Aditya Agarwal
@adityaag
General Partner @SouthPkCommons, Co-Founder @Bevel_Health | Ex: Early Eng @facebook, CTO @Dropbox, Board @Flipkart | Optimist, Builder, Dad
11/ Don’t work on something obvious. Don’t work on something easy. Everything is changing. Meet the moment. Do something worth your time and talent. Founder Fellowship applications are due August 3rd. blog.southparkcommons.com/spc-founder-fe…
holy, this is actually so well written. there're many ideas, phrases & words in here which I already truly believe in and think of. it just strung a chord clearly. great read @southpkcommons @rsanghvi @JPBrebner. applying now with @RakshithSajjan blog.southparkcommons.com/what-is-negati…
Founder Fellowship @southpkcommons because if you're not ambitionmaxxing in the age of ai what's the point
At @southpkcommons we work with the sharpest minds in the ecosystem, in their ‘-1 to 0’ phase - before there's a company, before the idea is legible, when greatness actually emerges. On July 30th, we’re hosting our first India Demo Faire - an evening of real, working demos from…
Been thinking a lot about founder archetypes and the duality inherent in exceptional traits. Founders with 100x spikes in certain dimensions often exhibit corresponding deficits in complementary areas. It's not a bug...it's just the inevitability of finite processing power. -…
So much of the narrative around China comes from a place of fear. But I think there is a positive aspect which is that it forces America to innovate. In Crypto. In Hard Tech. In Deep Tech. Competition is a good thing. America does best when it has it's back against the wall.
One of the most energetic, real conversations at SPC Bangalore - with the OG of the Indian startup ecosystem, @NaveenTewari. On why '-1 to 0' and pain are underrated. On why doing the obvious is overrated. And as he says, build only if it's the best part of your day, every day.
Every great endeavor starts at -1. Get support for your startup when it matters most, from the people who defined -1 to 0.
Spent a few days in El Segundo last week. It's an easy-to-miss spot near the beach. Nothing flashy. Just warehouses, big doors, steel buildings. You can smell and hear the hum, sparks, smell of metal and resin. Nobody talks about "disruption" or "changing the world" here. It's…
Was catching up with friends who started out in Silicon Valley with me 20 years ago. One of the big changes from 2004 is just how dialed into the game everyone is. Valuations. Cap Tables. Equity structure. Seed/A/B/C ownership. Multiples etc. etc. Everyone is so much more…
The gravity well of San Francisco right now is staggering. So many founders, investors, builders are all coming back. Many who left circa 2021 in search of greener pastures. AI talent network effects are real.
Build the bigger thing. Always build the bigger thing.
Big fan of the rebel alliance - and the future we're building with Sentience. Check out the post linked!
The real question from the Windsurf situation: Will Claude Code reach escape velocity as a product before Cursor build their own competitive model? It’s a fascinating question because it underlies a key question. Which is harder: model or product?
Thoughts on the Windsurf acquihire: —> Anthropic has a big lead in coding models. More than people are realizing. —> Joining OAI as a UI layer on top of Anthropic’s coding model is a non-starter. —> It’s unclear if OAI has the time+energy to devote to building a competitive…