Startup Project

Author: Nataraj Sindam

  • #31: Deedy (Debarghya Das) – India Startups, AI & Search

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    In this episode Nataraj spoke to Deedy who writes amazing twitter threads on immigration, Indian startups and more. Deedy is interesting because he brings in both Indian & U.S perspective having lived in both worlds. He talks about Indian immigration with details and nuances that are not covered by the mainstream media. Follow him if you are interested in tech, Indian immigration or Indian startups. He also has interesting takes on AI because of his experience working on Search products at Google and currently working at Glean, an enterprise search company.

    Topic covered include:

    • Tweet threads on Indian startups
    • Shark Tank India vs U.S
    • Generative AI, LLMs & Search 
    • Zero Interest Rate Phenomenon

    & a lot more.

    Don’t forget to follow Deedy’s opinions at @debarghya_das!

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    Past guests of Startup Project podcast include Ali Moiz (stonks.com), Kirby Winfield (Ascend.vc), Eric Bahn (Hustle Fund), and many more.

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  • #30: Jacob Colker – Co-Managing Director AI2 Incubator

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    In this episode of Startup Project Nataraj spoke to  Jacob Colker – Co-Managing Director AI2 Incubator.

    Inaugurated five years ago by the late Paul Allen and Professor Oren Etzioni, the commercialization arm of the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence was tasked with creating an incubator program for the brightest minds in AI to launch the next wave of technology companies that would change the world. Jacob Colker, Vu Ha, and Bryan Hale were tasked to fulfill this mandate.

    Full conversation includes:

    • Getting into tech
    • Story of Allen Institute Incubator AI2
    • Business Model of AI2
    • AI hype
    • Will LLM’s disrupt search business model?
    • AI effects on knowledge work

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    Past guests of Startup Project podcast include Ali Moiz (stonks.com), Kirby Winfield (Ascend.vc), Eric Bahn (Hustle Fund), and many more.

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  • #29: Jacques Fu – Co-founder at Stax

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    In this episode of Startup Project Nataraj spoke to  Jacques Fu Co-founder at Stax, Author of “Time Hacks”. Jacques is a serial entrepreneur & also co-founder of Orlando Devs (a community for developers in Orlando & Central Florida).

    Stax is an all-in-one payment solution for small business. Stax has raised $245 million in fresh funding, taking its valuation up to $1 billion . The investment saw participation from Greater Sum Ventures (GSV), HarbourVest Partners and Blue Star Innovation Partners, all of which will serve as strategic partners to Stax.

    Full conversation includes:

    • Journey of Stax
    • Opportunities in Fintech
    • Crypto
    • Angel Investing
    • Time Hacks

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    Past guests of Startup Project podcast include Ali Moiz (stonks.com), Kirby Winfield (Ascend.vc), Eric Bahn (Hustle Fund), and many more.

  • Google Got Chat Right 10 Years Back, But Didn’t Know (TSP Insights)

    Google started and ended about 5 chat application in last 10 years, but the best chat application was already made by them before every one else. It was GTalk!

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  • Netflix No Longer Controls the Streaming Story (TSP Insights)

    Netflix for long dictated the streaming story, they set the narrative that other media companies scrambled to follow. But all that is changed now.

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  • #28: Build In Public or Not? w/ KP

    In this episode of Startup Project we spoke to KP, Build In Public guy on Twitter.

    Full conversation includes:

    • What is Build In Public?
    • Why Build In Public?
    • Cornering Keywords on Internet
    • The Good, Bad & Ugly of Build In Public

    & more.

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    Past guests of Startup Project podcast include Chris Devore (Investor in Remitly, Auth0 & Outreach), Ali Moiz (stonks.com), Kirby Winfield (Ascend.vc), Eric Bahn (Hustle Fund), and others.

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    If you like this episode, you might also enjoy the conversation with Mohan Belani, Founder of E27.

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  • Venture Fund is a Startup (TSP Insights)

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    Launching a, a venture fund is not for the faint of heart, uh, and it is very much a startup activity. 

