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Why Jane Street Pays 21-Year-Olds Half a Million Dollars
Why?
Aug 4
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Vaishnav Sunil
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July 2025
What is Organizational Culture? (&NYC Happy Hour)
What do these words have in common?
Jul 27
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Vaishnav Sunil
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Entrepreneurship As Recursive Price Discovery
Thinking about Startups from First Principles
Jul 16
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Vaishnav Sunil
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June 2025
Money Gets Better with Age
When I told my wife I was writing this, she said "Do you really think people need to be reminded that it's good to make money?" I do.
Jun 16
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Vaishnav Sunil
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O&O NYC Meetup: Show Off How You Talk To Claude
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Jun 9
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Vaishnav Sunil
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May 2025
Bad Advice, The Altruistic Case For IPOs, Process vs People and more with Charles Rubenfeld
I chat with Substacker and business nerd Charles Rubenfeld on quite a few topics of mutual interest.
May 16
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Dissecting Social Capital: Self-Interest, Reciprocity and Repeated Games
A friend recently told me about an awkward encounter.
May 13
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Vaishnav Sunil
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April 2025
O&O NYC Meetup #2
Hey everyone,
Apr 15
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Vaishnav Sunil
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March 2025
Recruiters as Accidental Underwriters: Why You Pay for Others' Poor Hiring Decisions
When I talk to founders, I don't have to work very hard to get them to complain about job boards and recruiters.
Mar 27
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Vaishnav Sunil
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VCs as Unidirectional Market Makers
I feel the proudest when I can defend maligned and vulnerable groups so today the subject of my compassion is the VC industry (and no my fundraising…
Mar 12
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Vaishnav Sunil
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Passing the Test vs. Getting It
I remember this moment in JP Morgan's training class, when I realized I was lying to myself that I understood the concept of diversification.
Mar 10
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Vaishnav Sunil
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February 2025
Legibility vs. Liquidity
I had a great time meeting some of you at the NYC Meetup yesterday at Fractal Tech (shoutout to Andrew for hosting).
Feb 20
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Vaishnav Sunil
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