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Hemant Mohapatra
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Hemant Mohapatra
@MohapatraHemant
VC @lightspeedindia, ex: @a16z, prod/engg @Google @AMD; @supabase @pixxelspace @composio @sarvamai @solana @unslothAI @emergentlabs @airbound_aero & more
- Long ago I asked a Sr leader @ Google why Larry picked Sundar as CEO. Apparently it wasn't coz Sundar was smartest, most visionary etc. At one pt other leaders just couldn't agree w/ each other unless he was there to mediate. Low ego, high EQ is an under-rated leadership quality.
- The curse of intelligence is restlessness, the curse of lacking intelligence is envy. The curse of courage is isolation, the curse of lacking courage is regret.
- Naah, we good.
Sit down buddy - In 2 pages @JeffBezos teaches you more about high standards than you'll learn from reading 2 books. The art of summarising that which resists summary is critical to achieving greatness. The world will forget you, except what you've written down, then what you've written down well
- So now that Nvidia has far outstripped the market cap of AMD and Intel, I thought this would be a fun story to tell. I spent 6+yrs @ AMD engg in mid to late 2000s helping design the CPU/APU/GPUs that we see today. Back then it was unimaginable for AMD to beat Intel in market-cap
- A not so well known fact abt Sundar Pichai is that he was promoted into the CEO role not because he was the smartest person in the room but because without him it was getting very hard to get a group of very smart people to agree on anything. High IQ + low ego is a killer combo.sundar pichai went from mid level pm to running a trillion dollar mega co. in ~10 years flat. that’s… absurd velocity. it's unclear to me if anyone else will do this again with this speed.
- Jeff Bezos teaches you more about high standards in two pages than you'll learn from reading two books. The art of summarising things that resist summary is critical to achieve greatness in almost any field.
- ~8yrs ago (Dec’12) I got a job @Google. Those were still early days of cloud. I joined GCP @<150M ARR & left @~4B (excld GSuite). Learned from some of the smartest ppl in tech. But we also got a LOT wrong that took yrs to fix. Much of it now public, but here’s my ring-side view👇
- Long ago I asked a Sr leader @ Google why Larry picked Sundar as CEO. Apparently it wasn't coz he was smartest, most visionary etc. At one pt other leaders just couldn't agree w/ each other unless Sundar was there to mediate. Low ego, high EQ is an under-rated leadership quality.
- India has so far donated 66M covid vaccines to over 95 countries. What the US chooses to do in holding back vaccines that, from what I hear, are over-stocked by 30-40M, will be a defining moment for Biden's legacy. The East remembers. mea.gov.in/vaccine-supply…
- Wow, didn't expect US to slap a 100k PER YEAR fee on H1B. I was in US for 15 years on H1B, that would have meant a $1.5M fee paid to the gov. While I was working on semicon in US (a critical area, not IT) my salary was <$100k. No way AMD would have hired me. I published papers,
