Aditya Kumar

founder @olnlabs. Tweets about Tech and startups. Prev - @ArreTweets & @leherapp. Second-time founder.

[Aditya Kumar @theguywithideas]

Hope the model lives upto the expectations

[Anthropic @AnthropicAI]

We’ve received notice that the Department of Commerce has lifted export controls on Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5.

We'll begin restoring access tomorrow, and will share an update soon.

We’re grateful to our users for their patience, and to everyone who worked with us on redeploying the models.

[Swanand @_swanand]

I might get canceled for this, but:

If you cannot quickly scout and recruit 3-5 team members for yourself, you shouldn't call yourself "Engineering Manager" or "Leader" or anything to that effect.

[Aditya Kumar @theguywithideas]

hey @kunalb11 congrats on the new role. Can you please make large family whatsapp groups a paid feature? Even the mute is not helping my case.
You are my only hope.

[Aditya Kumar @theguywithideas]

@kushgrwl Can help. DM me

[Aditya Kumar @theguywithideas]

Hey @BadCapitalVC. Building https://t.co/vPDKhSlTzZ to solve for this already. The data that lives fragmented in different layers can now be finally converted into structured data through AI.
The interface of capturing the data (voice notes, whatsapp threads) can remain the same and yet, the information can be converted into structured queryable data and insights which can drive real growth within the Org.
Not pitching here, but would like to understand whether we are thinking along the same lines or I am missing something.

[Aditya Kumar @theguywithideas]

Hope Team Sarvam uses this funding to fix the issues in their speech to text API. Gives a lot of issues in production.
I am all for cheering Indian companies, but not crappy products. Really want Sarvam to win. But I am scared that they will turn out to be more marketing hype and less good product
Happens to almost all massively funded Indian company without proven product and bottomline.

[Sarvam @SarvamAI]

We're thrilled to announce that we have raised $234M in the first close of our $300M Series B at a $1.5B valuation.

@HCLTech and @BessemerVP have joined us in this round, alongside continued support from @khoslaventures and @peakxvpartners

For countries and companies, sovereign control on the AI stack is no longer an optionality. Sarvam will be the partner of choice for this aspiration. The capital allows us to accelerate our momentum towards this full stack of models, compute, and deployments.

A huge thank you to our customers, partners, investors, and the Sarvam team for your trust and belief in what we are building. We’re just getting started.

Read more: https://t.co/VmLtpnj8gx

[Aditya Kumar @theguywithideas]

https://t.co/hnfcMl8oqD

[Aditya Kumar @theguywithideas]

@DhruvMadia6 Vanity comes before fall

[Aditya Kumar @theguywithideas]

@sflorimm its doing better job at image generation and export in claude design than most image models out there

[Aditya Kumar @theguywithideas]

One consistent behaviour I noticed in Cab drivers and Delivery boys is that they keep checking their earnings during the day very frequently. Sometimes after each delivery/ride. Its more than just tracking finances. Its a morale boost from the quick win.
And I keep wondering if the same should be available for every type of job. Will that help in motivation and get better results? Or maybe just help with the burnout people feel?

[Aditya Kumar @theguywithideas]

Anyone saying AI calling is going to fully replace sales reps down the line has never done actual sales on ground!

[Aditya Kumar @theguywithideas]

Bengaluru roads getting flooded in rain or Delhi's increase AQI are now just annual content cycles. New content pieces - specially reels are created each year on these topics and then people forget about them for rest of the year.

[Aditya Kumar @theguywithideas]

It has resulted into a lot of github downtime. Slow github action builds and slow review of app releases done on play store and app store as well.

[Jen Zhu @jenzhuscott]

Massive output uptick due to agentic AI. Complete flat adoption.

[Aditya Kumar @theguywithideas]

@anandlunia Vibe coding is definitely a winner take all space and either OpenAI or Anthropic will be the winner. But the output of vibecoding - the apps/outcomes/services is not a winner take all market. Its a different economy much like sellers on E-commerce (on a long enough timeline)

[Aditya Kumar @theguywithideas]

One of the best use case for AI - now available natively in Samsung

[Aditya Kumar @theguywithideas]

Have been building financial systems and consulting on some of them in last 8 months. As a part of it, did a lot of AI analysis of unstructured data (annual reports, earning calls, investor presentations etc) of listed companies. The amount of inconsistencies and red flags in last 8 years financial docs (specially before Integrated filing system was enforced) will surprise you. And I am talking about Mega and large cap companies. Same analysis on Micro and small cap will give investors heart attack!
And its dead simple to do it at an individual company level using AI.

