Sheel Mohnot

@pitdesi214k followers

I write my own tweets. politically centrist, abundance minded. Work: @btv_vc, leading pre/seed rounds in fintech & vertical AI

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1Feb 13, '24Zuck on the Apple Vision Pro He's still got fire in him, love to see it188×29.2M66k5.6k15k
2Jun 20, '24This video of Kathleen Ledecky balancing chocolate milk on her head while swimming is more impressive to me than her seven Olympic gold medals115×17.8M192k14k11k
3Jul 4, '25Remember that nobody will ever watch that firework video again... unless it's the July 4th 2012 fireworks show in San Diego where they accidentally let off 18 minutes of fireworks 77.2×12M199k9.1k26k
4Jul 4, '24Italy raided factories & found that Armani and Dior bags are made by illegal Chinese workers in Italy who sleep in the workshop and make €2-3/hr. Both companies have been placed un39.8×6.2M67k21k11k
5Apr 27, '24X keeps serving me this video so I succumbed The premise is that Mr Beast and crew are helicoptered into an abandoned city and have to survive for 7 days, seems like a fun concept…37.4×5.8M15k8382k
6Jul 13, '24The Millennial anthem every word rings true (except I'm in my 40s)34.2×5.3M42k5.9k16k
7Dec 19, '23Apple is a real bully. Apple + Maximo met for partnership/acquisition talks but Apple had a secret plan (Project Everest) to steal the tech without paying. They even recruited 20 o28.4×4.4M9.4k1.4k2k
8May 18, '24Last week, a 55 year old, 200 lb grandmother was the 1st to swim from the Golden Gate Bridge to the Farallon islands, a -30 mile journey. She swam in 43° water & it took ~17 ho28×4.4M6.9k526793
9Sep 28, '25There is a woman in San Francisco who charges $30k to name your baby. She started at $100, but she was going to dinner with VCs and a friend told her to charge more and nobody blin24.9×3.9M17k9443.7k
10Dec 23, '24lol we came to a tasting menu restaurant and my dad knew he would be hungry and not like the food so he brought his own pizza and got in trouble24.7×3.8M12k1711.5k
11Feb 18, '24So incredibly sad- Susan Wojcicki’s 19 year old son died from a drug overdose at Cal after taking a drug that was potentially laced with fentanyl. 2mg of fentanyl (~10-15 grains of23.6×3.7M4.9k398918
12Nov 5, '24Thanks Jeff Lawson for buying the Onion so we could get this great zoom in on electoral coverage. No other news source has gone to this level of detail.23.3×3.6M19k1.8k4.3k
13Sep 13, '24Fun TikTok dating fad in Spain: Singles go to grocery store chain Mercadona bw 7-8pm and use their cart to hint what they're looking for. Mercadona has had to hire police and even 23.2×3.6M15k1.2k7.1k
14Jan 20, '23Most popular car in Europe / most popular car in the US.22.8×3.5M9.6k987525
15Aug 23, '25My new kitchen robot just made me one of the best paneer butter masalas I’ve ever had in my life.22×3.4M16k5564.8k
16Sep 7, '23The American mind cannot comprehend this. The longest train ride in India: - takes 74.5 hours - covers 2,600mi (~distance from Wash. DC - LA) - is considered "Super Fast Express" t20.8×3.2M11k614756
17Aug 5, '23People in Texas really love bragging about their low GPAs on their sports cars19.8×3.1M16k986851
18Jul 20, '24Cocktail bars in Tokyo are insane, a real art form Never seen anything like it anywhere else There are bars like the Aviary which are masterful in their own way but the artistry of19.8×3.1M15k1.7k5.1k
19Jun 16, '24Wowwwww Everyone in fintech has been saying that the Bilt credit card ($3.1B valuation) is too good to be true; How can you get cash back on rent payments? Turns out they have an u18.6×2.9M7.5k5814.5k
20Oct 30, '24Heartwarming immigrant banking story: The State Bank of Texas is owned and mostly run by Patels. Poor Indian immigrant Chan Patel comes to Stanford for grad school, becomes a succe16.3×2.5M9.2k1.2k3.4k
