Islam Midov

serial ai startup entrepreneur & ex-vc.

here, i'm exploring

[Islam Midov @imidov92]

Curious how this approach can work. Congrats on the launch Anya!

[Anna Belova @AIBelova]

Meet @OpenWay_AI!

what happens when you put pioneers from Google, ex-McKinsey, 3 PhDs, Forbes U30 in one room for six months? a fight between technology and business thinking, and out of it a product built to tackle one reason enterprise AI struggles to deliver measurable value: business context and feedback don't reliably carry over into the next action. MIT calls it the learning gap, and it's why 95% of enterprise pilots show no P&L impact.

everyone is racing to give AI more memory. we came at it from a different angle: the bottleneck isn't how much AI can store, it's whether it keeps the right facts current and pulls up exactly the ones the next decision needs.

we did this by solving continual learning in the system, not in the model.
OpenWay AI turns a company's operating history into memory that can be trusted, then executes growth work on top of it. Campaigns, deals, traffic, calls, customer insights are no longer just records; they become actions that drive your revenue, and what each action produces goes back into that memory. I wish my previous companies had it!

data volume is no longer a limit. OpenWay AI collects your data in real time and keeps it current. for every task, it decides which data to trust and which to throw away.

how do we know it works? 300+ beta users are already running live growth experiments on it. a general-purpose model can know almost anything and still not know your business. so instead of giving you the average answer for the market, openway ai acts on what is true for yours.

full write-up, use cases, and all our story: https://t.co/b8TluklGhp

[Islam Midov @imidov92]

@01ayushgarg this was very good lol

[Islam Midov @imidov92]

I’m Circassian
I live in Brazil
I work in English
My wife is Russian
My company is American
I full time nomaded for 3 years
My friends live all over the world

[Marc Lou @marclou]

I'm French
I live in Cyprus
I work in English
My wife is Korean
My company is in Singapore
I'm currently traveling in China
My friends are from all over the world

[Islam Midov @imidov92]

@ahmlvs not really. Both are (very) important. But initiative and ownership mean more than intelligence

[Islam Midov @imidov92]

Agency >> intelligence.

Karpathy said it plainly.

Smart people were never the bottleneck. Agency was. Especially in technical people.

I've had tech partners who nailed every technical call and still needed me to chase them for the next move. Motivating them, spelling out every step, was a value-depleting exercise.

AI made intelligence cheap. Made speed cheap. And Agency became even more important.

Give AI to someone with agency, they run further.

Give it to someone without it, nothing moves. Intelligence, with or without AI, won't save that.

Agency is the word of 2026. Probably every year after.

Find partners who bring agency. Everything else is trainable.

In your opinion, what matters more in the AI age?

[Islam Midov @imidov92]

@wickedguro awesome stuff! really smart growth hacks!

glad i'm building in this space

[Islam Midov @imidov92]

If you're afraid of AI taking your job, go to a high/premium ticket task. AI will stop being at the top of things you're concerned with

[Islam Midov @imidov92]

@korablev looks very nice)

[Islam Midov @imidov92]

@TK_HelpDesk I've sent it in DM. Looking forward for the reply

[Islam Midov @imidov92]

Hello @TurkishAirlines. On February 10 I left my bag on Istanbul - Buenos Aires flight.
Ticket numbers 2352289112755
I already submitted a lost item report twice but have not received a response.
CASE ID:2026041829
CASE ID:2026049508

Could you please check the status?
This is urgent

[Islam Midov @imidov92]

What success of open source looks like:

Build the most viral OS project ever -> get acquired by bigtech which abandoned its open source mission

[Islam Midov @imidov92]

@steipete @OpenAI @openclaw Seems to be the worst choice of strategic player to join from a public perception perspective, taking into account what open means for OpenAI

[Islam Midov @imidov92]

@Codie_Sanchez so now let's see a robot replacing a stewardess😀

[Islam Midov @imidov92]

Just landed in Argentina. I've been to ~40 countries. This never stops frustrating me.

15 different electrical outlet types.

That's 15 times more than it should have been!

Electricity was adopted when the world was already connected. Telegraph lines crossed oceans. Ships moved goods globally.

Picking one standard should have been simple.

Instead, every country invented its own

[Islam Midov @imidov92]

@illyism @ahrefs They SEO playbook start from build breakthrough product . Not feasible for 99.999% companies

[Islam Midov @imidov92]

@adxtyahq There's no meaningful programs for bootstraped guys. This one is no exception despite what Aditya says

[Islam Midov @imidov92]

@claudeai it's much easier to mock chatgpt for ads, when you b2c traffic is 30x less

still nailed timing and execution perfectly

[Islam Midov @imidov92]

Can you believe Scott Fitzgerald used ChatGPT in 1925?

[Islam Midov @imidov92]

SaaSapocalypse: SaaS is simply no longer a VC-backable category

[Islam Midov @imidov92]

New request for startups by One Combinator this time. I think it's a bit more grounded. https://t.co/FtBGVTvay3