Sheeta Verma 👩🏽‍💻

made by immigrants 🇮🇳x🇺🇸 • startup growth marketer👩🏽‍💻 personality combo of Schmidt from New Girl and Monica from Friends •

[Sheeta Verma 👩🏽‍💻 @sheetaverma]

Being the first child & the first generation in the US is a journey of its own. Creating your own path, personality, future without any resources isn’t easy. All your ideas and dreams are doubted by your own family, but guess what? I’m not here to be ordinary.

[Shriya Nevatia @shriyanevatia]

ego bruised bc im at a tech week event and nobody recognizes me

[Sheeta Verma 👩🏽‍💻 @sheetaverma]

ladies, @itskasturiii and I walked around pac heights with a crabbing net for 30 min and were approached multiple times. higher ROI than a dog

[Bobby from Dupe.com @ghoshal]

Bros in tech are so severely starved for taste that a mere generic font that says nothing, splayed out in white and set to a neutral color garment is considered goated swag

[Sheeta Verma 👩🏽‍💻 @sheetaverma]

@itskasturiii I make this mistake often

[Sheeta Verma 👩🏽‍💻 @sheetaverma]

@laurenlself D. Hands down.

[Rajvi @rajvishah30]

today someone in office said that “worrying is the worst way to use your imagination” and that’s easily the best thing Ive heard all week

[Sheeta Verma 👩🏽‍💻 @sheetaverma]

Before people learned about brands and followed them

Then people followed people bc they wanted to connect to a person over a brand. But influencers and people started feeling inauthentic

Now brand awareness shifted to experiences. Make your own opinions from the experience you get offline.

[Wholesome Side of 𝕏 @itsme_urstruly]

I’m like the opposite of AI. It took me over half an hour to write a simple email, and I didn’t consume a single drop of water all day.

[Captain Obvious™️ @TheFungi669]

I hate to admit this but Trump was right.

He said that if I vote for Kamala Harris gas prices, groceries prices and my utility bills will go through the roof.

I voted for Harris and my gas, groceries and utility bills have gone through the roof.

[Shriya Nevatia @shriyanevatia]

this is badass omg

[Sheeta Verma 👩🏽‍💻 @sheetaverma]

@luisocampox @AnthropicAI Congrats!! Would love to chat!!

[Sheeta Verma 👩🏽‍💻 @sheetaverma]

@itskasturiii Many snacks

[Sheeta Verma 👩🏽‍💻 @sheetaverma]

@esthercrawford We are sooooo back

[Deedy @deedydas]

The vibes in SF feel pretty frenetic right now. The divide in outcomes is the worst I've ever seen.

Over the last 5yrs, a group of ~10k people - employees at Anthropic, OpenAI, xAI, Nvidia, Meta TBD, founders - have hit retirement wealth of well above $20M (back of the envelope AI estimation).

Everyone outside that group feels like they can work their well-paying (but <$500k) job for their whole life and never get there.

Worse yet, layoffs are in full swing. Many software engineers feel like their life's skill is no longer useful. The day to day role of most jobs has changed overnight with AI.

As a result,
1. The corporate ladder looks like the wrong building to climb.
Everyone's trying to align with a new set of career "paths": should I be a founder? Is it too late to join Anthropic / OpenAI? should I get into AI? what company stock will 10x next? People are demanding higher salaries and switching jobs more and more.

2. There’s a deep malaise about work (and its future).
Why even work at all for “peanuts”? Will my job even exist in a few years? Many feel helpless. You hear the “permanent underclass” conversation a lot, esp from young people. It's hard to focus on doing good work when you think "man, if I joined Anthropic 2yrs ago, I could retire"

3. The mid to late middle managers feel paralyzed.
Many have families and don't feel like they have the energy or network to just "start a company". They don't particularly have any AI skills. They see the writing on the wall: middle management is being hollowed out in many companies.

4. The rich aren’t particularly happy either.
No one is shedding tears for them (and rightfully so). But those who have "made it" experience a profound lack of purpose too. Some have gone from <$150k to >$50M in a few years with no ramp. It flips your life plans upside down. For some, comparison is the thief of joy. For some, they escape to NYC to "live life". For others still, they start companies "just cuz", often to win status points. They never imagined that by age 30, they'd be set. I once asked a post-economic founder friend why they didn't just sell the co and they said "and do what? right now, everyone wants to talk to me. if i sell, I will only have money."

I understand that many reading this scoff at the champagne problems of the valley. Society is warped in this tech bubble. What is often well-off anywhere else in the world is bang average here.

Unlike many other places, tenure, intelligence and hard work can be loosely correlated with outcomes in the Bay. Living through a societally transformative gold rush in that environment can be paralyzing. "Am I in the right place? Should I move? Is there time still left? Am I gonna make it?" It psychologically torments many who have moved here in search of "success".

Ironically, a frequent side effect of this torment is to spin up the very products making everyone rich in hopes that you too can vibecode your path to economic enlightenment.

[Kasturi @itskasturiii]

earlier this year, i made a deck to pitch an idea to our exec team.

it landed so well that i got a spot bonus for it lol.

it ended up taking several months to build, and i finally added some behind-the-scenes scoop on it here:
https://t.co/vQIZBImZg5

if you’re interested in learning more, my DMs are open 👀

[Sheeta Verma 👩🏽‍💻 @sheetaverma]

i’ve convinced so many people to get oura rings since 2019, including my therapist!!! so many of my friends saw ads later on and made the purchase after I talked about how much I loved it.

friendfluencers &gt; influencers

[Sheeta Verma 👩🏽‍💻 @sheetaverma]

“i know Sheeta’s a great marketer because she sold me on magnesium so well i ordered it the moment she left the room”

😭😭😭

[♱ katana ♱ @aspenkatana]

I helped a girl set up her Roth IRA while out clubbing once, I do not play

[Lovestie ꕤ @Hynneice]

Ce genre de graphisme me donne des frissons

[Sheeta Verma 👩🏽‍💻 @sheetaverma]

@sophiaamoruso @nectarsocialai @trustfundvc ahhh!!! applied