i have been a hardware founder for 2 years. i am going to drop the most important info you'll ever need as one, below:
— Parmita Mishra (@parmita) July 18, 2026
1. REMEMBER THIS. CONSTRAINTS IN HARDWARE. FORCE. INNOVATION. don't talk to non-hardware people about hardware building - especially not biotech founders lol.…
Thank you, Hon’ble Prime Minister @narendramodi ji!
— Skyroot Aerospace (@SkyrootA) July 18, 2026
Your good wishes right before the flight, and now your kind words soon after — both have meant the world to Team Skyroot. Vande Mataram is now in space 🚀 🙏
This defining moment for India’s space journey was made possible by… https://t.co/GUFc9K4eFX
I think there's a lot of confusion and misinformation about Zhilin's visa, H1B lottery, immigration, and why he left the U.S.
— Russ Salakhutdinov (@rsalakhu) July 18, 2026
Zhilin had many opportunities to stay in the U.S. if he wanted to. In fact, I was on an email thread with a senior Apple exec (Tim Cook's reports) asking… https://t.co/ilqN3nIfR2
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 18, 2026
Free market capitalism by Ayn Rand:
— Sampriti Bhattacharyya (@sampritibh) July 18, 2026
In a free economy, where no man or group of men can use physical coercion against anyone, economic power can be achieved only by voluntarymeans: by the voluntary choice and agreement of all those who participate in the process of production…
The Contradiction in Elon Musk’s Universal High Income: From Scarcity Thinking to True Abundance https://t.co/vCbawKn53p
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) July 18, 2026
"India cannot build Frontier Language Models"
— Kautuk | Conscious Engines (@Kautukkundan) July 18, 2026
Bangalore Paper Club edition 2 happened Last night - The theme was alternate architectures for language models. Why?
Scaling is a compute game. Architecture is an ideas game.
One needs GPUs you have to buy. The other needs… pic.twitter.com/nOud03Y265
Saw a seed VC post their actual 2025 backing criteria publicly this week: 18 pre-seed checks, 14 pre-revenue, 10 first-time relationships, 10 rounds they led, median check $500-750K, median valuation $7.5-10M, all highly technical teams, all US-based or actively relocating.…
— Martin Tobias (Pre-Seed VC) (@MartinGTobias) July 17, 2026
Tsinghua is absolutely the best in China, competition is insane, lots of legends. Grateful to work with one @georgehe0 ! My amazing cofounder, and best engineer I’ve ever worked with :) Also top 10 in China NOIP. I’m a big fan 🔥. https://t.co/uAURc2vgr1
— Linghua Jin 🥥 🌴 (@LinghuaJ) July 18, 2026
Everyone out, just to enjoy being out……and together. So simple.
— Damon Zumbroegel (@DamonZumbroegel) July 18, 2026
Saturday evening rainy season stroll in Patan.
-Kathmandu, Nepal. pic.twitter.com/UOobolDODE
It's not fucking high school anymore. 8 billion people need to change the conversation of what "success" looks like. It's not to make a billion dollars, it's to wake up in the morning and be in a good mood.
— Gary Vaynerchuk (@garyvee) July 18, 2026
After going on three campus tours in three days, Jessica has started to slip unknowingly into uptalking.
— Paul Graham (@paulg) July 17, 2026
A promise kept. Visited Nau Devi again, in pouring rain, to thank her for the safe return of INSV Kaundinya and her crew. pic.twitter.com/Ign8tabpD8
— Sanjeev Sanyal (@sanjeevsanyal) July 18, 2026
Image by Mistral: “Conversing with those of past centuries is much the same as travelling.” —René Descartes, "Discourse on the Method" pic.twitter.com/c9mnI05Gb5
— Randy Kemp (@randylewiskemp) July 18, 2026
Sat down with a liquid billionaire yesterday.
— Graham Stephan (@GrahamStephan) July 18, 2026
His best advice for every business owner: Hire a “send and delete” person.
You fire off the request → immediately delete the task from your brain. They handle it. No follow-ups. No mental overhead. Once you hit send, you consider…
We probably have ~3 years left where human labor still earns real money.
— Billy ₿oone (@thebillyboone) July 17, 2026
After that, most of it gets automated to the point where it doesn't pay.
This is the end of labor-based capitalism, the model where you trade hours for a wage and stack it over a 40-year career.
The… pic.twitter.com/ouu6UodBj2
Back in 2012 during my IIT days, I was a Last Bencher. A waster. There’s a word for it. Lukkha
— Akash Sampurnanand Pandey (@late_bloomer_7) July 17, 2026
I would go to classes only because @IITBHU_Varanasi had mandatory 75% attendance rule. My degree was like prison time of 4 years for my brain, academically. That was the price I paid… pic.twitter.com/gHRgYBAWe3
i moved to SF a couple months ago and have hosted more events here than my 2 years in ny. def helps having an apt that isn't the size of a shoebox. pic.twitter.com/XBdp2U5xAJ
— Anna Gotskind (@ifoundanna) July 17, 2026
Jensen Huang: “My will to survive exceeds everybody else’s will to kill me”
— Startup Archive (@StartupArchive_) July 18, 2026
Jensen is asked how Nvidia survived the intense competition in the 3D graphics industry. To which he replies:
“I would say that our company wanted it more than everybody else. I do believe that, as a… pic.twitter.com/0jkdhWEoDk
there’s a real possibility that china could be the first to achieve AGI
— Craig Weiss (@craigweiss) July 18, 2026
What if austere is your comfort zone. That would be a tremendous advantage.
