Nick and Aakrit met through the World Economic Forum's Young Global Leaders program. Aakrit Vaish on building AI for a billion people, why India will win on applied AI rather than frontier research, and the two early portfolio companies that prove it.
The partnership behind Rapido. Kunal Khattar on why three quarters of India's vehicles are two-wheelers, what the Rapido journey taught him about building for India, and the picks and shovels companies he is backing next.
Nick has backed E14 personally since it formed. Calvin Chin on the fund's formal relationship with MIT's academic side, why it deliberately never pitched the endowment, and what it means to be part of a community rather than scouting it.
Nick and Lu met at an Oxford leadership workshop in 2016. Lu Zhang on founding a medical device company at 21, how she separates real AI companies from thin wrappers, and why capital-efficient startups are a tailwind for early-stage funds.
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