Valley Girl Newsletter

How to Be An Early Bird Without Getting Roasted

We were early to the AI-generated creative cycle and nearly lost out on being too early.

Oct 14, 2025 • Apoorva Govind

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November 2023

A Great Meltdown from Within

OpenAI, AI-Startups and the great middling future.

Nov 20, 2023 • Apoorva Govind

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April 2022

How I quit my big tech company job to build my own startup

A year ago, I quit my well-paying job at Uber as a senior software engineer. I was well on my path to a lucrative promotion and compensation bump. But…

Apr 12, 2022 • Apoorva Govind

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September 2020

How to waste your career, one comfortable year at a time

If you are an average 30 yr old engineer, let's say you want to retire reasonably by the time you are 60. A year wasted at a poor job or role is…

Sep 28, 2020 • Apoorva Govind

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Welcome

Welcome to Valley Girl Newsletter by me, Apoorva Govind. I’m a senior engineer at Uber Eats. This is my personal blog, where I mostly write about my…

Sep 23, 2020 • Apoorva Govind

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