Jagannath Putrevu
@jputrevu
+ 1 to moving to east bay. A lot more to life than hill climbing a net worth numberInstead of being existentially sad b/c you know people with more money than you, instead be grateful that: 1. You live in one of the beautiful places in the world. 2. With a high density of interesting people. 3. In the most prosperous moment of all time. 4. While you work on- This post struck a nerve. As a frontline builder of a B2B AI startup, here’s how we’re using designers: 1) External brand design In an era of AI generated slop, most websites look the same. Even human designed websites mostly look the same. But great designers can help youDESIGN: THE FIRST AI CASUALTY I'm increasingly sure that 2026 signals the end of product design as a full-fledged stand-alone function within companies. If so, it will be the first role / function to be eliminated by AI on a go-forward basis. Instead of hiring FT designers,
- Max was the first check into my start-up and has been one of the most helpful people throughout my time at Instacart and now as I go through my founder journey. Excited that he's gonna be focusing on investing full-time!Some personal news! Recently, I stepped back from the day-to-day at @Instacart to focus on investing full-time. I sat down with my friend @jaltma on Uncapped to talk about building Instacart and my philosophy on early-stage investing — check it out here!
