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Nilam Ganenthiran

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Technology entrepreneur, builder, and friend-of-founders Current: Beacon Software | Prev: President @ Instacart, Partner @ D1 Capital
Toronto, Ontario
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    Nilam Ganenthiran
    @nilamg
    Jul 7
    Reminds me so much of my learnings in the early Instacart days. Software purchasing decisions are so deeply rooted in the same sales logic that has persisted for centuries: you buy from who you trust and like the most, in that order.
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    Samantha Trimble
    @strimblez
    Jul 5
    multiple founders over the last few days have told me that their decision to build with OpenAI vs Anthropic is increasingly not technical, especially as the models seemingly “leapfrog each other every few weeks.” rather they say it’s about the experience theyve had with the teams
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    Nilam Ganenthiran
    @nilamg
    Jun 29
    Everyone's scared AI will eat software. We've acquired a software company every ~10 days for two years on the opposite bet. Sat down with @PaulBuser & @RickBuhrmanSGH to trace how I got here – P&G, Instacart, D1, and the through-line to Beacon.
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    Nilam Ganenthiran
    @nilamg
    Nov 6, 2025
    I will be going on @tbpn at 4:50p ET to talk about @beaconsoftwarex make sure to tune in!
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    TBPN
    @tbpn
    Nov 6, 2025
    Good morning. On today’s show: – @vladtenev (Robinhood) – @DavidBaszucki (Roblox) – @btaylor (Sierra) – @UriMarchand (Overwolf) – @Alex__Israel (Metropolis) – @paulerlanger (fomo) – @nilamg (Beacon) See you on the stream.
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    Nilam Ganenthiran
    @nilamg
    Sep 8, 2025
    Congrats @ScottWu46 and @cognition team! The team is building one of the most impressive companies of this generation. Grateful to be an investor and proud that Beacon is a design partner.
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    Cognition
    @cognition
    Sep 8, 2025
    We’ve raised over $400M at a $10.2B post-money valuation to advance the frontier of AI coding agents. The round was led by Founders Fund with other existing investors including Lux, 8VC, Neo, Elad Gil, Definition Capital, and Swish VC all doubling down. We’re also joined by new
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    Nilam Ganenthiran
    @nilamg
    May 31, 2025
    The topic of organization design in an AI world seems to be a recurring theme not only with startup peers but also with CEOs of mature scaled businesses. In a quest for feedback/pushback and also to try to be helpful I wanted to share how I am thinking about org design in the

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