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Founder & CEO of TeleSense, Faculty Member & Lecturer at UC Berkeley, Northeastern University & Brown University, Author, Speaker

Silicon Valley
Joined July 2007
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Barber of Seville may be the most famous opera Bufa by Rossini. Enjoying a performance at the San Francisco opera house
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At ⁦@OPENSVForum⁩ Synergy conference with this photo with all current and previous presidents. From left Idris Kothari ⁦@ZiaYusuf⁩ ⁦@amerhaider15⁩ Andaleeb Ahmed Naeem Zafar, Umair Khan Moazzam Chowdry and ⁦@farazhoodbhoy⁩
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Tiecon2026 starts this Wednesday, April 29- this is actually a great deal - I am conducting an all-day Startup Bootcamp (there are other AI bootcamps too) - all for just $99? wow! Do register if you are in Silicon Valley events.tie.org/TiEcon2026Apr…
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Zareen from her famous Bay Area restaurants speaking at Stanford Dosti conference about how food unites the diaspora from South Asia
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All day conference at ⁦@BerkeleyHaas⁩ hosted by ⁦@dogakantoka⁩ - wonderful insights on AI ecosystem and opportunities
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At a workshop to learn about creating AI agents and custom GPTs #AllianceOfChiefExecutives
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.@tiecon2026 kickoff meeting. Will be running the Startup Bootcamp on April 29 in Santa Clara. World’s largest conference focused on entrepreneurship and tech trends
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Got my yearly summary from Zoom - I did 645 meetings on Zoom last year🫤
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At MontaVista ventures 2026 kickoff meeting with Venk Shukla about agentic AI ecosystem
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I will be giving a lecture this Saturday, Dec 13 (7 pm PST, online and in-person) on the history of Silicon Chips and how this will shape our world + plus Cold War 2.0: China vs. the USA. Register at tinyurl.com/yu82uzxy or ask for a free pass
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At #OPENforum conference in Santa Clara with ⁦@R_Jalil⁩ of ⁦@SecuritiAI⁩ founder and CEO sharing his journey and lessons learned
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What moonshot startups will change our world. Listening to @astroteller about companies like @tapestry who are changing how AI can run the energy grid more efficiently @TechCrunch
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Where does #AI live in an organization? Perhaps in HR? Since it is about upskilling people
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I will be giving a comprehensive lecture on the "History and Future of Turkey and the Shifting Politics in the Middle East and Eastern Europe" - it will also be live-streamed. Friday, June 7 at 7 pm Pacific time - check out store.westernciv.com/product…
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At #TiEcon with unicorn maker label. Jay worked under Elon & built $4B Tekion. Chet worked under Steve Jobs at Next now CEO of DataStax sold to IBM for $700m & Beerud Sheth build Elance (Upwork) and now GupShup
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At #TiEcon2025 with ⁦@satyanadella⁩ and ⁦@NavinChaddha⁩ on where we are heading in technology
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At @UCBerkeley @Skydeck demo day 1% acceptance rate for Batch 19. A lot of excitement here
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I will teach Mini-MBA in Entrepreneurship, a 12-session online course. March 10, topics: market research, equity distribution, sales initiation, marketing, financials, and investor pitching. interactive workshop-style tiesv.ai/event/mini-mba-in-e… - for early-stage entrepreneurs.
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First day of my technology entrepreneurship class at University of California Berkeley he’s always full of anticipation and eager students to absorb life lessons and techniques about becoming entrepreneur
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