Marmik Patel (@Marmik

Marmik Patel

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Marmik Patel

@Marmik_Patel19

ai @ meta | ex-whatsapp | content

sf & nyc

Joined July 2024

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Marmik Patel
@Marmik_Patel19
Oct 22, 2025
last summer i couldn't get an internship so i booked a one-way flight to sf i didn't know a single person, had very little money, and no job. i went to every event i could find and started making friends. i built and launched a startup, sat in front of sam altman, started
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Marmik Patel
@Marmik_Patel19
Nov 9, 2025
a few months late but I cracked meta! got my us visa too and moved to sf :)
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Marmik Patel
@Marmik_Patel19
Feb 11, 2025
when i was 15, the government wouldn't let me run a nonprofit. so, I did it under my dad's name. last summer, I couldn't get an internship in sf. so, I booked a one-way ticket and went anyway. this year, my college encouraged me to spend my weekends studying. so, i spent them
Eddy Xu
@eddybuild
Feb 9, 2025
got banned from columbia hackathon for being too young so we snuck in and won
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Marmik Patel
@Marmik_Patel19
Nov 7, 2025
entry level jobs will be wiped out in 5-10 years. for the first time today, i saw it in front of my eyes. alongside my code, i saw ai coding agents understanding tickets, coding up changes, reviewing pr's, and shipping code. in one of the largest code bases in the world. of
Zara Zhang
@zarazhangrui
Nov 6, 2025
A Harvard student told me something I can't stop thinking about. When they go to the library, every single screen has ChatGPT open. Homework that used to take hours now takes minutes. But then they talk to alums who say entry-level roles are basically gone. The jobs they
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Marmik Patel
@Marmik_Patel19
Oct 22, 2025
Replying to @uxayaan
hella events happening at least in sf/nyc. i just went to all the ones i could find found a place to rent in the city for cheap cooked food used my internship money to survive got a job a few months later through personal brand & distribution + connections
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Marmik Patel
@Marmik_Patel19
Nov 12, 2025
no way i got a dm from sigil
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Marmik Patel
@Marmik_Patel19
Nov 10, 2025
i did a 28 min deepdive into my entire journey here if you're interested: youtu.be/s_JZNkNL_6M?si… went from crying 3x a week, getting kicked out of school, having no self-worth to sf/nyc + happiness + 3M views + meta + crazy social circles in 37 months
Marmik Patel
@Marmik_Patel19
Nov 9, 2025
a few months late but I cracked meta! got my us visa too and moved to sf :)
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Marmik Patel
@Marmik_Patel19
Nov 12, 2025
in 2023, i spent hundreds on linkedin premium cold dming google employees for referrals. obviously, it failed. just a year later a google employee cold dmed ME offering one. the game's changed: the strats that worked in 2015 are now obsolete. build a brand and show it off to
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Marmik Patel
@Marmik_Patel19
Feb 20, 2025
I controlled my browser with my mind. At Carnegie Mellon University's hackathon in Pittsburgh, my team and I built Cortex, a web app that lets you control your browser using your thoughts. Here's how we did it: - We integrated the Neurosity Crown brain-computer headset to
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Marmik Patel
@Marmik_Patel19
Nov 7, 2025
mfs be like "im planning out my retirement savings" bro you're 25 go chase your dreams
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Marmik Patel
@Marmik_Patel19
Feb 18, 2025
Dispite being worth $6B, @AirCanada is utter trash. They've cancelled two of my flights in the past week (which they decline to compensate me for). I have one in six hours and they've cancelled it without any rebooking options, no way to contact them without calling this
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Marmik Patel
@Marmik_Patel19
Oct 22, 2025
this works because almost no one actually commits to doing it in fact, when i was flying in for that first time from canada, i got interrogated by the department of homeland security. after 35 minutes when they finally let me go, they told me the reason they interrogated me
Marmik Patel
@Marmik_Patel19
Oct 22, 2025
last summer i couldn't get an internship so i booked a one-way flight to sf i didn't know a single person, had very little money, and no job. i went to every event i could find and started making friends. i built and launched a startup, sat in front of sam altman, started
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Marmik Patel
@Marmik_Patel19
Nov 12, 2025
every time i come to stanford, i feel so alive the air's fresh, thoughts get clearer, limits start to feel imaginary
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Marmik Patel
@Marmik_Patel19
Nov 2, 2025
@jonathanzliu's a top ten rizzer
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