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Monday, 1 December 2025
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AI Which AI agents are running in your stack right now?
Siddhant Trivedi Anuj Dalal Manan Maheshwari Anmol Parimoo Harry Rajput Kishan Parekh Brijesh Tekrawala Pragnesh Shah +15
Claude Code 19 votes · 32%
Claude Cowork 9 votes · 15%
Cursor 7 votes · 12%
OpenAI Codex 4 votes · 7%
Gemini Spark (Google) 4 votes · 7%
OpenCode 3 votes · 5%
Genspark 2 votes · 3%
Microsoft Copilot Cowork 2 votes · 3%
Manus 2 votes · 3%
Kimi Claw 2 votes · 3%
Hermes Agent 2 votes · 3%
OpenClaw 1 vote · 2%
NanoClaw 1 vote · 2%
Others 1 vote · 2%
PixoraNest AI 1 vote · 2%
Devin 0 votes · 0%
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AI Which AI assistant do you reach for first?
Kush Prajapati Rushabh Shah
Claude 2 votes · 100%
ChatGPT 0 votes · 0%
Gemini 0 votes · 0%
Perplexity 0 votes · 0%
Grok 0 votes · 0%
Microsoft Copilot 0 votes · 0%
DeepSeek 0 votes · 0%
Kimi 0 votes · 0%
Mistral Le Chat 0 votes · 0%
Meta AI 0 votes · 0%
Qwen 0 votes · 0%
Poe 0 votes · 0%
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Operations How does your team book business travel?
Jatin Chaudhary Manan Maheshwari Rushabh Shah Kush Prajapati
MakeMyTrip 2 votes · 40%
EaseMyTrip 1 vote · 20%
Ixigo 1 vote · 20%
Direct on airline and hotel sites 1 vote · 20%
Cleartrip 0 votes · 0%
Yatra 0 votes · 0%
ITILITE 0 votes · 0%
TravelPerk 0 votes · 0%
Happay Travel 0 votes · 0%
Others 0 votes · 0%
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Product & Engineering Which no-code builder do you ship with?
Satish Kumar Pabbathi Haripriya Epuri Manan Maheshwari Viraj Rajani
Framer 3 votes · 43%
Webflow 1 vote · 14%
Wix 1 vote · 14%
WordPress 1 vote · 14%
Shopify 1 vote · 14%
Squarespace 0 votes · 0%
Bubble 0 votes · 0%
Softr 0 votes · 0%
Glide 0 votes · 0%
Carrd 0 votes · 0%
Notion Sites 0 votes · 0%
Airtable 0 votes · 0%
Others 0 votes · 0%
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Sales & Marketing What do you schedule and manage social media with?
Yash Shah Bhavesh Patel Manan Maheshwari
Sprout Social 1 vote · 25%
SocialPilot 1 vote · 25%
Others 1 vote · 25%
Brands.live 1 vote · 25%
Buffer 0 votes · 0%
Hootsuite 0 votes · 0%
Later 0 votes · 0%
Publer 0 votes · 0%
Metricool 0 votes · 0%
Typefully 0 votes · 0%
Hypefury 0 votes · 0%
Zoho Social 0 votes · 0%
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Essentials Which email service runs your work inbox?
Aishwarya N Akshay Solanki Jatin Chaudhary Harry Rajput Rahul Sharma Chaitanya Badave Ayyan Karmakar Brijesh Tekrawala +18
Google Workspace 20 votes · 63%
Zoho Mail 6 votes · 19%
Microsoft 365 (Outlook) 5 votes · 16%
Superhuman 1 vote · 3%
Titan 0 votes · 0%
Neo 0 votes · 0%
Proton Mail 0 votes · 0%
Fastmail 0 votes · 0%
GoDaddy Email 0 votes · 0%
Hostinger Email 0 votes · 0%
Bigrock Email 0 votes · 0%
HEY 0 votes · 0%
Spike 0 votes · 0%
Yandex Mail 0 votes · 0%
Tuta 0 votes · 0%
iCloud Mail 0 votes · 0%
Rediffmail Pro 0 votes · 0%
Others 0 votes · 0%
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Money & Legal How have you funded your business so far?
Anuj Dalal Akshay Solanki Tushar Prajapati Jatin Chaudhary Rahul Sharma Pragnesh Shah Shrijay Sheth Vishal Savani +5
Bootstrapped 12 votes · 86%
Angel investors 1 vote · 7%
A VC firm 1 vote · 7%
AngelList or LetsVenture syndicate 0 votes · 0%
Venture Catalysts or 100X.VC 0 votes · 0%
An accelerator 0 votes · 0%
Revenue-based financing 0 votes · 0%
Bank loan 0 votes · 0%
Government grant 0 votes · 0%
Friends and family 0 votes · 0%
Crowdfunding 0 votes · 0%
Others 0 votes · 0%
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Essentials Where does your team keep passwords and secrets?
Haripriya Epuri Yash Shah Vishal Tiwari Ritwik Joshi Viraj Rajani Rushabh Shah
Google Password Manager 6 votes · 60%
Apple Passwords 3 votes · 30%
LastPass 1 vote · 10%
1Password 0 votes · 0%
Bitwarden 0 votes · 0%
Dashlane 0 votes · 0%
Keeper 0 votes · 0%
NordPass 0 votes · 0%
Zoho Vault 0 votes · 0%
Doppler 0 votes · 0%
We share them informally 0 votes · 0%
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Money & Legal What manages your cap table and ESOPs?
Carta 0 votes · 0%
AngelList 0 votes · 0%
Pulley 0 votes · 0%
Cake Equity 0 votes · 0%
Qapita 0 votes · 0%
Trica 0 votes · 0%
Hissa 0 votes · 0%
LTSE Equity 0 votes · 0%
Eqvista 0 votes · 0%
A spreadsheet 0 votes · 0%
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Product & Engineering Where do you manage projects and tasks?
Aishwarya N Siddhant Trivedi Amish Trivedi Pragnesh Shah Viraj Rajani
Jira 2 votes · 40%
Asana 1 vote · 20%
ClickUp 1 vote · 20%
Others 1 vote · 20%
Notion 0 votes · 0%
Linear 0 votes · 0%
Trello 0 votes · 0%
monday.com 0 votes · 0%
Basecamp 0 votes · 0%
Height 0 votes · 0%
Shortcut 0 votes · 0%
Airtable 0 votes · 0%
Todoist 0 votes · 0%
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Podcasts

