tl;dr:
- Launched a new version of my website (tetraslam.world) with some cool new features.
- Rev (the club) had a record-breaking, very fun fall, and we crushed HackMIT—my team won first place in a major track.
- Joined Natural, to build payments for AI agents, after getting 45+ job interview offers from my hackathon win.
- Turned 19 and had a fun karaoke birthday party with my friends!
- Started Tetracorp (AI infra & hardware consulting), landed Fortune 100 clients.
- Ran a robotics project involving an underground robot boxing ring.
- Rev’s hacker retreat & launch event = much fun, much Catan, much Factorio.
- Prepping to run Softmax, a new hacker house in SF, starting January.
- Next quarter: health, startup, Softmax, maybe dating, and learning to angel invest.
- Ways you can help: sponsor Softmax, compute/hardware/donations, intros to angels & clients, single friends, and cool links.
Dear Valued Shareholder,
It’s been a great quarter! I write this while I sit at Boston Logan airport waiting to board my flight back to Bangalore (via Frankfurt, on Lufthansa), and while making the list of things I wanted to include in this update I’m feeling pretty proud of myself for putting in such an effort into my life the past 3 months. This is a new kind of update which I’m going to start sending out every 3 months to pretty much everyone I know to keep myself accountable, keep you updated about my shenanigans, and hopefully improve your life and mine with the things I ask you to help me with, and offer to you in return!
What I shipped #
An entirely new version of my website which I’m really happy about. I built it entirely with Claude Opus 4.5 :3. The model has exquisite taste, though I definitely helped with picking an excellent stack for it to work with and a great design direction, if I do say so myself. The highlights about it for me are:
- the twin revolving tetrahedrons on the homepage (click them!)
- the command bar (ctrl/cmd + k)
- the link dump which I update every few hours with interesting and useful resources, blog posts, github repos, software, and websites!
- the 3D travel map showing places I’ve been to (incomplete; I still need to add pictures along with my commentary)
- the pixel board where you can leave a message right now!
Highlights ← this is a lie. This section is >1k words long #
Wow. What a year! Started off fall semester strong with Rev’s bounceback after the (founding) seniors graduated Northeastern and all simultaneously moved to San Francisco. We marketed hard at fall fest, 3x-ed the number of applications we usually get, and ended up with the most fun, ambitious cohort we’ve ever had. We hosted a scavenger hunt to kick off the semester, where we split up into 3 teams and ran around Boston trying to pull off the craziest feats possible in a six-hour window. One guy kept walking throughout even when his teammates took breaks, to win the superlative “most walked” prize, and another played Clash Royale the whole time to rank up more than anyone else during the timespan. People cold plunged in the Charles, got on yachts, and got invited to private art galleries.
Rev logo in a latte
Madlads really plunged in the Charles
Miles (left), Hannah (right), and I (middle) recreating the meme.
Ved plank-challenging a fireman
About 2 weeks after Rev officially kicked off, HackMIT rolled around. And what do you know? 3 teams from Rev won prizes, including mine! We (William, Mouad, and I) won first place on the sustainability track, which was one of the 4 main tracks at the hackathon. Our project was a more efficiently routed power grid, built and programmed using mixed-integer linear programming on an ESP-32, with all telemetry being streamed back to our computers over a websocket. Our killer build though, was our chemical batteries, of which we manufactured 8 in the 24-hour span we were given. We used industrial fertilizer (behold below a picture of the 10-pound bag which Mouad and his friend Kenneth had to lug from Home Depot for 2 miles), and specifically the calcium hydroxide in it, to create iron-air batteries which hold and release charge using iron oxide bonds. We were able to power our grid for 4 hours straight using just one of them! And even cooler was the fact that they’re an example of their local power delivery potential since main grid strain is a current problem with US energy infrastructure. See Form Energy and their iron-air batteries. Now the 2nd Rev team, which had Xiaole and Troy, won the entertainment track with their project which enables you to play Minecraft with just your face.
10 pounds of fertilizer!
the grid!!!
griddy wins first place for the sustainability track!!!!!
I then posted my win on twitter, getting over 85k views and 45 job interviews scheduled the very same week. In the end, after a wonderful work trial where I was flown out to San Francisco and spent two days hacking with the team, I picked Natural, a startup building payments for AI agents. The founders are ridiculously high-signal, have great product and design sense, and gave me a sense of conviction that I’d simply never experienced before. It’s hard to explain to someone who hasn’t talked to them, but this blog post from one of my soon-to-be-colleagues explains it really well.
