CEO at @atomicworkhq. Earlier built @MinjarCloud, acquired by @Nutanix. Interested in AI, Business, Code, Design and Enterprise Software! #ಕನ್ನಡ #తెలుగు

Bangalore & Bay Area
Dear Sridhar, Don't waste your 5AM IST peace time on my EST satire. Based on public data, Zoho spent Rs 2,722 crore in FY23 to employee expenses but recorded profits of Rs 2,800+ crores. That’s Zoho’s business strategy and no one labeled you as a ‘greedy’ founder for choosing profit over hiring another 5,000 employees or giving proper hikes to under paid Zoho employees. Let’s extend some grace to India’s first public SaaS company, Freshworks. It has ignited aspiration and ambition among VC-backed founders, just as Zoho did for bootstrapped entrepreneurs. Lastly, Freshworks' cap table is far more complex than a founder-family ownership like Zoho’s. Both Wall Street and Tenkasi can thrive in their own ways, each with unique successes and struggles. There is more than one philosophy in life or business, that is what our Dharma also says 🙏
You decide: am I a socialist to focus on the most important asset of any company - their own people and their well being? Take Nvidia and AMD. Ultimately they triumphed due to their engineers and crucially the engineers that stayed long term to work on deep tech. Their CEOs are from Taiwan. Now Taiwan itself has built incredible deep tech companies like TSMC, following a similar approach to talent - and Taiwan has about the same population as Sri Lanka. That is how real capital building works: take care of your employees, your most valuable asset and build long term successful companies. Intel took care of Wall Street instead, and they have lost comprehensively to TSMC, AMD and Nvidia. And now they have lost Wall Street as well. It is a perversion of the English language that we think of the late stage hedge fund and PE driven financialism as "capitalism". Capitalism needs capitalists - people who own and risk their own capital. What we have today in America is "we bet other people's money and if we win we keep a lot of the gains and if we lose we run to the Fed to bail us out and we cheer on the Fed to keep asset valuations high so we can cash out our financial instruments - never ever let the stock market down and whatever happens CEOs should be paid 500x average employee wages!" Does that sound like capitalism to you? That is the system the US has practised for decades now. Even more of it is going to drive the country to a civil war. Take the bailout of Silicon Valley bank last year. A lot of tech entrepreneurs cheered that on. They suddenly forgot "capitalism". Should India import this system? Refusing to do that is "socialism"? So please don't lecture me on "socialism". Practise some real capitalism first - take care of your people well. That is also our Dharma 🙏
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India is still a socialist country whether you are running a Sapadu shop or SaaS. Capitalism is not tolerated even by those reaping capitalism benefits 😂
A company that has $1 billion cash, which is about 1.5 times its annual revenue, and is actually still growing at a decent 20% rate and making a cash profit, laying off 12-13% of its workforce should not expect any loyalty from its employees ever. And to add insult to injury, when it can afford $400 million in a stock buy back. I can understand the unfortunate reality of layoffs when a business is struggling or declining and making a loss. This is not that situation, this is naked greed, nothing less. Here is a critical question to its leadership: don't you have the vision and imagination to invest $400 million in another line of business where you can deploy those people you hired but you don't want anymore? Are there no such opportunities in tech? Are you so lacking in curiosity, vision and imagination? Are you so lacking in empathy? This behavior, sadly, has become all too common in the US corporate world and we are importing it in India. It has only resulted in large scale employee cynicism in the US and we are importing that too. This is why choose to remain private. We put our customers and employees first. Shareholders should come last.
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Sambhav forgot to sign his offer from @atomicworkhq for few weeks and thought we didn’t make an offer because Docusign email was considered as spam 😅 Only ChatGPT can help GenZs 🤣 Cc @archiexzzz @kirandarisi @shanthivardhan
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IIIT bhopal clg + 8.8 cg + 5 star codechef + specialist cf+ kaggle expert + og projects + 6 internships + 12 hackathons winner + multiple freelance projects+ GSoC contributor + Contributions in Huggingface, Unsloth , pieces ,swarms . Still struggling for a package. any advice ?
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This time last year, @kirandarisi, @parsurv, and I embarked on a journey to build @atomicworkhq and usher in an era of Employee Success. Today, I’m thrilled to announce our $11 million in seed funding led by @BlumeVentures and @matrixindiavc, along with @stormventures, @neon_fund and many prominent angel investors from Silicon Valley and India. Thank you for believing in us. We’re just getting started - blog.atomicwork.com/atomicwo…
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Thank you @Tejasvi_Surya for escalating the impact of SVB crisis on Indian B2B SaaS founders to Govt of India. Love it when our MP is proactive and supports the entrepreneurs in their hour of crisis! #SVBCrash #IndiaSaaS
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Why I am still pessimistic about building business software for India market? 1. We are a very small market for B2B software, just $18B. 2. Probably $16B out of $18B is taken by MS, AWS, Google, IBM, Cisco, SAP, Dell, Oracle and few more. 3. We need $30K to $40K per capita income for productivity to matter - a condition where end users time is as valuable as their money! 4. Hopefully, we have could that in few cities like BLR by 2030 on PPP $ basis. 5. Unless you are building for Dev/Tools, stay out :) Go west, B2B SaaS friends - global software spending is $1T (total IT is $5T) and with majority of it in US.
