Rishab

I'm Rishab. I'm in college, class of 2028, majoring in entrepreneurship and finance. The plan, to the extent there is one, is to keep blending the business side with the building side, instead of treating them as separate disciplines.

I'm a hacker and an entrepreneur. I try to attend every hackathon I can get to in and around the Bay Area, because the fastest way I've found to learn how something works is to ship something with it before the weekend is over. Some weekends that means a working prototype. Some weekends that means a clearer sense of what not to build next time.

The two pieces of work I care most about right now are both AI. The first is helping companies on their AI adoption journey, the part that goes past the hype and lands on the question of how this actually shows up in someone's Monday morning. The second is helping kids and teens learn AI in a responsible way, without losing their creativity or their identity in the process. The second one matters more to me. The wrong relationship with these tools, learned young, is hard to unlearn later.

When I'm not building, I'm playing basketball or coaching it. Coaching has taught me more about communication and patience than anything else I've done. Lakers fan, and not the casual kind.

And for the record, my mom's cooking is the best in the world. That part is not up for debate.

If you're a company trying to figure out where AI fits, or a parent or educator thinking about how kids should be learning these tools, I'd like to hear from you. Reach me through Nitin for now.