Co-founder at @GarudaVC and host of the @brickxbrickpod. Fully leaned in to suburban dad life.
San Francisco, CA
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I’m excited to announce the @brickxbrickpod! @arpanpunyani and I will be sitting down with early employees, founders and investors to talk about the (often untold) crazy stories that help lay the foundation for future startup success 🧱
We’re excited to introduce the Brick by Brick podcast, where we learn how startups were built directly from the people who built them!
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1/ I just toured the @AlibabaGroup #newretail grocery concept, Hema, and I still can't pick my jaw up off the floor
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10/10 No offense to Amazon, but Go has nothing on this experience. The future of grocery retail is already here, and it's in Hangzhou. This is one of an increasing number of situations where the US is the "developing country" #newretail #commerce
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9/ Just to recap: Buy online, deliver. Buy online, pick up in store. Buy in store, deliver. Buy in store, consume in store. Facial recognition. Automated checkout. Online and offline. Fast, convenient and dynamic.
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Ikea's approach to international expansion should be modeled. Do the research, understand the market, adjust product accordingly. Appreciating cultural nuance is critical, even if rollout will to take longer than expected #india #commerce nyti.ms/2MbCxfi?smid=nytcore…
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I hear that. Calling someone my dad’s age by their first name in a work setting is still unsettling and feels disrespectful for me, and I’m a dad myself!
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Reminds me of Ray Bradbury’s sage advice; “Stuff your eyes with wonder…live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.”
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6/ Pricing is displayed and can be changed dynamically via wifi-connected, e-ink price tags. If something gets cheaper or more expensive, as determined by supply and demand both online and offline, the price displayed in store will change automatically
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2/ Each of the 50 Hema grocery locations enable delivery to addresses in the delivery zone within 30 minutes. Pickers gather items in 7 minutes or less of receiving an order. All the orders get placed on conveyor belts to go out for delivery
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My wife told me to take the spider out instead of killing him; went out, had a couple of drinks, nice guy. He’s a web designer.
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7/ Produce you buy can be taken home like normal. However, if you're feeling a little hangry after a long day of shopping, you can get one of the restaurants in the store to cook it for you to eat right there in the store!
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3/ Fresh produce sits on the shelf for *only a day* to guarantee freshness, after which it gets transferred to the in grocery restaurants and food preparation areas
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5/ Seafood is flown in from around the world. If it's in the store it was caught within the last 72 hours, no exceptions. The crazy part - most of the seafood is transported live! These are crabs from Russia. No crabs were harmed in the making of this thread (at least not by me!)
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4/ All the aisles have interactive, digital screens that can provide customers with product information, show similar products and even what the most popular items in the aisle are (by age group if you're so inclined!)
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Meanwhile anyone who the family has ever met has been forwarded the article with some form of "So very proud of my beti" included 🙂
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8/ Most checkout takes place through a self checkout kiosk that can automatically recognize product. Payment happens via the Hema app (leveraging Alipay tech). Kiosks all have cameras at the top - eventually facial recognition will pull up your account as you walk up
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Banking analysts are going to go ham at bottle service tonight...
Microsoft Excel now lets you convert photos of data tables into a fully editable table
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We’ve raised $31m for @GarudaVC’s debut institutional fund! Super grateful to everyone who’s supported @arpanpunyani and me on our journey. We can't wait for this next chapter. Onwards!
#preseed #seed
Today we are thrilled to announce the next chapter for Garuda Ventures with our $31M debut institutional fund. Our goal is the same as it’s been from the start: to support exceptional founders, and go all-in to help them build. Read more in our blog here: garuda.substack.com/p/liftof…
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To bring this full circle, I definitely addressed my dad by his first name in an email today (he is forwarding something to colleagues of his). He calls me up and says, “Beta, please send me a new email and call me Dad. I’m not some normal colleague of yours” 🤦🏽♂️🤣😜
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An exceptional, in-depth look at @stripe by @mariodgabriele. It's got founding story, what makes Stripe's culture unique, product strategy how they look at M&A and investing differently. Grab a coffee and find an hour, this one's worth it readthegeneralist.com/briefi…
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Fun factoid of the day: The biggest AWS customer is @CapitalOne, not @netflix 🤯
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My wife stopped breastfeeding today, a momentous milestone appropriately celebrated with cake 🎂🎉#momsaresuperheroes
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Hits different 😂
Although that would be a hilarious blog post: Indian Parents are the Cause of Inflated Startup Valuations as Founders Try to Satisfy WhatsApp Bragging
@PeterJ_Walker any Carta data to support? 😊
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Multiple browser tabs open is an affliction that goes back centuries 🤣
A 300-year-old library tool that enabled a researcher to have seven books open at once, yet conveniently nearby (located at Biblioteca Palafoxiana in Puebla, Mexico).
This is the ancient equivalent of keeping multiple tabs opened in your browser. Except this will never freeze.
