Taps' Notes
Rishi TapariaMy friends call me Taps, and these are my notes! You'll get a lot of what's on my mind as an early-stage startup investor, as well as a weekly roundup of interesting tidbits (aka. Tippets) from around the web.
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Measuring Time-to-Trust
A few weeks ago I wrote about how, in today’s AI era, customers aren’t just looking for the product you build. They’re looking for the judgment you bring. Whether you’re an FDX embedded with a customer, an engineer on-site, or a founder doi...
The AI Brush
On Sunday, Citrini Research published a fictional thought experiment about AI-driven mass layoffs cascading into economic collapse. Software, payments, and delivery stocks cratered. (NB: worth reading this Citadel response)
On Thursday, Ja...
FDE Should Mean Forward Deployed Executive
A founder in our portfolio recently told me about a six-figure contract that caught me off guard. The customer wasn’t paying for the company’s software. They weren’t paying for a future product either.
They were paying for him.
They wante...
When Insurance Admits AI is Safer Than People
A few weeks ago I wrote about how quickly my family adapted to Tesla’s Full Self-Driving capability, to the point where my seven-year-old now asks “Why isn’t the car driving itself?” when we’re not in FSD mode. The post sparked more replies...
Celebrate the Wins
“Friends congratulate me after a quarterly-earnings announcement and say, ‘Good job, great quarter,’ and I’ll say, ‘Thank you, but that quarter was baked three years ago.’ I’m working on a quarter that’ll happen in 2021 right now.” - Jeff B...
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