Arkadiy Telegin
@akyshnik
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co-founder @leaping_ai (YC W25)—prev. autonomous space/cars/humanoids—h+ & e/acc—HIRING
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Joined September 2017
@leaping_ai (yc w25) - the only self-improving voice AI. Receive calls. Run evals. Notice errors. Have them corrected. Get better.
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Context here is that Mumbai was nowhere near the conflict, being 1000km+ away from Jammu & Kashmir.
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Soham also used to guilt trip me for his being slow on PRs when India Pakistan thing was going on, all while he was in Mumbai. Next person should hire him for the Chief Intelligence Officer role.
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Hilariously he asked, “which other startup told you about me”. He was going through 17 other companies in his head thinking which one it is 😭.
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I also tried giving him benefit of the doubt. He was denying it till the very end. Funnily enough me and his other “employer” @tryfuseai did a photo together when we found out. Never ended up sending it to him sadly.
PSA: there’s a guy named Soham Parekh (in India) who works at 3-4 startups at the same time. He’s been preying on YC companies and more. Beware. I fired this guy in his first week and told him to stop lying / scamming people. He hasn’t stopped a year later. No more excuses.
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When I become the president, I’m going to ban short faucets.
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URGENT: Anybody at @elevenlabsio can help us? API calls are failing and we're locked out from the platform.
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Junior vibe coders are cooked. Fallout of using Cursor with claude-4-sonnet MAX for 1 hour
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YC has allowed us to grow faster than we ever imagined. It was the best decision we did as a company!.
PSA notice to founders considering YC. Doing YC more than pays for the 7% equity you give up . When you combine that with the clear speed up and community that helps you (and that your % likelihood of success goes up a lot more too) this means YC is clearly worth it
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There are three things you can watch forever: fire burning, water falling.
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My grandfather asked me to be a middleman for selling 2 oil wells in Kazakhstan. Any takers?.
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So that's the secret sauce of @leaping_ai that allowed us to acquire enterprise customers and scale from 20k to 500k calls daily in the last few months. FINN (German fastest-growing Series C startup) said that our evals have been a game changer for them.
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If you have a voice AI startup, ask yourself, would somebody even consider you if they put 1000x of your usual volume. If not, think why. In my experience, it always came down to observability and control, hence evals. This is how you position yourself as "enterprise-grade".
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Sounds like a tame idea, but a lot of my batchmates at @ycombinator found it hard to break free from selling to devs and small businesses and start raking big $$$ contracts.
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