Haroon Choudery

Dad of two. 10-year AI veteran. Founder @seeko_so, helping bring teams from AI-curious to AI-first. Berkeley ML ‘19.

[Haroon Choudery @haroonc]

When I was 5, we immigrated to the US & slept on the floor of my uncle's 1br apartment for two years.

When I was 10, we moved to a poultry farm in rural Maryland. I spent my evenings and weekends working on the farm.

My childhood led me to dedicate my career to AI.

Here's why:

[Haroon Choudery @haroonc]

@SahilBloom whatever this is https://t.co/vuHAytuCKz

[Harry Stebbings @HarryStebbings]

"If you are not working 7 days per week, you are going to lose".

Corgi Insurance is the most intense workplace culture in startups.

- The company works 7 days per week.

- Founder (@nico_laqua) lives and sleeps in the office.

- He built a cafe in the office because there was no local cafe that was open 24/7.

- 2/3 of the first 30 team members have the Corgi logo as a tattoo.

Today I went behind the scenes with Nico, who has used this culture to scale the company to a $2.6BN valuation in just two years.

My condensed notes below:

1. If You Are Not Working 7 Days Per Week, You Are Going to Lose:

Whatever you can get done in 5 days, you'll get more done in 6 and 7. If you are trying to solve the world’s hardest problems, a standard 5-day workweek will not cut it.

2. Work Trials Repel the Mediocre:

Corgi forces candidates into mock work trials over the weekend. If seeing a full office on a Saturday scares them, they don't belong. True intensity acts as a natural filter to attract killers and repel clock-watchers.

3. Lead from the Front Lines

You can’t demand 7-day weeks while sitting on a yacht. Nico sleeps 3–4 hours a night on a mattress inside the office. If you want your troops to bleed, you have to be in the trenches with them.

4. Culture Only Means One Thing: Winning

Forget superficial jargon like "hackers" or "ex-founders." Strip away the corporate fluff. A great startup culture is aggressively optimized around one single word: Winning.

5. Lifespan vs. Victories

Building something world-historic requires radical sacrifice. When asked if he'd rather build a trillion-dollar company and die at 50, or fail and live to 80, the answer was easy. "I would rather measure my lifespan in victories."

6. Reject the Comfort of "Quiet Quitting."

If you are operating in a hyper-growth environment and your days off happen to be Saturday and Sunday every single week, you are quiet quitting. To win, you must deliberately bypass the off-ramps of personal comfort and low volatility.

Corgi isn't for everyone—and that’s exactly the point.

[Haroon Choudery @haroonc]

@vamsibatchuk @GoogleDeepMind @OfficialLoganK @ammaar @GoogleAIStudio let’s gooo! 🚀

[Tim Soulo 🇺🇦 @timsoulo]

In the last 6 months at @Ahrefs, we analyzed over 1 billion data points across 14 studies. Here's what we learned about AI search optimization:

1) "Best X" blog listicles are the single most prominent content format cited by AI chatbots. They make up 43.8% of all page types cited by ChatGPT specifically.

2) 67% of ChatGPT's top 1,000 citations come from sources marketers can't influence: Wikipedia (29.7%), homepages (23.8%), app stores (6.6%). Only 32.3% are influenceable content like educational pages, reviews, news, and blog posts.

3) 28.3% of ChatGPT's most-cited pages have zero Google organic visibility. These pages get cited repeatedly by ChatGPT despite not ranking in Google at all. A completely separate discovery layer.

4) ChatGPT only cites about 50% of the URLs it retrieves. It fetches dozens of pages per query but uses half as background context without attribution. This means that being retrieved and being cited are very different things.

5) Adding schema markup had zero meaningful impact on AI citations. AI Overviews actually dipped −4.6%, while AI Mode (+2.4%) and ChatGPT (+2.2%) showed changes indistinguishable from zero.

6) YouTube mentions have the highest correlation (0.737) with AI brand visibility out of all the factors we studied (including all the conventional SEO metrics like backlinks, page count, DR, etc). This held true for both Google-owned and OpenAI products.

7) AI Overviews reduce clicks to the #1 result by 58%. That’s up from 34.5% just 10 months earlier. The trend is accelerating.

