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Great run, Paras!

If I may:

- Did VWO ever apply to YC?

- Do you foresee PE asset stripping (crashing & burning) VWO eventually?

- What's next (5y time period)?

Thanks.



- No, never applied to YC.

- Not expecting this to happen

- I plan to explore starting a fundamental AI lab from India (China has Deepseek, US has OpenAI and Anthropic, Japan has Sakana - India doesn't have one yet!)


> explore starting a fundamental AI lab from India

I saw the back & forth between you and Aravind (pplx.ai) on Twitter. Impactful if you'd go down the FOSS route [0]. How soon are you expecting to start working on this? Are you hiring?

[0] I co-develop FOSS security tools for Android and considering building more to counter fraud (local languages is a barrier): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42785568




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