— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) May 15, 2026
This is me imitating his hairstyle at high school. @vkhosla is Amitabh Bachchan to the Indians in California. So, watch out! pic.twitter.com/nEpdPwA4oW
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) May 15, 2026
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) May 15, 2026
You specialize in bringing the energy down on Twitter. What else do you do? Have you ever done anything?
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) May 15, 2026
I am giving you an audience. You don't have one.
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) May 15, 2026
You don't have a proper ID. You are hiding.
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) May 15, 2026
You don't have to understand technology, entrepreneurship, any of that. You could just learn to respect your elders. Something tells me nobody ever taught you that.
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) May 15, 2026
No you’re actually trying to make yourself look validated when you’re not
Before I ask you why you hate him, let me ask you, what do you know about him? Anything?
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) May 15, 2026
Oh .... so we are still at the first comment? I will drop this thread right here as an ode to your utter stupidity. pic.twitter.com/3EdblWvehd
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) May 15, 2026
Vinod Khosla https://t.co/2h73lzCnOF Vinod has them. They are called trolls. Blocking them is the right decision. If you can't ignore. Verbal Martial Arts, Social Concentric Circles, and Non-Reaction https://t.co/k4p63FVrv5
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) May 15, 2026
You look great. Smart, articulate, cutting edge. "Curing cancer" was always the impossible in science. "Rocket science" was considered the hardest of tech.
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) May 15, 2026
Ah ... the smarts! ..... the brightest sun in tech entrepreneurship is now a socialist! Get some brain.
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) May 15, 2026
Japan still does not get it. Trump was close to point blank telling Takaichi to shut up and not provoke China, yet she cannot backtrack or risk losing her PM position. Now she asked Japan Ambassador to seek more verbal support Trump top priority now is to get China on his side,…
The war over Warner Bros. is raging now. On Friday, Netflix announced it agreed to buy Warner Bros. for $72B. The cable networks (CNN, HGTV, Food Network, etc.) would be split off, but the massive IP library would be going to Netflix. It would also consolidate two of the most…
The pull of AI is pushing companies to grow faster than ever, but a lot of that growth is happening with negative contribution margins. Companies like Cursor are effectively selling dollars for 75 cents to take the market.
We have seen this movie. The 15-minute delivery boom was…
This is what YC taught us about how to get your first paying users:
1) founders MUST do sales: You can't outsource early sales or hire a sales team immediately. You need to do it personally to understand the customer's problem because the product will initially be bad, only a…
After 5 years in SF, I’ve realized there’s a pretty consistent founder cycle:
Move to SF -> grind and go to as many events to meet as many people in the first 6 months -> lock in and go into hermit mode -> reemerge at Series A or quietly shut down the company & become a…
"The neurally divergent (like myself) will disproportionately shape America's future. We see past performative ideologies and perceive beauty in the world that still exists — which technology and art can expose.
I was Zapier’s first customer. How they sold me should be taught in every business school.
2011, I had the first paid subscription podcast and I wanted to send handwritten thank-you notes to buyers. But getting their addresses out of PayPal was a pain in the butt.
I'd like to do marketing for you. Digital Marketing Minimum https://t.co/hki7izgnzZ Marketing Principles Plus AI https://t.co/UKWWipfmwK The AI Marketing Revolution: How Artificial Intelligence is Transforming Content, Creativity, and Customer Engagement https://t.co/EGSKPBJdAc
I'd like to do marketing for you. Digital Marketing Minimum https://t.co/hki7izgVpx Marketing Principles Plus AI https://t.co/UKWWipfUmi The AI Marketing Revolution: How Artificial Intelligence is Transforming Content, Creativity, and Customer Engagement https://t.co/EGSKPBJLpK
"crypto has lost its way by becoming a global casino"
my man:
>you bought a ponzi scheme called bitcoin in 2014 hoping the price would go up >you were the first to bet on predictions in 2017 >you speculated on cartoon jpegs worth 100k in 2021 >you're excited for the stock…
JD Vance claims home prices are too high because so many illegal aliens have been buying, driving up prices. Actually, they don’t buy houses, they help build them. Kicking them out will drive up construction costs. It’s the Fed, the FHA, and the GSEs that drove up housing prices.
The American people understand what's at stake in Ukraine.