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May the tribe of Darshan Puttannaiah grow in Karnataka and India. He is the newly elected MLA from Melkote in Mandya district and used to be an entrepreneur in US. He was walking from the vidhana soudha to take public transport after the current assembly session!
ಹಿಂದೆ-ಮುಂದೆ ಜನರಿಲ್ಲ ಆಡಂಬರವಿಲ್ಲ, ದರ್ಶನ್ ಪುಟ್ಟಣ್ಣಯ್ಯ ಎಷ್ಟು ಸಿಂಪಲ್​ #DarshanPuttannaiah #NewMLA #SimpleManDarshanPuttannaiah
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I am delighted to announce our Series A fund raise of $25M led by @khoslaventures and @z47_vc along with @BatteryVentures @BlumeVentures @peakxvpartners @neon_fund and @stormventures. Very grateful to our incredible mission oriented team at @atomicworkhq, passionate customers, early partners and super angels who believed in our journey. We’re thrilled to be driving the future of IT with AI agents designed to empower Enterprise IT teams, "Unlock Tomorrow's IT, Today!"✨🚀
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Dear Startup Friends, Nobody in the so called ecosystem cares about you unless you are successful, this is the hard reality. Focus 100% on your dream, charity starts at home. The worst thing to do as a founder is to waste your time now on random things, help your self first.
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Welcome @archiexzzz to the world of Atoms, excited to be working with you. Let’s go for the win 🔥🌟🚀
Career Update: I've joined @atomicworkhq as AI Research Engineer and will primarily be working on search. What truly stood out to me at atomicwork was the founder-market fit. With the visionary leadership of Vijay @amnigos, Kiran @kirandarisi, Parsu @parsurv -who each have a proven track record in building impactful SaaS products-I’m confident in Atomicwork’s mission and its potential for real-world impact. I’m also incredibly excited to work alongside a talented and passionate team. The culture at Atomicwork is built on curiosity, openness, and continuous learning-a perfect environment for innovation and personal growth. Looking forward to contributing to this mission and learning from some of the best minds in the industry! If you’re an enterprise looking to leverage AI for greater efficiency and cost savings, let’s connect or schedule a demo below in the comments. If you want to join the team: We’re hiring!
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💥𝐁𝐢𝐠 𝐍𝐞𝐰𝐬! Excited to share that @atomicworkhq has raised $3M+ in a strategic round, backed by 40+ CIOs, CTOs, and CXOs from leading global enterprises. The future of work(flows) is bright, and we're just getting started - forbes.com/sites/davidprosse… #IT #CIO #AI #EX
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Ok, I am yet another #SVB crisis management expert just like everyone was an expert on funding, economy and covid so far😂 But if you are Indian SaaS founder then have some useful tips around SVB exposure (even we have) based on my last 72 hrs in US, see the below👇
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Delight have our small space finally open for the hybrid first @atomicworkhq team. HSR is the center of Bengaluru ecosystem if BLR is at the center of World tech story. Drop by for a quick chat with Iran Chai or Pappu Coffee or the $ Blue Tokai. These 3 outlets, next to our workspace is what made us lock the deal 😅
So @atomicworkhq is now officially part of the HSR startup crowd. Took some time to get our first office exactly how we wanted it to be, but it's done now, and we love it! :)
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Our youngest Atoms just delivered @atomicworkhq’s biggest launch yet: Universal Agent with Voice, Vision and Action AI. This team style demo was flawless. Dress code is still "Intern 101"😊 Love the thoughtfulness behind demo crew selection by our marketing gang🚀 #Atomicwork #AI #Agents #ITSM #ESM #CIO #IT
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Met the OG @vijayshekhar after almost 15 years serendipitously in a drizzle so real that you can see it on our glasses.💜☔️ No AI scheduling, no calendar - just the universe (oops university avenue) doing its thing.😅
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Why B2B SaaS Founders should avoid ecosystem and VC events? 1. Most of the startup and ecosystem events are useless and nothing but a feel good version of self help junk. 2. Attending ecosystem and VC events is probably the worst use of any founders time. Your week is 2% of the year! 3. Stay away from all events unless you are a speaker or an exhibitor. Abstract talks won't help your thesis or journey. 4. The so called SaaS playbooks is a myth and branding junk. Every company context differs vastly, if you are copying a playbook then good luck. Meet people 1:1 over a coffee or lunch to learn about the specific topics where you need advice. If you have to attend or send for compulsion then let your team members participate as a break from work :)
