# Ankit Gupta

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What Makes a CDMO Investable? Ankit Gupta on Building Instapill for Long-Term Growth

The CDMO Changing the Game in Drug Delivery This week, in another episode of the Making it in Manufacturing Spotlight Series, we sit down with Ankit Gupta, CEO of Instapill, a company redefining oral drug delivery through freeze-dried, fast-dissolving tablets. With over 15 years of experience spann…

The CDMO CEO Operator Playbook for 2026

In this episode of Molecule to Market, you’ll go inside the outsourcing space of the global drug development sector with 20+ CEO and C-suite leaders from the CDMO ecosystem, exploring two simple questions that reveal what’s really happening inside the building: What’s the biggest internal business…

From 150 Tasks to 6 Priorities: Using the Pareto Principle with a Business Coach – Ankit Gupta

Send us Fan Mail Ankit Gupta, second-generation entrepreneur and leader of the Holistic Group, shares how business coaching played a critical role in sharpening his leadership, focus, and decision-making. While formal learning through Harvard Business School’s OPM strengthened his strategic thinkin…

M2M Pulse: 7 Trends CDMO You Can’t Ignore

In this episode of Molecule to Market, you’ll go inside the outsourcing space of the global drug development sector with 20+ CEO and C-suite leaders from the CDMO ecosystem, exploring the overlooked trends for 2026.   Nick Fortin, CEO, Codis Ankit Gupta, CEO, InstaPill Eric Edwards, MD, PhD, …

Beyond Bigger Models: Recursion As The Next Scaling Law In AI

A 7-million parameter model outperforming models a thousand times its size on tasks like ARC Prize. That's what recursive reasoning unlocks.In this episode of Decoded, YC's Ankit Gupta and Francois Chaubard break down two recent papers on recursive AI models, HRMs and TRMs, that are achieving state…

The CDMO Changing Oral Drug Delivery – Instapill CEO Ankit Gupta

The CDMO Changing the Game in Drug Delivery This week, in another episode of the Making it in Manufacturing Spotlight Series, we sit down with Ankit Gupta, CEO of Instapill, a company redefining oral drug delivery through freeze-dried, fast-dissolving tablets. With over 15 years of experience span…

World Models, Explained

Why do even our best AI models need tens of thousands of examples to learn skills that a human picks up in a handful of tries?Solving this problem is one of the great open challenges in modern AI. World models, which give AI an internal simulation of its environment, are one of the most promising p…

The Y Combinator India Scandal: Why Everyone is Talking About Ankit Gupta

Y Combinator partner Ankit Gupta called it DEI to hire Americans. He quote-tweeted JD Vance, sneered flyover country at Ohio, then locked his X and killed his LinkedIn. Vance said if an American corporation needs workers, it should hire and train Americans. Gupta treated that like a welfare program…

The Future of Infection Prevention in India

In this episode, pathologists Dr. Raman Arora and Dr. Ankit Gupta discuss the vital role of infection prevention and control in healthcare, emphasizing pathology and microbiology's connection to staff and patient safety and successful hospital accreditation. Connect with Pathology Mentor

Why I Stepped Down to Spend More Time With My Son | Ankit Gupta (Dad of 1, Founder of Bicycle Health)

Ankit Gupta is the Founder of Bicycle Health, a company he built and led for nearly nine years before handing over the CEO role and becoming a stay-at-home dad. Before Bicycle, Ankit co-founded Pulse while at Stanford, a news app that caught the attention of Steve Jobs, was famously pulled from the…