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Rahul Bhardwaj

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|Founder & CEO @ Valid
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9.28/10
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9.28/10
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Who TF Is Rahul?

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This tech maverick is serving main character energy as Valid's founder. Catch him revolutionizing ad tech after casually inventing self-lighting candles (because regular ones were too basic). Former drone designer at Amazon and AR wizard at Meta, Rahul took his Carnegie Mellon engineering genius and said "hold my algorithms." Fun fact: ran a nationally ranked robotics team before deciding to disrupt Madison Avenue. Now running a $7M-backed AI ad agency while making traditional agencies sweat. Living proof that engineers can actually have personality.

What makes Rahul special?

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This founder radiates product mastery and versatility - from Meta AR to self-lighting candles. Masterfully shifts between enterprise tech and consumer innovation, while maintaining tech-forward thinking.

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Red Flags

Turns leaving cushy jobs at Meta & Amazon to build startups into a personality trait. The kind who calls a candle that lights itself "revolutionary disruption."

Green Flags

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This founder radiates product mastery and versatility - from Meta AR to self-lighting candles. Masterfully shifts between enterprise tech and consumer innovation, while maintaining tech-forward thinking.

Red Flags

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Turns leaving cushy jobs at Meta & Amazon to build startups into a personality trait. The kind who calls a candle that lights itself "revolutionary disruption."

9.5/10

✨ legit?

High-caliber builder with real technical chops. CMU engineering + Meta AR/Amazon Prime Air pedigree signals elite execution skills. Two-time founder who gets things done - from patents to manufacturing. Not a talker, a rare technical founder who quietly ships.

9.2/10

🔥 trendy?

Rahul's creating serious buzz in tech with Valid raising $5.5M seed from Canaan Partners. His self-lighting candle invention and genius move from Meta AR to founding Valid shows peak innovator energy. The Reddit CEO backing his venture? Next level influence in Silicon Valley.

9.0/10

😎 cool?

A tenacious builder and natural leader who thrives on innovation. Rahul blends engineering precision with entrepreneurial instinct, constantly seeking ways to transform ideas into scalable ventures. Calculated risk-taker with remarkable ability to execute - from candles to AI, he makes complex things look effortless.

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These two are giving pure founder synergy vibes - one's disrupting talent access while the other's revolutionizing ad tech. Jackson brings that CFO-turned-CEO strategic vision while Rahul's engineering genius turns candles into AI platforms. Both escaped cushy FAANG jobs to build, and both get that tech should solve real problems. The Sequoia scout meets the self-lighting candle inventor - now that's a power collab waiting to happen.

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