Utkrist Varma

Hi PH!
My name is Utkrist and boy do I have a story. My story starts in India - I joined two amazing colleges as part of a duel degree (TU munich + Amrita) in Computer science with a full scholarship. In college i published a paper in ML, was part of 3 sports teams and did a lot of random stuff. In my second year, I dropped out. This descison cost me the love of my family for a while (dad has a PHD) and I started working at 19. Worked my way up, build a cybersecurity company, built in Web3, in fitness, lead sales and marketing at multiple startups including one at YC
My college then, which I'd left featured me as their alumni of the year (2024, lol), I then taught to multiple MBA grads, sales, leadership etc. All my experience led me to write the book "the god of sales", and thats who i am today (Seriously google it)
The conclusion is - believe in your gut and yourself, you will land somewhere

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A real team has a lead, specialists, a reviewer, and someone who signs off. When AI is one tab and one prompt at a time, you end up being the glue: copy-pasting between tools, checking everything yourself, and re-explaining context every day.

I work at Brexy, and we re building a Slack-style workspace where teams of AI agents work together, and with your people, inside channels. So I ve been obsessed with one question:

What s the first piece of work you d actually hand to an AI team, and what would you need to see before you d trust it? Citations? An approval step? Seeing who did what?