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Mallesh Pai

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Forward Deployed Researcher and Recovering Economist @tempo.
malleshmpai.com Joined December 2009
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Mallesh Pai Verified account @malleshpai
Strongly recommend applying: I spent one week back in 2022 at the lab and it changed my life!
Tim Roughgarden Verified account @Tim_Roughgarden 5d
We're now accepting applications for research interns at @a16zfrontier, for summer '27 in NYC! Application deadline is Nov 20th. You'd be working with me @skominers @SuccinctJT @ittaia @PGarimidi @jneu_net @ErtemNusretTas, as well as other interns, visitors, and our advisors (such as @danboneh).

Our interests are broader than ever---ambitious undergrads with a keen grasp of emerging technologies, grad students looking to transition to building and entrepreneurship, as well as PhD students pursuing a more traditional academic career.

Research areas of interest include AI and machine learning, agentic commerce, cryptography, security, distributed computing, hardware design, economics (micro, macro, and empirical), energy, material science, biology, incentives, quantitative finance, market and mechanism design, foundations of computing, and pure mathematics.

For more details and to apply, see jobs.a16z.com/jobs/andreesse…
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Mallesh Pai Verified account @malleshpai
@liamihorne once told me that maybe the main use case for tokens is tokens 😁

That vision is finally coming to life
Tempo Verified account @tempo 5d
Per-token pricing works for agents because of @MPP sessions.

The agent deposits funds and as tokens stream it signs off on the running total offchain. Boundless settles the final amount on Tempo and any unspent balance is returned.

Agents can use sessions on @BoundlessHQ now:
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Mallesh Pai Verified account @malleshpai
As agents become an ever-larger portion of web traffic, current monetization models (ads!) break. So we're experimenting with Patron! Read more by the amazing @brendan_j_ryan about how we're experimenting with fixing this @tempo!
Brendan Ryan Verified account @brendan_j_ryan 6d
I | Introducing Patron - an experimental pay-per-read monetization model for content providers. Powered by @tempo
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Mallesh Pai Verified account @malleshpai
In my intro to computer networking class in 2001, our first coding assignment was to make a text chat app. Users on our LAN had to authenticate using their creds into the app, and then two LAN users could chat with each other ( a la ICQ etc).

I made the assignment, submitted it. Come demo day, in a hurry I typed my password wrong while signing in. I had not caught that error in my code (I know, not a great programmer) so I got the "Segmentation fault, core dumped" error message of the era and my program halted.

That was still better design than this.
International Cyber Digest Verified account @IntCyberDigest 6d
The bug is like a joke.

On Alpine Linux, type 257 to 1024 characters of anything and you get root. 💀
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Mallesh Pai Verified account @malleshpai
Credit on Tempo is live (and I'm Very Excited about this one)!

Businesses borrow against payments and receivables from a market of lenders, not just the one bank line they already have. Draws and repayments settle in stablecoins in under a second, including weekends.
Ani Narayan Verified account @anirudhnarayan 6d
1/ We’re launching credit on @tempo.

Businesses can borrow against their payments and receivables from a broad market of lenders, with pricing and terms that fit how they operate.
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