Tara Viswanathan

In grad school, I worked part time at @lululemon (retail, not corporate). I learned more about business from that part time job folding & selling yoga pants than any other job I had. ❤️ Here’s what they did differently:

Watched one episode of the @DCCCheerleaders documentary, and it confirms that regardless of what you pursue, the formula is the same if you want to be the best. - Outrageously high standards that make most people uncomfortable. - Not apologizing or softening those standards. -…

Only two things really matter right now: 1. ai 2. the physical world we inhabit The bigger AI gets, the more important our physical world will become. (the spaces we inhabit, our cities, a need for community, etc). Build in one of these.

Today felt like the old days when we all listened to the same songs on the radio. 🥹😂

did this earlier to give chatgpt my preferences on things like: - food / meals - hotels - travel - communication etc.

Wow. Just used @OpenAI agent to find an airbnb for an event in October and ended up booking the agent’s 1st recommendation. Gut checked by scouring airbnb manually before looking at its results (to test it). Agent got it right on the first try. Took agent ~10 min. Normally…

If your teammate is not blocking out their calendar for the latest ai launches you’re ngmi 😆

We need a halfway house system for ex founders transitioning back into society. 😅

the world is trying to make you average. don't let it.

Convinced that parent screen time is even worse than kid screen time bc it makes the kids feel like they’re unimportant. (i.e. parents paying attention to their phone when with the kid)

Raise your standards.

Highly recommend everyone in my generation read this. Especially Chapter IX: Socialism & History. (and Chapter X: Government & History)

This is a nothing burger. Labcorp and Quest can’t compete with @function and others. The issue is that labcorp and quest cannot officially price their direct cash pay publicly at the same price as they offer to function and others bc then they wouldn’t be able to bill insurance…

In a small countryside town in France for our cousin’s wedding, and our Moroccan uber driver knows more about life than most people I know. We drive past the largest McDonald’s I’ve ever seen. (it has its own massive garage that looks like a converted airplane hanger 😂) He…

Me: no one actually uses passwords like “abc123” right…??? Me finding my dad’s passwords in our shared family 1pass: 💀😭

At my cousin’s wedding. Groom started his vows with: “Neha. As an AI language model I don’t understand how love feels…. Wait sorry wrong one.” 😂 too good

I’ve been thinking about how the longer something lasts, the more it seems to protect itself instead of doing the thing it was built to do. Not just companies, but systems of all kinds - especially the ones we count on to build the physical world: power plants, factories, and the…

After selling rupa, I made a rule to “follow curiosity”. I only say yes to things where my gut screams YES — even if I don’t understand why in the moment. And the first thing I said yes to was Zoya. We met the day after I sent out my final investor update for Rupa. I had lunch…

Being easy to work with is a superpower.

I took our 3 mo old to my cousin’s graduation dinner with about 25 aunts / uncles / cousins I see maybe 1-2 times per year. I walked in and my aunt immediately grabbed the baby from my arms, put 5 overflowing plates of food in front of me, and ordered me to eat. “You sit down!…

Every employee at an early stage startup should do this. Do the job. The title (and rewards) will follow. (From Barry Diller’s new memoir — it’s very good.)