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Roshan Patel

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founder & ceo @Arrow_Payments // making healthcare payments frictionless

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1Jan 19, '23I was rejected by Apple. I was rejected by Amazon. I was rejected by Facebook. I was 28 years old and broke. I decided to start my own startup. Now I’m 30 years old and broke.334×28.8M511k45k5.6k
2Aug 13, '24my friend works in fashion. i set her up with one of my tech homies. this is how it went.163×14M249k4.6k8.6k
3Jul 28, '25We hired a college intern. Today's his first day. Here's what he just sent me.145×12.5M248k5.7k8.9k
4Mar 27, '24Friend making $20/hr as a barista: “No worries bro, I"ll cover this one and you'll get the next one!” Friend making $450k as a software engineer: “Can you Venmo me $3.62 for your s134×11.5M185k14k5.9k
5Nov 28, '22Life hack: give yourself 8 to 12 hours of alone time in the morning to mentally prepare for the day.114×0390k44k5k
6Jan 5, '24Asking my 22 yr old cousin that works in tech about the minimum wage108×9.3M75k2.5k2.8k
7Feb 21, '24Text from my 22 year old cousin98.6×8.5M67k2k2.8k
8Jun 9, '22my mom just ended my life91.3×0351k17k3.7k
9Mar 10, '23My lead investor just texted me this about SVB.74.6×6.4M23k2.1k707
10Nov 16, '22bless her little heart71.1×0268k13k4.4k
11Feb 3, '23I was at a networking event and walked up to this guy, but before I started talking he just handed me this card??64.5×5.6M50k3.9k1.2k
12Jul 24, '24indian engineers are a different breed61.5×5.3M82k2.2k4.9k
13Jan 17, '23I've been thinking a lot about IRL podcasts: - Bring a few friends together - No mics, nothing is recorded - Have a free form discussion - Can even have food & drinks Has anyon60.4×5.2M11k1.1k697
14May 1, '24My wife left me today and took the kids with her. 💍❌ Here's 10 things it taught me about B2B customer churn: 🧵 1/3444.4×3.8M44k2.2k1.4k
15Jul 4, '24What can be: Unburdened by what has been:35×3M40k1.3k1.3k
16May 9, '24my 22 year old cousin got a new job33.9×2.9M65k1.8k752
17Aug 14, '23Software engineer making $500k at FAANG apartment starter pack33.5×2.9M23k1.7k1.4k
18Apr 11, '24rate my setup33.3×2.9M75k3.8k1.4k
19Aug 18, '23Let's just say you have a $150k salary in NYC. - After taxes: you're at $88k - After rent: $64k - After taking ubers instead of the subway: $55k - After eating fast casual lunch 5 31.8×2.7M7.3k271907
20Aug 29, '24Career Day at Middle School - Firefighter: I fight fires - Doctor: I cure diseases - Product Manager: No updates from me31.8×2.7M57k2.2k1.3k
21Feb 29, '24We are nearing the top31.4×2.7M26k748821
22Mar 29, '24the original Xbox UI went so fucking hard dear lord31.2×2.7M32k3.1k1.9k
23Apr 18, '24My dream gf: - 5ft 8in - 27-33yo - blue eyes - loves nyc - very ambitious & driven - loves running & reading - $300k-500k total comp - her dad is a partner at a Tier 1 VC -30.7×2.6M15k5191.7k
24Jul 17, '23By the time a man is 27 and works in tech, he must choose a hobby. These are the only options: - Formula 1 - Chess - Pickleball - Stock trading - Hiking - Health optimization / lon30.5×2.6M15k8111.4k
25Oct 30, '23just got this resume ???28×2.4M15k7111.1k
26Sep 29, '23Can't afford SF rent? - SF Avg Rent: $3,500/mo - Vegas Avg Rent: $1,500/mo - Flight from Vegas to SF: $68 Living in Vegas and commuting to SF 5x a week is $640/mo cheaper than just28×2.4M14k819595
27May 30, '24I accidentally said “time” instead of “bandwidth” and my product manager took me into the break room and waterboarded me with lacroix27.4×2.4M37k1.6k1.2k
28Jun 1, '23My little cousin Arjun got caught using ChatGPT on his 7th grade English homework.25.1×2.2M4.9k433229
29Jan 13, '23Startups pay staggering salaries to C-Suite, VPs, and Engineers, etc but in every company there is some 26 year old Operations Associate and that's the person who is holding the en24×2.1M15k1.3k685
30Jul 8, '24yes22.5×1.9M15k1.2k2.1k
31Feb 1, '23Just started avoiding alcohol (from 9am - 10am). I can already feel a huge productivity boost in the morning. Any tips from those that don’t drink?20.2×1.7M9.6k320132
32Jan 11, '23Looking to hire an assistant part-time. 60-80 hours per week. Main responsibilities: 1. Email, Reservations, Travel, etc. 2. Coding (build and ship new products) 3. Fundraising (pi16.7×1.4M4.1k109190
33Aug 11, '23When you have immigrant parents as a startup founder16.6×1.4M8.7k472229
34Jan 9, '23I met a startup founder who is building Uber Pool but the cars only go on a city's most popular routes on a predefined schedule. My dude you just invested a bus.16.1×1.4M17k718178
