Blog
Notes on artificial intelligence, technology, leadership and building companies, from Venkatarangan Thirumalai.
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What Captain Picard taught this founder
Seven founder lessons from Captain Picard: listen first, tell a story, report four lights as four, stay grounded on AI, and know…
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Why Microsoft is offering exits now?
What a voluntary exit at Microsoft may tell founders about AI and the size of organisations When a company the size of…
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Why AI pilots work but rollouts stall?
Dr Gleb Tsipursky described an employee I suspect most of us have met in some form. She uses an AI tool to…
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When customers hack your business model
Smart TV owners are using AI coding agents to strip ads and bloatware from their sets. TV makers depend on that ad…
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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…