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Amit Ranjan

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Building @jaunthq.bsky.social | Prev: CoFounded @SlideShare, Architect @DigiLocker_Ind #IndiaStack #DPI | Views personal

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Amit Ranjan @amitranjan.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
“If I had eight hrs to chop down a tree, I’d spend the first six sharpening my axe” Translated to startup speak, this is what it means👇 “If I had eight hrs to build a product, I’d spend the first six iterating/pivoting till I hit PMF”
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Jaunt @jaunthq.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
#Deepseek memes are all over the web! They’re trending on Jaunt too... check out this fun deck someone posted: "19 Viral DeepSeek Memes" t.co/dGZB0q05Ir All jokes aside, the memes highlight what China has accomplished with DeepSeek.. truly disruptive. Constraints drive innovation & creativity🧠
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Amit Ranjan @amitranjan.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
Nimble, fast moving startups that have always spearheaded the tectonic shifts in tech are at an inherent disadvantge. For the innovation floodgates in consumer AI apps to open, this bottleneck needs to give way! #AI #consumer #apps #LLMs #genAI
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Amit Ranjan @amitranjan.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
As @venturetwins notes, the models are good enough to have apps built on top One problem though - AI by definition is a scaled opportunity, thereby making #bigtech incumbents the gatekeepers with the most leverage... their default operating mode is to defend the bastions, not expand the horizons!
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Amit Ranjan @amitranjan.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
The "𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐮𝐦𝐞𝐫 𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐢𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐨𝐟 𝐀𝐈" is around the corner! AI has seen pathbreaking advancements across the stack - semiconductor chips (hardware), foundational models, infra/tooling layer. But without apps, the stack is incomplete & suboptimal from a societal utilitarian standpoint.
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Amit Ranjan @amitranjan.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
"𝐒𝐨𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐫𝐞𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠" - people resetting their online behaviors and expectations in their quest for authenticity and simplicity "𝐂𝐨𝐬𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐇𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬" - people hestitating in their online interactions in response to proliferation of fake stories, news, identities Check it out jaunt.com/j/accenture-...
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Amit Ranjan @amitranjan.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Quote - "𝘞𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘱𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘦𝘴 𝘥𝘰𝘯'𝘵 𝘮𝘦𝘦𝘵 𝘱𝘦𝘰𝘱𝘭𝘦'𝘴 𝘯𝘦𝘦𝘥𝘴, 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘭𝘰𝘰𝘬 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦 (𝘸𝘪𝘴𝘥𝘰𝘮 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦) 𝘤𝘳𝘰𝘸𝘥s 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘦𝘥𝘶𝘤𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯" The report offers a very insightful take on how the internet & social media is shaping our society and popular culture. Other fascinating terms in the report:
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Amit Ranjan @amitranjan.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
#TIL New power word learnt today - "𝐈𝐦𝐩𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐄𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐨𝐦𝐲" It refers to the trend of users going their-own/DIY way to find quick solutions (via online content) to quench their impatience to achieve life goals. This is via the "𝐀𝐜𝐜𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞 2025 𝐋𝐢𝐟𝐞𝐓𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐬 𝐑𝐞𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭" on Jaunt jaunt.com/j/accenture-...
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Amit Ranjan @amitranjan.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
𝐈𝐭 𝐡𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐬 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐞𝐱𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐚𝐢𝐧 𝐝𝐞𝐜𝐤, 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐡𝐚𝐬 𝐝𝐚𝐭𝐚/𝐚𝐫𝐠𝐮𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬 𝐚𝐯𝐚𝐢𝐥𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞, should someone choose to double down on a specific question. Think this applies not just for VC pitches, but startup pitch decks as well. #venturecapital #VC #fundraising #capital #allocators #PEVC #VC101 #500startups
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Amit Ranjan @amitranjan.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
- Slide 7 (2nd pic) outlines the suggested flow for a VC pitch deck - This looks a good way to visualize the flow of your deck. Break it into "𝐂𝐨𝐫𝐞" & "𝐀𝐩𝐩𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐱".. with clear linkages between the core slides and the corresponding appendix section...