35Jul 5, '23Be careful everyone. I had my laptop open with my pitch deck for my AI startup pulled up and someone broke my window and dropped in a term sheet.15.9×1.4M3.6k18869
36Dec 16, '24we're near the top15.8×1.4M26k8071.8k
37May 10, '23Just got this text from a 23-year old VC associate that recently joined our board.15.8×1.4M3k139184
38Dec 23, '22VCs are taking holidays to the extreme15.5×1.3M9.3k377242
39Jan 9, '24Docusign is everything that is wrong with tech. How does a document signing company reach 7,000+ employees and how are we all paying $10k/year for it? Startups used to be about cha15.3×1.3M5.8k287650
40Jul 21, '24holy shit14.7×1.3M9.8k400500
41Apr 23, '24the biggest "im him" performance ever. bro got his masters and then just cooked for 30 years14×1.2M20k1.3k1.2k
42Aug 5, '25Starting a startup changed the trajectory of my life. Before: - 28 years old - $100k in debt - Skinny fat - Living in studio apt Now: - 32 years old - $300k in debt - Fat - Living 13.8×1.2M31k8501k
43Sep 6, '24i brought an engineer onto a sales call and he messaged me this after13.2×1.1M23k7952k
44Dec 30, '21I forced a bot to watch over 1,000 hours of startup pitch meetings and then asked it to re-create a startup pitch meeting of its own. Here is the first page.12.8×038k4.9k2.2k
45Jun 7, '24religious engineers are a different breed12.7×1.1M14k8981.5k
46Mar 31, '25got this wild startup pitch this morning12.5×1.1M17k3871.4k
47Oct 25, '23LinkedIn is wild10.8×931k4.9k473444
48Oct 25, '24dating in tech10.7×919k13k288946
49Dec 25, '242024 wrapped 🚀🚀🚀 - burned through $500k runway - pitched 50 VCs, all said no - MVP launched (0 active users) - cofounder quit - competitor stole our largest customer - gf broke 10.2×878k6.3k157844
50Jan 22, '25I had a 3 hour call with one of my investors yesterday where deep dived into a ton of issues and ideas for my startup. We covered everything from fundraising, sales, GTM, hiring, e9.6×828k19k4161.1k
51Jun 13, '24View post on X9.1×787k7k493804
52Aug 7, '24Wake up babe, new 30 under 30 years list just dropped9.0×778k9.2k518685
53Jul 9, '24im cooked8.6×743k4.7k205618
54Feb 14, '25View post on X8.4×722k11k515545
55Apr 7, '25hiring SWEs in 20258.2×712k12k152464
56Dec 16, '22Founder tip: If you need to get to SF last-minute to pitch VCs before the holidays but all the flights are booked, Uber is not a bad choice. It only costs ~30% of your Seed round.8.2×705k3.1k16367
57Dec 4, '23Daniel Ek's spotify wrapped8.1×699k5.6k469177
58Jan 30, '23Delegating will drastically improve your mental health. I hired a guy on Fiverr to do a few things for me: • Workout • Read books • Journal • Pursue a hobby • Meditate I have so mu8.1×695k7.6k731233
59Jul 2, '24pov: you're a 26 year old male making $450k in sf7.6×658k8k209272
60Jan 17, '24Born too late to explore the Earth. Born too early to explore the universe. Born just in time to stare into the void and build vertical B2B SaaS.6.9×597k4.1k330399
61Apr 17, '25rip princess Diana you would’ve loved claude 3.7 sonnet extended thinking mode6.9×591k10k353399
62Jan 10, '24I run a fintech startup called Walnut. About once a week, I’ll get an email from a bakery or restaurant chain asking if we can bulk sell them walnuts. I realized I probably could h6.7×577k5.2k172315
63Sep 26, '22I just asked my landlord if he can increase my rent by $1,300 next year. I use it as extra motivation to grind harder. This is why you're poor.6.6×023k1.3k430
64Aug 19, '24Being a dad is hard what if she doesn’t like the names I picked out6.6×567k12k528542
65Mar 8, '23Guys will really wake up at 5am, cold shower, take supplements, workout, cold plunge, and mediate just to write JIRA tickets from home in sweatpants while sitting in a $2,000 offic6.4×555k4.6k249199
66Jul 1, '25Crazy how girls have to pay for: – Tampons – $7 Matcha lattes – Eyelash extensions – Ubers to dates they regret – Birth control/SSRI’s – Fake tans – A therapist who lowkey sides wi6.3×543k6.9k2571k
67Oct 3, '24View post on X5.9×505k3.8k140553
68May 21, '25My cofounder got hit by a car 1 week before our launch. He couldn’t walk. He couldn’t type. For a moment, we didn’t know if we’d even launch. I did what any smart founder would do:5.8×498k11k332609
69Sep 24, '24my ideal girl - 5’6”+ - 120+ IQ - Sharp sense of humor - Great conversationalist - Trained on 100B+ parameters - 99.9% uptime w/ minimal latency - Runs inference on a cluster of GP5.5×471k7.6k401650
70Oct 16, '24being a founder used to be low status. now it's become romanticized and over-glamorized by guys in their 20s doing it for show rather than to actually build something5.2×453k3k140814
