Nilam Ganenthiran

@nilamg

Technology entrepreneur, builder, and friend-of-founders Current: Founder/CEO Beacon Software | Prev: President @ Instacart, Partner @ D1 Capital

Toronto, Ontario

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Nilam Ganenthiran
@nilamg
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Beacon has acquired Haize Labs! So excited to welcome @leonardtang_ , @steveshenli and the team. Leonard and I bonded over a shared belief: responsible AI means AI that serves the real economy, and Main Street deserves the same caliber of AI talent and technology as the world’s
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Nilam Ganenthiran
@nilamg
Aug 28
Turnaround CEOs used to only refer to specialists who parachuted in when companies were in trouble Now it’s every CEO
Nilam Ganenthiran
@nilamg
Aug 27
One counterintuitive thing I am seeing across dozens of conversations with real economy execs: every incumbent is now a turnaround CEO, even if their business is growing, profitable and hitting plan. I wrote about the Era of the Perpetual Turnaround CEO:
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The Era of The Perpetual Turnaround CEO
A line from a recent Eric Vishria podcast appearance has been stuck in my head: "Every day you are making plan (as a SaaS CEO), you are destroying equity value." I took his point to be that CEOs...
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Nilam Ganenthiran
@nilamg
Aug 27
One counterintuitive thing I am seeing across dozens of conversations with real economy execs: every incumbent is now a turnaround CEO, even if their business is growing, profitable and hitting plan. I wrote about the Era of the Perpetual Turnaround CEO:
Article
The Era of The Perpetual Turnaround CEO
A line from a recent Eric Vishria podcast appearance has been stuck in my head: "Every day you are making plan (as a SaaS CEO), you are destroying equity value." I took his point to be that CEOs...
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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.
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
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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