Max Koby

Investor, serial entrepreneur, AI builder, family man, adventurer | #627 on Inc. 5000 + $100M exit

[Max Koby @MaxSBAI]

Please tell us about a time you most successfully hacked some (non-computer) system to your advantage.

My favorite YC application question.

[Max Koby @MaxSBAI]

Contracted rare virus at 17, had a heart attack, received handicap placard, used it to go surfing. Then I used my new found motivation to start my first business at 18 where I learned some of the best lessons for the last 20 years across many startups.

[Max Koby @MaxSBAI]

Please tell us about a time you most successfully hacked some (non-computer) system to your advantage.

My favorite YC application question.

[Max Koby @MaxSBAI]

@socialwithaayan You forgot Gary Tans gbrain sir https://t.co/uuNP0NjdXg

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@hicasamadim (6+6)*6= 72

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@hicasamadim Seems easy enough- (x+y)*x= 72

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For 2,000 years, every company that grew did the same thing.

Added a layer. Then another.

Until the company wasn't a line of work anymore. It was a pyramid of managers.

60% of your workday is work about work. $2.85M/year loss. Meetings up 192% since 2020.
The Coordination Tax.

The thing hierarchy was built to do, move information, a machine now does better.

The pyramid is done.

What replaces it, and how you measure productivity without it, is what this is about.

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@AlexFinn Sounds like everyone needs their own world model to grow with them.

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Claude just released a toggle for small business but most owners don’t see what’s beneath..

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Cloudflare laid off 1,100 people.

Reason: internal AI agent usage up 600% in 3 months.

CEO didn't call it cost-cutting. He called it building for the "agentic AI era."

Revenue up 34% YoY. Still restructuring.

Every SMB will have this conversation in the next 18 months.

The question stopped being "can we afford to automate?"

It's "can we afford not to?"

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@garrytan love your easter egg invitation to YC embedded in gstack!

We already applied for summer session to @ycombinator. Thanks for sharing gstack it has provided a 20x improvement!

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@ItsWillHenry @dunkhippo33 How about third time? Zero fucks given, scale to mars or die.

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@Nicolascole77 @dickiebush Social let’s see the sausage

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@QiBaiHan @grok please tell us the future and how you see team measuring RoT effectively..

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@AlexFinn @grok how much was a Mac mini with 512gb 6 months ago?

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@QiBaiHan Will RoT (return on Token spend) find its way onto the drawing board?

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Uber burned their entire 2026 AI budget in 4 months.

Not because AI failed. Because it worked too well.

5,000 engineers. 95% using AI tools. $500–$2,000/engineer/month. Zero spend caps. Zero guardrails.

CTO said they're "back to the drawing board."

The tool wasn't the problem. The AI infrastructure was.

This is exactly the conversation we have with every enterprise before they go token-first. Per-token pricing is built for experiments — not operations at scale.

Predictable AI infrastructure beats runaway billing. Every time.

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This is a cool idea. 😎

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https://t.co/RLL3JqSgpO

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@PrajwalTomar_ BRAND

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@BrianNorgard @grok research alternative methods for producing these parts using modern technology