Personal site and blog for Sachin Kamdar
Luck is a huge factor in startup success. But you can't capture luck if you're not around to grab it. Persistence is what keeps you in the game long enough for luck to find you. Intelligence is commoditized in this industry. Persistence is rare.
I saw a tweet from Andrej Karpathy that's been sitting with me. He's never felt this behind as a programmer. I've been thinking about this through the marshmallow challenge, where kindergartners beat MBAs. The kids just build and iterate. Most of us are the MBAs right now with AI tools.
The first of a five part series on Building Startups that Last.
We've had over 200+ conversations with 70+ companies ranging in scale from ($100M in to Billions in revenue) about generative A.I.. One of the trends I've seen is the formation of A.I. Councils or A.I. Steering Committees.
Introducing elvex and my co-founders, Mike Sukmanowsky and John Levitt. We’ve raised a pre-seed round with some incredible investors, and are now building the first AI management platform to help companies accelerate their adoption of AI, without the risks.
A new framework to evaluate startups and startup ideas.
An introduction on what to expect from the musings of my mind to this blog.
Why we deciding to turn down $25M in financing to build our company.