Nilam Ganenthiran

@nilamg

Technology entrepreneur, builder, and friend-of-founders Current: Founder/CEO Beacon Software | Prev: President @ Instacart, Partner @ D1 Capital

Toronto, Ontario

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Nilam Ganenthiran
@nilamg
Sep 21
A miner deserves the same caliber of AI as a software engineer, lawyer or tax accountant. They are supplying the materials that make the AI buildout possible. AI should help make their work simpler and safer too. So proud of what we’re building at Beacon with Focus FS. Video in
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Nilam Ganenthiran
@nilamg
Sep 24
The biggest barrier to AI adoption in the real economy is trust. The recent discourse about AI safety only reinforce how much that matters. That’s why we are building Beacon to be the world’s first AI-native centralized holding company. We think if Berkshire Hathaway started
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Nilam Ganenthiran
@nilamg
Sep 17
Beacon has acquired Haize Labs! So excited to welcome @leonardtang_ , @steveshenli and the team. Leonard and I bonded over a shared belief: responsible AI means AI that serves the real economy, and Main Street deserves the same caliber of AI talent and technology as the world’s
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Nilam Ganenthiran
@nilamg
Aug 28
Turnaround CEOs used to only refer to specialists who parachuted in when companies were in trouble Now it’s every CEO
Nilam Ganenthiran
@nilamg
Aug 27
One counterintuitive thing I am seeing across dozens of conversations with real economy execs: every incumbent is now a turnaround CEO, even if their business is growing, profitable and hitting plan. I wrote about the Era of the Perpetual Turnaround CEO:
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The Era of The Perpetual Turnaround CEO
A line from a recent Eric Vishria podcast appearance has been stuck in my head: "Every day you are making plan (as a SaaS CEO), you are destroying equity value." I took his point to be that CEOs...
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Nilam Ganenthiran
@nilamg
Aug 27
One counterintuitive thing I am seeing across dozens of conversations with real economy execs: every incumbent is now a turnaround CEO, even if their business is growing, profitable and hitting plan. I wrote about the Era of the Perpetual Turnaround CEO:
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The Era of The Perpetual Turnaround CEO
A line from a recent Eric Vishria podcast appearance has been stuck in my head: "Every day you are making plan (as a SaaS CEO), you are destroying equity value." I took his point to be that CEOs...
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