    Geoff Harris & Nataraj talk about the challenges of launching a venture fund. Geoff spent 15 years at Microsoft in engineering leadership and executive leadership positions. His career at Microsoft began in digital media where he ran the Windows Media Player team.

    Full conversation includes is available here and includes:

    • Developing Natural language processing at Microsoft
    • Angel investing to raising a fund
    • Core insight behind Flying Fish
    • AI Use cases for future
    • Web3 & Venture

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    Past guests of Startup Project podcast include Ali Moiz (stonks.com) , Kirby Winfield (Ascend.vc) , Eric Bahn (Hustle Fund) , and others.

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  • #27 Geoff Harris: Managing Partner Flying Fish VC

    In this episode of Startup Project we spoke to Geoff Harris, Managing Partner Flying Fish VC. Flying Fish is a thesis driven fund focused on Al/ML.

    Geoff Harris spent 15 years at Microsoft in engineering leadership and executive leadership positions. His career at Microsoft began in digital media where he ran the Windows Media Player team.

    Full conversation includes:

    — Developing Natural language processing at Microsoft

    — Angel investing to raising a fund

    — Core insight behind Flying Fish 

    — AI Use cases for future

    — Web3 & Venture

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    Past guests of Startup Project podcast include Ali Moiz (stonks.com), Kirby Winfield (Ascend.vc), Eric Bahn (Hustle Fund), and others.

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    If you like this episode, you might also enjoy the conversation with Mohan Belani, Founder of E27.

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  • NFTs in Games? (Bonus Clip)

    Liron & Nataraj discuss about what problems is NFTs fixing?

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    Nataraj: What about NFT first games? ,

    Liron: So the, I guess the game pitch is, you know, you worked hard to earn this NFT item through your skill in this game, and now you’re gonna go play another game. Right. So don’t, you wish that you could still have like a comparable thing in that other game, right?

    So that’s supposed to be the pitch.

    Nataraj: Yeah. I mean, gameplay should be the pitch, right? Like that that’s I, I guess you’ve made this point with he as well. I think in one of your tweets, you are a, you have your product, right? Like why your product is good, but most of the websites advertise why the token is good.

    Liron: If the problem is I’m gonna play two different games by two different developers. And I, I worked hard to level up my character and invest in one game.

    Liron: Well, maybe it’s fine that I start from scratch in the next game. Right? Like how has it suddenly, like crypto has made us like such geniuses that we think it makes sense to like, not start from scratch in, in new games.

    Liron Shapira is known as the guy who write twitter threads about web3 use cases including Axie Infinity & Helium.

    But before becoming twitter famous, he is also a founder & angel investor and currently runs a YC backed startup called Relationship Hero.

    The irony in his angel investments is he made life changing money by investing in Coinbase which was a 500x return on his investment.

    Full conversation includes:

    • Failure with Quixey (50M+ Series C)
    • Relationship Hero (YC Backed)
    • Seed Investment in $COIN (listen for exit multiple)
    • Investing in Russian Bonds
    • Web3 Use cases (cross border payments, helium, NFTs in gaming, Uber on Web3, Identity)

    Nataraj is a PM at Azure, investor & host of thestartupproject.io podcast. Follow him on Twitter at  twitter.com/natarajsindam.

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  • Is BYJU’s Democratizing Education?(Bonus Clip)

    Nataraj & Eric (Hustle Fund) talk about how an Indian company BYJU’s despite its flaws is helping democratizing education. 

    Full conversation includes:

    • Beat the GMAT (Eric’s Startup)
    • Defining hustle
    • Raising fund 1
    • First 10 investments
    • Building the brand

    For Full conversation with Eric check out Episode 21 of Startup Project.

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    Past guests of Startup Project podcast include Ali Moiz (stonks.com), Kirby Winfield (Ascend.vc), Eric Bahn (Hustle Fund), and many more.

    To stay up to date checkout thestartupproject.io & follow us on twitter: @natarajsindam

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    If you like this episode, you might also enjoy the conversation with web3 critique Liron.

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