Neha Narula

@neha

I work on scaling systems and platforms for the internet. Director of Digital Currency @medialab, BoD @blocks. PhD from @MIT_CSAIL, formerly @digg, @google.

Cambridge, MA // NYC

nehanarula.org

Joined July 2006

Neha Narula
@neha
Aug 20
This is a good analysis on the Stripe and OpenRouter acquisition! But I disagree with the Fortune 500 stuff at the end. Stripe has always been about capturing the wide swath of new companies, of which a few might grow to be Fortune 500s.
Matt Janiga
@regulatorynerd
Aug 20
Replying to @pbreit
It fits a couple of things — 1) Stripe has a history of M&A around developer tooling, dating back to them buying runkit. 2) Hard to argue with the theory of being payments for developers when they're the clear market winner for devs who need card acceptance + they've
Neha Narula
@neha
Jul 16
The original sin was the belief (propagated by certain VCs) that money and finance weren't "enough" and blockchain technology had to expand to replace the entire internet. this made no sense and totally diluted the use case. fixing money and finance is the whole point
Austin Campbell
@austincampbell
Jul 16
I know people like to spin things in positive directions, but reading the tweet from @jessepollak and @jacqmelinek after that, I am going to give my view as an outsider: One, Base has been an outright failure. Base did not add significant new customers. There are no working
Neha Narula
@neha
May 24
This was a really interesting, wide-ranging conversation. Thank you to @mariekeflament and @Nicolas_Colin for having me!
Marieke
@mariekeflament
May 24
New podcast on @CurrenPower: we sat down with @neha for an in-depth conversation on CBDCs, Stablecoins, Privacy, Quantum and Geopolitics outlook. Neha has a unique ability to explain very clearly complex concepts - a must listen! open.substack.com/pub/eurostable…
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Neha Narula
@neha
May 11
I'm giving a talk at the Media Lab today at 4 PM ET titled Money, Power, and Machines: Designing the Future of Finance for People (E14-633) If you want to join, come 5 minutes early to 75 Amherst St, Cambridge, MA, or if not local email me for the zoom link!
Neha Narula
@neha
May 9
"the model proved a result that in my assessment would have made a perfectly reasonable chapter in a [math] PhD thesis. It did this in a total of a couple of hours, with a few prompts from me that contained no mathematical input whatsoever."
Timothy Gowers @wtgowers
@wtgowers
May 8
I've recently got in on the act of getting AI to solve open problems in mathematics. More precisely, I gave some questions asked by Melvyn Nathanson to ChatGPT 5.5 Pro, to which I have been given access, and it answered them. 🧵