8) 99.9% of AI Overviews appear on informational intent queries. Transactional, navigational, and local searches are almost entirely AIO-free. Shopping triggers AIOs just 3.2% of the time.

9) For a given search query, Google’s AI Mode and AI Overviews reach the same conclusions 86% of the time — but cite almost entirely different sources (only 13.7% citation overlap).

10) AI Overviews change every 2.15 days on average, with 70% of content differing between consecutive observations. But semantic similarity stays at 0.95. The words, sources, and entities constantly shuffle, but the actual meaning barely moves.

[Haroon Choudery @haroonc]

Had lunch with an AI-pilled health tech CEO who took his last company public and told me about his past life as a professional rugby player and living in a monastery in Tibet for a year.

Incredible story and I think More people have to hear his story. Coming to @aiready_so podcast soon…

[OpenAI @OpenAI]

Building apps has never been easier.

With Sites, Codex can turn your work, ideas, and plans into an interactive website or app your team can explore, use, and share with a URL.

Rolling out to Business and Enterprise plans, before expanding more broadly.

[Haroon Choudery @haroonc]

@itsolelehmann I'm convinced this is just a moment-in-time effect of the gold rush, but we'll see massive net job loss once the dust settles in a few years.

[Anthropic @AnthropicAI]

Anthropic has confidentially submitted a draft S-1 registration statement to the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Pending completion of SEC review, this gives us the option to pursue an initial public offering.

Read more: https://t.co/onGZAhRLvD

[Haroon Choudery @haroonc]

@blc_16 @AnthropicAI people not realizing this is sarcasm LOL

[Haroon Choudery @haroonc]

@jjcook9628 is this for sale??

[Haroon Choudery @haroonc]

To me, it's a fallacy to say that because many companies aren't doing layoffs right now, we won't see mass net job loss in the next few years.

We're in an AI gold rush, and the companies not doing layoffs are looking to capitalize. As soon as their marginal returns from labor begin to thin and their AI infra is good enough, they will be the first to do mass layoffs. It's only a matter of time, and I'm sure they know it.

[Haroon Choudery @haroonc]

@HarryStebbings @nico_laqua lol this isn't the flex that he thinks it is

[Haroon Choudery @haroonc]

@shreyas this def works but I wonder why it works

[Haroon Choudery @haroonc]

AI Ready podcast and video series coming soon 👀

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

Artificial intelligences do not undergo experiences, do not possess a body, do not feel joy or pain, do not mature through relationships, and do not know from within what love, work, friendship or responsibility mean. Nor do they have a moral conscience, since they do not judge good and evil, grasp the ultimate meaning of situations, or bear responsibility for consequences. They may imitate or even simulate, but they do not understand what they produce, for they lack the affective, relational, and spiritual perspective through which human beings grow in wisdom. #MagnificaHumanitas

[Haroon Choudery @haroonc]

@koylanai @garrytan I’ve used Monologue and Superwhisper previously but surely there are many more now.

[Haroon Choudery @haroonc]

@vamsibatchuk early welcome to the big apple!

[Haroon Choudery @haroonc]

Petition for me and @sneako to talk AI on stream

[Haroon Choudery @haroonc]

Eid Mubarak from me and @sneako

[cat @_catwu]

Excited to share our most powerful new Claude Code feature: dynamic workflows!

Mention "workflow" in a prompt and Claude will dynamically create an orchestration plan that it strictly follows, allowing you to confidently trust that every stage happens in the right order even across 100s of agents.

[Haroon Choudery @haroonc]

@charmaine_klee @aiready_so @benlehrburger no way! congrats Ben! we need to start an alumni network 😄

[Haroon Choudery @haroonc]

So proud of what @charmaine_klee is doing at Anthropic.

Fun fact: if it weren't for her, AI For Anyone (my AI literacy nonprofit founded in 2018) wouldn't have had the success that it had and @aiready_so would probably not exist!

[Claude @claudeai]

Before we ship a new model, these teams try to break it.

They build with it, push it to its limits, and tell us where it falls short. What they find makes the final model better.