Most startups are made like live action films are made. Hollywood is a fragmented industry of individual experts. Everyone has an agent. There’s a spot market each and every time for each and every movie. If you need someone technical, you can outsource it to the special effects guys.

But in animation, tech is really the core of what works — the whole movie needs special effects! So the editor is a technical generalist who iterates on reels a thousand times before the film is produced. That is who I am and why I love hard tech. I get to storyboard fragile research ideas and turn them into polished theses.

My macro focus is on consumer areas that enable customized experiences, ambient interactions, and reliable relationships.

I studied Physics at Harvard, a place filled with sociopathic careerists, irreverent polymaths, prodigious wimps, elitist sovereigns, and first-order contrarians.

My contribution to these dysfunctions was dyslexia, led to Cs sometimes (!!) but ended with Highest Honors.

Then I ran a startup which, sadly, didn't work out ... but what I loved most was finding exceptional people — even ones I couldn't recruit, like Aman, who went on to co-found Cursor (now worth $29B).

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"I don't remember ever reading an undergraduate work on a topic this technical that has such maturity and clarity. Parth ... politely listened and then to his credit went off in his own direction. I very much appreciate his independence of thought. Even more, it is written absolutely beautifully. This is a very technical subject but parth manages to navigate it clearly and with humor. This is one of the best expositions of a mathematical thesis for an undergraduate that I have ever seen."

— MP Brenner

"Parth is, by far, the most independent thinker I've ever met. He finds useful connections between (seemingly) unrelated topics. I recall staring at him in disbelief before he convinced me to build our ML platform from an esoteric enterprise sales technique that he read somewhere. Time and time again I would realize that he just gets it. Understanding "it" lets him exploit deficiencies in competitor products and triple down on moats that win. I have never met anyone who can strategize meticulously and flawlessly on so many levels. Parth also has an unnerving ability to describe the future. He gets people excited about his bold visions and is able to recruit across a broad swath of roles, convincing some of the best people in the world to "give a shit."

— H Liu

"Parth possesses that perfectionist drive needed to turn vague ideas into well-crafted experiences. He doesn’t like to call himself a designer, yet he has an exceptional eye for aesthetics that effortlessly recognizes and appreciates visual harmony. He builds on that with his unique ability to distill and explore complex ideas that are not only surgical but also convey a narrative with emotional depth. All of that makes Parth ridiculously deliberate in his thought process, knowing exactly where to look to uncover insights that others might miss."

— F Felix