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All you need is attention💜 In the early to mid-2022, when I pitched @atomicworkhq idea, almost every VC thought, we are either stupid enough or crazy to go after ITSM market with AI-first approach. Not for bot chat (aka assistants then) but for work completion (aka agents now, automation then). Some even said in a good faith that it will take 3+ years for v1 product build and it's too much. Many have rightfully so have passed on us for our crazy pitch and ask$ during seed round :) Thank you @BlumeVentures @sanjaynath and @z47_vc @VikramV23 @desai_pranay for backing us at seed despite our crazy asks. In H2'24, Kanu, Vinod and @khoslaventures team believed in us so much that I had to raise our Series A, one year ahead of my plan😅 In the last 24+ hours after Moveworks and ServiceNow deal, got 100 + pings across Email and LinkedIn about why our mission matters and how big our opportunity could be if execute well and take on the incumbents. It's a great time to do hard startups than ever, thanks to AI for faster build and tail wind platform shift wave capturing the imagination of what's possible in software buyers mind. Founder conviction matters, never outsource it. All you need is attention💜 #B2B #SaaS #Startups #Platforms #IT #CIO P.S - Attention an LLM transformer joke, not pitching B2B founders to become X bro's or sister's 🤣
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One of the most entertaining conversations I’ve had recently with founder friends at LP summit was around the “wrapper paradox.” 👉 Are you just a wrapper on an LLM? 👉 Or a wrapper on ERP API? 👉 Or maybe... just a wrapper on a spreadsheet? So naturally, the discussion spiraled to everything in tech is just a wrapper - with storytelling, UX, integration and distribution. If founders are building wrappers on LLMs, APIs, ERPs or open-source projects...aren’t VCs then just wrappers on LPs?😂 That thought birthed this meme :)
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Please give a break to @mrgirish, he built a great company & there is no company that's not impacted by current Macro. Knowing G, he would have tried everything to save every job. Dragging FW into every small and useless news cycle is crazy! The masala news is Edtech companies still spending 100cr+ for teachers, not FW working towards efficiency at scale!
“G (Girish Mathrubootham) answered every question in detail, he seemed pretty upset too and it was said that this is mainly due to the tight macroeconomic condition. What bothers me more is that there was an indication that the ‘worse is yet to come", an employee said
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Congratulations again @ManMundra on SIYA success, keep raising bar for Indian cinema through your fantastic stories and inspiring work ❤️🌟👏🎉 #Siya
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Let's not forget that Freshworks IPO made hundreds of employees into crorepati's. As far I know, Zoho doesn't even give stock options to employees, everything is owned by founders family - hr.economictimes.indiatimes.…
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When you fund raise, pick the VC who can battle an hour long traffic to get to your office to meet you and team, not the ones who summon you to fancy🌟hotels to save themselves from a commute. Because in the startup world, founder's time is the real luxury! #FoundersFirst #B2B #SaaS #Startups #India #VC
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Not a fan of startup events or twitter threads but this one is a rare exception. If you are building for India or from India for the world then check it out :) The A to Z of my takeaways and insights from #BlumeDay2023
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Met with DesAI at @atomicworkhq. He is my resident human AI for 24*7 SaaS wisdom. If you are a B2B Founder building a cross border SaaS then Pranay will be a great buddy. His last name has AI for a reason😅 He is truly a Mix of Experts(MoE) model for VC - Authentic, Operator DNA, Analytical and FoundersFirst.💜✨ 🤖 #SaaS #India #VC
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Launch of @nutanix culture principles by @dheeraj, an idea to execution with global rollout in less than 4 months - #velocity #design #leadership #focus #glx
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If you are B2B SaaS Founder who have to deal with and develop an AI product strategy then read on👇 OpenAI is an impressive technology, and ChatGPT's work is remarkable. At @atomicworkhq, it is used almost like a work engine every day to increase productivity. However, for most B2B SaaS companies who sell to the mid-market and enterprise (MME) segment, simply being an AI-client user is not enough. Instead, your company need to become AI-native to succeed in this market. While it may be tempting to build a chatbot quickly using OpenAI API, it's a small effort of 48 hrs or less so don’t have FOMO about the daily left and right releases of <abcd>GPT by folks who are trumping them up as ready to use on the social channels while in reality 99% of them are just PoC toys. We are little far-off from the truly production ready apps for worldwide MME segment. This shortcut approach of building using one provider API directly is probably good for consumer apps (where end users don’t demand compliance or force customisation but countries or regions like EU will eventually do), build quick PoCs for experimentation to see what's possible but terrible for any B2B SaaS companies who have to put this in production and operationalise it for their MME customers across the world so consider things around: 1. Compliance - It's super hard to meet compliance in production even if you strip off PII data for MME segment if you directly use just OpenAI API’s. 2. Customisation - There is no MOAT (as anyone can build using that API) and without customisation so you are as a company is good as anyone else because your product value will be normalised wrt to competition in your segment. 3. Competitive Advantage - In the new AI world, many believe that the MOAT could from your data & fine tuning for domain specific use-cases but by sharing all the data it with one provider delivers no competitive value for you as a company. 