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Ayush S

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Ayush S

@ayushswrites

CEO at Warp (@warpdotco), AI-native employee management platform for ambitious companies. Previously: @MIT CS & Physics/Math

New York

Joined July 2018

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Ayush S
@ayushswrites
Jun 25
Today, we're announcing a $60M Series B led by @BatteryVentures, bringing our total funding to $85M in just under a year. Also joining the round are founders and operators who’ve built generational companies of the last two decades – @tobi (CEO, Shopify), @arashf (Dropbox),
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Ayush S
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Jun 11, 2024
the thing that made Apple so successful, and what Steve Jobs deeply understood, is that the masses have terrible taste and therefore must be strictly guard-railed from making their own aesthetic and design choices
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Ayush S
@ayushswrites
Sep 2, 2025
Married the love of my life in a 500-year-old cathedral in a 2,700-year-old town in Spain this weekend.
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Ayush S
@ayushswrites
Jan 8, 2021
The richest man in the world understands differential equations as well as tweets dank memes. Lesson there.
Ayush S
@ayushswrites
Mar 1, 2024
One of the most under-the-radar contrarian idea Peter Thiel ever articulated was that failures teach you nothing. Just think of how much mythology exists around justifying failures as “oh well I learnt this and that”. It’s practically a PMC shibboleth to “learn from your
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Ayush S
@ayushswrites
Mar 15, 2024
btw the real reason stopping bots is not easy is because it will tank half the view count and engagement metrics on this app
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Ayush S
@ayushswrites
Sep 14, 2025
10 years ago, I was in a small town in India, slow internet, found out I just got into MIT. Today, I'm back on campus for the first time since graduating – sponsoring HackMIT with Warp, giving a talk on my journey India → MIT → founder. crazy full-circle moment.
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Ayush S
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Sep 2, 2025
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Response to this has been overwhelmingly positive. Despite the ongoing race wars, good day to remember that love is real and when you meet the right person nothing else matters. Gabriella and I met 8 years ago at MIT, and have been together ever since. We recently formalized
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Ayush S
@ayushswrites
Jun 20, 2024
where I create shareholder value from
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Ayush S
@ayushswrites
Oct 26, 2020
Peter Thiel’s list of 7 questions to evaluate startups - 1) Tech 2) Timing 3) Monopoly 4) Team 5) Distribution 6) Moat 7) Secret Tesla is successful because @elonmusk nailed all 7/7 🤯
Ayush S
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Sep 2, 2025
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Ayush S
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Nov 18, 2023
“Dad, where were you when Sam Altman was removed as CEO of OpenAI”
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Ayush S
@ayushswrites
Apr 13, 2021
Watch @paulg write timeless essays one after another in straight vi while you switch note-taking apps every week hoping it’ll make you a better writer.
Ayush S
@ayushswrites
Oct 31, 2023
my engineer better than yours you know how I know? just look at his company update slide dawg
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