Ajay Yadav
@yadavajay
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Building @joinottodotcom | Prev. co-founder @ Simplified AI (20M+ Users), backed by Khosla & Craft Ventures
Los Angeles, CA
Joined September 2008
Life Update: I’m Building My Next Company. It’s a service-as-software startup. Honestly, I’ve never been more excited.
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no matter how smart ai gets,.it still stumbles on context. emotion. subtext. vibe. that’s the real frontier.
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building agents is like raising kids. you give them tools, a role, and pray they don’t embarrass you in public.
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unpopular opinion: most "life hacks" are just basic discipline rebranded for people who don't want to do the work.
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the gap between what people say they want and what they actually buy is where fortunes are made.
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every unicorn startup has at least one piece of core technology that was built during a vibe coding session. systematic development doesn't create breakthroughs.
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the hardest part of being technical ceo isn't the coding. it's convincing non-technical people that simple solutions aren't inferior solutions.
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most "product-market fit" is just founder-market fit with good timing. the product is secondary.
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The longer i’m a founder, the harder it is to tolerate bad reasoning.
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most founders say “data doesn't lie” but forget data also doesn’t dream. the next big product won’t come from a dashboard it’ll come from a gut decision no one could A/B test.
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most founders don’t scale because of bandwidth, they fail because they refuse to let go of things that made them feel useful early on.
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The longer I’ve been building, the more I respect the tools that look stupidly simple and do one job relentlessly well.
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Building in public isn’t transparency. It’s self-auditing. If I can’t describe the problem clearly, I don’t deserve to ship the solution.
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By now I know:.You can have conviction or feedback loops. The real game is knowing when to pause one so you don’t hallucinate the other.
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scaling a startup mostly means:.→ more people asking questions.→ fewer people having answers.→ and you still fixing the same bug from 3 months ago.
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There’s no test for vibe coding. It’s just surviving enough weird environments that your brain compiles a pattern before you can explain it.
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I’ve never met a founder who truly processed their first year of success. Most of us spent it chasing newer problems just to avoid the identity crisis that came with finally winning.
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I’ve built 3 companies. None of them taught me as much as one afternoon sitting with a user who misused my product and still paid me.
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The scariest moment as a founder is not when things break. It’s when everything works and you still feel off.
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