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Rajat Gupta

Rajat Gupta

@0xrajat.bsky.social

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Founder and CEO at Galaxy.ai → Making AI work for you

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Rajat Gupta @0xrajat.bsky.social · 1h

If your plan starts with
“What can I do with what I already have?”
you’ve already lost.

Start with what you want.
Then reverse-engineer the assets, tools, and people you need.

Rajat Gupta @0xrajat.bsky.social · 9d

Here's the biggest productivity hack in the world:
Do nothing besides the task that you set to accomplish.

If it's not you doing the task, then you're not doing the task.

Rajat Gupta @0xrajat.bsky.social · 14d

8 habits to get “lucky” (for real):

- Stay late
- Help first
- Do it again
- Keep learning
- Show up early
- Honor promises
- Talk to more people
- Work when you don’t feel like it

Rajat Gupta @0xrajat.bsky.social · 27d

You don’t need to avoid mistakes.
You need to avoid repeating them.

Test, fail, iterate.
That’s literally how startups, skills, and even AI models evolve.

One mistake is data.
Ten mistakes is denial.

Rajat Gupta @0xrajat.bsky.social · 28d

AI isn’t failing you.
You’re failing AI.

99% of people give AI garbage inputs, then cry that it’s “mid.”

Wild part? You can literally ask AI:
“Rewrite this prompt to make it 10x better.”

Now you’ve got AI teaching you how to use AI.
That’s infinite leverage.

Rajat Gupta @0xrajat.bsky.social · 28d

Aspirations don’t change your bank balance.
Actions do.

AI won’t build your empire.
But you using AI daily will.

Rajat Gupta @0xrajat.bsky.social · Sep 15

It’s nearly impossible to fake obsession.
People who truly care will outlast, out-iterate, and outlearn everyone else.
That’s why “wild success” looks like luck from the outside.
It’s obsession on the inside.

Rajat Gupta @0xrajat.bsky.social · Sep 14

The real bottleneck in AI isn’t models.
It’s humans giving bad inputs.

Rajat Gupta @0xrajat.bsky.social · Sep 14

AI is a terrible master.
But it’s an incredible assistant.

Rajat Gupta @0xrajat.bsky.social · Sep 14

Most people prepare for things to go wrong.
Few prepare for things to go right.
Be ready for opportunity when it knocks.

Rajat Gupta @0xrajat.bsky.social · Sep 14

AI knows the patterns of stories.
Humans know the weight of them.

The difference is experience.
Lived experience >>> generated text.

Rajat Gupta @0xrajat.bsky.social · Sep 14

Most people see AI as competition, when the real advantage is in using it to multiply the skills and systems you already own.

The people who treat AI as a co-worker will always outpace the ones who treat it as an enemy.

Rajat Gupta @0xrajat.bsky.social · Sep 13

If life gets better with approval,
And worse without it,
You’ll always be at the mercy of others.

Real freedom is in doing what you know matters.

Rajat Gupta @0xrajat.bsky.social · Sep 13

A lot of the best work doesn’t show up at the beginning.
It shows up right before the finish line.

That’s why it pays to finish what you start.

Rajat Gupta @0xrajat.bsky.social · Sep 13

Most of the best work happens in silence.
No likes.
No applause.
No validation.

Keep going anyway.
The world validates late.

Rajat Gupta @0xrajat.bsky.social · Sep 12

Stop chasing work-life balance.
Chase work-life integration.
Balance implies they’re opposing forces. Integration means they amplify each other.

Rajat Gupta @0xrajat.bsky.social · Sep 12

Don’t ask customers what they want.
Ask for the last workaround they used.

Rajat Gupta @0xrajat.bsky.social · Sep 12

Good questions scale better than good answers.
An answer expires with context; a question survives new conditions.

Rajat Gupta @0xrajat.bsky.social · Sep 12

Failure doesn’t ruin you.
Forgetting what it taught you does.

Rajat Gupta @0xrajat.bsky.social · Sep 11

Never ask “What should I do?”
Ask “What would I regret not trying?”

Rajat Gupta @0xrajat.bsky.social · Sep 11

Velocity comes from deletion, not addition.
Every step you remove increases the chance the important step happens.

Rajat Gupta @0xrajat.bsky.social · Sep 11

Stop asking strangers for 15 minutes.
Ask for the objection. People reply faster to a chance to be right than to a calendar link.

Rajat Gupta @0xrajat.bsky.social · Sep 11

You don’t need more ideas.
You don’t need more time.
You need more execution.

Rajat Gupta @0xrajat.bsky.social · Sep 10

If a customer debates price, they’re unclear on the after-state.
Price becomes obvious when the outcome is measured in their language, not yours.

Rajat Gupta @0xrajat.bsky.social · Sep 10

Don’t measure what you can’t fix next week.
Metrics that don’t change behavior are decoration.