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) July 18, 2026
the most important longevity treatment today is avoiding the diseases we already know how to prevent
— Rand (@rand_longevity) July 18, 2026
I wish i had something better than that but an extra 14 years will def get you to age reversal tech
Hello space, we have arrived! Vikram-1's Test Flight-1 has completed it's mission.
— Skyroot Aerospace (@SkyrootA) July 18, 2026
The first ever Indian private sector launch has been successfully completed. #Vikram1 #MissionAagaman #OpeningSpaceForAll
California needs to embrace hard tech instead of whatever BS is happening right now https://t.co/RKXJmHr4yz
— Garry Tan (@garrytan) July 18, 2026
> be Paul Buchheit
— Arthur MacWaters (@ArthurMacwaters) July 18, 2026
> born outside Rochester NY
> move to Silicon Valley
> 23rd employee at Google
> invent Gmail
> total Buchheit cultural victory
> Americans **still** spend 16% of their time on this one site
> more than any other site
> helps develop Adsense ($30b/yr)
>… https://t.co/TAX1p26idW pic.twitter.com/eVF8HypH5M
I interacted with Zhilin a few times when he was still a PhD student at CMU while I was working with his amazing advisor @rsalakhu on a grant proposal years ago. I was struck by how sharp, open-minded, and genuinely curious he was, including about comp bio problems outside his… https://t.co/gB0hVEWMbn
— Jian Ma (@jmuiuc) July 18, 2026
Dhobikhola, Kathmandu: The beautiful example of change! pic.twitter.com/iMHfGQCOf4
— Ananda Nepali (@anandanepali99) July 18, 2026
i write these 4 lines down physically with pen and paper almost every single day . anyone in deep tech should try to do this.
— Parmita Mishra (@parmita) July 18, 2026
that might sound crazy but it is incredibly important because i found myself having to use paragraphs to explain this to different customers, investors,… pic.twitter.com/umJvyDOdZJ
Details: Under construction in Patan, Nepal.
— Damon Zumbroegel (@DamonZumbroegel) July 18, 2026
This is how you do it. pic.twitter.com/vZs4BsXfkU
Mass drivers on the mf Moon!! https://t.co/eGl3a6hF7o
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 18, 2026
He was my father’s colleague so we grew up calling him Devendra Uncle. Padma Aunty taught my brother & sister in kindergarten. I admired them even before Devendra Raj Pandey set an example by becoming more & more progressive with age. May he rest in power.
— Manjushree Thapa (@manjushreethapa) July 17, 2026
The average employee age at Team Skyroot is 28.
— Muthukrishnan Dhandapani (@dmuthuk) July 18, 2026
Our youth is extremely talented.
India can succeed if the government acts as an enabler rather than a stumbling block.
It's hard to compete with someone who's having fun.
— Yasser (@yasser_elsaid_) July 18, 2026
I used to tell myself: when I hit this milestone, then I can relax and enjoy life a bit.
First it was $10k/mo, then 100k, then $1M/mo, then more.
It's crazy how it never ends.
Every time you hit a milestone, you don't relax.…
Across 5000 meetings, the personality type that showed up most frequently in outlier founders wasn't "leader" or "visionary"; it was "difficult".
— Adam Shuaib (@adamshuaib) July 18, 2026
In the wrong environment these people were marginalized or ignored. When employed, they asked "why?" too many times and pissed off…
While this is an impressive array of talent, over 80% of the researchers Russ brags about were (self-) advised while he was juggling academic duties with major executive roles at Apple or Meta.
— Peyman Milanfar (@docmilanfar) July 17, 2026
He's not alone in this respect. Elite programs attract talent that buoys the lab,… https://t.co/rmbbqQSSYe
A small group of people committed to solving hard problems generally outperforms a large group of people who are unwilling.
— Yun-Ta Tsai (@yunta_tsai) July 18, 2026
People are happier too, despite the problems being harder.
Why are Chinese labs doing open weight and don’t they need to monetize?
— Xiaoyin Qu (@quxiaoyin) July 18, 2026
1. The largest VCs in China are government, alibaba, bytedance etc. and the incentive is slightly different from IPO only
2. If they don’t open source, it will be hard to be known outside China and once…
There's a phrase going around this week: "revenue larping." Founders taking $2k in monthly revenue and presenting it as "$24k ARR and growing fast."
— Gabriel Jarrosson (@GJarrosson) July 18, 2026
Here's the thing. Investors run the numbers back in their head in about four seconds. The inflation doesn't land. It just signals…
" What makes us even prouder is that, despite receiving multiple scholarships and prestigious opportunities over the years — including an incredible opportunity with Tesla in California — Kanish chose to stay in India and contribute to the country’s growth and technological… pic.twitter.com/I22kVXVs1J
— Abhinav Kukreja (@kukreja_abhinav) July 18, 2026
