Practical AI for Leaders. Design Partner for Startups & Enterprises @teamepyc · Upekkha AI Accelerator Mentor @ Inc42 · MICA · Masters' Union

Joined April 2018
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Small milestone ✨: We at @teamEPYC have completed 5 years in our journey. #epyc #5years #anniversary
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lessgoo, need to get better at making videos:)
Have a CGM, a ring and a watch but was missing something that connects it all. Saw a shout out from @keerthisiddeshw and had to give this a try. @lifeofraghav19 @earth_ish excited to be on the @Depthonx journey as founder #0332 of the first 1,000 on depth.fit
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RT @levelsio: I said this I forgot to who but I said it BigTech will eventually come for all apps / startups / companies because they can…

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Some of the best briefs are the open-ended ones. India Deep Tech Alliance — wanted no imagery. Just pure design, motion, & interaction telling the story. We built the identity and the website from scratch. Mature. Minimal. Built to last. Proud of this one. Built by @teamEPYC
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the generation that refused to accept cookies. is now giving AI access to their desktops, files, and bank accounts.
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Introducing the @AIFuturesFund x @AccelAtoms AI Cohort 2026. 🚀 Selected from thousands of applicants, we’re backing five startups building the next frontier. 🤖 @getdodgeai (Autonomous ERP) 🎙️ Persistence Labs (Voice AI) 🏗️ @LevelPlane (Industrial Automation) 📺 @ZingrollIndia (AI-Native Entertainment) 🧪 @k_dense_ai (AI Co-Scientist)
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We had a great time building and shipping the new website for @0xPolygon #polygon #dev #webflow #epyc
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Mayank Nagpal ⭐️ EPYC retweeted
My biggest takeaways from @jenny_wen (design lead at @AnthropicAI): 1. The traditional design process is breaking down. The classic discover-diverge-converge loop that designers have relied on for years doesn’t work when engineers can spin up seven coding agents and ship a working version before a designer finishes exploring options. 2. Design work is splitting into two distinct modes. The first is supporting execution: consulting with engineers as they build, giving feedback, polishing in code. The second is setting short-range vision, now scoped to three to six months instead of multi-year roadmaps. The vision work is still critical because when everyone can build anything fast, someone needs to point the team in a coherent direction. 3. Build trust through speed, not perfection. Anthropic ships products early, labels them research previews, and then iterates publicly based on real feedback. Jenny argues that what actually degrades a brand isn’t launching something rough; it’s launching something rough and then going silent. If you ship fast, respond to feedback visibly, and keep improving, users will trust you more, not less. 4. The most overlooked hire in design right now is the cracked new grad. Most companies are hiring senior designers with deep experience. Jenny argues that early-career people with blank slates, fast learning curves, and no attachment to legacy processes may be uniquely suited to this moment. They don’t carry baked-in rituals that are now obsolete, and their lack of expectations can actually be an advantage. 5. Chat as an interface isn’t going away. Despite expectations that chatbots were a temporary stop on the way to richer UIs, Jenny sees chat as a permanently valuable interface because it offers infinite flexibility. But she expects a hybrid future where models increasingly generate UI elements on the fly for specific tasks (like the interactive widgets Claude recently shipped) while chat remains the connective tissue between them. 6. Jenny went from design director (12 to 15 reports) back to IC. She questioned whether middle management had a safe future and wanted hands-on time during a period of rapid change. The IC time is giving her hard skills she wouldn’t have gained while managing. 7. AI will likely get better at taste and judgment. Jenny says designers may be holding onto “taste” as a moat too tightly. But someone still has to be accountable for what ships, the same way an engineer is accountable for AI-generated code. 8. Hire three archetypes: strong generalists, deep specialists, and “cracked new grads.” Strong generalists are “block-shaped” (80th percentile across multiple skills). Deep specialists are top 10% in one area. Cracked new grads—the most overlooked—have no baked-in processes and learn new tools fastest. 9. Figma is still essential, but for different reasons than before. Jenny says Figma remains the best tool for rapidly exploring 8 to 10 different design directions on a canvas, something that coding tools handle poorly because they’re too linear and create investment bias toward one direction. For micro-level visual and interaction decisions, spatial exploration still beats sequential iteration. 10. Low-leverage work is often the highest-leverage thing a manager can do. Jenny pushes back on the conventional management advice to ruthlessly prioritize only high-leverage tasks. She points to leaders who obsessively dogfood the product, repro bugs, and personally fix small issues—activities that seem “below” a senior leader but create deep product familiarity, set a cultural tone of care, and earn trust from the team in ways that strategic planning never can. Watch our full conversation: youtube.com/watch?v=eh8bcBIA…
Design lead for Claude: The classic design process is dead. Here's what's replacing it. Jenny Wen (@jenny_wen) leads design for Claude at @AnthropicAI, was previously director of design at @Figma, and a designer at @Dropbox, @Square, and @Shopify. In our in-depth conversation, we discuss: 🔸 Why the classic discovery → mock → iterate design process is becoming obsolete 🔸 What a day in the life of a designer at Anthropic looks like, including her AI tool stack 🔸 Whether AI will eventually surpass humans in taste and judgment 🔸 Why Jenny left a director role at Figma to return to IC work 🔸 The three archetypes Jenny is hiring for now This conversation changed how I think about the future of design. Listen now 👇 youtu.be/eh8bcBIAAFo
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We just built Figma for Claude Code > Select any element on your local front-end > Edit it like you would in Figma > Apply the changes with Claude Code This is not a demo or waitlist. Try it today.