21Nov 26, '22It still blows my mind every time I randomly look at the price of a TV nowadays.16×086k7.2k4.1k
22Jun 16, '25Ed Sheeran's wife. He's been a rock superstar and her partner for the entire 9 years she spent working at Deloitte.15.8×2.5M9.5k4291.5k
23Dec 9, '24Indian home beauty startup YesMadam sent a survey to their employees about stress and then fired the employees that said they were under significant stress 🤦🏽‍♂️15.5×2.4M20k2.4k2.8k
24Jun 26, '22Founders building web3 solutions for problems that don’t exist15.1×074k10k2.6k
25Sep 21, '24an 8-year old girl in Ohio drove herself 25 minutes to Target, spent $400 and was drinking a Frappuccino when she got caught. She's probably grounded for a while but as soon as she14.9×2.3M10k6871.2k
26Mar 17, '25Wild: When the BYD Zhengzhou factory is fully complete it will be larger than San Francisco (but smaller than the Denver airport!) ~10x larger than the Gigafactory Nevada. Not appl14.7×2.3M9.2k1.4k2.5k
27Jul 24, '24Quick background in case you missed this era: Zenefits was among the highest flying companies- raised $500M in '15 (back when that was a huge deal 😂). They missed some revenue tar14.1×2.2M5.3k2851.1k
28Aug 11, '23Tic Tacs are 94% sugar and yet claim to be sugar free… The FDA says anything can be labeled sugar free if it has <0.5g of sugar, so each tic tac is 0.49g and they can claim they13.9×2.2M14k2.3k1.2k
29Apr 5, '25LOLOL Chamath claims to "control" one of the largest rare earth mineral supplies outside of China. I comment with proof that CCP owns more of the company than he does (proof below)13.5×2.1M21k1.1k2.1k
30Apr 26, '25Ever wonder why sedans disappeared and every car is huge now? "Thanks, Obama!" His administration changed fuel economy standards in a way that had the perverse impact of making car13.1×2M8.5k1.1k3k
31Jan 3, '24Oh no... what have we done? 2 years ago, Mexico City ranked as the 76th most expensive city in the Economist's worldwide cost of living survey. This year, it ranked 16th! More expe12.7×2M6k1.2k914
32Jun 25, '24I think about this scene all the time The Simpsons, 199412.5×1.9M26k2.6k1.8k
33May 19, '24The longest-serving Apple employee, Chris Espinosa has been there since he was 14 years old in 1976 (but didn't get his badge printed til 1977. When he joined, it was still housed 12.5×1.9M7.6k2071k
34Sep 13, '23This dude slapped a new label (& name: Le Château Colombier) on a shitty $2.50 supermarket wine and won gold medal at the Gilbert et Gaillard wine competition in France. They d12.5×1.9M9.4k1.1k1.4k
35Aug 4, '24There is a "sleep pod community" near me that rented a loft apartment and put these sleeping pods in, currently occupied by 5 women and 9 men paying $675 each.11.8×1.8M5.1k2231.1k
36Dec 8, '23I am often surprised by polling but this one scares the shit out of me. 1 out of 5 people 18-29 believe the holocaust is a myth. How did it get to be this way?10.8×1.7M4.5k539528
37Nov 5, '23The website for the band "Portugal, The Man" is a Google Sheets document10.6×1.7M4.6k304726
38Aug 3, '25Could not agree more. Airport lounges were supposed to be an escape from the chaos. Now they are the chaos.10.5×1.6M4.9k147474
39Jan 15, '25Colossal Biosciences raised $200M at a $10.2B post to bring back animals from extinction They're on track for a Woolly Mammoth calf in 2028, and are also working on the dodo and Ta10.2×1.6M7.3k3981.3k
40Jun 1, '22From @elonmusk on remote work… tell us how you really feel! (email from yesterday)9.2×045k4.4k1.1k
41Apr 8, '25The show Silicon Valley was not fiction9.1×1.4M28k2k1.5k
42May 4, '25Love Buffett’s response to “when did you know you were rich?” Particularly the highlighted part.9.1×1.4M11k8985.4k
43Sep 18, '25Remember when the iphone 4 demo failed and Steve Jobs told people in the audience to turn off their wifi? charming to look back9.1×1.4M6.9k3391.5k
