Aditya Agarwal
@adityaag • 75,352 subscribers
General Partner @SPC, Co-Founder @Bevel_Health | Ex: Early Eng @facebook, CTO @Dropbox, Board @Flipkart | Optimist, Builder, Dad
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“The universe is really big, and almost none of it is inside computers.” When a problem is hard, make it bigger. Sergey Levine put a room full of robots in a repurposed Google conference room and had them grasp objects all day. It worked. Then it hit a wall: lots of experience, no prior knowledge. That wall became Physical Intelligence. This conversation at South Park Commons was awesome. I learned a lot! (00:28) From Video Games to Robotics: Sergey Levine's Journey (04:24) Founding Physical Intelligence: Why the Timing and Team Mattered (06:30) Inside Pi Zero: Building a Foundation Model for Robots (09:37) From Pi 0.5 to Pi 0.7: Teaching Robots to Reason and Generalize (16:45) What Makes a Great Robotics Researcher? (21:10) Solving Robotics' Data Problem and Building Learning Feedback Loops (28:04) The Future of Robotics: General-Purpose AI vs. Specialized Robots (33:24) World Models, Data Strategy, and Building a Robotics Research Culture
Aditya Agarwal54,721 Aufrufe • vor 23 Tagen
A PhD from a top university doesn't necessarily make someone a great robotics researcher.
Aditya Agarwal34,934 Aufrufe • vor 23 Tagen
Every founder I meet worries about missing this moment. The best worry about wasting it. There’s a difference. It’s a waste to ignore how much the world has changed. It’s a waste to think you can capture value with pure software the same as 5 years ago. It’s a waste to build something small. We have seen the shift slowly and then very quickly at . Here’s who we want in the Founder Fellowship now: hardware tinkerers, mad scientists, obsessives, biohackers, people who build nuclear reactors in their basements. People who want to get their hands dirty and touch grass and atoms. If you are only building software, then please (for your own sake!) have a thesis that all your friends laugh at you about. Heresy is the price of ambition. Then put yourself in the right environment to maximize your ambition. (Apply by August 2nd)
Aditya Agarwal81,025 Aufrufe • vor 4 Monaten
1/ We're on the precipice of the most fundamental computing revolution I've seen in my life. You should have FOMO. Don't waste it in local maxima. The $1M South Park Commons Founder Fellowship application is open. Here’s what it takes to build at venture-scale in the age of AI:
Aditya Agarwal191,304 Aufrufe • vor 1 Jahr
One of the attributes that we look for the most South Park Commons is Clarity. The ability to be honest. To cut through the fog of war. To chart a path through murky waters. sridhar demonstrates this to the maximum degree. Minus One episode out now. (00:52) Choosing When to Take a Career Risk (05:01) Lessons From Google’s Founders (09:52) What Went Wrong at Neeva (13:39) The Future of AI Models (22:59) Snowflake’s Enduring Value in the AI Era (29:24) How to Keep Up With AI (32:24) Rapid Fire: Books, Search & Google
Aditya Agarwal37,258 Aufrufe • vor 2 Monaten
There's a lot of conventional wisdom in Silicon Valley that Elad Gil thinks is just wrong. He dropped by South Park Commons to make a case against all of it. (01:00) Approaches to starting a company (05:30) The cofounder fallacy (06:45) Winning is the only startup culture that matters (09:00) Why more markets are open right now than ever before (11:00) The oligopoly market (21:30) Product surface area beats data as a real competitive moat (25:30) The failure mode no one discusses: bad advice for working companies (34:00) How many Jensen Huangs are hiding in plain sight right now? (43:00) Pre-scheduling exit conversations as annual board hygiene (46:30) Why micromanagement is actually underrated
Aditya Agarwal72,887 Aufrufe • vor 7 Monaten
The attackers have AI. So do the defenders. Cybersecurity has a new shape: AI is both the threat and the only viable solution. Nikesh Arora, CEO of Palo Alto Networks, joined me at South Park Commons to break down what’s next. (00:30) Big problems vs. fast wins (04:00) Joining Google (07:00) Larry Page's product obsession (10:00) He read every hiring packet himself (13:00) What Silicon Valley gets wrong about Masa Son (16:00) Successful founders never wish they took less risk (17:00) Joining Palo Alto knowing nothing about cybersecurity (20:00) What incumbents got wrong when ChatGPT launched (23:00) Security was never built into AI (28:00) No enterprise knows what's running inside its stack (31:00) AI finds bad code faster than humans ever could (35:00) The only way to fix the chaos is more AI (38:00) AI won't just automate work—it raises the floor (41:00) Foundation models vs. specialized stacks (45:00) Why communication is 30% of the job at scale
Aditya Agarwal47,436 Aufrufe • vor 6 Monaten
They say attention is all you need. So get more attention . Founder Fellowship applications due Feb 1.
Aditya Agarwal67,926 Aufrufe • vor 10 Monaten
.Shubhanshu Shukla applied to the Indian Air Force without telling his parents. Decades later he became the 2nd Indian in history to reach space. We spoke at South Park Commons India about life aboard the ISS, what really happens to the body in microgravity, and the power of human perseverance. 00:00) Becoming Comfortable With the Uncomfortable (01:54) Why Saying "Yes" Changed the Course of His Life (07:15) What It Really Takes to Become an Astronaut (11:40) The Physical, Medical, and Psychological Tests (15:21) What It Feels Like to See Earth From Space (17:20) Microgravity: How Space Changes Your Body and Mind (25:35) The Pressure and Responsibility of Representing India in Space (28:29) The New Space Economy and Why the Next Decade Will Be Different (35:03) Advice for Entrepreneurs Building the Future of Space (44:19) The Future of Human Space Exploration: Moon, Mars, and Beyond
Aditya Agarwal30,932 Aufrufe • vor 4 Monaten
Success isn't automatic. You always have to be "refounding". Few know this better than Satya Nadella. I'm excited to share our full conversation with Satya at South Park Commons: quantum, AI, taking over Microsoft. Everything you'd want to learn from one of the GOATs.
Aditya Agarwal68,926 Aufrufe • vor 1 Jahr
One of my personal inspirations, OG of building for billions Nandan Nilekani joined me on Minus One at South Park Commons India. He didn't hold back. You need purpose, not permission. He’s bullish on India’s edge in solving real-world, population scale problems. As am I. Episode out now.
Aditya Agarwal29,336 Aufrufe • vor 11 Monaten
Sometimes speed is just impatience disguised as ambition.
Aditya Agarwal11,557 Aufrufe • vor 5 Monaten
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