Nikhil Basu Trivedi

Friday was a very special day for our family, as we got to celebrate my father Shanker Trivedi’s 17 year chapter at NVIDIA. There are “epic run”s. Then there’s: 0 to $200B of revenue as he started...

We're automating Footwork, and we're looking for someone to come help us work on it. This is the first new role we've thought about for a long time, and you'll work closely with me. More in this bl...

One of the great joys of investing and joining boards is having a front-row-seat to watch the founders and companies grow up. Customer conferences are an awesome temperature check on this dimension...

Yesterday, Forbes honored my partner, Footwork co-founder Mike Smith, in their 2026 Money Masters BLK 50 list of the most powerful Black Americans in finance. Now, a word of caution: Mike is goin...

At the end of Elicit's board meeting last week, founders Andreas Stuhlmüller and Jungwon Byun said: "One of our goals for the year is to automate the entire company. If we all go on vacation at the...

It’s hard to understand exactly where this recursive self-improvement loop will take us in AI writ-large, beyond code generation, but one thing is for sure: a small handful of companies — Anthropic...

My latest blog post was inspired by Sarah Tavel's comment in a board meeting last week: "The amount of output that an engineer can have has grown so much just in the last month that, all of a sudde...

If you are non-technical or mildly-technical, and trying to figure out how to get started with the code generation / vibe coding products, my wife Chandrika S. (previously a product leader at Tesla...

While I realize it is now February, I just published the 7 themes that I believe will define 2026 (I promise you that this was mostly written in the first few days of January, and that the themes r...

Really special to share Footwork's partnership with Snout today. Mike Smith and I led the company's $10M Series A, as our first investment out of Footwork Fund II, as covered in today's Fortune Ter...

I joined The Library of Minds with Dara Ladjevardian and Delphi to share what I've learned about investing in companies with fabulous genetics. We talked about why vanity metrics mislead, how the ...

Excited for Andreessen Horowitz to join the Protege journey, a few months after we at Footwork led their Series A. This is a company on a serious tear, building the data infrastructure layer for AI...

I spent time in NYC a couple weeks ago with the team at ReflexAI and am blown away by their progress. Their product is focused on human performance - AI that enables better training and QA of the h...

A Friday evening post, straight from the heart and my exhausted brain, in flight back home from a trip to NYC. An ode to the city and the founders I've been so lucky to partner with there over the ...

Huge congrats to Benable: The #1 Commerce & Consumer Startup in The Information 50 2025. Anthony Staehelin and the team are quietly building *the* word of mouth platform - the network to share your...

We have several Footwork portfolio companies hiring a Chief of Staff at the moment. Linking here to the JD at GPTZero (hiring in NYC), and there are a few others looking for a similar hire too. I t...

Important conversation between Sam Dorison at ReflexAI (a Footwork portfolio company) and Susan Caminiti at CNBC on how to use AI in the workplace today. Clarity on expectations of AI use with your...

Though we've announced a slew of new Footwork investments recently, we are still just investing in a handful of quality companies every year. None, however, have grown as quickly in the first few w...

The Vertical AI companies we're most excited about combine two elements: deep technical + domain expertise. That's the case with WALDO, which announced its Series A this week, led by Mike Smith and...

Very excited to publicly talk about Footwork's investment in Honeydew for the first time. When we met co-founders David Futoran and Joel Spitz last year, Mike Smith and I were instantly enthralled....