Aditya Agarwal @adityaag

General Partner @SouthPkCommons, Co-Founder @Bevel_Health | Ex: Early Eng @facebook, CTO @Dropbox, Board @Flipkart | Optimist, Builder, Dad SF, Kauai, Montana Joined March 2007

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Ruchi Sanghvi @rsanghvi

8 hours ago

With @adityaag, the stories never end. Tomorrow we're sitting down in NYC for -1 to SPC. RSVP below!

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Japan and it's capabilities in terms of electronics, battery production, semi-conductors and manufacturing is the answer to building up US industrial capacity. We have aligned interests. We should be marching in lockstep.

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Aditya Agarwal @adityaag

4 days ago

Are we in an AI bubble? Three stories / thought experiments: 1/ If 6 weeks from now, you told that Nvidia missed earnings by 3% which caused Mag 7 to slip by 30% which froze the private markets --> I'd shrug and say, that's not crazy. 2/ My father is 75 years old. He uses AI…

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South Park Commons @southpkcommons

5 days ago

"How many people in this room have PhDs?" Thanks for joining us in NYC to talk the researcher to startup journey @jefrankle, @tnsainath, @awiltschko, @stephenroller, @ditzikow

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Aditya Agarwal @adityaag

5 days ago

I am coming to realize that hardware founders are motivated by two things that are very odd: --> An insane desire to only do difficult things. --> Glory. From a recent SPC founder working on rockets: "If I wanted easy, I'd build software. But where's the *glory* in that?" Maybe…

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Aditya Agarwal @adityaag

6 days ago

A very common thing you hear from Very Smart People is “LLMs are only as good as the training data. They can also do things that they see in the training set”. In some ways, this is quite true. But in many other ways, it is very dumb. The big thing that people miss is…

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Aditya Agarwal @adityaag

6 days ago

This was a really fun one.

Prateek Mehta @prateekmehta42

6 days ago

This was a really fun one.

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Jonathan Brebner @JPBrebner

a week ago

This is how we think about risk and -1 to 0 at @southpkcommons. We're much less interested in figure a than figure b.

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Jonathan Brebner @JPBrebner

2 weeks ago

It’s fun to see the -1 to 0 concept help people make sense of their own thinking, work, and journeys completely outside the context of @southpkcommons

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Prateek Mehta @prateekmehta42

2 weeks ago

Risk is a 4-letter word in India. Instead of asking “what if I’m right?”, often our most talented are trained from birth to worry, “what do I stand to lose if I’m wrong?” We’re used to hearing, "Bring me the right answers, not questions." "Come back when you have more traction."…

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Aditya Agarwal @adityaag

2 weeks ago

Last week was a big one for Oracle. And for Larry Ellison. Most engineers in Silicon Valley haven't thought of Oracle in two decades. It was interesting for me on a personal level. My first job out of school was at Oracle, writing database kernel software. I got to work on some…

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Marco Sanvido @msanvido

2 weeks ago

Controversial viewpoint I strongly believe in: If you aren't having fun and joy building a startup/team/project, you are NGMI in the long run. Grind or no grind. linkedin.com/posts/sanvido_…

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Evan Tana | evantana.eth @evantana

2 weeks ago

After another Founder Fellowship interview season with hundreds of interviews, a key insight crystallized: The single most important thing you can do when fundraising at the -1 is to connect the dots between your lived experience, your unique superpowers, and the future you're…