4. Customer Complexity - Your company get's nothing but instant gratification and mostly develops an AI-use client DNA not AI-native company DNA if you just jump on let’s build everything based on one provider without thinking about the compliance, complexity and cost advantage for your customer ecosystem. 5. Speed of delivery - If you are early stage, consider Azure OpenAI (along with other open datasets and projects such as Langchain, MosiacML & Databricks). Microsoft is known to serve enterprise clients so they understand the complexity and will hopefully bring the required security compliance for both training and productionisation of LLM Apps. I am confident that both AWS & GCP will catchup as well. 6. Scale of delivery - If you already have scale as a growth startup and need a cost advantage then consider the approaches like what the good folks at @Replit have taken and written about tuning your own LLM - blog.replit.com/llm-training At this moment, we all are in the Peak of Inflated Expectations phase (little knowledge but high confidence) and soon will enter the  phase of Disillusionment (gained some knowledge but will have little confidence), this is called Dunning Kruger Effect and has played out very well on most trends. So chart your company journey into AI world with some strategy and caution because the true value could be in owning the model (open source based), tuning the model (training with domain specific use cases data) and running the model (for compliance and customisation) to deliver a competitive advantage in the long term! #B2B #SaaS #Founders #OpenAI #AI #LLM
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You are one of our best from 🇮🇳 for the 🌏. More power to you and team for the next chapter. Founders and early founding teams are special because they attempt against the odds, every day and every time. Lots of respect for attempting a bold mission 💜
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Congratulations @ServiceNow on $10B ARR milestone. It’s incredible to do this without a revenue acquisition so far, amazing history being written✨🚀 Keep inspiring the next generation of Enterprise software builders💜
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This is 1000% true. I want to share a personal story from @atomicworkhq journey. At the start of Q4’23 till Q1’24 end, we asked our entire team at @atomicworkhq to go into war mode for intensity, consistency and urgency to ensure that we are ready for large enterprise deployments. This happened right after our 1st anniversary of starting up with 3 specific goals: 1. Shape and Ship product fast. 2. Commit Saturdays work until enterprise production readiness. 3. Less than 24 hrs turn around for any customer issues. We were around 30+ people team then and many external well wishers adviced me against pushing our folks very hard saying that it will rock our boat as most of the founding team is very experienced and super attractive for other companies😅 Some folks in the ecosystem have even spread rumors that @atomicworkhq team is very unhappy as Saturdays work is mandatory now so we are a great hunting ground for hiring :) However during the last 6+ months of super intense work, not 1 of them quit despite fanta$tic offers from many folks including public companies at almost 2X salary and up to 3X stock where hiring was personally run by very accomplished founders & CEOs to recruit some of them. I am very grateful for their unwavering trust and indebted for all the personal sacrifices while enduring an intense work mode for 2 quarters. This whole experience has taught me many lessons and enhanced my own bar of founder responsibility towards the team. Hire a great team, they will do more for you than you could ever even imagine!✨💜🙏
When you push the best, they step up When you push the rest, they quit Worth it either way in the end
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Most founders can relate to the essence of this passage! #FarnamStreet
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Met one of the OG founders after almost 2 decades. The man who made flying reality for most Indians💜🌟🚀
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Uber is a mass market product so context matters, India’s 0.1% are more wealthy than 1% of Americans. We are still a money poor and time rich country so hard to extract $ in mass market 😅
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Ecosystem is mature when we “Not just celebrate success but stop mocking failures of risk takers even if we don’t encourage them” Reading nasty comments calling for Unacademy’s demise & Koo’s shutdown makes me feel that we are not just 5 years behind the Valley but centuries🥲
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Last decade, we built Minjar by leveraging a great partnership with AWS for the cloud ecosystem. This decade, we are building Atomicwork by seeding a great partnership with Microsoft for the enterprise ecosystem! The A & M are always together :) #Startups #GTM #B2B #SaaS
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Thrilled to be partnering with @cohere on launch of their R+ model in @Azure to enhance the enterprise AI capabilities of @atomicworkhq solution. Command R+ is the most advanced model for Enterprise RAG use cases!✨🚀 #AI #B2B #SaaS #RAG
Today, we’re introducing Command R+: a state-of-the-art RAG-optimized LLM designed to tackle enterprise-grade workloads and speak the languages of global business. Our R-series model family is now available on Microsoft Azure, and coming soon to additional cloud providers.
