Inside Coolest Silicon Valley Startup House! IIT Bombay → Google → $60M Startup! (TwinMind)

Meet Daniel George and his journey to founding TwinMind after leaving Google-X & JP Morgan, he did PhD in 1 year.
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0:00 Intro — PhD in one year; first AI in gravitational astrophysics
1:03 House tour — team intros; Menlo Park location
3:15 Early recognition — black holes with AI; first investments
6:31 Physical AI to LLMs — challenges and shift
9:05 Bay Area advantage — landlord founder story
11:16 Meet Nina — AI career; travel and return
15:02 PhD advice — depth vs breadth; choosing advisor
25:18 PhD funding — fellowships hack; $140K/year
27:17 Offers — Google X, NVIDIA, Wolfram; leader meetings
32:14 Physical AI wins — robotic pants; Wolverine/IO earbuds
35:04 Lessons — building teams, finance, networks
36:09 FIRE — 4% rule; living off investments
39:02 Minimalist travel — one backpack; points hacking
42:19 TwinMind vision — Jarvis-like; privacy; on-device/cloud
46:04 Trust & accuracy — correction pipeline; citations; approvals
48:20 Audio limits — iOS constraints; Android; phone-call capture
49:24 Memory layer — second brain; files; hierarchical memories
55:03 Model strategy — fine-tuned multimodal LLMs; diarization
59:20 Cost engineering — from $500 to $1 via on-device
1:01:26 AI engineer roadmap — build with APIs; product pipelines
1:03:57 Stack choices — start serverless; later GCP; own pipelines
1:06:20 Future — agents beyond notes; cross-app memory; multi-device
1:10:24 Lowest points — sacrifice and stress behind success

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