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Nikunj Kothari

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Nikunj Kothari

@nikunj

partner @fpvventures - investing in seed/A. previous: early hire @meter, @opendoor, @atlassian & others. love @shimoleejhaveri + 👦👧

San Francisco

Joined April 2009

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Nikunj Kothari
@nikunj
Jun 6
A Walk In The Park (part II) feat @taiuti 🌎 (00:00) 👋 (01:10) What world models are (03:42) Origin story from text-to-3D to @reactorworld (09:22) Deciding to start the company (11:22) GTA, games, and the path into programming (15:09) Building in stealth and keeping secrets
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Nikunj Kothari
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Nov 15, 2024
This one was written straight from the heart at 4:32 am..
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Nikunj Kothari
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Jan 8, 2025
You can just do (hard) things..
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Nikunj Kothari
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Jun 23, 2025
Reading biographies of successful people, and if I had to summarize it in one meme, this would be it..
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Nikunj Kothari
@nikunj
Mar 26, 2025
I feel a little bit for the @GoogleDeepMind team.. You build a world changing model and everyone is posting Ghibli-fied pictures instead. But this is the core problem with Google - they can build the best models in the world but if they don’t focus on the consumer experience
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Nikunj Kothari
@nikunj
Aug 14, 2025
This is easily the best essay I’ve read all year.. highly recommend reading in full
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Nikunj Kothari
@nikunj
Apr 4, 2025
A lesson that took me 10 years to learn..
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Nikunj Kothari
@nikunj
Jun 23, 2025
How I feel after launching 5 instances of Claude Code..
Consulting Comedy
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Consulting Comedy
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Nikunj Kothari
@nikunj
Oct 21, 2025
It's wild that Google wrote the Transformers paper (that birthed GPTs) AND open sourced Chromium.. Both of which will (eventually) lead to the downfall of their search monopoly. History lesson in there somewhere.
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Nikunj Kothari
@nikunj
Oct 4, 2025
When you genuinely love the problem, the hours disappear...
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Nikunj Kothari
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Sep 22, 2025
In today's 996 chest-thumping culture, don't forget about the quiet ones keeping your company together..
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Nikunj Kothari
@nikunj
Oct 18, 2025
I’m really envious of people who are able to communicate clearly & effectively especially in unrehearsed settings.. I feel I need to write to structure thoughts - otherwise my brain is generally a garbled mess. Must get better, will get better. Any tips or pointers are welcome!
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Nikunj Kothari
@nikunj
Aug 1, 2025
We spend years getting comfortable at companies building consensus. Then, we join the dictator and finally ship something that matters..
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Nikunj Kothari
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Nov 8, 2025
Can’t believe it’s taken me 20+ years to come to Bombay.. Even sweeter when the occasion is to surprise Dad 🥳
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