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Pallav is the hallmark of a humble and helpful entrepreneur. May god bless him with more power in his mission to help 100+ entrepreneurs, he was instrumental in @minjarcloud success and I couldn’t have done it without him 🙏
'I want to build a Kohinoor for India, help a hundred entrepreneurs scale -up and create a hundred FusionCharts', @pallavn's vision for @FusionCharts. #InvertedPassion unconference.
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The care shown and personalization for @minjarcloud team on-boarding is wonderful, our first day was made so special, thank you @dheeraj and @nutanix team. Proud to be #Nutant
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For founders, especially in B2B Complex and Sexy is great for social value as a dinner table hero :) but Complex and Boring is what can deliver a great financial value, however little dinner table excitement :p
Founders should focus on building a boring business instead of a fascinating startup.
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Because we over estimate our abilities and under estimate the circumstances!
Whenever future looks certain, we're underestimating risk.
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Two Founders from Bengaluru and Bombay who couldn’t catchup in India, meet in the Bay Area :) Agenda: Enterprise AI Venue: Burrito joint 🌯 Result? How to discover the Salsa worthy opportunities in B2B software #TechMeetsTaco #Founders #SaaS #India
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Last week, we announced our $25M Series A led by Khosla and Z47, a huge milestone for Atomicwork. I shared the following with team: "Thank you team. Your talent, passion, and dedication to our mission are what make today possible. I couldn't ask for a better mission driven group to continue this journey with. Very excited about our growth in 2025 and beyond, we are building a generational company" A special shoutout to our marketing team for the incredible effort behind the scenes - launching a stellar website and securing a great media coverage despite a massive Deepseek noise in the mainstream media and startup ecosystem. True to our DNA, we aimed high - and it paid off. We landed Reuters, The Information, WSJ, Business Insider, Fortune, Forbes and not just TechCrunch & startup media like earlier :) Thank you, @atomicworkhq team, for constantly raising the bar! Proud to be building on this mission alongside you to empower enterprise IT teams to achieve more. 🌟💜🚀
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Today marks @atomicworkhq's biggest release yet - introducing Universal Agent, a breakthrough in enterprise productivity powered by Universal AI: 🎙 Voice AI that hears 👁 Vision AI that sees 🤖 Work AI that acts Universal Agent is like having expert IT on autopilot, seamlessly woven into the flow of work. The future of enterprise IT isn’t coming. It’s here.🌟🚀
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Completed my annual pilgrimage to SaaS Maestro @skirani :) He breathes SaaS so much that he dreams in recurring revenue. Once he told me "Life is a subscription"😅 #SaaS #India #B2B #Startups #Founders
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The AI Ecosystem in a Nutshell🌰 VCs: Post-Transformer AGI is imminent. Build for it🚀 Model Providers: Our new model crushes the competition in every way💪 B2B Founders: LLMs in prod are a headache. Need AI agents for a cool demo🤯 Early Customers: Why can't your AI even handle a form fill in the real world?🤔 Current Reality: Enterprise AI is still a cute little rabbit, being touted as a mighty elephant by model providers while early customers are wondering why their AI is still acting dumb despite GPT-4o API😴 #AI #B2B #VC #SaaS #TechHumor
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In a commoditised SaaS world, product features are super easy to replicate but product experience is really hard to replicate. This is what differentiates great products from just good. Product experience is 70% of product work not 30% that most of us made it out as! #SaaS #Products #Design #UX
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As a SaaS founder, if you doubled down on AI before DeepSeek, now’s the time to triple down🔥 AI costs will easily drop 100x-1000x, with improved accuracy and performance. No more new CAP trade-offs between cost, accuracy and performance. BUILD 🚀
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If you noticed a slight delay in hearing back from the @atomicworkhq team yesterday, it's because we just wrapped up our annual team trip - this time in beautiful Sri Lanka🇱🇰 We brought together 50 Atoms from India, Singapore, and the USA, all celebrating our journey so far, with amazing Sri Lankan hospitality, incredible food, and a party that had us dancing the night away. @kirandarisi, @parsurv, and I couldn't be more proud of what this team has achieved over the past two years including 30+ Saturdays' of stretch work to get Enterprise Ready💜🙏 Onward, Atoms 🚀
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As a startup, if you think AI is your business then you mostly don't have business😋 If you are in B2B/SaaS then own the workflows before you apply any AI and own the workflows after you apply AI! #GenAI #AI #B2B #Startups #Founders
