Dear {{First_name|Friend}},
If you missed it — or if you were there and want to relive it — here's the full conversation from our inaugural Hard Things evening.
A $1 Trillion Signal Meets a Palo Alto Living Room
Last Thursday, the same week Nvidia disclosed a $1 trillion order book and Uber committed to robotaxis in 28 cities, we gathered a room of founders, investors, and builders in Palo Alto for the first-ever Hard Things — an invite-only series hosted by Mavka Capital.
Our guest, Veena Radhakrishna of Cartesian Kinetics, brought 20 years of operational experience in one of the most technically demanding and capital-intensive domains in technology. She didn't give a pitch. She gave the room a framework — one that had founders across hardware, software, robotics, and finance nodding in recognition:
Design for retrofit. Choose the intelligence layer over the hardware layer wherever you can. Stay flexible long enough to be around when the market clarifies.
The takeaway was clear: Physical AI is no longer a thesis. It's a platform shift. And the teams that get their architecture right — from tech stack to cap table — will define the next decade.
Thank You
A special thank you to Louis Lehot, Tiaan De Nysschen, and Sahar Mor at Foley Lardner for sponsoring and hosting the event.
Hard Things Is Just Getting Started.
Our first gathering was everything we hoped — a room full of genuinely sharp people, a speaker who told the unvarnished truth, and the kind of conversation that doesn't happen at a 30,000-person conference.
We're doing it again.
📅 Tuesday, April 28, 2026
📍 San Francisco
🎤 Special Guest Speaker: TBA (Trust us — you'll want to be in this room.)
Same format. Intimate. Unfiltered. The insights at the frontier of Physical AI that don't come from keynote stages.
Space is limited and by invitation only. Request your seat now.
For fundraising, M&A, or strategic advisory on Physical AI and agentic AI, reach out to the Mavka team by replying to this email or directly: mavkacap.com
Stay sharp,
Vitaly Golomb
Managing Partner
Mavka Capital
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Louis Lehot
Partner
Foley & Lardner LLP
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