We can’t comment on conversations we weren’t part of, but we do want to share our own experience working with Vinod over the past year.

Vinod invested in us about a year ago, when we were five PhD students with a slide deck and an open-source repo.

Working with him, you immediately see how much he genuinely cares about helping founders build the most ambitious version of their company. He asks hard questions and doesn't sugarcoat feedback. It's not always comfortable, and we don't agree with every single piece of it, but it has consistently pushed us to think more clearly