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Ankit Gupta

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Ankit Gupta

@agupta

general partner @ycombinator. co-founder of @reverielabs (acquired). @harvard CS. 🫶 to @lucylnam.

Cambridge, MA

Joined November 2015

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Ankit Gupta
@agupta
Mar 30
Fun update: I got tired of disliking every email client I’ve ever used and built my own. It’s called Exo (for exoskeleton). It’s Claude Code for my inbox. It manages my inbox for me, and it’s open source. Link to repo + some notable features in thread!
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Ankit Gupta
@agupta
Aug 11, 2025
The answer is still computer science. What you see in the lack of tech jobs right now isn't the death of CS, it's the slow death of the last 20 years of big tech companies that are held back by their bloat in a new technological moment. There will be new ones.
cold 🥑
@coldhealing
Aug 10, 2025
If you were advising a widely-talented 17yo today who wanted the safest path to the upper middle class what college major would you recommend? I genuinely don't know. The world is changing a lot. It's probably not computer science. Maybe it's mechanical engineering or math?
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Ankit Gupta
@agupta
Nov 12, 2025
Not sure where this guy is getting his stats but YC regularly backs Indian founders and I’d love to back many more. If you’re an Indian technical team, I’d encourage you to apply to YC. 🇮🇳 I’ll personally work to make sure you get a visa.
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Ankit Gupta
@agupta
Oct 17, 2025
Absolutely the right take. People have wrongly complained about places like Harvard CS having “too much theory” forever. Turns out if you get the theory it’s not that hard to apply it. The reverse is not true. That + a culture of students working on side projects with their
julian
@JulianL093
Oct 17, 2025
This is not a particularly good take and is indicative of a fundamental misunderstanding of what a top-tier technical college education is suppose to offer. Preparing to understand modern AI as a Harvard or Stanford undergrad is not about learning "prompt engineering", vibe
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Ankit Gupta
@agupta
Oct 21, 2025
This is an unfortunate position because while Amazon’s retail business shows signs of big tech monopoly that hurt the little guy, AWS is a story of how immense competition can drive down costs for the little guy. Nearly every company that was affected by that outage couldn’t
Elizabeth Warren
@SenWarren
Oct 20, 2025
If a company can break the entire internet, they are too big. Period. It's time to break up Big Tech.
Readers added context
AWS is not a monopoly. It represents 30% of the web. Sen. Warren also overlooks the fact that many providers went down because their services relied on a single AWS region, a malpractice that is not Amazon's fault. It did not affect Google, X, and many others. statista.com/chart/18819/wo… x.com/gergelyorosz/s… en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redundanc… docs.aws.amazon.com/whitepapers/la…
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Ankit Gupta
@agupta
Sep 12, 2025
YC took a bet on me almost 8 years ago and changed my life. The partners we worked with in building Reverie helped us navigate some of our hardest moments. I feel so fortunate to have a job helping the next generation of founders set out on their own incredible adventures.
Y Combinator
@ycombinator
Sep 12, 2025
We’re excited to welcome Ankit Gupta as YC’s newest General Partner. Ankit founded Reverie Labs (W18), a biotech startup using ML for drug discovery that was acquired by Ginkgo Bioworks, and has published research at ICML. Now he’s bringing that experience to support YC
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Ankit Gupta
@agupta
Nov 7, 2025
YC is funding more AI research companies than ever before. I'm very excited to fund frontier research, including in companies that plan to stay in stealth. This upcoming batch, we are running a special cohort for companies like this. If you're a researcher and interested, you
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Ankit Gupta
@agupta
Dec 1, 2024
Some exciting news — I’ll be joining @ycombinator as a visiting partner for the Winter 2025 batch! Excited to be back in the YC community, working with the next generation of startups. 1/ ( 🧵)
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Ankit Gupta
@agupta
Oct 15, 2025
My favorite thing about YC: every YC partner is a former YC visiting partner, and every visiting partner is a former YC founder. And we still write code.
Garry Tan
@garrytan
Oct 14, 2025
Y Combinator has 9 new alums to work with us to find, fund, and advise tomorrow's best founders I am blown away at how smart, talented, giving, and experienced this set of all-star people are.
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Ankit Gupta
@agupta
Nov 10, 2025
Getting a new idea off the ground is tough. A trick: start with a minimum evolvable product. Some thoughts here.
ankitg.me
Startups start with a minimum evolvable product
Some counterintuitive thoughts on finding a first user and evolving from there.
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Ankit Gupta
@agupta
Jul 23, 2025
If you’re a team of engineers that likes working together and has a startup idea, you should apply! If you’re unsure whether you should, my DMs are open and I’ll do my best to reply quickly. Ask away!
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Ankit Gupta
@agupta
Aug 27, 2025
working at a YC startup >> All three of these got their first check from YC
Ben Lang
@benln
Aug 26, 2025
Not many career trajectories like this
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Ankit Gupta
@agupta
Sep 24, 2025
If you're graduating this year, you can now apply early-decision to YC. You can get funded now, graduate, and roll into your startup right after school.
Y Combinator
@ycombinator
Sep 24, 2025
Introducing Early Decision. For students who want to do a startup but also want to finish school first. Apply now, get funded the moment you're accepted, and do YC after you graduate. ycombinator.com/early-decision
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Ankit Gupta
@agupta
Sep 17, 2024
Big day today at @Ginkgo: we're pulling back the curtain on our proprietary biological foundation models and launching a model API! Our API will support private and open models, and we're pricing it competitively to enable others to build on top of it. Details in 🧵👇
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