71Nov 18, '21I'm a founder at a startup. Here's my daily routine 🧵 7am: I take out my retainer. My dentist says I grind my teeth at night but he doesn't get that the grind never stops 8am: I t5.0×013k1.9k1.5k
72Dec 2, '24when the 24 year old ex-McKinsey VC associate starts giving you advice on how to grow your startup4.3×372k4.6k141401
73Jul 15, '22lord give me the confidence of someone who takes a harvard online class and adds it to their linkedin education section4.0×014k851368
74Feb 3, '22i asked my 8 yr old cousin what he wants to be when he grows up and this is what he said3.9×014k796356
75Feb 25, '25I was laid off from my job this morning. I worked in a small clothing factory and was sitting at the 17th workstation from the entrance. My boss somehow knew I was working slower t3.7×322k4.7k91132
76Aug 7, '23guys will use terms like: “war room” “in the trenches” “front lines” while sitting in a cushioned office chair with air conditioning for their 9-5 job3.5×305k3.4k216112
77Apr 9, '24during a meeting i accidentally said "percent" instead of "basis points" so the CFO took me to the rooftop and broke my kneecap3.0×258k3.7k294131
78Oct 7, '24View post on X2.9×247k4k227206
79Aug 8, '24yeah i'm having a brat summer Burnout Regret Anxiety Trauma2.2×193k3.3k510143
81Oct 24, '22my culture is not your costume 😤2.1×07.3k547256
82Nov 25, '21I invited a VC over for Thanksgiving. They: - Asked who else was in before agreeing to come - Stood around saying "let me know how i can help" while we cooked - Wouldn't take food 2.1×06.9k614222
83Feb 12, '25You will never catch me referring to my girlfriend as “the girl of my dreams.” I have never dreamt of a woman my entire life. When I was a child I dreamed of delivering critical bu2.1×178k4.8k294340
84Jan 15, '25petition to also ban: - salesforce - linkedin - sap - netsuite - jira - workday - microsoft teams - adobe acrobat - slack these apps have done more harm to our country than tiktok 2.0×174k3.3k215205
85Mar 24, '22I started a startup when I was 28 last year. I’ll be 37 this year.2.0×06.8k477175
86Nov 9, '22when the VC sends you a calendly link but makes you pay $99 to book the meeting 🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩1.8×06k248170
87Nov 7, '22You don’t need VC funding to launch your startup. Hospitals will pay you to donate organs: - Kidney: $10,000 - Lung: $25,000 - Pancreas: $12,000 - Liver lobe: $6,000 - Intestines: 1.8×05.7k498170
88Sep 6, '22if you're thinking about starting a startup, read this first1.6×04.9k539350
89Aug 12, '21Just got this text from my Doordash driver...1.6×06k22075
90Oct 17, '22A day in my life as a startup founder: I sleep at 2x speed and wake up at 1am. I grind coffee beans planted by a kid in Guatemala that I sponsor. I don’t drink the coffee though (t1.6×04.9k421363
91Nov 11, '22I don't care what you're building, if your landing page has a dark background and purpley gradient text, i will invest $100k immediately1.4×03.8k157887
92Jul 28, '21Before I raised my Seed round, a VC told me to raise a $500k friends & family round. Um, what kind of friends and family do you think I have?1.4×04.8k313110
93Jul 8, '21I just had a 30 min meeting with a VC: - They showed up 12 mins late. - They spent 18 mins telling me about their background. That's it. That was the meeting.1.2×04.4k14696
94Nov 30, '21Remember the people that bet on you early. Most people won't support you until they see it's popular to support you.1.1×03.5k450170
95Aug 11, '22Just got this rejection email from a VC1.1×04k13686
96Nov 22, '21I talked to a dozen VCs over the past week. Every single one asked me who led our seed round. Nobody asked what our revenue is.1.1×03.4k203182
97Aug 9, '21Getting an MBA: Pay $100k to learn how to build a theoretical business Working at a startup: Earn $100k to actually build a real business1.0×03.1k329162
98Jul 21, '21I quit my job in the middle of a pandemic with an idea for a startup on the back of a napkin. It was the best decision I've ever made.1.0×03.6k170129
99Apr 16, '21My weirdest VC meeting: 1) They brought a portfolio company founder to grill me while they watched silently 2) They left 15 mins early for happy hour 3) Then they ghosted me for 2 1.0×03.5k120108
100Oct 21, '22Still thinking about that time a VC asked me why he should invest in me when he can find 3 Stanford grads to build the same exact thing but better.1.0×03k130256
101May 5, '22🚨 Some major news! 🚨 A year and a half ago, we started Walnut: a fintech startup increasing access to healthcare by making it more affordable. Today we raised a $110M Series A fr0.6×01.5k96319

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