Viraj Ala @VirajAla21
Interviewing The Top 1% Of Silicon Valley | Ex-White House, Deloitte instagram.com/viraj.ala/ la & sf Joined April 2025-
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"What's the one purchase every founder needs to make...to go from Good To GREAT?" Therapy. Last week, I ran into @ericwei - founder of @trykarat (and the best pickleball player I know in LA). Considering his background... (bro's ex-Harvard, McKinsey, Blackstone, and Instagram)…
I saw this guy yelling in public yesterday. 𝐄𝐱𝐭𝐫𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐥𝐲 𝐟*𝐜𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐥𝐨𝐮𝐝𝐥𝐲. Honestly, it was a little 𝐭𝐨𝐨 bizarre. They say a picture is worth a thousand words. But when I heard this guy, I was imagining 𝐭𝐞𝐧-𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐬𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐰𝐚𝐲𝐬 I wanted to 𝐛𝐞𝐚𝐭…
Introducing @omeninvest, the world’s first agentic trading platform Deploy your team of AI quants that research and trade anything Out now at agentomen [dot] com
Most people can become millionaires from sports betting. But @Ankit is building a platform—that will make you a billionaire from sports betting. How? Three things. ↳ Sell a VISION, not a product. ↳ 𝐂𝐥𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐂𝐥𝐚𝐬𝐬—build a product that GENUINLY interests…
You may be a "hard worker..." But are you actually hard? I asked @RitamRana — CEO at @knowlifyai (YC s25).... And after: - dropping his internships in Big Tech - getting into YC from a no-name school - acquiring 7 million users for his startup Safe to say he's pretty hard.
I ran into @GaddipatiHarsha — the founder of @slashyai And I realized one thing. He's stupid as fuck. Or at least, that's what he told me. Because the key to building any SaaS company that consumers want? In Harsha's own words... "You just got to talk to as many people as…
I just met the most handsome brown man in Silicon Valley. Neel Shanmugam—from @cluely Most people know him as the one token Indian man at Cluely... But a lot of people don't know: - that he grew up pretty anti-religious - that even Roy says he's the smartest of the two -…
I met the most CHOPPED founder in Silicon Valley... You may know MikeBuildsMore as the Wolf Of YC-Street... But after: - building in ed-tech as a middle school dropout - scaling his startup from 1 to 2 figures - building with the BEST founder of this generation -…
I just met the most controversial man in Silicon Valley... Roy Lee — aka @im_roy_lee From making $1.3 MILLION in an hour, to having an 8-FIGURE net worth at 20 years old... It's safe to say—he didn't disappoint.
Only 15% of the YC Summer Batch is Female. So when I ran into @AriaVikram—the founder of @parachute... I had no idea how insane what she was building—actually was.
They just keep getting younger and YOUNGER.... Ran into @raidingAI - aka Pranjali Awasthi—founder of @slashyai Crazy part? This is her second company—and she's just 18 🤯
Last year, @VihaarNandigala was grinding 100+ hour workweeks working at @jpmorgan This year, he quit his job to build @orangeslice—the fastest growing startup in this YC batch. And now—at over 500+ sales calls deep... The 𝘁𝗼𝗽 𝟯 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴𝘀 that took him from 0 -> 1 were:…
I thought I had seen it all... Until Jay told me he was building TikTok for P*RN. No, I'm not joking. A few weeks ago in SF, @Jayliang told me he was building an app called Quickie. But, even more than the shock factor of building an app like this... The fact that 𝐚…
Omnara (@omnaraai) is the first command center for AI agents. Start Claude Code in your terminal, then continue on web or mobile with real-time notifications. Try it free: pip install omnara && omnara · omnara.com
Ran into @hazhubble - the founder of @pallyai. From dropping out at 14 to becoming the youngest CPA in the world - really loved this interview.
Hihi! Trying something a little crazy but I'm 100% serious, even tho I only have 3 days to make it happen before Burning Man 😅 If you are a young builder who made internet money and haven't been to SF yet, I wanna bring you out here for a week. Please share with anyone whose…
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