If done at scale, SEBI will find many such companies much faster.

[Aditya Kumar @theguywithideas]

@vinodchendhil Thats why I keep talking about additional leverage. Without the big branding, trust, belief and the respect, only leverage can actually hold things together till you make it big. Realized it very late in life.

[OLN Labs @olnlabs]

A ₹60L deal died last week. The CRM said "lost on price."
I pulled the timeline. The price was never the problem.

Here's what actually happened, day by day.

January 14 - The growth team at a B2B SaaS company runs a discount campaign. 5,000 contacts, 20% off annual plans, the usual new-year push. Three of those 5,000 contacts have acmecorpdotcom email addresses.
Acme is already an open deal worth ₹60L. Nobody knows the discount went to them, because the tool that sent the campaign doesn't talk to the tool that holds the deal. Two systems, one customer, zero awareness.

February 22 - The account executive gets on a call with Acme's VP of Engineering. Pitches the platform. Quotes list price — ₹60L, no discount. He has no idea his own company offered Acme 20% off six weeks earlier.
The VP doesn't say anything. But he's done the math. The number he was shown in his inbox and the number the AE just quoted don't match. He goes quiet. The AE logs the call as "positive, needs follow-up."

March 9- Someone on Acme's team starts a free trial to test the product before the contract. They hit a bug — a known one, already sitting in the backlog with a "won't fix this sprint" label. Support takes the ticket. The ticket never reaches the AE. The AE never calls Acme to say "I saw you ran into that, here's the workaround." From Acme's side, they reported a problem into a void.

April 3 - The email comes in. Four lines.
"Thanks for your time. We've decided to go in a different direction. Wishing you the best."
The AE logs it: Closed · Lost. Reason: pricing.
Here's the thing. It was never pricing.

Acme talked to one company three times. They got a discount they were never told applied to them, a quote that contradicted it, and a bug report that disappeared. From the inside, that's three teams using three tools. From Acme's side, it's one vendor that couldn't remember a conversation it had two weeks ago.
The competitor who won didn't have a better product. They had one that felt like it remembered who Acme was across every touchpoint. No seams.
That's the actual gap. Not pricing. Not the product. Memory. Most companies have a growth tool, a sales tool, and a support tool that each hold a third of the customer and never compare notes. The customer feels every seam — and picks the vendor who doesn't have any.

The next time a deal gets filed as "lost on price," pull the timeline. Count how many of your teams touched that customer, and how many of them knew what the others had said.
we'd bet the real reason wasn't on the form.

[Aditya Kumar @theguywithideas]

In all interviews, every candidate is aligned with the "vision of the company" till salary negotiations start!

[OLN Labs @olnlabs]

Your best sales reps aren't slow.
They've quietly become the integration your software was supposed to be.
Here's the math no vendor will ever put in front of you. Take a 10-person sales team. Each rep loses roughly 40% of every working day moving data by hand — pulling a number out of the CRM into WhatsApp, pasting a WhatsApp reply into email, updating a sheet so the manager's dashboard isn't quietly lying.
Across 250 working days, that's:
→ 1,000 person-days a year → The equivalent of 4 full-time people → ₹40L+ in cost that never lands on a single invoice
Never a line item. Always on the P&L.
And it isn't a people problem. It's structural:
Your CRM tracks deals. It doesn't send WhatsApp. Your WhatsApp tool sends WhatsApp. It doesn't update the CRM. Your email tool sends email. It has no idea what the WhatsApp said.
None of these tools talk to each other — so a human becomes the wiring between them. 5 tabs, copy, paste, switch, repeat, ~70 times a day. Quiet enough that it never shows up in a budget review.
That's the real platform tax. And here's the trap: it scales with every head you add. So the instinct to hire your way out of flat output usually just buys more of the same problem.
One question worth sitting with before the next "why is productivity flat?" meeting:
How much of my team's day is spent being the integration?
If you've watched this happen on your own team, we'd like to hear how you're thinking about it.