Varunram Ganesh (@varunram) / X

Varunram Ganesh

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Varunram Ganesh

@varunram

founder @trylapis (@ycombinator f25). prev @warpdotco, @mitDCI, @DukeFuqua programmer, marketer, sales guy if you're looking for a new role, DM me

San Francisco

Joined March 2018

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Varunram Ganesh
@varunram
May 15
We've grown 3x since April, crossed X M in ARR, and are hiring more folks to join our small lean team The only requirement for us is you are AI native, can spend more than $20k a month in tokens, and can figure things out in an extremely fast paced environment We don't have a
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Varunram Ganesh
@varunram
May 14, 2025
I can't believe the CEO of Capital One is literally called Rich Fairbank
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Varunram Ganesh
@varunram
Sep 5, 2025
Imagine leaving OpenAI to work on this at Meta
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Varunram Ganesh
@varunram
Jun 5, 2025
Art of the Deal
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Varunram Ganesh
@varunram
Aug 23, 2025
Over time people will realize that outside of perhaps Soros, big macro hedge funds and investors who have been successful just traded off insider information (and yes, this includes Buffett)
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Varunram Ganesh
@varunram
Oct 27, 2025
Nithin Kamath, I wasn’t familiar with your game
FFmpeg
@FFmpeg
Oct 26, 2025
We would like to thank @Nithin0dha for the $100k donation to FFmpeg (pending)! While this does not solve the funding problems behind FFmpeg and Open Source in general, it's a step forward to a sustainable future for Open Source Software.
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Varunram Ganesh
@varunram
Oct 15, 2025
Overheard in SF: In the end, cursor's margins are closer to Walmart's than they are to Google
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Varunram Ganesh
@varunram
Jul 2, 2025
After the Soham saga, pretty sure very few YC startups will hire remote Indians. Classic case of one guy exploiting a high trust society which leads to downfall of all the others around him.
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Varunram Ganesh
@varunram
Oct 20, 2025
Eightsleep not being able to function offline because they want to charge their $20/mo SaaS fee is a peak Gilfoyle moment
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Varunram Ganesh
@varunram
May 6, 2025
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Varunram Ganesh
@varunram
Aug 17, 2025
Over time, I realized in pretty much all cities in the world except SF, the rich want a stratified class system. The rich class interacts only with the rich, the employee class interacts only with the employee class, and the only class mingling there is is when the rich want to
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Varunram Ganesh
@varunram
Nov 16, 2025
I really dont get the hate against Aravind and Perplexity. Man is 3-6 months ahead of the big labs in almost every trend and has a big user base. Comes up with cool things every couple months. I think the big labs could learn a ton from him actually, he has great product sense.
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Varunram Ganesh
@varunram
Jul 13, 2025
In light of all this, thinking about Ilya. Could've had $32 Billion and he still walked away. Truly built different.
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Varunram Ganesh
@varunram
May 11, 2025
Really sad India has 800M to 1B people online and still can’t achieve information superiority on the internet, peacetime or wartime
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