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Apoorva Govind

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Apoorva Govind

@Appyg99

Founder @BesteverAI. Ex @Ubereats. Previously @Apple. Technology Syster. Substack apoorvagovind.substack.com

San Francisco

Joined May 2010

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Apoorva Govind
@Appyg99
Jun 22
I am so excited announce that @BesteverAI has been acquired by @samba_tv!
Samba
@sambaintel
Jun 22
We acquired @BesteverAI, the AI platform built for advertisers. Samba welcomes the Bestever AI team, including founder and CEO @Appyg99, who joins as Director of Product leading our AI strategy. Every adtech company is racing to hand campaign management to AI agents. Our
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Apoorva Govind
@Appyg99
Jun 23, 2025
Ok fuck it, I'll spill — All my friends still single in their 30s? They're hunting unicorns. Somewhere along the way, a man stopped being just a man. Now he's supposed to be your therapist, best friend, passionate lover, future father of the year, financial provider & probably a
The Wall Street Journal
@WSJ
Jun 21, 2025
American women have never been this resigned to staying single. The challenges of finding a romantic partner have been made more complicated by a growing divide in education and career prospects between men and women. 🔗 Read more: on.wsj.com/448WoC4
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Apoorva Govind
@Appyg99
Nov 22, 2023
I don’t think my parents have said “love you” to me in my life as many times as OpenAI employees have said to each other on Twitter.
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Apoorva Govind
@Appyg99
Oct 20, 2024
13 years in America, still on a visa. Which party is going to make it easy for *legal* immigrants from India get at least a residency permit faster?
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Apoorva Govind
@Appyg99
Nov 12, 2023
When one decides to immigrate to a different country, it’s basically admitting that the country you’re immigrating to provides you with opportunities & values that you wouldn’t have in your home country. If you truly think your own values are superior & you find yourself
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Apoorva Govind
@Appyg99
Jan 14, 2024
The reason I left France after a year of living there is because it’s not a serious country when it comes to capitalism. You can cry all you want about how America sucks at this or that. But let’s be real. There is no real social mobility in Europe. If there was, we’d all be
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Apoorva Govind
@Appyg99
Jun 23, 2025
Replying to @Appyg99
Here's the other trap: Even the ugliest of women can always find someone willing to sleep with them. Open a dating app at any age, & boom—10 matches in 10 mins. Most dating apps are hookup apps in a trench coat. The pool of truly viable men gets smaller after your late twenties.
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Apoorva Govind
@Appyg99
Jun 23, 2025
Replying to @Appyg99
Being an educated woman and making decent money adds more things to the laundry list of expectations, but the underlying problem is the same.
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Apoorva Govind
@Appyg99
Dec 15, 2022
Replying to @Austen
All those minutes I spent staring at it. I feel cheated
Apoorva Govind
@Appyg99
Dec 25, 2024
I’ve been on both sides of the H1B Visa.For context, I graduated with a Masters degree from Carnegie Mellon, interned at Nvidia, worked at Apple, then at Uber & eventually started my own company. Every year the US grants 85,000 H1Bs. For context, approx 2.1M ppl immigrate
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Apoorva Govind
@Appyg99
Jun 24, 2025
Replying to @Appyg99
If I had to do it all over again, I’d have 2-3 non-negotiable values, deprioritize looks in general (6ft, bald, fat etc) and focus on financial compatibility. Be like VCs betting on their future potential instead of venture debt providers who look at your current P&L
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Apoorva Govind
@Appyg99
Jun 8, 2024
NGL, I always thought he had zaddy energy. Back in 2012, when I interned at Nvidia, he’d invite the interns over to his place and throw a whole-ass frat party. He’s quite fun!
YiMing
@yimingdothan
Jun 7, 2024
this man is outta control
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Apoorva Govind
@Appyg99
Mar 17, 2023
Can confirm. Just yesterday, my teammate wrote a custom JSON parser that would have been a slog for 1-2 days within hours using GPT4. GPT4 is like giving each engineer their own intern who does 70-80% of the job. The remaining 30% is constraints & biz logic. Startups are going
Flo Crivello
@Altimor
Mar 17, 2023
I don’t think people understand how fast AI is changing the game right now. The team is already using GPT-4 to build entire components in 10min that otherwise would have taken us days. We don’t even have experience in the language these components need to be written in!
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Apoorva Govind
@Appyg99
Jun 21, 2021
One of my Indian friends left to go back to India permanently today. This is a rising trend in my Desi groups. The biggest reason to return so far has been the lack of intimate social relationships here compared to the ones back home I guess a great career & $ only goes so far