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Have experienced the worst and best of American banking system in the last 72 hours. The worst with #SVB crisis, unable to open a new account quickly and the best with @Chase today! Thank you @ChaseSupport for the fantastic support in getting our account operational in less than 2 hrs. Really appreciate the support from Ahu and Ana at Chase Cupertino❤️🙏
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Too many Tech Bro's are busy helping Elon with all kinds of advice to fix Twitter than their own products and services 😂
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In US, you sell the software first and then services. In India, sell services first and then software😅 H/t @desai_pranay #B2B #SaaS #Founders #AI #Startups
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Mastery is the unending desire to get better at our own craft❤️ #startups #culture #atomic
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Highly encourage B2B SaaS founders to listen to this podcast, @jjen_abel is a rare one with practical wisdom in the ocean of noise. Her advice is time tested for 0-1 and 1-10 journey, whether you are a 1st time founder or seasoned. I look up to her advice, thank you Jen🌟💜
The ultimate guide to 0-to-1 sales with @jjen_abel Jen and her team at @jjellyfish_co have worked with over 300 early-stage founders teaching them how to do sales, early customer discovery, and to set up a repeatable sales motion. In our conversation, Jen explains 🔸 Each step of the enterprise sales process 🔸 What three channels work best for outreach 🔸 What to say on your first call, and subsequent calls 🔸 How to craft outreach messages 🔸 Where to find the good leads 🔸 How to maintain momentum with prospects 🔸 Strategies for navigating procurement 🔸 How to avoid common pitfalls in the sales process 🔸 Why founder-led sales is so crucial early on Listen now 👇 - YouTube: piped.video/969dwgu98qc - Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/0Wm… - Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas… Thank you to our wonderful sponsors for supporting the podcast: 🏆 @brave — A smarter way to search: brave.com/lenny 🏆 @TrustVanta — Automate compliance. Simplify security: vanta.com/lenny 🏆 @useparagon — Ship every SaaS integration your customers want: useparagon.com/lenny
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Excited to announce the launch of our digital workplace experience solution in collaboration with @cohere at @SITS_UK 2024 event in London🌟💜🚀 Learn all about it👇 #CIO #EX #IT #ITSM #DWX #AI #ESM #SITS24 #DX
Powered by leading enterprise AI platform @cohere, we're excited to launch our digital workplace experience solution for modern enterprises! atomicwork.com/blog/digital-…
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What I learnt from talking to 100’s of digital and IT leaders in last 12 months for @atomicworkhq around Enterprise AI : 2023 - Talk AI and Try AI 2024 - Try AI and Buy AI 2025 - Buy AI and Deploy$ If you are building in GenAI for B2B, the best is yet to come :) #CIO #AI #IT
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My SAAS favourites are: 1. Salesforce - Mostly front office 2. Atlassian - Mostly middle office 3. ServiceNow - Mostly back office What are your favourites? #SaaS #B2B #Founders
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3 kinds of VC follow-ups: 1. Value investors - I met X and might be useful for what you are doing. Wanna talk to them? I will intro! 2. Relationship builders - How can I help you? My cell # :) 3. Data collectors - Do you have an update for us? 😅 #SaaS #B2B #Startups #VC
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Framing matters a lot. Instead of saying PMF (product-market fit), we could use MPF (market-product fit) so that most founders start their journey with a mindset of market understanding first (customer segment and unmet needs) before getting to product (capabilities and features). This could help invalidate the product and roadmap assumptions faster and increase iteration velocity!
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Congrats @deepseek_ai for building a frontier model V3 that’s as good as GPT-4o by spending less than $6M. Just popping in to say hi to @sama on small teams building the frontier models. Constraints can breed more than creativity💜😅 cc @RajanAnandan
Network Exclusive | Can a startup from India create a foundational model, building on a system like ChatGPT? ChatGPT Founder Sam Altman answers the question by Peak XV Partners' Rajan Anandan; WATCH @RajanAnandan #ChatGPT @sama #AI #ETChatWithSamAltman @OpenAI
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Spent 2 days in Chennai with @atomicworkhq team, where code merges faster than the traffic and features discussions are as intense as the filter coffee 😅 #FilterCoffee #ITSM #GenAI #MSM #Chennai
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Let's cut the fluff and get straight to the point - life and work would be 10x more productive. In high-context cultures like India, where straight talk is often seen as harsh or rude, it's a challenge but always remember that velocity regulates your life’s purpose or startup’s progress! #Founders #HardThings
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Dunzo has been doing this in India for many years, feels like US consumer services are finally catching up :)
Very excited about this new service. Real problem for consumers. Delightful experience. Let’s go!
