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Shuvi Shrivastava

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Shuvi Shrivastava

@shuvi

life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage - anais nin we share the same sun - chris martin

follow the white rabbit

Joined March 2009

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Shuvi Shrivastava
@shuvi
Jan 17, 2025
[caveat: chatgpt told me this story has nothing to do with investing or tech so i shouldn't post but claude was more encouraging so here we go. yes i have become that person.] the first presents i have memory of are two books my parents gave me: totto chan, and a dictionary, so
Shuvi Shrivastava
@shuvi
Jul 24, 2020
It’s not a ‘small world’ it’s an unfortunate concentration of privilege 😕
Shuvi Shrivastava
@shuvi
Dec 17, 2024
gentle reminder as we enter reflection season: ‘self awareness is only as useful as the associated capacity for change’
Shuvi Shrivastava
@shuvi
Sep 27, 2024
the loveliest 20s to 30s mindset shift I see around me is the growing realisation that eventually everything is a bubble / story and the only measure of success is how authentically are you able to live your life
Shuvi Shrivastava
@shuvi
Jun 20, 2020
When designers showed the first iPod prototype to Steve Jobs, he said it was too big.They replied they couldn’t make it smaller. Jobs then dropped the iPod into an aquarium, and bubbles floated up. “Those are air bubbles. That means there is space in there. Make it smaller”
Shuvi Shrivastava
@shuvi
Dec 2, 2020
some personal news ~~ i have been upgraded from IT services provider to investment advisor for the household
Shuvi Shrivastava
@shuvi
Apr 1, 2020
Can we collectively agree to skip the corona small talk at the beginning of every call?
Shuvi Shrivastava
@shuvi
Oct 5, 2021
gm
Shuvi Shrivastava
@shuvi
Jan 29, 2025
hot take: india is rate limited in ai not by talent, not by capital, but by ambition. the number of “very ambitious” people in any economy is not high. it’s also easy to ‘regress to the mean’ if you’re not around other high ambition people. this is why the valley works and
Shuvi Shrivastava
@shuvi
Mar 7, 2025
Someone I know who moved from a cash-constrained startup to a cash-rich one made an interesting observation: at her previous company there would be a lot of analysis paralysis in getting to the right answer, as the cost of making a wrong decision was high. What they unconsciously
Shuvi Shrivastava
@shuvi
Nov 25, 2017
Time person of the year should be the silhouette of a woman saying #MeToo
Shuvi Shrivastava
@shuvi
Jul 29, 2019
About a year ago, I quit my job at a kickass computer vision startup in Palo Alto to build my own venture. I have, since, worked on 6 projects that I believed should exist and then decided not to pursue. Documented my learnings on 2 of those products here linkedin.com/pulse/stuff-di…
Shuvi Shrivastava
@shuvi
Feb 18, 2020
So much fundraising gyaan online yet none of it focuses on the fundamental mindset you bring to the pitch: come in not to “ask for money” but to offer investors an opportunity to own a piece of your life’s work
Shuvi Shrivastava
@shuvi
Aug 20, 2019
If you’re a hypercritical / perpetually unimpressed / “everything sucks” sorta person, you must 100% build a product from scratch. You’ll either: 1. Use this power of nuanced insight to create something truly wonderful 2. Realise how hard it is and stop cribbing Win-win.