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Must be load-bearing.

Three years ago, two technical founders in India started building AI infrastructure for a market that didn't exist yet. Today, @PaloAltoNtwks announced their intent to acquire @PortkeyAI. Huge congratulations to @jumbld, @ayushgarg_xyz and the entire Portkey team! It started with a problem they'd seen up close together at PepperContent. Conviction on where AI infrastructure was heading before most enterprises had shipped a Gen AI feature to production. A stellar team, a deeply opinionated product, a category they helped define from scratch. All built across a 12-hour time difference. When we first met them, what stood out wasn't the pitch. It was how clearly they could see around corners. They predicted the shift from "do I even need a gateway?" to "I need federated gateways in three regions" before most CTOs knew they had the problem. By the time we led their Series A a few months ago, Portkey was already governing $180M+ in annualized AI spend, processing 500B+ tokens a day for the likes of DoorDash, Roche, Postman, and Snorkel AI. They had a crisp view of becoming the default control plane for enterprise AI. Palo Alto Networks saw the same inevitability. This outcome validates that entire thesis. For a long time, the narrative around Indian startups was limiting. Great operators, but not category creators. Execution, not invention. There have been acquisitions before, but many were acqui-hires that quietly got tucked into a portfolio. Rohit and Ayush didn't get the memo. They built cutting-edge infrastructure that the world's biggest security company wrote a serious check to own. That narrative is now outdated. The next founder watching this thinks: "I can build from here, for the world, and win." That's the virtuous loop. For everyone in the corridor doing the 24-hour flights, the 6am customer calls, the cold LinkedIn outreach that goes nowhere, the late nights debugging on call while your kids sleep one timezone over: today is a good day. It's harder, but sometimes it's worth it :) This is just the beginning. Rohit and Ayush: you have just inspired a whole generation of founders. @PoorviVijay @mukularora Dhruv Jain Prerna Gupta Sanskar Jain @ElevCap

iOS App Review delays are getting ridiculous

🚨 Hiring alert🚨 for @composio in our BLR offices! The next 3-4 years are going to define the agentic era for AI and composio is right at the heart of this movement. Our enterprise usage is hitting a hockey stick, and we will be adding a lot of fuel to accelerate it.

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Can anyone actually break Grok image moderation? Reply below.

I’m a little confused at the hype around this. Isn’t this… exactly what Claude does already? And has done for a long time? Is this just marketing to let nontechnical people know they can use it too? I must be missing something.

Just in case, if you were to vote on this topic:

Last one on this topic, and I have been holding this in myself for a while. For centuries, class divides kept the labor of the poor invisible to the rich. Factory workers toiled behind walls, farmers in distant fields, domestic help in backrooms. The wealthy consumed the fruits of that labor without ever seeing the faces or the fatigue behind it. No direct encounter, no personal guilt. The gig economy shattered that invisibility, at unprecedented scale. Suddenly, the poor aren't hidden away. They're at your doorstep: the delivery partner handing over your ₹1000+ biryani, late-night groceries, or quick-commerce essentials. You see them in the rain, heat, traffic, often on borrowed bikes, working 8–10 hours for earnings that give them sustenance. You see their exhaustion, their polite smile masking frustration with life in general. This is the first time in history at this scale that the working class and consuming class interact face-to-face, transaction after transaction. And that discomfort with our own selves is why we are uncomfortable about the gig economy. We want these people to look our part, so that the guilt we feel while taking orders from them feels less. We aren't just debating economics. We are confronting guilt. That ₹800 order might equal their entire day's earnings after fuel, bike rent, and app cuts. We tip awkwardly, or avoid eye contact, because the inequality is no longer abstract. It's personal. Pre-gig era, the rich could enjoy luxury without moral discomfort. Labor was out of sight. Now, every doorbell ring is a reminder of systemic inequality. That's why debates explode. It's not just policy. It's emotional reckoning. Some defend the system (“they choose it”), others demand change (“this isn't progress, its exploitation”). And here’s the uncomfortable twist: the unsaid ask of clumsy ‘solutions’ isn’t dignity. It is about returning to invisibility. Ban gig work and you don’t solve inequality. You remove livelihoods. These jobs don’t magically reappear as formal, protected employment the next day. They disappear, or they get pushed back into the informal economy where there are even fewer protections and even less accountability. Over-regulate it until the model breaks, and you achieve the same outcome through paperwork instead of slogans: the work evaporates, prices rise, demand collapses, and the people we claim to protect are the first to lose income. And then what happens? The rich get their old comfort back. Convenience returns without faces. Guilt dissolves. We go back to clean abstractions and moral posturing from a distance. The poor don’t become safer, they become invisible again: back in cash economies, back in backrooms, back in shadows where regulation rarely reaches and dignity isn’t even debated. The gig economy just exposed the reality of inequality to the people who previously had the luxury of not seeing it. The doorbell is not the problem. The question is what we do after opening the door. Visibility is the price of progress. We can either use this discomfort to build something better (which we keep doing continuously as delivery partners are our backbone), or we can ban and over-regulate our way back into ignorance. One of those choices improves lives. The other simply helps the consuming class feel virtuous in the dark.

Sorry, team is debugging. Logging out and restarting the app seems to fix for some folks.

Ro has done a speed run alienating every moderate I know who has supported him. Including myself. Beyond being totally out of touch with that faction of his base, he’s devolved into an obnoxious jerk. At least that makes voting him the fuck out all the more gratifying.

A big thank you to NDTV for amplifying this campaign. Thanks for giving a platform to 1000+ founders, inventors, investors and active citizens who are part of this Bharat Project campaign 🙏