Emil

product at clipboard (yc/sequoia) · ex-vc · co-founded AIConsensus (featureed in Nature, TechCrunch)

[Emil @emil_rustamli]

@gabriel1 They will. in 6-8 months

[Emil @emil_rustamli]

we need to cringemaxx more. only way to greatness

[Emil @emil_rustamli]

@HarryStebbings @pmarca So, you’re saying Marc told you to introspect??

[Emil @emil_rustamli]

@Altimor more money than god

[Emil @emil_rustamli]

You are not hustling hard enough

[RJC @RJCcapital]

buddy needs to relax

[Emil @emil_rustamli]

I'm asking out of true curiosity (and this is great). What's the thesis behind cargo drones??

My thinking is:
- Make drones for cases where pilot is costly/risky (military)
- Cargo planes are so massive that it's unlikely we'll be able to build drones for similar capacity. In that case, why would a corp use cargo drone instead of regular cargo plane?

[Emil @emil_rustamli]

We needs GPs/Founders playing poker. @micsolana can you make this happen?

PS: Love mafia, I think it'll be even more fun to see folks play poker.

[Emil @emil_rustamli]

@the2ndfloorguy You have a real shot at building the next evil HR software here.

[Emil @emil_rustamli]

@thatguybg this is way more fun than another podcast interview. seeing these people do something completely unrelated to their day jobs is rare in tech and it makes them so much more interesting. more of this

[Emil @emil_rustamli]

Uber reportedly blew its entire 2026 AI budget in four months with no measurable bump in output. Leadership thought pushing token spend would buy them fast/ smart adoption. What they bought instead: people offloading every trivial question to AI, ignoring the prompt and the outcome, burning hours and tokens to look adopted. Even at some of the best/biggest companies, we're still in early days of figuring out how to handle this new technology to maximize productivity.

[Emil @emil_rustamli]

Travel somewhere new and chat with the elderly. So much hidden wisdom lies in those random conversations in unfamiliar parts of the world.

[Emil @emil_rustamli]

@cognition 's founder builds one of the best coding agents and keeps repeating that agents shouldn't replace engineers. The leverage was never swapping judgment for the agent, it's spending the hours it frees up on more judgment, not less.

[Emil @emil_rustamli]

Aura

[Emil @emil_rustamli]

Users never wanted your feature(s). They wanted the problem gone. Teams that confuse 'feature shipped' with 'problem killed' lose to the ones that don't.

[Emil @emil_rustamli]

Smart people fail slowly because they're brilliant at building the case for what they already decided. The skill that compounds is lowering the cost of finding out you're wrong.

[Emil @emil_rustamli]

Your strategy is a map. Reality is the territory. The danger isn't having a wrong map, it's loving the map so much you stop looking out the window. Most "execution problems" are founders defending a map against the terrain.

[Evis Drenova @evisdrenova]

re: 996

the whole point is that you're not supposed to require it, it's supposed to just happen

if it happens, then you have a winning culture - the people really care

if you have to require and enforce it, you'll get mediocre performance from performative employees

[Emil @emil_rustamli]

@RobertJBye It's not meant to be driven. It's meant to be parked outside Blue Bottle while the owner talks about how taste is important

[Emil @emil_rustamli]

@mike_matas Ew, to say the least

[Emil @emil_rustamli]

@ChatGPTapp It never made sense to pay for Monarch