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Amit Ranjan @amitranjan.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
"𝐕𝐂 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐤𝐞𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 & 𝐁𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 101" - How to position & differentiate your VC firm to attract both investors + startup founders Excellent Jaunt from davemcclure.bsky.social (𝘧𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘳 - 𝘗𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭𝘝𝘊, 500𝘚𝘵𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘶𝘱𝘴) for VCs, fund managers and aspiring investment pros. Link >> jaunt.com/j/vc-marketi...
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Amit Ranjan @amitranjan.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
Great primer on HCI - Human Computer Interaction, from Prashant Singh (aka pacificleo) Many of us know Prashant - currently head of products at @JarAppHQ, and his passion for #UX. He delivered a talk on #design at a college recently with these accompanying slides jaunt.com/j/pptxgenjs-...
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Amit Ranjan @amitranjan.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
"Open or Closed - The battle for the soul of #GenAI" Visual essay by @chrismessina.me thats trending on Jaunt 👇 Should GenAI breakthroughs be #OpenSource vs #ClosedSource - this is turning into a hotly contested debate! jaunt.com/j/open-or-cl...
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Open or Closed? The battle for the soul of GenAI
Chris Messina explores the ongoing debate of open versus closed systems in GenAI. This presentation will delve into the implications of both approaches on innovation, developer freedom, and the broade...
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Amit Ranjan @amitranjan.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
Signup for Jaunt jaunt.com And I need all your blessings..... starting up again at this career stage (as I'm discovering!) is a different cup of tea 🍵 🙏🙏🙏
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Amit Ranjan @amitranjan.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
Check out this blogpost... captures some of our thoughts around this topic! content.jaunt.com/blog/announc...
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Amit Ranjan @amitranjan.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
But for the founding team - we still are believers in the idea (think "fall in love with the problem, not the solution"). And the idea itself has morphed and grown in its scope - sharing of documents in a AI first, mobile centric world!
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Amit Ranjan @amitranjan.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
We built SlideShare and it was successful in capturing the zeitgeist of its times! But unfortunately it never kinda reached its true potential - #bigtech acquisitions don't always pan out the way the founders visualized the opportunity (that's another story to tell sometime!)
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Amit Ranjan @amitranjan.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
Why now? Because AI has brought "text" as a format back in action! We are seeing AI rewrite the entire web landscape & textual content is the foundational block of this rewrite! So much of human expertise, ideas and knowledge is stashed away in pdfs, docs & slides lying around on computers, mobiles
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Amit Ranjan @amitranjan.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
On TechCrunch techcrunch.com/2024/12/12/t... We're going back to a space that has been left behind - formats like videos, photos, podcasts are cranking down furiously on innovation but documents are stuck in the past! We think this fits our skills & interests, hence taking another stab at it
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The founders of SlideShare are making sharing docs more social with their new platform, Jaunt | TechCrunch
When SlideShare, the presentation-sharing service acquired by Scribd, launched in 2006, generative AI technology was significantly less advanced than it New social platform Jaunt allows users to uploa...
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Amit Ranjan @amitranjan.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
Career update: I'm headed back to the startup world! Introducing @JauntHQ Check it out jaunt.com
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Sylvain Kalache @sylvainkalache.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
SlideShare's founders are at it again with @jaunthq.bsky.social, a document-based social site to read, share & post. Congratulations @jboutelle.bsky.social, @rashmi.bsky.social & @amitranjan.bsky.social on the launch 🚀 techcrunch.com/2024/12/12/t...
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The founders of SlideShare are making sharing docs more social with their new platform, Jaunt | TechCrunch
When SlideShare, the presentation-sharing service acquired by Scribd, launched in 2006, generative AI technology was significantly less advanced than it New social platform Jaunt allows users to uploa...
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Amit Ranjan @amitranjan.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Signed up for Bluesky! My first reaction - in the topics to follow, it has "animals" & "pets". Very unusual - animals/pets arent typically a top level category in most apps? Is this a clever trick to flood your feed with cute cats/dogs memes.. an antidote to the flame/troll wars on social media:)
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