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What 10+ years of building and investing at @SequoiaIndiaSEA ! It’s been a ride and a half let me tell you :)
Anandamoy Roychowdhary
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Anandamoy Roychowdhary
@smdcmc
very chilled and now MD for @Crane_vc . formerly @Surge_ahead Partner at @peakxvpartners and before that @sequoia in India and APAC.
- GPT-3 definitely got everyone’s attention including us at @Sequoia_India and @_surgeahead :) please dm us if you’d like to join a small BOF session with us (and a select few CTOs) on what’s investable around the use of GPT-3. look forward to hearing your ideas !
- Fanboi moment meeting #JensenHuang and continuing the @RajanAnandan debate on how we at @_surgeahead and @peakxvpartners build AI cos out of india ! Jensen also shared how #DonValentine (founder of @sequoia ) would send him news snippets with words of encouragement on them :)
- We’ve been doing this together for a long long time already , and now to a new start to an exciting new phase !
- if you havent read the book #Halflion by #VinaySetapati this is as good a time as any to see why this is a very well deserved award to one of the main architects of modern India. The story of this genius man going to an IBM conference and reporting bugs to their Cobol compiler isDelighted to share that our former Prime Minister, Shri PV Narasimha Rao Garu, will be honoured with the Bharat Ratna. As a distinguished scholar and statesman, Narasimha Rao Garu served India extensively in various capacities. He is equally remembered for the work he did as
- you know what makes me happy about #india tech scene today? its that now, more often than not, when i interview a DOE/VP, they talk about the technology they build with great pride. 10 years ago it used to be all about team size and "impact". The change startups have wrought.
- Not even slightly worried that my boss is asking @sama and not me about this stuff ! But this tweet is going to be gold whenever we inevitably bring to IC several such india foundational model stories at @peakxvpartners ;)
- When we pitched Ajey to join GoJek we promised him adventure. @AjeyGore responded by building several unicorns worth of software and infra in one company and putting the "group" in CTO to good use. Now i am excited to see him mentor the next set of CTOs for @Sequoia_IndiaI am excited to join the Sequoia India team. I’m excited to work with passionate founders to not only build amazing products – but also continue my mission of giving back to the community as I join them in architecting the tech stories of tomorrow. @singh_sequoia @Sequoia_India
- Getting WhatsApp back online is going to be an amazing feat of engineering , (“thundering herd” anybody )can’t wait to read how they actually get it done ! #hugops
- This one is special ! @vivekrag wrote an email to me the day we announced our rebrand to @peakxvpartners , and having met @pratykumar earlier and looking to support their work in building language specific models and implications to how India uses AI to parlaying that into a
- To all those folks who keep complaining that VC's in india do not fund deep-tech ... a semiconductor design firm that helps customers design custom silicon on RISC-V is deep-tech enough for you :) ? @peakxvpartners @_surgeahead @Sid_1_0 @TrivediVedant @aadityaWith the indomitable @incoresemi founders who dare to put @iitmadras and India on the world RISC-V semiconductors map @GoI_MeitY @peakxvpartners
- this is what eventually pulled me back to india , and it still makes me wonder about the path not taken :)The hardest part about being an immigrant is not the immigration system but having to choose between pursuing a world class career and seeing your parents grow old
- i was ALREADY having a really good week and then IT upgraded my laptop to the new M1 macbook pro, and i feel like a new man. Insanely fast @AjeyGore get on this train ;)
