Abhijeet Patra

A few months ago now, I wrote a document about my experiences interviewing for AI research jobs before eventually joining @OpenAI. This doc details my process and lessons learned. Hope it's helpful! https://t.co/jH1mK4Nii5

Following up on a Q on the recommended length for a biopharma pitch deck, here are a few thoughts on how to make your deck “typical” for decks put out by experienced teams. You want to avoid any “tells” that investors associate with a less experienced, less clued-in teams. - Don’t send a Word teaser – biopharma VCs are... See more

I engaged with it a tiny bit back in the day https://t.co/xs1bjY0ESN Here is a bit more engagement: Tamay and Ege recently claimed that most R&D progress isn’t the result of genius scientific reasoning – or more generally of smart researchers doing what looks like... See more

I really like this framing from @zackkanter on what being a founder is about for him, "I want to spend my life working on hard problems with smart people, and I want to look in the mirror every day and ask myself how good am I really? I think that’s the ultimate dream for a founder — to find out what their limits are."

A cheeky pattern I've seen a few times: - Raise money from venture/SV style investors at high pre-money valuations to start a "holding company", often with some thesis like "we're going to add technology to an old industry" (money often raised at 30x earnings or some insane pre-money... See more