How a build-in-public habit landed a job at a leading Bay Area AI lab
brandon_galang · x · 2026-11-10
Asked how he landed a job at a leading Bay Area AI lab, Manthan Gupta credits not luck but showing up daily: writing blogs, shipping multiple projects, and tweeting constantly — building in public to expand his "surface area of luck" 100x. Reposter Brandon Galang adds that being "lucky" is hard work.
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