What I now know about startups after a summer spent building one

Here are a couple reflections from a humbling summer (~12 weeks) spent as a Lightspeed Summer Fellow and how my experience as a first-time founder relates to the early lessons of CS183C (Technology-enabled…

Want to Blitzscale? Move faster! Faster! Even faster!

When Mark Zuckerberg says “Move Fast and Break Things”, he really really means it.

Tell Me Apart: Hiring for the Tribe

Over the last four years, I’ve interviewed at a lot of companies. They range from companies consisting of just the founders with only an idea, to well established public companies with tens of thousands of employees. Of them all, TellApart had the most astounding…

CS183C (Blitzscaling): Assignment 1

1. You just need to focus on making it to the next round.

Blitzscaling Diversity

When John Lilly brought up the question of diversity during the Sam Altman Q&A session, I was sort of expecting to hear…

Blitzscaling Emancipation

While CS183C has been an amazing experience packed full with insight, it proved difficult to write on anything else without first discussing the most bizarre moment of my entire Stanford career. Michael Dearing’s impassioned lecture on “The Heroes of Capitalism” sought to inspire…

Thoughts on scaling when it’s too early!

The entrepreneurial landscape has changed significantly over the past decade with more and more people starting companies all around the world as the complexity of doing so has reduced drastically. When building a company in such an environment, you face…

CS183C has changed how I do things

I still remember tinkering with my first idea. Senior year of high school. First learning what a startup was. What technology companies did. Realizing that Google wasn’t just a verb in the dictionary and a website online, but actually a massive corporation based in…