Deedy
VC at @MenloVentures. Formerly founding team @glean, @Google Search. @Cornell CS. Tweets about tech, immigration, India, fitness and search.
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Starlink is one of the seminal feats of engineering in history. It will enable internet that's β fast 100-300mbps β uncensored β cheap $1500/yr in: β the most remote areas β ships...
o1-preview is far superior to doctors on reasoning tasks and it's not even close, according to OpenAI's latest paper. AI does ~80% vs ~30% on the 143 hard NEJM CPC diagnoses. It'...
HUGE Immigration News! We have the first EVER look at H-1B lottery data. Did you also suspect the lottery wasn't truly random? They're not. Certain companies like Tiktok and Byte...
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The middle manager is the biggest culprit of the "quiet quitting" SWE epidemic. They have 0 incentive to fire. The entire job is bargaining for more headcount so they can get prom...
A single fairly unknown Dutch company makes maybe the most expensive and complex non-military device ($200M) that builds on 40 years of Physics and has a monopoly responsible for a...
Guide to starting a US company as an international founder. Here are ALL your options: βO-1A /EB-1A visa βInternational Entrepreneur Rule βH-4, dependent on your spouse βUS citize...
Everyone thinks this is an exaggeration but there are so many software engineers, not just at FAANG, who I know personally who literally make ~2 code changes a month, few emails, f...
Indian startup Dotpe, that raised ~$100M to build point of sale systems for restaurants left their entire API fully public. A clever hacker found out the most ordered thing at eve...
My GREEN CARD just came in the mail today! πΊπΈ I've spent the past 13yrs in the US afraid of being fired, anxious about travel paperwork, and not knowing if I'd spend New Years wit...
When I write about leaving India, many say I'm biased. Let's look at data. Every year, ~2.5M Indians move abroad. Indians are the largest overseas diaspora with 30M+ people. In c...
What are the top 10 ranks from IITJEE, the hardest exam in India, 1998 doing today? Abhinav Kumar, rank 1, didn't even go to IIT. β IMO Gold medalist β went to MIT to do 3 majors...