Speaking of being flown out to SF, I also got the chance to train RL policies and controllers for a Booster T1 robot, specifically to make it fight in an underground boxing ring. Crazy fun; see gif below.
match day
Another cool thing- on the 25th of October, I turned 19 and had a fun karaoke birthday party with my friends!
For those of you familiar with my adventures, you’re probably wondering at this point- he hasn’t mentioned Tetracorp despite its resounding success? Well, here it is! I started a boutique engineering firm building AI infra, training custom models, and designing high-taste hardware with my (8) friends. I have two beliefs about the two sides in the demand-supply equation for Tetracorp which led me to start the firm:
- Midsize/large startups and of course megacorps, want access to world-class talent with a track record and pedigree of shipping fast, without the need for adding management overhead, meaning they must work together or preferably know each other beforehand, and are willing to pay a premium for the results this would imply (i.e. projects they would be assigned would be worth 100x what they invest if done well)
- My friends want to work on interesting projects, get paid what they’re worth, and ignore anything that is essentially busywork, since this is all during the school semester and work is done on off-hours
So yeah. In the past 4 months, we’ve landed projects across AI evals, music hardware design, robot VLA training, and a datacenter project for an extremely large (Fortune 100) company. I can’t say more than that. I’m uNdEr aN nDa.
Now, back to Rev. The second half of the semester was an immense amount of fun. We hosted our semesterly Rev Launch event (basically a demo day) where our cohort members and eboard showed off the work they did over the past 4 months on their projects. And then, immediately after, 17 of us left to go to Rev’s Hacker Retreat in Plymouth :D I made French toast, we grilled hamburgers (specifically, over 15 pounds of beef and 10 pounds of chicken), played a ton of Catan, trained AI agents to play Factorio (blog post coming soon!), went on a walk to Plymouth Rock at 3 AM, and in general had a blast with the group.
Rev hacker house, December 2025 at Plymouth Rock, Massachusetts
The final major thing I spent time on this semester, immediately after receiving and accepting my offer from Natural, was setting up Softmax, the new hacker house I’m going to be running come January when I move to SF. The idea arose from my friend Bill (William) and I thinking about how both of us would be there at the same time since he’s doing the OpenAI Residency. We figured, since we both have so much fun being in close proximity to all our friends on our respective college campuses (the only instance of walkable urban design that all you Americans will ever experience), why shouldn’t we start a house for folks our age who are also spending the semester in SF and are cool, kind, interesting, and ambitious people in general? And that’s how Softmax House was born. Read our ethos here, and visit/pull up to the events on our calendar! And of course, you can see our wonderful residents on this page.
Next Quarter’s Bets #
- Natural. We are going to be a trillion-dollar company soon, and much larger eventually.
- Improving my health is my #1 priority, and I’m leveraging Natural’s health benefits (Equinox All-Access, free Whoop, free Eight Sleep, free Superpower subscription) to help me do so.
- Softmax. I want to build an amazing community and group of friends.
- Learning to angel invest (a couple of friends and I are investing as angels together)
- Dating. I haven’t dated since high school (which, to be fair, was 1.5 years ago), and feel slightly as if I overindexed on work at school.
Asks #
What can you do to help me out, you ask? Here’s a list!
- Softmax is looking for cool startups and companies to fund our events. See our sponsors package here
- Give me compute/hardware grants to build cool stuff, train interesting models, and write awesome technical blog posts! (for compute: modal, tinker, prime intellect are my preferred platforms. For hardware, any of the xArm series would be awesome.) Small donations are also welcome!
- Intros I would appreciate: angel investors who can mentor me, clients who are looking for the type of work we do at Tetracorp (high-intensity, highly technical, high confidentiality), someone who knows how to 1000x a personal brand (mine is mostly on twitter, but I’m looking to start a YouTube channel as well),
- Introduce me to your single friends
- Send me cool links to add to my link dump, and of course send cool datasets and models to mess around with!
I’m always available on this email (bhowmickshresht@gmail.com), and you can also book a call with me here. Feel free to send that link to anyone you’d like to intro me to as well.