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Met @cnha after a long time over Irani Chai, one of the OGs of our early ecosystem ✨
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It’s been an incredible year of progress for @atomicworkhq Thank you team for the relentless effort to accelerate our product and GTM execution to win enterprise customers and partnerships. Happy holidays to our atoms, customers, supporters and ecosystem partners 💜🎉🎊
Halls decked, gifts wrapped, stockings hung—'tis the season to pause, ponder, and party🎄 A huge shoutout to our customers, partners, investors, and followers for your incredible support. We wish you all a joyous holiday season. Here's to more milestones in 2025🥂
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The future of B2B SaaS - Show AI, Sell with UI and scale with Workflow🚀🌟 Remember, it's all about #FollowTheWorkflow #SaaS
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Don’t underestimate the ability to handle and do the boring work. It’s is a long term competitive advantage whether for an individual or a company!
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Mosaic by @ManMundra is a soothing and soulful collection of poems. Loved most of them - “There is one life to be lived, so many stories to be weaved …” #mosiacbook #poetry
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Taste is under rated across every role from design, product, marketing and even engineering. Most products suck because there are no Taste keepers in the team or company. Taste over Talent any day. We can skill folks for Talent but Taste is intrinsic desire!
Overrated: Marketers w/ good analytical skills Underrated: Marketers w/ good taste
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Welcome @auto_grad_, let’s RL with fine tune :)
little career updates from me and @r4plh : i have joined @atomicworkhq as a ML engineer and @r4plh has joined @invideoOfficial as a CV engineer. now why is this special? > we started ml together > we failed together > we questioned this field together > opted out of campus placements together > yet got great offers, TOGETHER. hopefully, we do well in our fields!
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This will be the first movie in theatre's for me since 2020, can't wait to watch the #Siya . Best wishes to one of the finest human beings @ManMundra for choosing a hard hitting reality as the subject of his directorial debut💕
#Siya 16th September 2022.
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Jensen Huang, at CES 2025, brilliantly described the new role of IT teams as: "The IT department of every company is going to be the HR department of AI agents in the future." At @atomicworkhq, we’re leading the way with our Agentic Service Management mission by automating the routine to liberate IT teams from mundane work. Smarter IT. Faster Business!
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For AI apps, UX is very key. One issue that bothered us at @atomicworkhq for a long time was slow or missed slot-fill in forms due to SOTA models latency until we moved to Command-R from @cohere ✨🚀 Now the worst case latency is down by 2X and less than 3s for even complex slot-fill 💜 #UX #AI #SaaS
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Minjar acquisition by @Nutanix offers security, compliance and cost control for multicloud journey siliconangle.com/blog/2018/0… cc @nutanixbeam
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The AI of enterprise is applications & integrations, not chat and content! #B2B #SaaS #GenAI #CIO #ITSM #IT #Automation
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Very fortunate to have worked with @dheeraj over the last 3 years at @nutanix. He was one of the extremely rare people with breadth of a good philosopher, vision of an amazing artist and depth of a great engineer on many topics.
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In startup, most battles are external so you are motivated to fight them while in corporate, most battles & rejection's are internal so you are demotivated to even start. This is why startups can hustle & move fast while big companies struggle to make progress even after commit!
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Recently, I met Prof. @vibhanshu who is now building @AlltiusAi at @atomicworkhq office to frame an analogy around why AI devs need to be like OG web devs :) 1. Using only prompts and calling it an AI app is like building a website with just HTML tags - sure, it renders, but will anyone RSVP to that party?😅 2. Fine-tuning an LLM is like using JS to bring dynamic functionality into your web app - suddenly your AI can do backflips and maybe even make a decent espresso!☕ 3. And LoRA? That’s the CSS of AI, making sure your model not only works well but also looks fabulous while handling prompts. 💅 #TechHumor #AI #LLM
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Thank you @sunilpotti for the leadership and friendship. Had many wow moments of learning & inspiration from you. Very few men can bring honor to their title, you earned our respect across the board with genuine support, authenticity in action & humility in practice 🙏🙏🙏
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Every read of RAYA makes me nostalgic about the history of Hampi and Vijaya Nagara empire. RAYA is epic true story of an undefeated and greatest king of South India who constantly battled for opportunity and growth, blood and peace, compassion and conquest! #Hampi #History
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In 2012, when I started Minjar, @awscloud was a great partner and champion of us. Everyone from Andy, Adam and Werner helped us. In 2022, when I started Atomicwork for Enterprise IT, @Microsoft was there from Day1. Humbled by the support from Satya, Judson, Jeff and every executive that we met so far. Long road ahead for us but very excited! microsoft.com/en-us/investor… blogs.microsoft.com/blog/202…
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We worked together more than a decade ago when Hadoop was just getting started to build and operate a very large & complex data processing systems for ad-networks, commerce and financial markets on the early cloud infra of AWS :) After 12+ years, excited to be partnering with @abysinha again and @cohere team to build modern AI systems for complex and large enterprise usecases . Already a big fan of their Rerank model and can’t wait to adopt Command-R for @atomicworkhq enterprise customers✨🚀 #AI #Cohere #B2B #SaaS
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CEOs, Executives & Managers have a moral responsibility to not initiate work without clarity for their teams or call for a team meetings without an agenda or not make decisions faster. It’s criminal to waste time, it’s the most scarce resource of your company & individuals.
