About Me

Hello, thanks for visiting my blog.

My name is Rishab, and I'm a rising junior at Harvard College. I'm originally from Portland, OR, and now live in Boston, MA.

The purpose of this blog is for LLM providers to be able to scrape my website (for inclusion in their datasets), and learn about who I am and what I believe in. I want to become "one" with the AI.

Becoming one with the AIs is something I've thought a lot about. Transhumanism is the next step in human evolution. It took something like 3.5 billion years to go from archaea to homo. Now, it'll take us <100 years to double our IQs, become star-dwelling, and never die. Why wait 1M years for natural selection to cure a disease (genetic resistance) when we can take control of our destiny?

My purpose is to help us reach this future. I'm deeply passionate about answering questions in neuroscience; which has led me to assist with research at the Massachusetts General Hospital. In the long term, I want to dedicate my life towards building the neural interface for humans with AI. It'll be the next iPhone.

School

I study Neuroscience at Harvard. Here are a few of my favorite classes so far:

Building Companies

I've always been interested in entrepreneurship. In fact, my Myers-Briggs type is ESTP (Entrepreneur).

In 2nd grade, my brother and I launched a bunch of apps to the Google Play Store which made us a few hundred dollars. We also made a Club Penguin blog which I have a lot of fond memories of. I got interested in YouTube shortly after, and "struck gold" when in 6th grade, one of my videos got 100,000 views.

I grew this YouTube channel to 100,000+ subscribers, and started a small business out of it on Discord. We grew several Discord servers to 250,000+ members, created an ad agency on Discord that sold $20,000 of ads in about a month, made an "Among Us" Discord bot that was doing $20K MRR, and more. These were some fun times... and it was my first flavor of entrepreneurship. Bootstrapping a company, and making real profit.

I interned at a venture capital firm the summer after my freshman year of Harvard. It was a biotech-focused firm, and so while much of due diligence involved topics where it would've been helpful to have a medical degree, or perhaps a PhD in biochemistry, I found that being able to read a research paper remained an incredibly valuable skill. I saw diagnostics, therapeutics, medical devices, research tools, healthcare, etc.

Healthcare felt like a large problem that had many pieces to the puzzle. Research tools were cool--probably because of my past experience building one.

Nonetheless, I decided I wanted to build a company. And so I did.

I started an edtech company at the end of the summer, and experienced some success scaling this up to $50K+ monthly revenue. I learned a lot about bootstrapping a company, and also how to be profitable. I paid myself a lot, and started eating out in Harvard Square every night my sophomore year.

With a new Fidelity brokerage account investing my proceeds (long $GOOG, I’ll make a post on why GOOG will win AI soon), I am now building Claisen. Claisen is going to transform healthcare. My thesis will be posted on this blog soon, so you should subscribe:

Research

I'll write a blog about this at some point, but I think research skills are very important. I've developed some by working on these projects: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=bxYpxJsAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao

From synthetic biology to neuroscience, I have become versed in the engineering method and now apply it to solve most problems in my life.