526 singles matches.
Won almost 80% of them.
20 Grand Slams. 103 titles.

Now answer honestly:
What percentage of total points do you think he won across his entire career?
70%? 65%? 60%?

Try … 54%.
He lost literally almost EVERY SECOND POINT he ever played for 24 years.

And still became one of the greatest of all time.

Watch him explain it himself (2:07 of pure life-changing wisdom):
“In tennis, perfection is impossible… When you lose every second point on average, you teach yourself to say:
‘Okay, I double-faulted — it’s only one point.’
‘Okay I got passed at the net — it’s only one point.’
Even a screaming overhead smash that ends up on SportsCenter Top 10… still just one point.

So when you’re playing your point, it has to be the most important thing in the world.
The moment it’s over — it’s behind you.

That mindset frees you to attack the next point, and the next, and the next with absolute intensity and clarity.”

Then he looked at the crowd and said the line that hit a billion people in the soul:
“The real sign of a champion is not that they win every point.
It’s that they lose again and again and again… and have learned how to deal with it.
Negative energy is wasted energy.
Cry it out if you have to. Then force a smile.
Move on. Be relentless. Adapt. Grow.
Work harder — and work smarter.”

Save this post.

The next time you lose a deal, bomb a presentation, get ghosted, miss a deadline, or just have “one of those days” — come back here and read it again.

You’re not falling behind.
You’re just in the 46%.
And the 46% is exactly where every single legend has spent most of their career.

Keep playing the next point.
(full 2:07 clip — sound on)

[Jaynit @jaynitx]

Sam Altman literally revealed the 5 traits that separate legendary founders from everyone else:

[Vikram Chopra @vikramchopra]

I have emailed this letter to the Hon’ble Prime Minister @narendramodi sir. Sharing it here and tagging @PMOIndia so it reaches him without fail. Delhi-NCR cannot keep breathing like this. We need unified, urgent action now.

#AirQuality #Delhipollution #DelhiAQI #Pollution