sf is such an interesting place you have generational product people like Fahd and Kaz, bet their entire career on companies like $open instead of riding off into the sunset this is an objectively difficult business to run, they know that, yet they signed up

Varadh Jain truly the forward deployed angel goat. so great jamming w Justin Banusing thanks Vedika Jain for always making the best intros!!! 😇

Every first-time founder has that one venture friend. The one slacking deck edits at midnight, fielding investor screenshots play-by-play, and making the intro that unlocks momentum. That friend has a name now: the venture quarterback.

Shortlist of great angel investors you want to have on your cap table: • Terrence Rohan - angel in Figma, Notion • Kyle Parrish - early Figma, Dropbox • eric zakariasson - early Cursor • Akshay Kothari - Notion co-founder • Lenny Rachitsky - Lenny's newsletter • Michael Stoppelman - former SVP eng

The talk Andrej Karpathy gave was both filled with easy to meme sound bites but also quite technical I’d love to be able to rewatch it with the math / CS concepts showing up in a side bar that I can interact with and learn from, and maybe implement a basic version of I have an

day 1 1. walk 15k steps a day ✅ 2. don’t eat after 6 pm ✅ 3. drink 1gal of water a day 🤷‍♂️ 4. try to get to 100g of protein ❌ 50g 5 workout ✅ 6. no sugar and paneer butter masala allowed ✅

On a walk with Calvin Chen yesterday, somebody very enterprising heard the word "RL Environment" and then proceeded to ask for a work trial Things that can only happen in SF

day 2: 1. walk 15k steps a day ✅ - this is going down to 10k 2. don’t eat after 6 pm ✅ 3. drink 1gal of water a day 🤷‍♂️ 4. try to get to 100g of protein ❌ 80 5 workout ✅ - peloton 6. food - no sugar and paneer butter masala allowed ✅ ate some pad kee mao

day 3: 1. walk 10k steps a day ✅ 2. don’t eat after 6 pm ❌ 3. drink 1gal of water a day ✅ 4. try to get to 100g of protein ✅ 5 workout ✅ - pilates & small lifting session 6. food - no sugar and heavy carb allowed ✅ no photos somehow at all yesterday. getting to 100g

day 4: weigh in was 178 we keep chugging along am until the next one

during the pandemic there was a period where many of us (thanks to clubhouse Sriram Krishnan Sheel Mohnot ryan and more) were buying domains non stop today, i have decided to stop renewing 40 domains and handed about 10 to friends as an early birthday gift for the people ones

one way to find out that the ads on chatGPT have started x.com/varadhjain/sta…

Sam is one to watch :)

finally going to be doing the cross town trail in 2 weekends from now - would love recs! should be a fun 17 miles to walk if you’d like to join lmk!!

ai middle manager will be the ai-native slack

these 'deltas' are automated updates - it was the thesis of Broadcast :')