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Mar 6 · linkedin

The inaugural Chat8VC NYC event co-hosted with Ramp was great, here's why.

Ramp is a phenomenal company. It has not only blown things up on the business side, but most importantly turned its engineering team + culture into a strong competitive advantage. We can see why - it boasts of phenomenal builder-leaders like Karim Atiyeh (founder, CTO) and Nik Koblov (Head of Engineering), who have become good friends. It was therefore a trip to interview Karim and Nik on stage in the stunning, new Ramp NYC office about their engineering journey for the inaugural Chat8VC NYC event. We stepped off stage promising to do another event solely focused on Ramp Engg and maybe lace their stories with my own long-lost memories of Yahoo, LinkedIn and Oracle journey building Data Infra, Ads Infra and more. Watch out for an announcement, will be in NYC or SF.

The NYC Chat8VC was also sentimental for me given how many old friends showed up; not in the least from our 8VC incubated companies Opto Investments, Addepar), our portfolio companies (Arcus, Spotnana, .and more.) but many of my old 8VC SF interns who have helped a phenomenal technical team around build-and-invest at 8VC (e.g. Stephanie Carras, Sebastien Goddijn, Minu Palaniappan, Vivek Gopalan himself, ... maybe more). Felt like life went full-circle. Thank you friends for building such a community around us at 8VC!

Here's to a big 8VC-Ramp Engineering event (SF or NYC) and the next NYC Chat8VC event. You can see a wonderful post by Vivek and Bela about the Feb 2024 NYC event at https://lnkd.in/gEdY5DBA

cc: 8VC Ramp Karim Atiyeh Nik Koblov Vivek Gopalan Darlina Serrano Hefler Isabela Becerra Stephanie Carras Sebastien Goddijn Minu Palaniappan Matt Reed Vlad Rav @

Nov 29 · linkedin

Late notice: Am back at the excitement of AWS Reinvent Las Vegas on Nov 29-30. Look forward to catching up and walking the expo floor. Hit me up for the 8VC party pass for Nov 29 evening; and bring along a founder/builder in your network. cc: 8VC Vivek Gopalan Kevin Niechen Jack Moshkovich Asanka Jayasuriya Venkatesh S.

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Investor at Seaplane Io
Founding, Advisory Chief Technology Officer at L I T

Education

Doctor Of Philosophy In Computer Science, Yale University
Bachelor Of Engineering In Computer Science, Engineering, Computer Science And Engineering, Jadavpur University

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Palo Alto, California, United States