The list matters more than the copy.
A plain message to the right fifty people beats a perfect one to the wrong five hundred. Most of the work in outreach happens before anyone writes a word.
ArushDubey
I work on growth: who should hear about a company, what they should hear, and how it travels once they do.
Co-founder & CEO, Alethman
VC & Agentic Intern, Utopia
Now
Building AlethmanIntelligence infrastructure for states. I run growth, the investor pipeline and how we talk about the work in public.
Interning at UtopiaVC and agentic work at The Utopia Studio and Utopia Capital Management: AI agents for investing and startup due diligence.
Editing The Monsoon InstituteFellow and Editor-in-Chief of a think tank on India-focused climate and geopolitics.
Studying at EssexInternational Business and Entrepreneurship, University of Essex.
Everything I've worked on
Three habits
Show the working.
Every claim should trace back to where it came from. It is how we build at Alethman, and it is how I think marketing earns trust.
Lead with the line that stops the scroll.
Every post and every email lives or dies on its first sentence, so that is where I spend the most time. A few of mine are further down this page.
So far
8,300+people follow what I write on LinkedIn.
190+investors approached for Alethman's pre-seed round.
3companies co-founded: Alethman, Katagoge and Advuman.
Writing
Building something, raising for it, or trying to get the right people to notice? Write to me.
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