Arjun Kshirsagar

building better systems; in code & in education.

[Priyam @PriGoistic]

7 months , 6 naive bachelors , 1 vision : a suite of artifical systems built ground up from biological intelligence.

A new generation of emergent intelligence which goes beyond the comprehension of humanity.

Be a part of a leap towards the next phase of evolution with us at @metacognitionai

[Arjun Kshirsagar @smalliterations]

@PriGoistic congrats man....to the moon 🚀🚀

[Arjun Kshirsagar @smalliterations]

@sridharfyi how about giving a shot at https://t.co/XYISQwvnsU ?
@ray_elton99 @kandykuri

[Arjun Kshirsagar @smalliterations]

@TheSuryanshD @13_narcissus hmm 🤔

[Arjun Kshirsagar @smalliterations]

my first performance review meeting today

wish me luck guys

[Arjun Kshirsagar @smalliterations]

@github : 275M commits a week. 2.1B actions minutes this week. we're scaling like crazy

also github: experiencing downtime 😭

@cursor_ai : yeh lo naya platform 💀

[Cursor @cursor_ai]

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[Arjun Kshirsagar @smalliterations]

@aditi_tibarewal some of the startup locations are wrong, how are you fetching the locations?

seems like data providers like apify, etc

[Anuj Rathi @anujrathi]

Since we opened up the waitlist for @profoundAIRep last week, over 3000 professionals from Google, Amazon, Swiggy, CRED, Razorpay and more have signed on their Profound Rep.

The ones who briefed their rep cumulatively logged 316 hours (18,979 minutes to be precise) on how they work, what they enjoy working on, and the moments when they've spiked in their careers.

Their reps are now gearing up to represent them in rooms that matter, surfacing connections and opportunities worth their time.

Reserve your Profound AI rep today!

[Link below]

[subiii @_subiii_]

living in Bombay is like earning in INR and spending in USD

[Arjun Kshirsagar @smalliterations]

@_subiii_ 😭😭🥲

[Vijeth Kumar @Kuma50531Kumar]

Jayanagar Metro Station Bengaluru .🌳

Peak Beauty ♥️

[Arjun Kshirsagar @smalliterations]

@TanayLohia1 @BioMandrake Away is a lively workplace, had a great time there with Profound
would recommend all 💯

[Abhimanyu Saxena @asxna]

We're in a world where technological advances can create unprecedented impact in very short spans of time.

People who're at pinnacle of excellence in their work, and are passionate about imparting it to others, is one of the biggest needle mover for societal advances.

If above describes you, I'd love to talk, and chase you down to join us at @Scaler_SST and build "Stanford of India".

[Aditya Bhaskara @adityabhas22]

Caught up with @asxna and some friends at our campus today where he walked us through some key questions to ask yourself when building a startup, this was aimed at helping my friend @saivishwasgooty prep for his Yc interview.

Some of my key takeaways and questions to ponder about:

1) Consider the area under the curve of x: people who use your product, y: revenue per user. either x or y has to be massive it's awesome if both are high but that's rare. Businesses that are neither, are not really VC investable.

2) In AI, flashy output is less important than repeat usage. Flashy cool ideas takeover twitter but the retention isn't necessarily there once the hype does down.

3) What can make your startup fail? Be super clear about the reasons why it could fail, and whatever is in your hands, make sure that doesn't happen.

4) Define extremely clear metrics for what growth and success looks like so you chase numbers that capture real retention.

I think most of these ideas are vaguely present in our minds, but really thinking about them and discussing them with examples reinforces it, especially when it comes from someone who has actually gone through the journey.

[Arjun Kshirsagar @smalliterations]

@ManishKhetan123 👉👈

[Arjun Kshirsagar @smalliterations]

i grew up believing respect meant saying sir/bhaiya/di

over the last 3 years, i've unlearned my conditioning

if workplaces don't need titles to show respect, schools/colleges shouldn't either

respect is earned through character, not title
i hope our education places evolve too

[Rohit Awasthi @rohitawasthi]

Every time someone calls me "Sir" at work, he/she owes me a beer. Total count in last 1 week - 23. :D

[Sugan Shreyas @suganshreyas]

Very cool idea! I think the thesis here is taking something that only the elite have, and open it to all.. reminds me of the first time we booked an uber and a fancy car appeared... Take what actors & stars had historically (=agents) and offer it to the masses.

[Pranav Pai @Pai_dPiper]

The best founders I know don’t run searches. They build talent pipelines.

Ask anyone who is truly great at hiring and you hear a version of the same method.

The best CEOs don’t brief a search firm, take fifty profiles, and cull to a shortlist. Instead they meet talent constantly, often months before a role exists, mapping the best people in their field and asking everyone they respect for more names. For “founder mode” founders now, their first-5 hire is a recruiter.

Hiring done well is the patient accumulation of context and trust about how people actually work, and a deep assessment of fit.

That habit exists because a resume is a thin artefact. It carries titles and credentials and almost none of what makes someone worth working with: judgment, working style, and the thousands of small decisions that never reach the page.

Our own research across scaled Indian startups points the same way. The binding constraint in hiring today is not the supply of talent. It is the ability to verify fit. The market has decided that AI-era competence matters, and it still has almost no reliable way to measure it. Employers need far more than a static profile to validate what a person can actually do.

Today, @anujrathi and Prashant Parashar are announcing https://t.co/yI5Z4dq6X4’s $1.5 million seed round, and we at @3one4Capital are proud to back them alongside @Stellaris_VP and a group of remarkable founders who have built and hired at real scale.

Great hiring is a persistent ritual, not a reactive chore. https://t.co/0nVKsJjUJK is building the intelligent connective tissue to bring great people together, and to help that happen at scale.

[Dhwani Nanavati @dhwaninanavati]

High-value markets usually evolve towards efficiency. Talent remains a striking exception.

For all the tech built around hiring, the best way to hire (or get hired) remains a referral. Because referrals carry what CVs cannot: context on how someone thinks, what they’re unusually good at, what drives them and what they want next.

That context usually lives in the heads of a few people who know you. https://t.co/4l2XfAPcLO is building a way for it to travel with you - through an AI Rep that gets to know you through conversation AND represents you to the roles, people and rooms worth your time.

We're excited to back Anuj & Prashant as Profound comes out of stealth today. Go have your first conversation with https://t.co/4l2XfAPcLO :)

[Adithya Venkatesan @adadithya]

Super interesting use-case of creating an agentic-workflow into friendly, sharp life coach. Really cool to also see the b2b use-cases and how the product can learn context over time.

Much power to the team, and with @BehereBaba around, this is going to be a wild product!