44Sep 16, '25Trevor donated $1.8M to Trump, then hired Attorney General Pam Bondi's brother to represent him case dropped8.8×1.4M19k3k1.5k
45Aug 18, '25Eyeglasses aren’t opioids. There’s no reason we should need to see an optometrist to buy glasses. You don’t in the rest of the world, and you didn’t in the US either until optometr8.5×1.3M14k1.5k1.7k
46Oct 31, '25Genuinely confused at how people have time to listen to 3+ hour podcasts multiple times per week8.5×1.3M5.6k139298
47Sep 22, '24The Golden Gate Bridge construction was finished in 4 years in 1937, under budget at $35M (~$600M today). A suicide prevention net was recently added to the bridge. It took 6 years8.3×1.3M6.3k4081.8k
48Mar 9, '24Duolingo runs a taqueria outside their HQ in Pittsburgh. You get a discount for speaking Spanish. Many reviews say it’s the best Mexican food they’ve ever had! I will def go next t7.5×1.2M4.9k309755
49Oct 24, '23McKinsey's latest recruiting video featured on @LastWeekTonight7.4×1.1M4.8k7311.8k
50Jul 5, '25Turkish airlines has a promo where you can get 1 million miles by flying to all 6 continents they fly. You can do it for about $3k (depending on where you start from) In my 20s my 7.3×1.1M6.8k2144.6k
51Jul 8, '23New Italian train route “La Dolce Vita” is a real beauty, starts at $2k per person per day7.2×1.1M4.6k2821.1k
53May 29, '25Zohran wants to freeze rents on 2M units, a well-intentioned but absolutely terrible idea that could erase what makes NYC special. Bombay is a cautionary tale. Rent was frozen in 17.1×1.1M4.9k405822
54Dec 28, '22Salesforce park is the prettiest park in a business district I can think of. Also if I saw this and didn’t know better I would’ve guessed it was in Singapore.7.0×1.1M5.7k186305
56May 17, '23A story in 3 parts I was actually trying to be helpful!6.4×991k5k203107
57Oct 19, '23The new CEO of Costco Ron Vachris started out as a forklift driver, has worked his way up at Costco for the past 40+ years. Outgoing CEO Craig Jelinek started out as a food stocker6.1×948k8.9k764350
58Jun 23, '24I’ve noticed a TON of overt racism against Indians on this site recently. I get racist DMs/replies (over the randomest things!) and see viral stuff like this every day. Never happe6.0×935k4.9k401381
59Oct 20, '25It’s true. The original reason for ending prices in .99 was not psychological, it was to make sure employees weren't stealing... and it starts with the cash register itself: In the5.9×912k6.6k7293k
60Jul 3, '25it's real! he says he did it out of necessity, he didn't have a team of people do the work, it was all him5.9×912k9.2k5121.6k
61Sep 13, '24TIL - 0.8% of the US budget is spent on Kidney dialysis5.6×865k6.9k5481.2k
62Jul 19, '24~20 years ago @BarackObama was a relative nobody, a local state senator Kerry gave him the chance to address the DNC; the major networks didn't even bother covering the speech. The5.6×863k4.6k7374.2k
63Jan 7, '25Fun fact: Microsoft Flight Simulator is Microsoft's longest-running software product, predating Windows by 3 years. The series dates back to 1982 and FlightSim 2024 is the 16th of 5.3×830k6.7k250646
64Nov 1, '25Both of Jensen's kids pursued their passions but ultimately decided to work in the family biz Spencer spent a decade as a photographer and cocktail bar owner before Nvidia. Madison5.3×817k6.2k3751.6k
65Aug 24, '24German discount grocer Lidl built their own cloud infrastructure because of German data laws, and now has a ~$2B revenue business selling it to others (a la AWS) They spent $700M a5.0×784k7.1k9231.5k
66Oct 19, '25This billboard makes me pause every time I drive past it. I don't know what it means but it's weirdly effective in getting me to notice it.4.9×766k5.1k130738
67May 25, '25They got us with their SEO game4.9×759k8.5k280669
68Jul 19, '24TIL Costco sells a pallet of freeze-dried food. Preppers can buy 5,400 servings of food with a 25 year shelf life for $2,500 Lots of pasta and rice dishes, some soups, oatmeals &am4.9×757k4.5k1431.3k
