user avatar
Farid Ahsan
@frdahsan
Founder & CEO @generalautonomy e/acc 🇮🇳 deep tech hustler. "Physical labour is dead... long live physical labour!"
Mumbai, India
ga.tech
Joined June 2011
199
Following
4,846
Followers
Posts
  • Pinned
    user avatar
    Farid Ahsan
    @frdahsan
    Mar 31
    Hiring an AI Operator (Founder’s Office) at @GeneralAutonomy Not a PM. Not a BA. Not a PPT role. You will: - Take messy user requirements - Turn them into specs / responses using AI - Help decide what we build vs ignore Looking for: - High agency - Fast execution (hours, not
    16K
  • user avatar
    Farid Ahsan
    @frdahsan
    Jun 2, 2025
    The longest walk by an indigenously designed life size humanoid robot in India, because it is the first! 📍Somewhere in Bengaluru
    00:00
    40K
  • user avatar
    Farid Ahsan
    @frdahsan
    Jul 24, 2025
    (1/8) You can't hire your way to win in robotics. Let me repeat that: YOU CANNOT HIRE YOUR WAY TO WIN IN ROBOTICS! 🧵👇
    00:00
    279K
  • user avatar
    Farid Ahsan
    @frdahsan
    Apr 8, 2021
    Thank you to everyone in this journey. Users, investors, team, partners and competition alike. आप सभी को शत शत नमन 🙏🏼 Join us, if you are interested in building the future of content in India :) Now, back to building. medium.com/@sharechatblog…
  • user avatar
    Farid Ahsan
    @frdahsan
    Nov 13, 2023
    🚀 BREAKING NEWS! 🚀 Thrilled to announce the launch of @generalautonomy, a venture by @bhanuism and me! 🌟 Our mission is to revolutionize the future of factories! 🏭✨ (1/6)
    99K
  • user avatar
    Farid Ahsan
    @frdahsan
    Aug 7, 2022
    The only true privilege Ankush, Bhanu and I had was the fact that we found each other, as cofounders and friends, and we were surrounded by really amazing people at IIT. It is rare. On other comments, two of us had loans to pay, the third had no family earnings. (1/2)
    user avatar
    Jani
    @Janilokal
    Aug 6, 2022
    Ankush and Farid iterated on 15 ideas right from college days and probably in <2 years time until they built Sharechat. If you call that privilege, then you can undermine each and everyone by using the logic of privilege
  • user avatar
    Farid Ahsan
    @frdahsan
    Nov 26, 2024
    Oops! Some tweets just don’t age well!!! #sharechat @AnkushSach @bhanuism @deedydas
    user avatar
    Deedy
    Menlo Ventures
    @deedydas
    Jan 29, 2023
    $5B Indian social media app ShareChat is going BUST. - At ~$42m revenue, it's valued at 120x rev - ~95m DAU in rural India - Founders cashed out $10m in secondaries - Burn $366m/yr and have ~1–2yrs of runway Ads don't work in the 90% of India that's poor (yet)! 1/4
    52K
  • user avatar
    Farid Ahsan
    @frdahsan
    Nov 15, 2018
    It was an honour to meet you in person today @jack Desi Twitter meets Original Twitter. @sharechatapp @Twitter @AnkushSach Jai Hind!!!
  • user avatar
    Farid Ahsan
    @frdahsan
    Jun 3, 2020
    The word “vernacular” has its origin in the Latin word “verna” which means home-born slave I request with both hands folded that the Indian startup ecosystem, the govt, the media and everybody else stop calling Indic startups or local language startups, as vernacular startups! 🙏🏼
  • user avatar
    Farid Ahsan
    @frdahsan
    Jul 30, 2023
    We don’t hear a single lab at any of the #IITs attempting the replication of ambient super conductors in India. Being a Material Scientist I am ashamed that none of our profs and scientists are even trying. 30+colleges with material science faculty, ~500 labs & “0” experiments!
    user avatar
    Robotbeat🗽 ➐
    @Robotbeat
    Jul 29, 2023
    The fact that like a dozen Chinese labs have been able to attempt replication of the ambient superconductor in less time than a single US lab should be a freaking wake-up call about institutional hurdles to progress in the US.
    28K
  • user avatar
    Farid Ahsan
    @frdahsan
    Sep 27, 2018
    It will happen right in front of everyone's eyes. Nobody will observe it. Nobody will appreciate it. But, when the dream completes, India would have happened. India aa raha hai... Hum aa rahe hain! Jai Hind 🙏
    user avatar
    TechCrunch
    @TechCrunch
    Sep 27, 2018
    India’s new technology infrastructure has created a platform to build domestic tech giants tcrn.ch/2DxRiWM by @jshieber
  • user avatar
    Farid Ahsan
    @frdahsan
    Aug 7, 2022
    Replying to @frdahsan
    The true point to understand is that we did 15 ideas in <2 yrs, that is roughly 1 idea every 45 days. Moving fast, iterating scrappily and getting consumer feedback quick should be key takeaway. We were on borrowed oxygen. Had it become 3 years, there was no dice roll left (2/2)
  • user avatar
    Farid Ahsan
    @frdahsan
    Sep 14, 2019
    Original thinking and original product always defeats any copycats big time, whether incumbent or fellow startup. Great going @HarshPokharna1 @gauravkunwar and Godspeed @_okcredit Lucky to be a small part of your journey.
    user avatar
    Y Combinator
    @ycombinator
    Sep 14, 2019
    India’s OkCredit (YC S18) raises $67M to help small merchants digitize their bookkeeping: ow.ly/3CNk50w8Z8j
  • user avatar
    Farid Ahsan
    @frdahsan
    Aug 16, 2019
    I am very grateful to so many unsung heroes who have played their role in helping us get here. And ofcourse, one of our greatest supporter, mentor, hero and friend has been @pratshukla whose debt I don’t think we will ever be able to repay in this lifetime.
    user avatar
    Madhukar
    @sinhamadhukar
    Aug 16, 2019
    Replying to @TechCrunch and @refsrc
    Now since the article talks about @sharechatapp origin, I would like to thank @pratshukla for making that call and introducing to @frdahsan @AnkushSach @bhanuism to @IndiaQuotient . It has been a privilege to be small part of your journey.