Three years ago I sat across from @harjtaggar, @garrytan, and 3 other partners for my YC interview. Ten minutes, and they grilled me the entire time! It felt way longer. I was certain I had bombed it. Then, that evening, Harj called me: "You're in." That was the start of Warp. We didn't have a full product or revenue, just initial sketches of the platform and a problem we were obsessed to solve. The path there wasn't obvious. I grew up in India, came to the US for MIT, and spent years working on large-scale machine learning before starting Warp. People thought this space was an odd place to start an AI company. But we had a clear thesis. This week, we announced our Series B with $85M in total funding. We're 50 people in NYC, scaling fast. And I got to sit down with Harj again, this time for Founder Firesides. We talk about: → Why I bet on an "unsexy" problem, and why that's exactly the point → What "AI-native" actually means, and why it favors technical founders → Where employee management goes from here Grateful to Harj and YC for the call that started it, and for betting on us before there was anything to bet on.