# Aditya Agarwal

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Elad Gil: Silicon Valley’s Most Dangerous Startup Advice

Elad Gil, investor and author of High Growth Handbook, sits down with South Park Commons Partner Aditya Agarwal to challenge some of Silicon Valley’s favorite startup myths. He talks about why you might not actually need a cofounder, why data alone isn’t much of a moat, and how the strongest compan…

How Replit Is Enabling a New Wave of Million-Dollar Founders | Amjad Masad & Haya Odeh

Amjad Masad and Haya Odeh, cofounders of Replit, join South Park Commons Partners Aditya Agarwal and Ruchi Sanghvi to share what it really took to build one of AI’s most important platforms, and how it’s now enabling a new wave of million-dollar founders. Amjad breaks down why traditional ideas lik…

The AI Cybersecurity Crisis Is Here | Nikesh Arora (Palo Alto Networks CEO)

Nikesh Arora, CEO of Palo Alto Networks, joins South Park Commons partner Aditya Agarwal to discuss the cybersecurity crisis currently unfolding—and why AI is both the threat and the only viable solution. Nikesh traces his own unlikely journey from Google's Chief Business Officer to leading one of …

The Man Who Took India to the International Space Station | Shubhanshu Shukla

What does it actually take to become an astronaut? Shubhanshu Shukla, the second Indian to travel to space after more than four decades, joins South Park Commons general partner Aditya Agarwal to share the answer.  During Axiom Mission 4, Shukla became the first Indian aboard the International Spac…

Airtable's 80% off value crash: VCs explain why it's still a win | E2321

This Week In Startups is made possible by: Vanta https://www.vanta.com/twist Agree https://agree.com Odoo https://Odoo.com/twist Today's show: *Airtable just sold for $2.25 billion, an 81% drop from its peak of $11.7 billion. On this week's TWiST VC Roundtable, Aditya Agarwal (South Park Co…

SpaceX SPV Gone Wrong, Intel's Comeback, Dylan Field Joins | Aditya Agarwal, Ariane Gorin, Nick Thompson, Chris Power, Christian Mochen

(04:00) - OpenAI Details Hugging Face Incident (12:36) - SpaceX SPV Gone Wrong (20:05) - Nikita Bier Steps Down at X (25:44) - Google Rewires AI Leadership (30:15) - 𝕏 Timeline Reactions (36:14) - Intel's Comeback (56:51) - 𝕏 Timeline Reactions (01:00:02) - Aditya Agarwal, managing …

From the early days of Facebook and learning from Zuck to building a $2B+ VC franchise w/South Park Commons

Follow me @samirkaji for my thoughts on the venture market, with a focus on the continued evolution of the VC landscape. Welcome back to another episode of Venture Unlocked, the podcast that takes you behind the scenes of the business of venture capital. In this episode, I sit down with Aditya Agar…

The Secret Superpower of Great Founders | Sridhar Ramaswamy (Snowflake CEO)

What does it take to build something that lasts? Snowflake CEO and former Google SVP of Ads Sridhar Ramaswamy joins South Park Commons General Partner Aditya Agarwal to share his answer. Ramaswamy traces his journey from Google to founding Neeva, an ad-free search startup that shut down before the …

From Facebook's First Hires to VCs: Surviving the End of Human Coding

For 20 years, Keith Adams and Aditya Agarwal built the foundations of Web 2.0 at companies like Facebook, Slack, and Dropbox. Now, as venture capitalists, they are navigating a wild new reality: the machines can code better than they can. In the second episode of After Coding, Keith sits down with …

How Waymo Made Self-Driving Cars a Reality | Dmitri Dolgov, Co-CEO

Dmitri Dolgov, co-CEO of Waymo, joins South Park Commons Partners Aditya Agarwal and Ruchi Sanghvi to discuss the 17-year journey from early self-driving experiments to putting fully autonomous cars on public roads. They talk about how Waymo built its self-driving system, why simulation and evaluat…