Apoorva Mehta @apoorva_mehta
Founder @ Instacart apoorvamehta.com San Francisco, CA Joined August 2010-
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One of the best products I have tried out in a while! Really cool.
One of the best products I have tried out in a while! Really cool.
1/ We are releasing Playground v2.5, our latest foundation model to create images. We tested our model across 20K+ users in a rigorous benchmark that went beyond anything we've seen to date. This model is open weights. More information in the tweets below. 👇
Having a hard time keeping up with the daily advancements in AI. Don't think we have ever experienced anything like this in tech before. Unreal.
Before founding @Instacart in 2012 and leading it to IPO in 2023, @apoorva_mehta explored 20 different startup ideas. Apoorva joined us for a fireside chat to share how his -1 to 0 process led to a hugely successful company. youtu.be/iqgcK4Spo-I
Jony Ive: “Ideas are always fragile” “Ideas—by definition—are always fragile. If they were resolved, they wouldn’t be ideas. They would be products that were ready to ship.” The legendary Apple designer continues: “I’ve come to learn that you have to make an extraordinary…
DJing in Apple Vision Pro is FIRE 🤯 @Algoriddim
How it started 🥕 How it's going 🛒
Instacart (YC S12) was a contrarian idea to work on in 2012. The zenith of "Uber for X" ideas had passed and the consensus was only yuppies would pay premium for grocery delivery. It took a special founder to work on it, congrats @apoorva_mehta! forbes.com/sites/richardn…
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Apoorva sent me more than a six pack using Instacart today!
Thank you for the kind words, @davehclark. This means a lot, especially coming from you. There are very few people in the world who understand at-scale complex logistics as well as you do.
Thank you for the kind words, @davehclark. This means a lot, especially coming from you. There are very few people in the world who understand at-scale complex logistics as well as you do.
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Parker Conrad hilariously describes Bill Gurley as "sort of a constant, low-grade antagonist" Absolutely adding that phrase to my repertoire
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Good god. Make it stop. Total fucking nonsense.
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why does every ceo gray like 20yrs early but not otherwise look stressed and aged? they don't look like darth vadar, just gray young people
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