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Mayank Nagpal ⭐️ EPYC retweeted
17 Oct 2025
"The rich love quiet because they're trying to work." - @paulg
Stupid people have a high tolerance to external noises — alarms, barking dogs and loud vehicles. Intelligent people who (crucially) leverage their intelligence to perform useful, valuable work place a much higher value on a quiet environment with few interruptions.
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Weekends are now mostly for meeting people IRL. Left is with @nocodeguy - The dude is a legend, taught me everything I know about product, agency business, and freelancing. Right is with my fellow members from @GrowthX_Club. Building an AI agent for investor bankers - @jordiie09 and @satyamaaan building a stealth project.
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We had fun time working on it
26 Sep 2025
🚢 Proud to have partnered with @getplumhq for their ambitious website overhaul—a true “Ship of Theseus” journey from the EPYC design & dev team’s POV!
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20 Aug 2025
. @accelindia just dropped the ultimate report on advanced manufacturing in India and every hardware / robotics founder trying to move out of China should read it events-in.accel.com/advanced… 1/n
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8 Aug 2025
One of the most important things I've ever read was this by @shl "The market you’re in will determine most of your growth" It sounds basic but it's not You think how much you work on your product and how great you make it work is what will make your revenue go up But usually it's just the market and then if that market grows or not That's why I like to throw spaghetti on the wall and try different markets until I see something stick and I see a potential market that is growing or I think will grow in the future More important than your product I think
If I’m being honest, 70% of ScrapingBee’s success came down to just picking the web scraping API niche. Talent matters. But market matters more. My heuristic for this is to never build in an industry where the market leader is making less than ~200m$/year. It was the case with web scraping. But it was pure luck.
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200 🇮🇳 AI-first startups. One open list. 👇 SaaSBoomi’s #AIRadar is a living, open directory of 200 #AI-first #startups (and growing). Discover. Collaborate. Invest. Get inspired. Find your next pilot, partner, or bet: compass.saasboomi.org/ai_sta… Let’s build! 🦾
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Had a fun time working on this....Apply now to Accel Atoms
28 Jul 2025
Building with a team? Apply as a team. This year, you can invite your co-founder, teammate, or anyone you trust to collaborate on your Accel Atoms application to edit, review, and apply together. Applications are now open. Check it out.
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13 Jul 2025
pixar accidentally solved the AI alignment problem in 2015. their movie - Inside Out demonstrates that human memory is an active, emotionally weighted system, not passive storage. memories change valence over time, get contaminated by current emotional states, and are filtered through multiple competing utility functions (Joy prioritizing positive reinforcement, Fear encoding threat models, etc.). current AI architectures are building perfect retrieval systems when they should be building biased, lossy, emotionally contextualized memory that degrades and transforms. we need emotional weighting mechanisms that make memory actually useful for decision making.
13 Jul 2025
ai memory that just logs your inputs will always feel uncanny unless it observes passively. most of the important memories aren’t declared, they’re revealed through your actions & behavior. & they are also often subconscious. this is the most interesting & important problem in ai.
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Mayank Nagpal ⭐️ EPYC retweeted
27 Jun 2025
Cloudflare CEO @eastdakota is having the most honest conversations I've come across about the current & future of content creation "6 months ago, 75% of queries to Google get answered on Google. Which means if you're an original content creator, your content is getting summarized & sold (they still put ads there), but you don't get that traffic. And that's the good news. It used to be that for every 2 pages G scraped, you would expect 1 visitor. 6 months ago that deteriorated to 6 pages scraped to get 1 visitor. Today the traffic ratio is: for every 18 pages Google scrapes, you get 1 visitor. What changed? AI Overviews If the business model of the web has been search, fundamentally, for the last 35 years. You get value by subscriptions, ads, or fame. All 3 of those things are going away, and they are going away fast. And that's STILL the good news. What's the ration for OpenAI? 6 months ago it was 250:1. Today it's 1,500:1. What's changed? People trust the AI more, so they're not reading original content. People aren't following the footnotes. So if you believe the business model of original content creation is driving people to that content... I just have a really bad story for you. The future of the web is going to be people reading the summaries of content, not the original. What I'm worried about is - if you can't sell subscriptions or monetize ads or get the ego boost from people reading your stuff, why anyone is going to create content?"
27 Jun 2025
If you’re in media, this is worth a watch. Cloudflare handles ≈20% of global traffic, so when CEO Matthew Prince warns at Cannes that AI bots are reshaping the web, publishers need to adapt or risk being left behind.
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Mayank Nagpal ⭐️ EPYC retweeted
26 Jun 2025
Companies are starting to fully understand that design and craft is the differentiator. Designer talent war is just the start.
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Mayank Nagpal ⭐️ EPYC retweeted
22 Jun 2025
5 days to go and just a few seats left for Chandigarh Design Meetup 2.0 by @designersunion_ 🥳🎉🎊 📍BrandClef Studio, Mohali 📅 June 28th 🌟 More details and registration at 🔗 lu.ma/laryyllk #ChandigarhDesignMeetup2
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