Starting a startup completely changed the trajectory of my life
Before:
– 22 years old
– $100k in debt
– Skinny-fat
– Hacker house
After:
– 25 years old
– $350k in debt
– Just fat
– Homeless
Here’s what I did after:
AI shouldn't replace therapists.
It should help them spend more time being therapists.
Not because AI won't get smarter
Because good therapy isn't just information
It's trust
It's compassion
It's the human element.
Most therapists spend only about half their time doing therapy
The other half?
Running the business
Notes. Paperwork. Marketing. Insurance claims.
Klarify automates the work around the session so therapists can focus on the work only they can do
Today, more than 7,000 therapists use the platform
The result is clear: they spend less time running a business, and more time doing the work only they can do
🎙️@MoodyAbdulf, CEO & Co-Founder @KlarifyAI on @fondocom@thestartpod
Huge thanks to @Rippling for making this episode possible!
Had lunch with a billionaire 5-time founder
Asked her "How do you come up with so many business ideas?"
She said it was simple, and asked to be excused for a second
Ended up being gone about 2 hours
When she came back, she was pretty woozy
Said she just had surgery to remove her kidney, and sold it for $200,000
"That's $876 million in ARR. I'm already looking at acquisition offers from Salesforce to build a CRM for your brain to map every body part."
Billionaires operate on a different level
I think what often gets missed
Is Y Combinator moving to SF in 2023
May be what ends up having the biggest economic impact on San Francisco eventually
Just a machine gun of billion dollar companies being produced quarterly in SF, some that will grow much much bigger
A production issue shouldn't require a detective
Yet that's how most observability works today
Most observability tools just dump alerts.
Duplicates, no context, and you still fix it yourself
@nicolomagnante and his cofounder @arseniycodes - who spent years building part of Datadog's metrics product - think that's backwards
So they built @superlogYC: Observability that's meant never to be opened
A wizard scans your repo, installs proper OpenTelemetry, and runs daily to keep up as you ship
When something breaks, it groups the errors into one incident, investigates with full context - logs, traces, recent deploys, past Slack threads - and drops a single mergeable PR in Slack.
Merge it
Ignore it
Or open it in Claude Code and tweak it
Vendor-neutral, so you keep every log, trace, and metric - even if you leave
Not another notification. A fix.
@nicolomagnante CEO & Co-Founder @superlogYC on @fondocom@thestartpod
Huge thanks to @EragonAI for making this episode possible!
Thanks for having us on the pod @davj. After docs, the next frontier is devrel and our growth there has been insane - 100% MoM for 3 months!
PS: The level of research David did before our podcast was insane.
Most companies don't realize they have a documentation problem until everyone already depends on it.
Customers use it. New hires use it. Engineers use it.
And when documentation falls out of date, the whole system starts working against itself
People stop trusting what they're reading
Teams lose context
And nobody can fix it, because the problem is everywhere at once
The longer it goes unfixed, the harder it is to untangle
That's the opportunity Manicule saw
They're building an AI-native DevRel company for developer tools - owning documentation, technical content, GEO, and distribution across social channels.
The premise isn't that AI should replace expertise. It's that expertise should scale.
Their AI agents audit and test at scale. Their humans own the architecture, the writing, and the creative direction.
Every review improves the system
Every project creates more context. Every iteration raises the bar
What started as a highly manual business - helping developer companies create better technical content - has become a scalable AI-native operation
Today, Manicule works with some of the fastest-growing developer tool companies - including Supermemory, Greptile, and Reducto - has scaled fast over the last few months, and has more demand than it can take on.
Not because they publish more content. Because they help developer companies create content developers actually trust.
🎙️ @NamanBansal0611 & @shreyansj , Co-founders @manicule on @fondocom@thestartpod
Huge thanks to @numeral for making this episode possible!
NY Tech Week Founder Boat Party tomorrow!
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Excited to co-host with our friends at
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Common fundraising deck mistake: using boring slide titles like "Team" and "The Problem".
Instead, state the conclusion that you want investors to take away from the slide, and use the body as supporting evidence.
If an investor only read the titles on your slides, would they understand your business and want to invest?
AI agents can write code, analyze data, and pass the bar exam
They can't order you a pizza because they don't have a phone number
Think about how much of the real world still runs on phone numbers
SMS verification
Delivery coordination
Account creation
Calling a business...
Without one, an agent is stuck behind glass
@manav2modi & @themeetmodibuilt built @AgentPhoneHQ to fix that
Give your agent a phone number and it can suddenly act
He told his agent to order DoorDash
It created an account, talked to the delivery driver, made the payment
Pizza showed up at his door.
@ycombinator is a customer. After An engineer tried Twilio and got buried in compliance, AgentPhone had him live in a day
Every person will soon have hundreds, maybe thousands of agents working for them
The hard part isn't making them smart
It's giving them the tools to touch the real world
🎙️ @manav2modi, CEO & Co-Founder, @AgentPhoneHQ on @Fondocom@thestartpod
Huge thanks to @mastra for making this episode possible!