Askar Musakunov

Proper SF bros Sunday ride

Way to go! Alga 🇰🇬

@nonplayablecin Amazing! What’s the location?

amazing things happen when you leave the comfort of your home

Tahoemaxxing

@Waymo Let me talk to Waymo, “Hey Waymo, …”

Now this is interesting. What other features should we be looking into?

@craigzLiszt Damn mqn, was it too obvious?

it's truely astonishing how many first-time founders suddenly become autistic prior to fundraising

Absolutely loved Melbourne. Home to world’s best coffee. ☕️

Hello fall in May! Guess the place

@JaySahnan Isnt starting one better version of working at one?

hot take: you should work at a startup before starting one

Excuses is a mental ilness

@zebird0 @a16z @speedrun What is the sweet spot in terms of the traction? In which scenarios are startups accepted without any traction?

I helped build @a16z @speedrun from the ground up and am now one of the first teams in the 007 batch. Few have seen both sides of the program. AMA. Applications, interviews, what partners actually look for, what the support is really like...

@arlanr Those “sent by folk” tweets hitting different now. Lfg

who didn’t get the reference:

folk teaser #1 accepting more people to try the most context-aware personal agent, powered by @nozomioai. anthropic bill is already fucked and we keep doubling every single day.

@jnpayne hits hoome

Second-time founders be like… > GTM > PMF > Go fully remote > Profitability is king > Must have a Big TAM > Outsource non-core tasks > Have great advisors/investors > Prioritize customer conversations > Focused on retention over growth > Hire fewer, more experienced people > Document everything on Notion/Slack > Thinking in decades and acting in days None of this stuff came from a book. It came from living through the first company. The price of admission was worth it.

@metapreston YC advise for early stage startups, SJ for established brands

YC: Ship it before it's good SJ: "We don't ship junk" Which way anon?

@theo @FrameworkPuter Where is touch id? Also should be able to pair with 3 computers and with single button switch between the devices

I spent a lot of time bugging many companies about my keyboard problems. Framework listened. They built my dream keyboard. I am so excited.

@evilrabbit_ It’s pretty ugly irl tbh

@WestsideLAGuy Most likely they dont have other shirts

The prestige mogging in SF is on another level. Just did a workout at Barry’s in Marina. 2 wore Stanford shirts, 1 guy wore OpenAI shirt, 1 girl wore Founders Fund shirt.

@KuphDev 💯

@askar1 Nothing better than a long road ride

Proper SF bros Sunday ride

@lukas_m_ziegler Proper post training for continual learning.

what are the biggest moats in robotics these days?

@cixliv @IlirAliu_ @EdwardMehr We are not mass producing robots bc the brain is not ready yet

@EdwardMehr I disagree with this. The biggest issue even if you solve the robot brain is scaling and distribution. Building millions of robots, getting them to places, maintaining them, and getting all the materials to make them is much harder problem to solve.

Who wins in robotics? The ones capturing the most non-existent data while doing useful work. We’ve seen this before. Biggest companies in the last frontier who enabled AI: Google, Facebook, Twitter (X), etc. Useful tools for communication and productivity that captured human thoughts and output - UGC. UGC became the fuel for AI. Now robotics is next frontier. But here’s the catch: The internet already captured the visible world. Cities, homes, offices, human behavior. Done. So if your robot is just walking around like a human… congrats, you’re re-scraping the internet with legs. Humanoids feel impressive… and strategically shallow. The real prize is new data, not more of the same. The frontier is where data barely exists: Manufacturing. Labs. Space. Applications where every action is a science experiment. A robot forming metal isn’t just making a part. It’s learning how physics behaves under force, heat, and constraint… at scale. That data doesn’t exist on the internet. And you don’t get it without doing real work. So the winning companies will look like: Useful enough to deploy everywhere Specialized enough to do real work Structured enough to capture everything Not humanoids. Human form factory has already been ruled out as not effective even before all of this. That’s why we made machines to augment humans. It will be more like machines that quietly run millions of experiments while pretending to be factories. The biggest robotics companies won’t sell labor. They’ll own the datasets that define reality.

@HusKerrs Weather allowing, take baby out for 1st naps, so mom relaxes @ home. You will have lots Free time bc baby sleeps most until 5mo; this is the last time you will have so much Free time. Enjoy it fully. Congrats!

Calling on all dads: Ali and I are about 3 weeks out from the birth of our first baby boy! Give me your #1 piece of advice for a new dad.