69Apr 28, '24TIL Thomas and George Kurian are identical twins. They both grew up in India, came to the US to study at Princeton, did Stanford GSB, McKinsey, Oracle. Thomas is the CEO of Google 4.8×751k5.9k593851
70Apr 5, '25Listen to this guy - Mitt called it all so well!4.8×744k6.6k1.2k1.8k
71Feb 8, '25It is kind of funny that Vivek tweeted "American culture has venerated mediocrity over excellence" and had to get out of @DOGE Marko tweeted “Normalize Indian hate” "I was racist b4.8×743k14k1.4k935
72Apr 10, '20CEO of a 400+ employee business says WFH is working well, he may not renew his SF lease to save $10m a year (office + lunches etc) and instead do a couple of all-hands offsites a y4.3×018k3.9k547
73Oct 31, '21this is amazing by @elonmusk... people always seem to claim that X amount of money can solve a problem... so Elon calls them out, says he'll donate the money if they can solve it4.2×019k4.3k258
74May 1, '21Freaking Incredible: Agassi knew where Boris Becker was going to serve based on his tongue movements, but didn’t want to use it all the time because then Becker would find out3.7×015k3.7k706
75Sep 29, '25In Japanese tradition you adopt a capable manager or have arrange for him to marry your daughter to keep business in the family. Otherwise there’s no way you’d keep something in th3.7×569k5.9k4561.3k
76Oct 4, '21Drones raining from the sky in Zhengzhou 😬 Word on the street is that a rival drone company that lost the bid interfered to overwhelm the drones nav system!3.4×010k3.4k986
77Sep 13, '25It’s striking how little attention this is getting: an Indian motel manager was beheaded, and nobody seems to care. The video is more gruesome than anything else out there (not sha3.3×514k4.7k533321
78Jun 14, '25San Francisco in 18493.3×511k5.9k3891.1k
79Jul 16, '2420163.3×505k11k441199
80Apr 23, '25The Babylon Bee has been very funny lately2.9×451k8.3k327624
81Jan 11, '25Somehow I only just now learned Chip is a nickname for a guy named after his dad ("Chip off the old block"). Skip is for a guy named after their granddad ("skipped" a generation). 2.9×444k6.6k2761.6k
82Aug 14, '25Awesome & wholesome: Slashdotters were dunking on @stevewoz for selling his Apple stock… then he showed up in the comments with the most grounded reply. Gave away his Apple wea2.7×412k6k5011.1k
84Dec 31, '24View post on X2.5×383k6.5k381424
85Oct 15, '25When I interned at Amazon, my office had a stunning view of Mount Rainier… which I discovered a full 2 months into the internship on the first clear day. I got to experience that s2.4×377k5.1k51164
87Sep 11, '22Some people have kids and stop living their life, others bring their kids along for the ride2.3×011k1.1k844
89Dec 4, '22The Golden Gate Bridge construction was finished in 4 years in 1937, under budget at $35M (~$600M today). A suicide prevention net (cost: $400M) on that bridge started construction2.1×09.8k1.2k536
91Nov 4, '22TIL you can own your own private rail car & attach it to an Amtrak train only ~100 private cars in operation in the US, they are extremely expensive (~$300k+) + Amtrak charges 1.9×08.6k649968
95Oct 3, '20random thought: Jobs made more from Disney than from Apple Clooney made more $ selling Tequila than acting Bechtolsheim made more $ investing in Google than founding Sun Foreman ma1.4×05.9k767779
96May 12, '22Incentives work! Dad had a heart attack 3 yrs ago, been trying to get him to change his diet & behavior- no dice. Noticed yday that dad was walking laps around the house, asked1.3×07.4k319265
97Nov 23, '21I think about this scene from @SiliconHBO all the time when founders are raising: "If you show revenue, people will ask how much and it'll never be enough" -Russ Hanneman1.2×05.3k688594
99Nov 5, '21Giving this baby bear a term sheet1.0×05k511262

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