@jithamithra

Investor (15+ startups, 3 10x-es so far 🤞) • Operator • Deal-maker • I tweet about startups, management, and closing deals • Writing: https://xitter.cf/t.co/zwwKVQG4co

 Singapore
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Joined April 2009
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My app had only 20K users. No matter what I did, that number didn't budge. Until suddenly: I found a way to grow to 200K+ users in 1 month. With 2 devs and zero funding. The silver bullet? Theory of Constraints. 4 steps to feel limitless (or get damn close). 🧵in 11 tweets👇
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So far I'm quite underwhelmed with GPT 5.6. Saw all those charts on how Luna (xhigh) and Sol are at the Pareto frontier of performance vs. cost, both of them seem to be much worse than 5.5. Take a lot of time / burn a lot of tokens respectively, but don't get the job done.
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Yup, Cabo Verde is an island with a population of just 530,000.
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What's the point of having your cake if you can't eat it? 🤔
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Whenever I don't understand a joke, I whisper to myself "joy of missing out, joy of missing out". And a look of complete enlightenment and understanding automatically appears on my face. Works every time.
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I like this question from @jakobgreenfeld ! Am I expanding, or am I contracting?
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PSA: Drowning does not look like drowning
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xitter.cf/hamiltonsympat1/status… Good to know that this is standard advice in at least some quarters 🙏
hamilton
@hamiltonsympat126 Oct 2025
A thing all Scoutmasters tell their scouts, showing this article.
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Oh wow, half of all VC funds return less than 50% of what people put in! Yikes!
Meghan Reynolds
@MeghanKReynolds19 Jan 2025
Heard from LPs this week: Latest Cambridge Associates VC benchmarks out (Q3 ‘24). 2015 Vintage Funds DPI Median Fund: 0.49x Upper Q Threshold: 1.13x Top 5% Threshold: 2.66x #choosewisely
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Age as a superpower (via @kenthendricks )
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How people use ChatGPT. (Mildly disappointed that the numbers on this chart add up to 100% properly, to be honest)
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Now this is the kind of progress I can get behind. Invention of the decade!
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When my bro was young, he never could keep secrets. The moment we felt he was hiding something, we'd say "Whisper it in my ear". And bingo, out the beans would spill. I'm reminded of that every time someone says "Oh we've signed an NDA. Why don't you give me your sales numbers?"
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The largest living organism on Earth is... a humongous fungus? Would feel so weird walking in the Blue Mountains, knowing that this massive thing is just under me 😳 HT @LibertyRPF
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Gee, what could have happened in Nov 2022 to cause this massive impact on youth employment?
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Nothing teaches you the non-intuitive logic of queues as much as when one of the two elevators in your building stops working. Two elevators = civilized society One elevator = immigration at JFK
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Said another way, happiness is not due to things that happen to you. Happiness is due to who you are. (via @ZachWeiner )
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Reminds me of what @SeekingN0rth said about happiness as "stored value" in your personality.
Jitha Thathachari 🔍
@jithamithra21 Jan 2024
Framed this way, you can't "try" to be happy. You can't use tactics to become happier. I mean - you can, but it won't last. Instead, try to become a person who's always happy. Work at the level of identity - kinda like what @JamesClear says about creating habits that stick.
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“Running a business, it turns out, is harder than telling somebody how to run a business.” - John Malone, and every ex-consultant turned operator.
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The number of centenarians in Japan more than doubled this year. What are the odds this is just an artefact of bad record-keeping exactly a year ago?
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Reminds me of @ATabarrok on The Real Secret of Blue Zones
Jitha Thathachari 🔍
@jithamithra12 Sep 2023
Replying to @jithamithra
5️⃣ Are Blue Zones a "Garbage in Garbage Out" phenomenon? Reminds me of of what someone said: "Every statistic is an overworked local official manually putting down whatever he damn pleases" via @ATabarrok
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