Engineer at Titan MSP. Previously a founder, staff engineer at Vanta, tech lead at Dropbox

Joined June 2016
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Utsav Shah retweeted
I’m excited to share what @drewregitsky and I have been working on over the past few months: @boxesdotdev! If you're coding with Claude Code or Codex, it's time to move your development from localhost into the cloud. 1/11
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Today, we announce @NeocambrianAI The future of AI will be physical. But Physical AI has no internet scale dataset to learn from. We’re building the data foundation of Physical AI - a high fidelity, pre training scale database of Human Action. From India. For the world.
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what if everything goes right
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Last one is their a real ai audit company?
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BREAKING: Inside General Catalyst’s $1.5B AI Roll-Up Engine: The Creation Strategy Marc Bhargava, Managing Director at General Catalyst leads the Creation Strategies for incubations, transformations, & venture buyouts, as well as leading early stage crypto & fintech investing. He breaks down one of the most significant shifts happening inside venture & private markets today: AI Roll-Ups. As one of the 3 largest venture players with ~$40B AUM, General Catalyst has quietly built a $1.5B AI roll-up engine reshaping a $16 trillion market – historically defined by low margins & slow modernization. To date, Marc has led GC's investments in Long Lake, Rox, Eudia, Titan MSP, Dwelly, Pallet, Kick, Serval, Vivere, Cartesia, Aaru, Civic Roundtable, Physical Intelligence, Agora, etc. as well as sourced Mercor, Windsurf, Together AI. 𝐓𝐈𝐌𝐄𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐌𝐏𝐒 (00:00) Marc Bhargava, General Catalyst (02:54) Inside the $1.5B Creation Strategy & why AI rollups emerged (05:42) Early successes: Crescendo, Long Lake, Titan MSP, Eudia (08:15) The 4 categories of task automation (10:42) How GC narrowed 70 industries → 10 (13:18) The $16T services AI opportunity (15:46) Competing with traditional PE: long-term compounding vs. short-term flips (18:11) Funding mechanics: incubate → automation proof → acquisition → scale (20:33) How GC builds hybrid teams: AI-native PE operators (22:47) Why Fortune 100 AI transformation often fails (24:55) Will AI shrink or expand the workforce? (27:22) How GC decides when to build an AI rollup vs. invest in SaaS (29:49) Global expansion & where talent lives today (32:10) Why AI rollups are still massively underrated & what's coming next (44:19) Global Expansion & Talent Distribution (47:13) General Catalyst's Investment Philosophy (48:56) Looking Ahead: The Future of AI Rollups
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1 Sep 2025
the 9-9-6 local maxima trap you can optimize for looking busy, hitting metrics, being “productive” – but you might be climbing the wrong hill entirely. real breakthroughs happen in the spaces between. when you’re walking and your mind wanders. when you sit with a problem long enough that the obvious solutions dissolve and something deeper emerges. when you have the luxury of thinking “what if we’re approaching this completely wrong?” my process is simple: i’ll open a Notion doc on my phone and just walk. sometimes for hours. the walking rhythm unlocks something – maybe it’s the bilateral movement, maybe it’s getting away from screens, but ideas start connecting in ways they never do at a desk. i’ll quickly jot stuff down as interesting thoughts pass. then i come back and just sit with the problem. draw some pictures, build it out a bit. no rushing to conclusions. no pressure to ship something by end of day. just... what is this, really? what can it connect to or evolve into? what would this look like if it were in its most beautiful configuration? once i see it clearly, execution becomes effortless. the focused bursts where you’re completely in flow – that’s when the real work happens. but you can’t force your way there. you have to earn it with the slow, patient thinking first. the irony is that this “inefficient” approach ships better stuff faster than grinding 12-hour days. but it requires believing that thinking time isn’t wasted time. that walking isn’t procrastination. that sometimes the most productive thing you can do is to not do. many teams don’t get this. they need to see keyboards clicking and meetings happening. but the best work – the stuff that actually moves the needle – happens in the flow moments when no one’s watching.
Anecdotally, I’ve found the people most vocal and showy about grinding hard (9-9-6) tend to have less throughput than a garden variety workaholic. I suspect this is because they’ve internalized endurance pace all the time. And loose the ability to sprint when needed.
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24 Aug 2025
One of the reasons I think @cursor_ai is fast because it ships all code to @turbopuffer rather than run embedding search locally. Definitely a strategy that an existing IDE can never execute on without risking existing large customers..
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As a product builder, it's always most enjoyable to work at a company that creates or redefines a category. There's no one to copy from - so it's encouraged to have folks that deeply understand both customers and technology and can experiment rapidly
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My favorite part of the internet is running into @EnvoyProxy error messages on popular websites
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It's important to understand technology deeply so you can understand its limitations. Eg: Bigger model != better reasoning. Reasoning introduces latency. Therefore, low latency use-cases (like voice AI) are still capped on reasoning-heavy tasks.
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It's easier to build software now, and there's more opportunities to build useful software. It's still hard to build "tasteful" software, and it's still hard to be creative enough to know what software to build.
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31 Jul 2025
I vibe-coded a voice AI app that acts as a call center for someone running a services business. It's been running for a month, and it's better than their previous $30k/year call center labor spend. The infrastructure cost last month was $25. AI is definitely taking jobs.
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Startup ideas don't matter. But every billion dollar startup had a billion dollar idea that they focused on at some point. Does this idea enable you to learn and be creative to come to that billion dollar idea? Is it a good idea space? That matters.
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27 Jun 2025
to the person who said that we would never close a specific, huge, company-defining deal. fuck you. we closed it this morning. startups are about hope and persistence. startups are about getting punched in the face, stabbed in the back, and still getting up. this is why you'll never be a successful founder. this is why you didn't cut it at an earlier stage startup. you're dead to me. and you were wrong.
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Joining Supabase For some time, I've been considering a Vitess adaptation for Postgres, and this feeling had been gradually intensifying. The recent explosion in the popularity of Postgres has fueled this into a full-blown obsession. As these databases grow, users are going to face a hard limit once they max out the biggest available machine. The project to address this problem must begin now, and I'm convinced that Vitess provides the most promising foundation. After exploring various environments, I found the best fit with Supabase. I’m grateful for how they welcomed me. Furthermore, their open-source mindset, fully remote work culture, and, most importantly, the empathetic leadership of @kiwicopple resonated with me. Now, it’s time to make this happen. Regarding PlanetScale You might wonder why I didn’t consider building this at PlanetScale. After nearly three years away, I've come to recognize that it’s a different company now, with its own priorities and vision. I had to draw a line. It required some introspection, but I finally shifted my perspective from "What should the co-founder of PlanetScale do?" to "What should the co-creator of Vitess do?". Once I framed the question this way, the answer became clear.
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Why is Kumail Nanjiani the keynote speaker at Datadog's conference? @datadoghq
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