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Honored that @GarudaVC is recognized as part of this exemplary group of emerging managers! Thanks to our founders for letting us join you on your journeys, and to our LPs for your ongoing support! Much more to come from @arpanpunyani and I and the entire team 💪🏽
Introducing 2022's Emerging 50:
The venture industry's newest fund managers as nominated by their LPs and the founders they've backed.
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Nothing highlights exactly how thin the line is between order and chaos in my life than having our nanny call in sick. One minute, everything is in hand. The next, more scrambling than an iHop! The impact and importance of good childcare cannot be overstated
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Has anyone seen a market map of companies building labor marketplaces? cc: @briannekimmel @sarthakgh @davelu
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Quite astonishing. @pmarca in the house now too...designers, engineers, investors, politicians, media 🤯
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That feeling when you get your 2 week old to finally fall asleep and then there's a fire drill in the building...
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Ah, the game of “How close can we get to the $25 budget without going over”…I don’t miss it!
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Proud of the @Poynt team and thrilled to bring on some amazing partners including @elavon and @nab as investors #getpoynt #justgettingstarted bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
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PSA: Stop doomscrolling. It’s not helping you or anyone else. Anyone who knows what’s actually happening isn’t saying anything. And anyone who is saying something is speculating at best. Give yourself a break from the anxiety
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Nothing better than getting back from a business trip just in time to give your kiddo a hug and kiss before they fall asleep #dadwins #earlyflightftw
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The @bearlyai tool by @TrungTPhan and @pnegahdar looks dope! Accelerating the reading, learning, and writing process process straight from desktop 🔥 trungphan.substack.com/p/i-m…
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New to fatherhood, some late night ramblings of a month old Dad #parenthood #canisleepyet medium.com/@taps/late-night-…
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Don't transition the old notes is my advice. Having used Evernote for the past 10 years, I had accumulated a lot of crap. Start fresh with @RoamResearch, get a sense of the platform and how you want to use it, and then be selective in what you want to bring over
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Congrats @JayKapoorNYC and @vijaychattha and team @VSCVentures on pulling an awesome Dirty Jobs summit! A lot of work obviously went into it - hope you all are proud of what you pulled together
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It would never happen, but Michelle as VP and presumptive nominee 4 years from now would be such a positive shock to the system
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Boom! Congrats to @jkwade and the entire @finix team. If you don't know them, pay attention - they are building a terrific business over there #atl #fintech finixpayments.com/blog/next-…
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That feeling when you wake up naturally at 6:30am and realize your baby slept for seven hours straight for the first time #thankyouson #dadlife
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.@doordash buying Caviar from @square is unexpected. Doing so in cash and stock for $410m is surprising. @gokulr going to @DoorDash is 🤯. There's a tired / wired / inspired joke in here somewhere...congrats to all! techcrunch.com/2019/08/01/do…
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Has anyone got a good example of a company that started out in the enterprise and successfully migrated down market? I've been trying to think of one and none are jumping out at me cc: @benthompson @bgurley @semil
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My 11 month old just farted, laughed, and crawled away as fast as his little body could take him. I don't know whether to be embarrassed or impressed...#thatsmyboy #proudparent
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Over half of China's GDP moves via QR codes - staggering adoption in a short amount of time #payments #cashless sc.mp/Ne8FBX
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So incredibly proud of the @Poynt team! I am grateful to have had the chance to work alongside @obedier and the array of Poynters on this journey, and excited to see what the next chapter holds for this exceptional group of people 😄 💪🏽 #OnPoynt
Welcome to the family @Poynt. We’re excited to help small businesses sell everywhere!
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Bars...I was a first year analyst at Merrill Lynch in '08. The bar downstairs by the office started offering drink discounts on days the Dow fell by more than a few hundred points. They stoped offering them because it happened so many times
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The search tips in here are Twitter superpowers. Add a whole level of usability that extends Twitter far beyond scrolling, reading and reacting which is default mode for most users
Someone asked me to do a thread about how I use Twitter search. It all started here.
1. Use from:username to find something someone tweeted
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As a new decade begins, so does my next chapter. I'm excited to join Sanish and the entire @LegionTech team on their mission to bring the future of work into the present!
#legion #lifeupdate #futureofwork #comejoinme
rishitaparia.com/writing/my-…
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We at @GarudaVC are thrilled to welcome our friend @arpanpunyani on as a Co-founder and General Partner garuda.substack.com/p/welcom…
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The strength with which a 2 week old can pass gas is truly astounding. Everyone looking at me like I did it...#smallbaby #manfarts
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OH: Bringing on a CEO to replace me was tougher than picking a spouse. If you get the spouse wrong you only lose half your shit 🤣 #founderstories
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.@ShannonCGoggin and @DennisBLee are on a mission to make health insurance more accessible with @NoyoHQ and they are only just getting started. Watch this space, because there is so much more to come! #betterinsurance #infrastructureissexy #luckyangel news.crunchbase.com/news/noy…
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That moment when you realize you have no idea where your house keys are because it's been so long since you went anywhere...😳
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Feature request for @Spotify: "With Kids" button that automatically plays Radio Edit versions of songs on a playlist (not just excludes Explicit content). I'd really like to play non-kids music in the car but don't have the energy to recreate Today's Top Hits - Clean...
