Aditya Agarwal

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Aditya Agarwal is a venture investor who works with early-stage founders navigating the -1 to 0 ideation phase at South Park Commons. Previously, he was one of Facebook's earliest engineers and first Director of Product Engineering, before co-founding Cove and serving as Chief Technology Officer at Dropbox.

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Opinion

Agarwal: Average American CS grads lack the advanced math for AI models

“Honestly, you ask the average CS graduate in America to understand, like, you know, matrix, you know, kind of, like, matrix math, advanced linear algebra, kind of, like, to understand, kind of, like, how these actually models work, they would struggle with it.…”

Aditya Agarwal Dec 5, 2025 ▶ 49:16 From -1 to 0: How Founders Navigate the Earliest Stage with Aditya Agarwal & Prateek Mehta | SPC

Opinion

Agarwal: It is "ridiculous" to think India lacks talent for AI

“I strongly disagree with the narrative that a bunch of people have that India can't do AI. I think that's ridiculous. I think we have seen enough examples from some of our members, some of the companies that they are starting. That India actually has absolutel…”

Aditya Agarwal Dec 5, 2025 ▶ 44:06 From -1 to 0: How Founders Navigate the Earliest Stage with Aditya Agarwal & Prateek Mehta | SPC

Insight

Agarwal: Minus-one learning must be paired with weekly building and demos

“For us, you learn so you can build. So every week you have to build something with velocity, with speed to demo to everyone.”

Aditya Agarwal Dec 5, 2025 ▶ 5:16 From -1 to 0: How Founders Navigate the Earliest Stage with Aditya Agarwal & Prateek Mehta | SPC

Insight

Agarwal: Start a company only if you accept 20 years of pain

“Not everybody should start a company, right? And I think that our environment, when somebody comes in to join the community is that you should start a company. If you're willing to go through 20 years of pain, Right. But sometimes honestly, it's like better to…”

Aditya Agarwal Dec 5, 2025 ▶ 10:44 From -1 to 0: How Founders Navigate the Earliest Stage with Aditya Agarwal & Prateek Mehta | SPC

Insight

Agarwal: Organizations run on small implicit signals, not high-level stated values

“I believe a lot that organizations run on all the small signals that you send, not kind of like the high level values. And then the values are important. Values and principles are very important, but it is almost like the implicit signals that the environment …”

Aditya Agarwal Dec 5, 2025 ▶ 27:05 From -1 to 0: How Founders Navigate the Earliest Stage with Aditya Agarwal & Prateek Mehta | SPC

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Agarwal: Vitalik Buterin and Jennifer Doudna spoke to early SPC learning club

“So, you know, in the early days, someone like you know, like a Vitalik Buterin who was just building the ether network, who obviously became Ethereum. Someone like a Jennifer Doudna who was doing groundbreaking work on CRISPR. They would come to a small kind o…”

Aditya Agarwal Dec 5, 2025 ▶ 6:05 From -1 to 0: How Founders Navigate the Earliest Stage with Aditya Agarwal & Prateek Mehta | SPC

Disclosure

Agarwal: SPC Bangalore added 70 to 80 community members in its first year

“In the last one year, we've been very, very, it's been amazing to see, like we've had roughly about 70 community members. 70 to 80 community members join us in SPC Bangalore.”

Aditya Agarwal Dec 5, 2025 ▶ 15:58 From -1 to 0: How Founders Navigate the Earliest Stage with Aditya Agarwal & Prateek Mehta | SPC

Disclosure

Agarwal: 15 to 20 companies emerged from SPC Bangalore in year one

“And we've had roughly 15, 20 companies come out of it, which we are very, very excited to be partnering with.”

Aditya Agarwal Dec 5, 2025 ▶ 16:30 From -1 to 0: How Founders Navigate the Earliest Stage with Aditya Agarwal & Prateek Mehta | SPC

Disclosure

Agarwal: SPC has produced four to five foundation model companies

“And then we also have had probably like four foundation model companies come out of like essentially SBC four or five actually kind of doing everything from general purpose kind of like open source models to more specific models around essentially everything f…”

Aditya Agarwal Dec 5, 2025 ▶ 32:20 From -1 to 0: How Founders Navigate the Earliest Stage with Aditya Agarwal & Prateek Mehta | SPC

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Episode	Date	Speaking time
From -1 to 0: How Founders Navigate the Earliest Stage with Aditya Agarwal & Prateek Mehta	Dec 5, 2025	32m

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