Any settlement of the war that hands over territory to Putin will set the stage for his next war of aggression - in Ukraine and beyond. https://t.co/NQDMiMH4bf
The reality is that the truth is costly, complicated and sometimes unpleasant – and so the world is flooded with simple, cheap and flattering fantasy. pic.twitter.com/0tlzFuIVgu
People with strong social ties have 50% higher odds of survival. Being isolated can be as harmful as smoking up to 15 cigarettes/day. And no, your “smoke break friend” does not cut it
Saving (Great) Britain: The Phoenix Fellowship At the start of my career in 2012 I moved to Singapore. It felt like living in a utopian future. Everything worked. Trains on time with plenty of room. Streets clean. Polite and well-educated kids. Zero crime (people left their laptops on mall cafeteria tables to reserve their seat). ........... In the past 20 years the Singapore government has achieved a budget surplus in 75% of the fiscal years. Such competence in governance is extraordinarily rare. But it did not happen by accident. ..........
I returned to the UK in 2014 to start my first company. Fast forward 10 years and Singapore seems like a distant dream compared to the dystopia in the UK.
i've noticed something odd lately
a lot of people who used to pay for services like ghostwriting or design now think they can do it themselves with AI
so they fire those people
but in most cases they can't get anywhere close to the old quality
A new study on "Where Discovery Happens" found that with basic research in the life sciences, Harvard contributes more than Canada & France combined. Boston, Cambridge, & Newton are just behind all of China—and well ahead of every other country in the world. Most of this is from…
This is crazy! A 4-month-old startup, Axiom, founded by @CarinaLHong solved 9/12 math problems in the Putnam, which is way harder than the IMO! https://t.co/5WUaVGVuiD
My Tesla quickly dodged around a car swerving into my lane this morning on highway.
For that instant I peered into the driver seat of the offending car, only witnessing a clueless human looking soulless in front of the road, not realizing what she had done if I was not on Full…
I told a student that calculus is the math of the industrial revolution and discrete mathematics is the math of the data revolution. Then I thought it would be cool to post that so here we are
There are only three reasons why people write exclusively in lowercase:
1. they want their writing to feel like a continuous stream of thought ... to flow more naturally, like a poem would, and make it easier for people to digest their ideas
— Amy Hyslop-Stover MD (@dancingnancy43) June 9, 2022
Doctor who treated Uvalde victims recalls "two children whose bodies had been pulverized by bullets fired at them, decapitated, whose flesh had been [so] ripped apart, that the only clue as to their identities was the blood-spattered cartoon clothes still clinging to them." pic.twitter.com/Bx1t3yPvHb
The idea or directional idea matters a TON. And founder-mkt fit matters a ton.
This is also why you often see a great founder strike out on several businesses but then hit on one w a much better idea later. https://t.co/tgYB3eIUZB
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) June 9, 2022
Good point. I thought David Brooks was really offbase today. Sure, we need to figure out how best to move forward. But too few people really get what happened. These hearings are necessary but not sufficient. https://t.co/cfS1bIhyge
if you're in/coming to SF, NYC, or Austin and you like being social & getting plugged into events around town, engage with this tweet! been cooking up some fun stuff for you ✨🕺
I have just the thing for you. I just messaged you on LinkedIn.
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) June 9, 2022
3/ When I started… Largest crypto exchange: Mt Gox vs Binance Daily volume: $2m vs $70B Market cap: $1.6B vs $1.3T This is an early picture of the team in our first-ever office! pic.twitter.com/wVdBY7FySw
Nepal has started exporting maximum upto 312 MW of Electricity from today to India everyday after increase in production due to monsoon. Around NRs. 7 crores worth of electricity is exported daily on an average. ❤️ pic.twitter.com/kRLFGmbVYP
Guinness World Record: India breaks Qatar's record by constructing 75km good quality highway in 5 days i.e. 105 Hours and 33 Minutes. Nepal should also learn from this even if it is of small scale. pic.twitter.com/3Y4WKKhX0I
— Routine of Nepal banda (@RONBupdates) June 9, 2022
When we teach kids to follow the rules that there is only one right answer and to avoid mistakes at all costs, we are resigning them to average.
Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) on the importance of gun reform talks in Congress:
"If we can't deliver on the thing that matters most to parents ... they are going to ask this fundamental question: What on earth are we doing here?" pic.twitter.com/DZdi2BQuzM
What feeds terrorism domestically is suicidal tendencies. The illusion is that we simply die. But we are Souls and it is always us we have to face. And we have, however hidden, an inner light that means self-hatred never wins. The problem is always self-hate.
— Stephen C. Rose -- Follow me. I reciprocate. PEACE (@stephencrose) June 9, 2022
actually, no consumer would have asked henry ford to build faster horses because that's a really stupid thing to ask for
— david phelps (🐮,🐮)(🃏,🃏) (@divine_economy) June 9, 2022
reminder: ford won a major award from the nazis, hitler said he was "my inspiration," and he destroyed an entire business and city through a preposterous neocolonialist exercise in his delusionary, egotistical refusal to listen to others!
