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You're familiar with the phrase "man's reach exceeds his grasp"?
It's a lie: man's grasp exceeds his nerve.
Thank you to our partners @greybaker @t_blom and the entire @ycombinator for literally flipping our trajectory.
Prateek Sachan
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Prateek Sachan
@xan_ps
Joined January 2011
- YC is the YC for India :) @garrytan Y Combinator doesn’t care about your geography. Also, the data is incorrect.YC basically stopped accepting Indian founders. The numbers are brutal: 2021: 66 accepted 2023: 12 accepted 2025: 1 accepted That's a 98% drop. The reason? U.S. visa rejections. @gigaai founders beat Claude on LLM benchmarks - then got rejected for U.S. visas. Twice.
- Replying to @kmr_dilipI doubt it'll work. Actual in-person processes are never in sync with their "official schemes and subsidies". You will always need to get in touch with a "person".
- while everyone on twitter is busy debating how Y Combinator doesn’t back Indian startups lol, @_groww just became the first YC company to go public in India today 🇮🇳 . congratulations to the entire team. hugely inspiring & very big shoes to fill in for us.
- Replying to @garrytanGot reminded of this decade old article by @maheshmurthy medium.com/art-marketing/… “The Facebook of India is Facebook, the Google of India is Google, and the Twitter of India is Twitter”
- Mind blown exploring @cognition_labs Deepwiki project on our Bolna's open-source voice orchestration engine. The summaries and architectural diagrams it generates are quite accurate. deepwiki.com/bolna-ai/bolna
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00:06we built DeepWiki, a free encyclopedia of all GitHub repos some numbers: - 30k repos already indexed - processed 4 billion+ lines of code - the indexing alone cost $300k+ in compute spend - A decade back in 2014, I learned about @ycombinator through a startup called @algolia while working on designing search systems at @zomato. Fast forward to today - @dessaigne just starred our repo. Definitely not on my 2025 bingo card 🤯.
- Replying to @paraschopraIt’s a great thing - but in my personal experience for both me + parents, the doctors got offended when I asked them queries (these were top #1 Indian doctors in their respective domains). So now I have to prepare extensively on how to frame it before visiting them.
- Replying to @championswimmerWe've open sourced our voice AI orchestration at github.com/bolna-ai/bolna in case anyone wants to build something in this domain. :) There has been tremendous interest from EU to build similar things which will eventually trickle down here.
- Thrilled to share that @bolna_dev is now part of @ycombinator 🚀 From day one, we’ve been obsessed with solving real customer pain points. YC gives us the platform to scale our vision faster. Huge thanks to our incredible team, early investors, & customers who believed in us.