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You should legit throw them into @bearlyai and see what comes out :)
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Our annual RishiCon gathering of Rishis around the world just got a lot more interesting 😁 cc: @RishiSunak @rsjaitly @Iyengarish @RishiHQ @rishisb
Rishi Sunak to take over as UK prime minister on Tuesday morning after meeting King Charles bbc.in/3SreMOp
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This is A+ work between @onepeloton and @espn. The world is begging for sports, so why not manufacture some competition in a safe, COVID compliant manner with equipment people have at home? The athlete lineup will be key. Given it's not listed suggests it's still a WIP
🚨EPIC NEWS, FAM! 🚨 onepeloton and espn are putting your favorite pro-athletes to the test for our very own All-Star Rides competition, coached by @alextoussaint25 and I. They'll be racing for the #1 spot on the… instagram.com/p/CAp829ilgUV/…
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There really should be a shuttle that goes between South Park, Sand Hill, and downtown Palo Alto. The "Fundraising Express" if you will 🚌💸
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So proud of the entire @LegionTech team and excited to welcome and work with some amazing investors and partners. Join us as we continue improving the lives of hourly employees while helping businesses meet the challenges presented by a rapidly evolving market! #jointhelegion
We’re thrilled to announce our $22M Series B led by @Stripesco_, with @workdayventures, @docomoventures joining existing investors @NorwestVP, @firstround, @fubini, and @WINFunding. Come build the future of workforce management! #jointhelegion prweb.com/releases/legion_te…
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Four years later, four days later, 146M+ votes later (and as many Key Race Alerts later), America has a new President- and Vice President-Elect.
There's a bounce in the atmosphere. The air is crisp, smelling of fresh beginnings.
Today was the day after. Today was a good day.
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First time with the baby in the other room, using the monitor to watch him. More engrossed in this feed than the Red Wedding episode #babylivestream #twoweeks
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I was listening in on a convo in @joinClubhouse and kept hearing "PTR". Didn't know what that meant so I looked it up. The answer? "Pull to refresh". Now I'm just waiting for my "Officially Old and Uncool" membership card and I'll be in good shape.
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Thanks to the Engine 3 Crew at @ContraCostaFire for the celebrity sighting and making this three year old’s weekend!
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This is awesome.
Consider Mortal Kombat.
This specimen video shows the original footage used to animate the video game.
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ESPN really needs to do a @30for30 or Sports Science on @JohnKingCNN. The man is a machine. #NotAllHeroesWearCapes
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This x 100. To anyone who has grown up eating Indian food, I dare you not to laugh 😂 #watchoutforelaichi
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As my friend @golbiekamarei puts it, the "talent tsunami" is coming. Lots of employees will emerge from over a year of WFH saying no thank you to their current managers, the co's culture, mission, business etc. Huge opp. for cos that adapted well to bring on amazing new teammates
1 in 4 workers plans to look for a new job once the pandemic is over.
This massive reshuffling will create major headaches for employers and will likely expand gaps between men and women in the workplace. axios.com/post-pandemic-job-…
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Except for when storm watch doesn't activate and the powerwalls are at 25% right as the sun is setting 😫
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It's a great day when you see dear friends share an idea that they've been working on for years with the public. I'm and the @garudavc team is thrilled to support @j_richards27 and @thelukewhiting as they build @EvergrowHQ, the world's first carbon offtake company
1/ We raised a $7M seed round co-led by @fubini and @CleanVC w/ @btrenchard @taps @jjacobs22 @zachperret @max @justinkan & more 🚀
We pay people to reduce and remove carbon emissions. But how? More 👇
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1/n Receiving a job offer is exciting, the culmination of hours of hard work and prep. You owe it to yourself to negotiate the best one you can. Here's my consolidated set of negotiation advice and resources gathered over a decade of working with startups. taps.substack.com/p/negotiat…
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I'm excited to start an experiment within my weekly newsletter, Tippets by Taps, called Taproom. My goal is to introduce you to some of the wonderful humans I've gotten to know over the years, share their stories, and hopefully a lesson or two
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In a word: yowza. Talk about selling shovels... recode.net/2018/1/22/1691169…
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You know you've reached a new level of parenting when your infant's long awaited (3 days!) bowel movement is a cause for celebration #goodjobson #proudofyou #newparents
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"History is not the past. It is the present. We carry our history with us. We are our history." Understanding America's history is essential to thinking about its future. I start my lesson with the exceptional James Baldwin #tippetsbytaps taps.substack.com/p/i-am-not…
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I had a conversation yesterday with someone who, by any monetary measure, has "made it". Could easily explore interesting things. What will he do?Incorporate some kind of business because he wants the health insurance...
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Yowza! Congrats @zachperret, @dbkahn and the whole @Plaid team! Whoever had 13 days as the guess for the first fintech mega deal of 2020, you win the pool... cnbc.com/2020/01/13/visa-to-…
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