— david phelps (🐮,🐮)(🃏,🃏) (@divine_economy) June 9, 2022
@Aroosh_ND@yoshida_chris@NorthernDataAG Hire me as a Consultant to draw a 1000X growth trajectory for your company and also help execute. You are a gem. My first name at Gmail.
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) June 6, 2022
things that are simply better in europe: dairy, zara, public transportation
Nepal starts selling 177.7 MW electricity to India. Average clearing price of the electricity has been maintained at INR 7.04 per unit, according to NEA. This is the first time that the country is exporting such huge quantity to India. In the near future it is expected to rise.
— Dr. Shankar P Sharma (@DrShankarSharma) June 5, 2022
Web3 isn’t a technology, it’s a vibe. A vibe that propagates by misrepresenting the capabilities of various technologies.
From claiming NFTs create an “ownership society” to stating that web3 is decentralized when in practice it’s centralizing around a new set of players. https://t.co/lffoLLh8Ei
TikTok will be more influential on future elections than any other social media app — and yet it’s controlled by a hostile, foreign government. Why isn’t this a bigger issue?
Such a shame that some of the best minds of our generation want to work in “web3,” instead of real jobs like hedge fund analysts, venture capitalists or bankers.
NEW: Billionaire Tim Draper Predicts $250,000 $BTC Price in 2022
— Market Meditations (@MrktMeditations) May 30, 2022
Zero in on the problems you can solve, instead of lamenting the ones you can’t. https://t.co/JvHA7zNgqq
— Harvard Business Review (@HarvardBiz) May 30, 2022
lord give me the confidence of a junior VC telling founders how to navigate downturn
— VCs Congratulating Themselves 👏👏👏 (@VCBrags) May 30, 2022
The hardest task for a senior engineer is to learn a new area where they will need to become a beginner again. But at some point, this is the only way to grow, and doing it successfully unlocks unique impact. Especially true for great engineers switching into machine learning.
Don't be confused by what looks like luck to you. Success always comes as a result of earlier actions—no matter how seemingly insignificant they are or how long ago they were taken
VC feels that they overpaid for the Series A round in 2021 and is now being mean to the founder. Has a BOD seat, is not being helpful, often putting down the founder. This is super weird and unfortunate. Peak VC bad behavior 👎🏼
One of the more surprising things in business is the degree to which an inexperienced person with the right mindset will outperform a highly experienced person without it.
You are right, Scott, in your innuendo. We need structural solutions. Policy. Technology is helping.
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) June 4, 2022
Body. Mind. Heart. Soul. AI pretends to imitate, reciprocate and outperform only some parts of the brain/mind. Character is not on the menu. Car wheels are your limbs. They don't have character.
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) June 4, 2022
people have an intrinsic desire to believe in big ideas, but it's very dangerous for most americans to hold any actual convictions
— 🅰pocalypsis 🅰pocalypseos 🇷🇺 🇨🇳 🅉 (@apocalypseos) May 31, 2022
Heavy police presence in Causeway Bay on #June4, the anniversary of #TiananmenSquareMassacre. A man near Victoria Park has been surrounded by police officers for 25 mins. They have meticulously gone through everything in his bag, including every card pocket of his wallet. pic.twitter.com/9X1AAQzNHb
Today you will hear a lot about the so called “#TiananmenSquareMassacre” Beijing, China. This is part of the imperialists' Information War against China.
They will show you 1 image from Tiananmen Square; They do NOT want you to see this whole video: pic.twitter.com/HhKhuMXZMr
Kabhi Socha hei? IMF inky budget mein deduction ka kiu nhi kehti ?
I'm never against the defense budget but the matter of fact is ,that army has biggest businesses in Pakistan.They must be limities to their budgets. Institutes don't have authority to run business#BajwaHasToGopic.twitter.com/FQx18JcEUP
#BajwaHasToGo Pakistan once again had a chance to move forward, to get out of American slavery. Unfortunately, Bajwa preferred the dollar over the national interest. pic.twitter.com/NpYbIBBEOe
Keeping aside the debate about Bajwa being right or wrong, I acknowledge the fact that he depleted the credibility and integrity of the armed forces.#BajwaHasToGohttps://t.co/7M7TmG1ZM0
And we @OfficialDGISPR are the lamber one in the world! Any shame for ruining my country? Any apology for your shameless and never ending meddling with our institutions? Look at the India you hv been poisoning us against since childhood. #BajwaHasToGohttps://t.co/egvpFRwF4S
1/I don’t talk about this a lot but I’ve been pulled over 4x in the past year alone by cops. Why? They tell me it’s because of something I did 1-2 miles back…aka they followed me for 1-2 miles before deciding to pull me over.
