Talvinder Singh is a serial founder (ex-OYO, YC, 500 Startups) who writes about AI in production, infrastructure investing, and the India tech ecosystem. Frameworks, build logs, and field notes from eighteen years of building companies.
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B. Talvinder

The best returns in technology come from owning the infrastructure, not the applications.

B. Talvinder · ex-OYO · YC · 500 Startups · 4 companies across 4 technology eras

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How to Monitor AI Agents in Production

Agentic Systems
Infrastructure

Agentic Drift is the silent degradation in AI agents that breaks traditional monitoring and demands hybrid oversight with incremental deployment.

May 3

Agentic AI Is Killing Per-Seat SaaS

Agentic Systems
Product & Strategy

Agentic AI automates human workflows, collapsing per-seat SaaS pricing and forcing a fundamental rethink of value and pricing models.

May 3

The $33B Vertical SaaS Opportunity India Keeps Missing

India & Market
Product & Strategy

India’s $33 billion vertical SaaS market remains untapped because startups chase horizontal platforms and exports instead of local, industry-specific solutions.

May 3

Training AI to Serve Rare Disease Patients Is a Structural Problem, Not a Data Problem

Agentic Systems
India & Market

Rare disease AI failures stem from healthcare’s fragmented data governance, not from insufficient data volume.

Apr 17

The Vibe Coding Hangover: Why AI-Written Code Costs 4x to Maintain by Year Two

Agentic Systems

CodeRabbit data shows AI co-authored code has 1.7x more major issues and 2.74x higher vulnerability rates. The productivity gains are real — and so is the maintenance debt that follows.

Apr 3

The Recourse Trap: Why Competition Makes Credit Scoring More Exclusive, Not Less

Product & Strategy

Credit scoring fails not because it’s inaccurate, but because competitive lending markets reward exclusion over solving information problems for 400 million unscored Indian adults.

Apr 3

Why 86% of AI Agent Pilots Fail Before Reaching Production

Agentic Systems
Infrastructure

The gap between an AI agent demo and a production deployment isn’t the model — it’s monitoring, fallbacks, human handoffs, and error recovery. Here’s why most pilots die and what actually works.

Apr 3

I Built Ed-Tech Before Ed-Tech Existed in India

Startups
India & Market

In 2018, product management education wasn’t a category in India. Building before the market forces you to validate pedagogy instead of growth. That constraint became the advantage.

Apr 2

I Built an Experiences Marketplace Five Years Before Airbnb Experiences

Startups

Tushky had the idea, the unit economics, and the inventory. It still failed. The reason wasn’t timing — it was confusing a transaction platform for a community.

Apr 2
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