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About Atal

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I am currently building OpenSphere at opensphere.ai. If you came here for a bio, here’s one in the third person:

Atal Agarwal (@atalovesyou) is a tech founder, angel investor and community builder at OpenSphere and KGP 2.2
More importantly, Atal has an incredibly inspiring story of overcoming depression, and loneliness and rebuilding himself to the strongest and happiest he's ever been, including finishing IRONMAN 140.6 MILES.
Atal holds a Masters degree in Technology Management from UC Santa Barbara and BS/MS in Engineering from IIT Kharagpur.

You can get in touch via DM at x.com/atalovesyou

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