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Deedy Das
Investing in AI, SaaS and Infra at Menlo Ventures in San FranciscoMenlo VC. PrevPrevious: Founding team Glean, Google Search, Facebook. I write on my blog and Twitter.
Writing
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Best Tweets
I write daily on X as @deedydas where I've had 100M+ views and occasionally chat with Elon.
How I lost 66lbs in 8 months
I write about the data-driven approach I used to go from 209lbs to 143lbs and 8% body fat. Featured on GQ.
Investing
Email At Menlo Ventures, I invest in AI, Saas and Infra startups in the seed, A and B stage. I work with Higgsfield, Pinecone and Anthropic.
Previous: Angel investor in Cartesia, Fulcrum and advisor to Perplexity.
Email me if you'd like to chat about fundraising, advice, or would like to partner with someone with engineering and product experience.
Previous: Angel investor in Cartesia, Fulcrum and advisor to Perplexity.
Email me if you'd like to chat about fundraising, advice, or would like to partner with someone with engineering and product experience.
Career
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Menlo Ventures
Venture investing in AI and Infra in Seed to Series B with Tim Tully, Joff, Matt Murphy and more.
Glean
Founding team with Arvind Jain. Started Glean Assistant. Backed by Kleiner, Sequoia and more. $2.2B valuation.
Search and machine learning in New York.
Education
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Cornell University
Top 10% of class with a bachelors and masters in Computer Science in 3.5yrs. Published some research.
La Martiniere for Boys
Went to a 200yr old French high school in Calcutta, India. Played chess and did national math olympiads (INMO).
Speaking
Book I've spoken on podcasts on career, technology, AI and machine learning, Glean, India, immigration, investing and my side projects. Here's why I care about doing this. Podcasts: The Aarthi and Sriram Show, AI50 with Hanh Brown, Nextplay with Ben Lang, Dojolive, Latent Space with swyx, Startup Project, Nvidia AI, Soul Searching, The Data Scientist Show, Infinite Machine Learning, AI in Action, ML with Jay Shah, and the Early Twenties Pod. Speaking: Harvard Business School, Digital Transformation Week, Palo Alto Networks AI Day, Google Cloud Next, SwissCognitive AI Conference, Innovation Center Denmark, KQED News, Warwick Business School, University of Texas Austin, TEDx Bangalore and various Indian universities including IIT Bombay, BITS Pilani and NIT Trichy.
News
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OpenAI tokenizer in Chinese
Featured in Futurism and MIT Technology Review.
Why NRIs don't live in India
Featured in NDTV, Hindustan Times, News18, Times of India and more.
Job stagnation in tech
Featured in Times of India, Economic Times, Analytics India, Business Today and more.
Facebook-Netflix data sharing
Featured in Mashable, TechCrunch, ArsTechnica and more.
Google Gemini's "woke" AI images
Started the conversation which caused Gemini to lock down Gemini. In NPR, BBC, AlJazeera, DailyMail and many more.
AI women, voice, video and price
AI women in Evie, AI voices in Mashable, AI video in Analytics India and AI economics in The Verge.
Projects
Github
Deedy Resumé
Open-source two column minimalist resume template in Latex with ~5000 Github stars and 100k uses on Overleaf.
Wordle Solver
Built a solver for Wordle that boasts 100% accuracy and an average attempts of 3.65 on all 2300 candidate words.
IIT Alumni Tracker
Tracking outcomes for the top 250 JEE rankers from 2009-2016, the premier engineering college in India.
Grad School Admission Stats
Mining 372k datapoints from GradCafe to understand grad school admission stats by GPA and GRE.
Bollywood Playlist
A playlist maintained over a decade with over 1500 songs and 7500 likes on Spotify.
Fantasy Cricket Trading
Using binary integer programming and financial risk models to achieve top 2000 out of 400k in the IPL 2014.