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Why AI Agents Need Context | Deep Dives with a16z Why AI Agents Need Context | Deep Dives with a16z a16z
Anti-matter & nuclear weapons: Why technology is always a double-edge sword | Don Lincoln Anti-matter & nuclear weapons: Why technology is always a double-edge sword | Don Lincoln Lex Fridman Podcast
AI Sells Labor, Not Software — Legendary Investor Elad Gil AI Sells Labor, Not Software — Legendary Investor Elad Gil The Tim Ferriss Show
Rebuilding Git for AI Agents and The Future of Developer Tools | Deep Dives with a16z Rebuilding Git for AI Agents and The Future of Developer Tools | Deep Dives with a16z a16z
When to Sell Your SaaS Business: How to Get a 5x Better Offer When to Sell Your SaaS Business: How to Get a 5x Better Offer Startups for the Rest of Us
Do I Need a “Brain Gym”? Do I Need a “Brain Gym”? Deep Questions
Why are Bengaluru startups moving to Andhra Pradesh? - Indian Startups News 318 Why are Bengaluru startups moving to Andhra Pradesh? - Indian Startups News 318 Backstage with Millionaires
From Broke College Student to $20M Brand in 10,000 Stores | ESW Beauty From Broke College Student to $20M Brand in 10,000 Stores | ESW Beauty Foundr
Brendan Foody (Mercor) - Agentic Data and the Future of AI [Entire Talk] Brendan Foody (Mercor) - Agentic Data and the Future of AI [Entire Talk] Stanford eCorner
How to Spot Outlier Talent | Ali Partovi, Neo How to Spot Outlier Talent | Ali Partovi, Neo The Peel

Books

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The Network Imperative The Network Imperative Barry Libert, Megan Beck, and Jerry Wind
Platform Strategy Sangeet Paul Choudary
On Becoming a Leader On Becoming a Leader Warren Bennis
Reminiscences of a Stock Operator Reminiscences of a Stock Operator Edwin Lefevre
Market Wizards Jack D. Schwager
Good Strategy Bad Strategy Good Strategy Bad Strategy Richard P. Rumelt
Smart Brevity Smart Brevity Jim VandeHei, Mike Allen, and Roy Schwartz
The Innovator's Hypothesis Michael Schrage
What You Do Is Who You Are Ben Horowitz
Hatching Twitter Hatching Twitter Nick Bilton

Watchlist

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Miniseries The Dropout Essential viewing on the line between bold vision and fraud, and how investors and...
Jatin Chaudhary
TV Series Suits Useful on closing deals, managing clients and building a firm and a brand.
Utpal Vaishnav Dhruv Dattani Jaymin Bhavsar
TV Series Succession A family business is still a family.
Documentary Betting on Zero A deep look at business models, distribution and short selling.
Film BlackBerry One of the best recent founder films on product, hubris and missing the next wave.
Jaymin Bhavsar
Film Steve Jobs A sharp portrait of product launches, leadership and difficult genius.
Harry Rajput
TV Series Guilty Minds Useful on building a practice, ethics and the business behind the law.
Film Rocket Singh: Salesman of the Year A beloved Indian story on values, sales and building a team you trust.
Rahul Sharma Kunjan Atara
Film Swades A social entrepreneurship story about coming home and building something that lasts.
Rahul Sharma Dhruv Dattani Jaymin Bhavsar Kunjan Atara
Documentary American Factory Rich on operations, culture clash and the realities of manufacturing at scale.
Viraj Rajani

AI tools

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eChai Partner Brands

eChai Ventures partners with select brands as their growth partner. Together we explore new ideas, open doors, and build momentum across the startup ecosystem.

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