Nipun Kant @nipungkant

GM at DoorDash. Formerly at Scale AI, founder of Haven YC W20. Entrepreneur, operator. New York, USA Joined February 2015

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Nipun Kant @nipungkant

4 weeks ago

the courage to define what you won't do, is underrated

Shreyas Doshi @shreyas

4 years ago

the courage to define what you won't do, is underrated

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2 failure modes of product management in complex orgs: 1/ Focus on metrics before vision & strategy 2/ Reliance on one metric as litmus test for PMF & demand Instead: start with vision then articulate strategy then lay out stretch goals then work backwards to get there

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Nipun Kant @nipungkant

4 weeks ago

Very true

Ryan Carson @ryancarson

4 weeks ago

Very true

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Nipun Kant @nipungkant

4 weeks ago

“It’s a game of inches” is one of the most pernicious myths in tech companies It invites incrementalism that stifles the ingenuity needed for 10x gains

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Nipun Kant @nipungkant

4 weeks ago

Highly recommend @crmiller1’s Chip War Striking how much it rhymes w/ the LLM era — the gold rush, obsessive competition, 3P interdependencies, and most of all, the once-uncertain market sizes that a few bet on

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Nipun Kant @nipungkant

2 months ago

Once you start building voice agents, you’ll start to see possibilities all over the place There is no going back

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Nipun Kant @nipungkant

2 months ago

Plenty of clickbait about vibe coding But to actually get apps to production, you must be able to understand.. -Your codebase -High-level architecture -How the agent intends to implement And be able to course correct it often

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Nipun Kant @nipungkant

2 months ago

If you’re a consultant or mba looking to break into startups, the best thing you can do today is build something. Build a piece of software that solves a real problem for 1 person That’s more possible for anyone today than ever before

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Nipun Kant @nipungkant

2 months ago

Much of building AI agents today is grasping for straws of determinism In a newly non-deterministic world

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Nipun Kant @nipungkant

2 months ago

Tech jobs have trended toward specialization over past decade That is falling away rapidly as people have PhD experts in their pocket High agency generalists who can also code may be the highest leverage role

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Nipun Kant @nipungkant

2 months ago

If you're vibe coding large features, best results come from 80% planning, 20% execution. Allocating way more tokens to the planning phase is the biggest bang for your buck.

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Nipun Kant @nipungkant

7 months ago

Long live the app layer! H/t @Suhail

Balaji @balajis

7 months ago

Long live the app layer! H/t @Suhail

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Nipun Kant @nipungkant

10 months ago

Painful annual planning comes from a lack of aligned strategy H/t @shreyas

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Nipun Kant @nipungkant

10 months ago

o1-preview is a great step forward for independent reasoning, but is RLHF’ed to be a bit too verbose and detailed I hope @OpenAI tweaks in their next iteration