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) May 29, 2022
Nepal’s air safety record has been improving in recent years, but the crash on Sunday will once more highlight the dangers of domestic aviation in Nepal. https://t.co/MiC5KTy7iv
But here’s what those folks are NOT telling you: 1) no brand new enlistee in the Army (or any branch of the military) is given a firearm on Day 1 of his/her service. They receive quite a bit of training in firearm safety before they ever are allowed to handle the weapon – even pic.twitter.com/wTsav4LTPS
if they grew up around guns and know all about them. 2) When they do get to handle their M-16s for the first time, there are no bullets ANYWHERE around. After being trained in firearm safety, they are then trained on the weapon itself without ever firing a live round. They pic.twitter.com/YQEdTWG6ey
learn how to handle it, carry it safely, disassemble it, clean it, check it for functionality, and reassemble it. 3) When they finally do get to fire the weapon, they are closely, CLOSELY supervised by their sergeants and officers. In fact, when the trainees go to the trainees pic.twitter.com/xdoJyaJUBr
go to the firing range for the first time, there are almost as many sergeants on the range as there are trainees. And some of the sergeants are assigned the specific responsibility for ensuring everything is done according to Army safety regulations. 4) Once the recruits pic.twitter.com/mQdP8RBSMT
finish their training and join their units, they NEVER get to carry their firearms around. Those weapons are kept in the unit arms room under double lock and key – each weapon is locked into its storage rack and the arms room itself is locked. And the arms room is protected by pic.twitter.com/xky5cYk2uE
an alarm system. 5) No soldier of ANY rank can simply go to the unit armorer (the sergeant responsible for the arms room) and say, “Gee, Sergeant, may I please sign out my M-16? I feel like exercising my 2nd Amendment right today by carrying my rifle around just because I can.” pic.twitter.com/QTVA8tlLyg
No, the troops only sign out their weapons for authorized purposes, such as marksmanship training or field exercises, and when they do that, they are ALWAYS under the supervision of a sergeant – usually under the supervision of several sergeants and a few officers, to boot. So, pic.twitter.com/ECnd1ckAKd
friends, that’s the rest of that story. Those 18 year old soldiers whom we trust to carry an assault rifle are doing to under conditions so tightly regulated as to make any gun rights activist blanche in anger. The military recognizes that those weapons are so deadly that they pic.twitter.com/ytUKwKllZi
I don't think Scholz, Macron, and Draghi want Putin to win, not exactly. But they are afraid of Ukraine winning and the world changing, of becoming less relevant. A new European security structure won't see them as leaders after their appeasement.
The complacent Western European old guard want to keep having it both ways. They claim the moral high ground & posture about human rights while funding Putin's police state and the war machine that is now slaughtering Ukrainians.
You are right Gary. A Navalny-led fully democratic Russia at peace with a vibrant Ukraine would make NATO irrelevant, and the center of gravity in Europe would move east to Ukraine.
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) May 29, 2022
I’ve been thinking about a16z’s obsession with crypto in the context of the downturn and had a realization. The past two tech downturns were reversed by the creation of new platforms. The internet for the dotcom crash and the iPhone post-housing crisis.
Benedict Evans has argued that tech’s growth has been fueled by new platforms which are 10x the opportunity of the previous one. As one generation fades, the next one is even bigger.
The question is what platform can be bigger than the smartphone? A16Z is betting it’s crypto. pic.twitter.com/dAfYsbph14
Observation of a paradox at startups (and also at larger companies). People would be surprised by how much thought, time and effort is spent on people and culture issues at successful companies. A thread...
Oddly, it is 2018 again. I am sitting in my house getting a ton of credible pitches. I wonder what is going on that is causing teams to look at angels in volume again. Probably nothing.
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) May 29, 2022
VC markets are close to frozen right now. I don’t think there’s reason to panic — mostly this is like March 2020 as everyone digests new info and waits for markets to stabilise. Expect a reopening in September.
(And yes the crossover fund picture is markedly worse).
“Pakistan has become less safe, not safer, after the Taliban’s victorious march into Kabul.” Read @husainhaqqani on how Islamabad’s bet on Afghanistan’s hardliners is backfiring. https://t.co/BS78WbHjWv
