Hey guys, I just received my GTV exceptional Promise endorsement for AI/ML 2 days ago. I am extremely grateful to the members of this community for helping me during the application process. Here is a how I created my application -
I applied on the 28th of August. Got a message on the 29th saying it has been forwarded to Tech nation
They replied in 3 weeks on the 19th of September. No appeals needed.
LOR’s -
1 - CEO of my current full time job.
2 - Startup co founder and CEO
3 - Professor at university.
MC -
1 - Kaggle medals and impact of work.
2 - Experience from my current job where I was the first engineer and helped build the base of the product for the first customers.
3 - Selected as a reviewer for an AI conference.
OC3 -
1 - Design diagrams for a startup where i was a co-founder
2 - Google analytics metrics showing how my startup gained 65,000 users in two months after launch
OC4 -
1 - A first name tier A conference research paper.
2 - A third name B tier conference research paper and presentation image
What I have learnt -
Sadly when i got my final verdict they did not mention what they approved or disapproved of so take my advice with a grain of salt.
1 - Even if it might not be that important to you it might just matter to your reviewer. I had never considered my Kaggle work to be anything special as it was something I did for experience in my early years but adding it to my MC help strengthen my application and added much needed variety.
2 - Your startup does not need crazy funding in order to be worthy of adding in your application. Just a solid userbase and traction numbers might be enough.
3 - Better to ask instead of assuming. It is easy to make assumptions when you go through this forum. But it is always better to ask the experts as each application is unique and what might not be a good idea for someone else might just work for you.
4 - Choose your conferences wisely. A great boost to my application (I assume) was that the conference I had my paper selected in was ranked by Google scholar as one of the top linguistic conference in the world. I was not aware of this during the time of application and could have just as easily sent it to some other place instead. But I am glad it was the only conference available when I had finished my work. Please check the quality of the conference you send your paper to via conference rank or chatgpt.
Lastly, I would like to thank everyone here for all your support especially Akash Joshi .
