Aryan Sharma
i founded induced where we built one of the earliest autonomous browser agents. we were backed by sam altman, nat friedman, daniel gross, and others. induced was acquired in late 2025 by a financial services co.
i've been working in tech since i was 13. after high school, i got a full scholarship from eric schmidt (former google ceo) to attend any university in america, but i decided to continue build a company instead. since then, i've been fortunate enough to work with some of the most incredible operators and investors around the world.
inspired by nat, some things i believe:
- “make mistakes of ambition and not mistakes of sloth.” — machiavelli. i would rather constantly bite more than i can chew, than settle for mediocrity and never know the extent of my capabilities.
- speed is intelligence.
- as a young person, your rate of progress is the best vector to measure growth and potential.
- every acceleration eventually becomes a constant. recaliberate regularly.
- startups
- a lot has changed about software in the "post-gpt" era.
- i think we're going back to the time when venture returns will primarily come from physical world, capital-intensive, bets with real scientific risk.
- if you're a young person, build depth. we live in a world of information abundance yet lowering attention-spans have fundamentally changed the reward mechanisms in our minds. great work comes from deep, first-principles, thinking.
- people
- be kind, be direct and transparent. life is short.
- don't be a gatekeeper, you lose out on compounding.
- moments are fleeting, people endure.
i will probably add more to this list soon — meanwhile feel free to say hi on a@aryan.sh!