Ayush Garg

Founder @ || YC F25

[Ayush Garg @_ayushgarg_]

We are going to be a $1B company. Why? Because, we got that dawg in us.

[Ayush Garg @_ayushgarg_]

@snowmaker if company functions are mapped as funnels, closed agentic self improving loops can continuously optimize them.

[Ayush Garg @_ayushgarg_]

@dramaricic Yes, me.

[Ayush Garg @_ayushgarg_]

My token usage in the last week has been mindblowing.

[Ayush Garg @_ayushgarg_]

@ankurnagpal What are the rules regarding the total round size? Is it that they shouldn't have raised more than $1M within the whole year that you're investing, or just before you write the check?

[Ayush Garg @_ayushgarg_]

@ycombinator @autosanaai Fire! Can't wait to 10x our dev speed with this.

[Y Combinator @ycombinator]

Autosana (@autosanaai) is the end-to-end validation harness to close the loop with your coding agents, across iOS, Android, and web apps.

Engineering teams using Autosana have cut QA time by over 80%, caught huge bugs, and increased shipping velocity.

Congrats on the launch, @yuvansundrani and @jsteinberg54132!

https://t.co/MOI2CNX8yv

[Ayush Garg @_ayushgarg_]

@meh_agarwal This is amazing! Can't wait for Koyal's movies to be on IMAX.

[Clara Gold @Clara_Gold]

Hiring in SF feels exactly like being a guy on a dating app.
Everyone you want is out of your league. Everyone in your league wants someone out of theirs.
You pay for a “booster” (aka a recruiter) that gets you more visibility but still 0 conversion.
So eventually you convince yourself the 2/10 has “great personality” and “a lot of potential.”

[Ayush Garg @_ayushgarg_]

@TheGeorgePu Raising at 2x liquidation preference and not pivoting harder before 7 years was a huge avoidable mistake.

[Ayush Garg @_ayushgarg_]

@vikpai Did this in the very early days of AnswerThis.

I think this works up untill you want to scale one of the businesses past 10M ARR. In that case, you need to isolate your attention and go all in.

[Ayush Garg @_ayushgarg_]

@toddsaunders A lot of my angel investors, who happen to be either current or ex operators, put in money because if they had more time they would want to work the problems we're solving themselves.

[Ayush Garg @_ayushgarg_]

There's some nuance here.

I think as founders, having the ability to map out a path to a billion dollars or more in revenue is a very important skill.

Most times, the actual journey won't mimic this imagery path. But, having a route mapped out will influence your day to day decision making in a way that forces your company to become large which in turn will create outsized returns for your investors.

[Kyle Harrison @kwharrison13]

We gotta stop saying stuff like this. We’re Power Law-ing so hard that it invalidates 99.9% of companies and it’s unnecessary.

Companies are waiting longer to go public because private markets got bigger.

But plenty of exceptional companies won’t look like this. And that’s ok.

[Ayush Garg @_ayushgarg_]

@eshanbetrabet Just come join AnswerThis. We are hiring founding engineers, and I will code next to you every day.

[Ayush Garg @_ayushgarg_]

@aryanlabde Nothing is hard. Hard is just a mental construct.

[Ayush Garg @_ayushgarg_]

@ick_real It's a great personal journal.

[Ayush Garg @_ayushgarg_]

For people doubting how big AI is going to get? Trust me, it will get very, very big. You're either in, or you're not.

This is going to be the greatest filter humanity has encountered so far.

[Ayush Garg @_ayushgarg_]

We're looking for an administrative assistant (remote/virtual) to help with lead follow-ups, customer support, and social media management.

If you or someone you know is interested, shoot me a note at [email protected]

[Ayush Garg @_ayushgarg_]

@jiaxinwen22 Hey @jiaxinwen22, we are helping accelerate scientific research at @answerthisio. Would you be interested in working with us to help AI accelerate research from finding gaps to generating hypotheses and running simulations?

[Ayush Garg @_ayushgarg_]

We're hiring our first engineer at AnswerThis (YC F25). The best engineers aren't job hunting. Tag one. Repost this. Help us find them.

We crossed $1M ARR in 8 months. 200,000+ researchers at Stanford, MIT, and Amazon use us to do literature reviews 10x faster.

Now we're building something bigger: the system of record for scientists where they can find papers, analyze experiments, and write their drafts while collaborating with other scientists as well as our AI agents.

You should apply if you:

→ Ship fast and learn faster
→ Know the agentic AI stack cold (vector DBs, graph RAG, agent memory)
→ Have built full-stack products that scaled past 1M users
→ Actually care about accelerating scientific discovery

Bonus: You've published research yourself.

Don't apply if you:

→ Can't be in SF, in person
→ Haven't used the product yet
→ Don't want to talk to customers

$120K-$200K + equity. We're a small team backed by YC.

To apply: Email [email protected]
Tell us what you hate about AnswerThis, what you love, and one project you're proud of alongside your resume.

Science moves too slowly. Help us fix that.