Srijon Sheikh

Founder at Stealth | AI @Stanford | a16z Speedrun Founder | EB1A Recipient

[Srijon Sheikh @thisIsSrijon]

@juli_li_ By using LinkedIn instead of Partiful for the invites

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

Let me explain exactly why Amazon would rather hand a finished, well-tested film to a rival studio than release it themselves.

Artificial is done. Guadagnino directed it, Garfield plays Altman, and the L.A. screenings got a warm reception. This is the same director whose last movie, Challengers, did about $90M worldwide. On pure commercial logic you release this: an awards-season prestige drama landing while AI is the only story anyone's paying attention to. It prints money.

Now look at the other side of the ledger.

In February, Amazon committed $50B to OpenAI: $15B up front, $35B more if conditions are met, with AWS becoming the exclusive third-party cloud for OpenAI's frontier models. That last clause recurs for years and runs into the billions annually. Bezos and Altman are close enough that Altman showed up to his wedding.

So run the trade. Best case, releasing the film clears Amazon a few tens of millions after theatrical splits and marketing. The downside it creates: an unsympathetic portrait of your $50B partner playing in theaters worldwide right as that relationship scales.

Here's the tell. Amazon greenlit this knowing exactly what it was. They saw every early iteration of the script before Guadagnino even boarded. Then February happened. The same asset that was a green light in 2024 turned into a liability the moment Altman became the counterparty on a $50B deal and AWS's biggest new customer.

Walking away from a $40M film to protect a relationship worth a thousand times that is the easiest call in the building. The trade was never even close.

[max @maxkolysh]

a YC founder i'm working with was worried because one customer had already built a simple version of his product in-house.

i told him that's not a bad sign, and it's actually the best proof point he has.

if a company is spending expensive engineering time on the problem you're solving, that validates a bunch of things at once:
- the pain is very real
- other vendors are not good enough
- many companies likely have the same pain too

[Srijon Sheikh @thisIsSrijon]

@petergyang low ROI - easier to scale up olympic sports from govt effort and private sponsors care more about whats popular -- cricket in india and maybe badminton in china?

[Srijon Sheikh @thisIsSrijon]

@Stanford students walked out on Sundar Pichai as a protest to AI causing job displacements for young workers

[Matt Brown @maattttbrown]

Stanford grads walk out as Google CEO Sundar Pichai takes the stage as commencement speaker. No mention of AI, unlike other uni speakers getting booed down this year. Story for @sfgate shortly

[Srijon Sheikh @thisIsSrijon]

Huge deal if combinations of closed source models beat a single closed source model. It beats monopoly then.

[OpenRouter @OpenRouter]

Introducing the Fusion API, the smartest compound model in the market.

Fusion achieves Fable-level intelligence at half the price.

How it works 👇

[Srijon Sheikh @thisIsSrijon]

KYC coming for all models in the US.

[Peter Yang @petergyang]

Suspending Fable for all “foreign person inside the US” is wild. How can you even enforce this properly?

[Srijon Sheikh @thisIsSrijon]

@the2ndfloorguy where's the github link bro

[Srijon Sheikh @thisIsSrijon]

vibe coding is solved. vibe distribution is next. Congrats @hehe6z and @zhizdev on solving marketing for consumer apps

[helena @hehe6z]

We're excited to introduce Bonemeal: the world's first autonomous growth engineer.

I took one company 0→$60M ARR in a year, another 0→$10M in 8 months. The secret wasn't growth hacks, it was cracking the self-improvement loop.

Bonemeal runs that loop autonomously: it launches growth experiments, then watches and tweaks them ad infinitum.

It hit $100k ARR in month one.

Put your growth on autopilot 👇

[Marques Brownlee @MKBHD]

Tell me you have a foldable coming without telling me you have a foldable coming

[Srijon Sheikh @thisIsSrijon]

@julianweisser @kevinolearytv ?

[Srijon Sheikh @thisIsSrijon]

@gregisenberg hence i print my favorite tweets

[Srijon Sheikh @thisIsSrijon]

@dara_venture was my bio in bumble

[Srijon Sheikh @thisIsSrijon]

@endyjtwn they say take the no but never the why

[Srijon Sheikh @thisIsSrijon]

@ankurnagpal not b2b saas hence. Would like ai versions of https://t.co/LaoCwcj0Ll and https://t.co/T7VIBIu16R

[Srijon Sheikh @thisIsSrijon]

@Saboo_Shubham_ who names their app Google AI Edge Eloquent? cant get paid to name worse

[Srijon Sheikh @thisIsSrijon]

so so true

[Zach Yadegari @zach_yadegari]

A wise mentor once taught me:

To learn product, study Silicon Valley

To learn marketing, study dropshippers

[Srijon Sheikh @thisIsSrijon]

@Ekaeoq back hurts sometimes

[Srijon Sheikh @thisIsSrijon]

@0interestrates dont forget spellbee

[Srijon Sheikh @thisIsSrijon]

@AniC_dev someone mastered hooks