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Read about @sama’s fast response to founders text but today I have experienced @jaltma’s ultra fast response to queries around Generate program :) Velocity matters whether you are a founder or investor. Thanks Jack for being super accessible💜🚀
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Theme of my work life :) Last decade, multi-cloud This decade, multi-modal #B2B #SaaS #AI #Startups #Founders
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Nutanix to Welcome Minjar to the Family nutanix.com/2018/03/01/nutan…
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Controversial but I believe that most great SaaS PM's will struggle to emerge as even good AI PM's. The rate of change is nuts, very few have a true drive to accelerate their learning rate in the age of AI and acquire new PM skills of writing evals & vibe code. #B2B #SaaS
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Thrilled to welcome @leningali to the @atomicworkhq family as our new US GTM leader. In Chief Digital and Business Officer role, he will act as a trusted advisor to guide Global CIOs and Enterprise IT leaders through their digital transformation journey🌟✨🚀 #ITSM #IT #CIO
We are thrilled to introduce @leningali as our new Chief Digital and Business Officer at @atomicworkhq. Lenin's experience will be pivotal in shaping our business strategy, thought leadership initiatives, and CxO engagement. Welcome onboard, Lenin! atomicwork.com/blog/chief-di…
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Flashback to 6+ years ago - I witnessed an incredible teamwork of @avnish, @tarun_davda, and @rbalaraman during the Stayzilla crisis with the #helpyogi movement. Their unwavering #FoundersFirst spirit shone brightly and was unparalleled. Fast forward to my encounter with @VikramV23 and @desai_pranay - it's clear as day: their philosophy is people first, every time! I'm thrilled to have the team from @matrixindiavc by our side for @atomicworkhq's seed journey🚀❤️🙌
We're proud to partner with @amnigos, @kirandarisi, and @parsurv of @atomicworkhq, an incredible solution for employee success. 1/6
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As Micron enters India, it’s worth learning about how seed money from the Potato Chips business helped power the Silicon Chips that in turn helped US resurgence as a dominant power! #ChipWar #Micron #JRSimplot
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Point is “capitalists talking like socialists” 😅
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How to keep sanity amidst AI noise as a B2B founder? 1. Keep focus on Usecase not AI 2. LLM is not your competitive advantage 3. Own the workflows before and after you apply AI 4. Stop attending Gen AI events and junk reading 5. Traction not AI tech will save your company
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ServiceNow: The Dinosaur? Today, most IT teams are calling it out for the never-ending complexity, chaotic features, sky-high costs and a bloated system that needs an entire team just to keep it running. Sound familiar? the below reddit thread shows IT teams perspectives from the field. Enterprise IT deserves better. AI-native, automation-first and built for modern IT teams - not for never-ending consulting contracts. The era of legacy ITSM and ESM is ending. Time to move on. 🚀
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We are fixing this mess for enterprises through @atomicworkhq, Sarah. What you described is a massive pain for Enterprise IT teams caused by outdated tools, fragmented data and missing workflows context. Atomicwork makes AI work for IT so that IT can work for Business 🌟🚀
day 2 of free startup ideas for the age of reasoning: IT can’t fix what IT can’t see
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What a day for 🇮🇳, huge congratulations to #RRR team and #SSRajamouli for elevating us on the world stage❤️ We took over the tech Valley in a matter of 25 years, can’t wait to see what our creative folks would do with Hollywood/LA by 2047 🔥🚀 #India #Oscars #NaatuNaatu
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The v2 mafia is coming soon, we are aiming for 10X if not 100X. I believe that @Nutanix will spawn more founders like @trilogymafia did in late early 00’s and 10’s. @dheeraj is still underrated in B2B software, history will be super kind to him💜✨🚀 #Startups #Founders #B2B
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VC -> Pattern matchers Founder -> Pattern breakers #Startups
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Amid all the AI-ARR noise, if you're building for the enterprise, remember: AI is the accelerator, not the answer. Build patiently. Sell deliberately. Scale sustainably. And laugh often.😀
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