Shamil Malachiyev

Founder & CEO - FluidLabs Tech | Host of Founder`s Code Podcast

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100% of people are talking about it. 4% are actually doing something about it."

New ep of The AI Floor is up. I sat down with Sören Petsch, who builds AI into procurement at Root Insurance and actually went and counted.

Watch the promo 👇 https://t.co/KDVWqcKije
#Procurement

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That internal system your company is so proud of? It's about to get "aged out" 😅 Stan Hansen (COO, Egnyte) on the build-vs-buy trap. Full ep: https://t.co/KRQvXE02CB #ai #tech #business #buildvsbuy #leadership #learnontiktok

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I asked a COO about AI and he opened with "I thought I'd lose my job" 😅 wait for why he was actually right. Stan Hansen, Egnyte. Full ep: https://t.co/KRQvXE02CB #ai #startup #tech #business #leadership #learnontiktok

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Your AI can probably see everyone's salary right now 👀 Stan Hansen (COO, Egnyte) on the data security step everyone skips. Full ep: https://t.co/KRQvXE02CB #ai #datasecurity #tech #privacy #ciso #futureofwork #learnontiktok

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The 3 levels of AI users 👇 Most people never get past level one. Stan Hansen (COO, Egnyte) on prompt, agent, multi-agent. Full ep: https://t.co/KRQvXE02CB #ai #aiagents #futureofwork #tech #leadership #learnontiktok #aitools

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Season 2 is here.
The real enterprise AI story isn't agents or models. It's contracts.
30 years of emailing Legal and waiting 2 weeks for an answer – solved almost overnight.
New ep with @DocuSign's VP of Product – Larry Jin👇
🎧 https://t.co/tzgMgaKieN

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Building for an exit breaks your company — just slowly.
1. You optimize for metrics, not value.
2. You attract customers who won’t stay.
3. You sacrifice the product for growth.

In the end: it looks good on paper, but doesn’t actually work.
Full episode: https://t.co/46V3qOcdp3

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4 signs your remote culture is breaking:

1. New hires stay quiet past month 3
2. Cross-team projects slow down
3. Decisions wait for all-hands
4. Slack feels like a record

Sebastian Haas, CEO https://t.co/Isnxz0gR5l. 300 people, half remote.

https://t.co/46V3qOcdp3

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3 signs you've become the bottleneck:
1. Every decision waits for your approval
2. Your team stopped pitching ideas
3. You feel needed, not useful
Sebastian Haas (CEO, https://t.co/Isnxz0gR5l) on the founder transition nobody warns you about.
Full episode:https://t.co/46V3qOcdp3

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"Your birthday coupon is not personalization."

Sebastian Haas runs loyalty for Adidas, Sephora and KFC. He says brands have been faking it for 15 years.

Full episode: https://t.co/tuNhYEVU99

#shorts #founders #saas #loyalty #personalization #marketing

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Sebastian Haas thought https://t.co/Isnxz0gR5l would top out at 20 people.

10 years later he runs a 300-person company powering loyalty for Adidas, Sephora, KFC and Nordstrom.

He still refuses to build for an exit.

Full episode: https://t.co/bRbptrHB2M

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The worst mistake you can make? Picking a co-founder exactly like you. Two "idea guys" will dream up the future but build absolutely nothing. True self-awareness is knowing your flaws and finding the exact person who balances your chaos. ⚖️

📺 https://t.co/jI8oko70cg

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The hardest part of a startup is the silent guilt of your stress infecting your family. How to survive? Kill the illusion of control. You don't know what tomorrow brings, and that's fine. Just survive today.
📺 https://t.co/jI8oko70cg
#FoundersCode #MentalHealth

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Imagine putting on a suit to present your yearly strategy to the board, only to find out a chatbot literally dreamed up the numbers. An absolute nightmare.

Clean up your data, guys, or the robots are going to make us all look like fools.

📺 https://t.co/jI8oko70cg

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Build a company you want to run forever, but network like you want to sell it tomorrow. Keeping your old boss close is the ultimate "Plan B" strategy—and it might just lead to an acquisition.
🚀 https://t.co/jI8oko70cg
#FoundersCode #Startups #FounderMindset

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He built a startup with ZERO tech skills & sold it to his old boss 4 years later. 💰
Bart Vandekerckhove shares the brutal truth on corporate backstabbing, founder stress, and why you need to stop being the "nice guy".
Watch or listen full episode: https://t.co/jI8oko70cg

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The highest ROI career move takes 2 minutes: A cold DM.
You miss 100% of the roles & mentors you self-reject from. Gatekeepers are an illusion.
OnTop COO Maria Camila Ramirez explains why audacity wins.
🚀 Watch: https://t.co/61T0wa5L1N

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Chasing "work-life balance" burns founders out. You don't need a 50/50 split; you need a system that lets you be human.
OnTop COO Maria Camila Ramirez on why top leaders are killing the corporate mask.
https://t.co/61T0wa5L1N

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Use AI to cut payroll and save a few bucks, or use it to eliminate bottlenecks so your team can actually scale the company.
OnTop COO Maria Camila Ramirez gets it: Build capacity, don't just cut costs. 🧠
Watch: https://t.co/61T0wa5L1N
#Tech #AI #Business

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3️⃣ Reallocate, don't reduce
Make it clear that AI isn't there to shrink the payroll. It’s there so employees can stop doing repetitive tasks and be "much more intelligent with their time".Watch her full story and learn how she scales @ontop_hq here: https://t.co/61T0wa5L1N

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Everyone wants to add AI to their company, but most employees just fear layoffs.
OnTop COO Maria Camila Ramirez took a different approach. She made everyone an AI operator and fired zero people.

Here is her 3-step framework for company-wide AI adoption:

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2️⃣ Appoint "AI Champions"
AI shouldn't just live in the product or tech teams. Train specific people in every department to build agents and use tools, so they can spread that knowledge from the inside out.