🏗 Firsthand: Seven Years Inside Applied Intuition, the Quietly Dominant Physical AI Company

🏗 Firsthand: Seven Years Inside Applied Intuition, the Quietly Dominant Physical AI Company

First Round Review follows Malhar Patel's rise from new-grad engineer to Deputy CTO across seven years at Applied Intuition, the AI company behind software for autonomous vehicles, construction trucks, and fighter jets.
• The company now runs 1,000+ engineers and customers execute roughly 50 million simulations a year on its platform.
• Valuation has climbed to around $15B, up from $6B at its Series E.
One quirk survived the scale-up: the no-shoes office policy from its first rented house in Mountain View.

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