
Sri Alapati
About Me
Featured Projects
GPT Lab (Built by Sri)
Gami
Spirit of the Entrepreneur Awards
GPT Lab (Built by Sri)
Experience Highlights

Entrepreneurial Work at Gami
Board Director at CSUSB
Event & Innovation Management
Mentorship & Teaching

Toolbelt & Skills
🤖 AI/ML
🎨 UX/Product
🔒 Risk/Security
🚀 Startups
Recognition & Leadership
ASI President’s Award
Strategic Committee Contributions
Personal TouchThere are countless people working to make tomorrow better, each driven by the desire to reshape the foundations of how things work. They are the kind of pioneers who keep moving forward, no matter how uncertain the path becomes. For a long time, I was one of them constantly building, pushing, creating, without stopping to ask where it was all leading. Recently, I allowed myself to pause and look at the direction I want to take. That reflection brought clarity. I now know this isn’t something I want to do for a day or a season. It’s what I want to dedicate my life to: exploring, building, and bringing to life the kind of novelty and progress I believe should exist in the world.
The Pitch Within
To be business-minded, let me remind you
You find the ideas, they don’t find you
If the smallest ideas give birth to revolutions,
Then even the smallest problems have the biggest solutions
And anyone successful knows this simple equation:
Innovation comes from problems and frustration
And from the shackles of problems, those creations, when freed
Comes failure that’s often, but sooner succeeds
A word of wisdom, you can glean from these lines
Everything that exists but nature is designed
Buy-in is earned, be it Queen or a Prince,
But YOU have to be the hardest person to convince
Communication is key, whether email or letter
Interviews are cool, but conversations are better
And once you’re connected, through good weather or storms
Always remember, keep those connections warm
This next one is simple, so I do beg your pardon
The most successful businesses have the highest gross margins
Your presence is important, from January to December
Make sure to observe everything and be remembered
Get comfy with fear, take calculated risks
If you’re numb to fear, you are dangerous
– Sri
Good Bones
Life is short, though I keep this from my children.
Life is short, and I’ve shortened mine in a thousand delicious,
ill-advised ways, a thousand deliciously ill-advised ways
I’11 keep from my children. The world is at least fifty percent terrible,
and that’s a conservative estimate, though I keep this from my children.
For every bird there is a stone thrown at a bird.
For every loved child, a child broken, bagged, sunk in a lake.
Life is short and the world is at least half terrible,
and for every kind stranger, there is one who would break you,
though I keep this from my children. I am trying to sell them the world.
Any decent realtor, walking you through a real shithole,
chirps on about good bones:
This place could be beautiful, right? You could make this place beautiful.
⁃ Maggie Smith