Blog
Notes on artificial intelligence, technology, leadership and building companies, from Venkatarangan Thirumalai.
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Founder lessons from the classroom
A VIT Bhopal syllabus read like things I wish I had known three decades ago. What I learnt the hard way as…
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The Tools We Build, Build Us Back
Three weeks ago I stood on the TEDxTCE stage in Madurai and told a room full of engineering students a story that…
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Thinking About AI Risk Differently
We should worry less about whether AI will want to destroy humanity, and more about what happens when AI does something harmful…
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What a weekend Solitaire game told me about the app economy
Last week I built a Solitaire game. Not because the world needed one, but because GPT-6 Astra had just released and I…
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Stop Writing Code. Start Defending Decisions
Last month I was on stage at Hotel Ramada Plaza, Guindy, for FICCI’s Digital Disruption and Transformation International Summit 2026 — part…
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Is the way we interact with computers about to change?
OpenAI released GPT-6 Astra yesterday. What caught my attention wasn’t the model itself — it was the two-minute video showing how OpenAI…
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A talk I have been living for thirty years
Some talks you write in a few weeks. This one, I have been living for thirty years. On 28 August, I will…
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Award winning cheesemaker never paid for press
In ten years of running Käse, Anuradha Krishnamoorthy has never paid for a single line of press coverage. No influencer budget, no…
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When AI replaced the product
Many founders in India may not recognise the name Chegg. Yet, for nearly two decades, it was one of the most successful…
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Waiting to get paid
A CEO walks into his office lobby and finds a young man sitting on the sofa, scrolling on his phone. What are…