S&F #4 How to built an AI agent company - 913.ai Co-Founder Maveen Mushaq

Maveen built 913.ai a company automating legal issues for
insurances with AI. We talked about his past in india, previous
jobs how he does business and handles staff decisions and so much
more.





Maveens company: https://www.913.ai/de/


Maveens LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/maveenmushtaq/





My LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lennart-kehrberger


My Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lennart_keh/


Spotify:
https://open.spotify.com/show/30pAQL0jENLP8F2wV0HW2G?si=pzmw3ba7R-2Zq0bMKRA10A


Apple Podcast:
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/scale-and-fail/id1794363702


Instagram:
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/scale-and-fail/id1794363702





TIMESTAMPS:


00:00 Intro(s)


01:37 First entrepreneurial contact in India


03:00 Starting to code at 12


05:30 Being a graphic designer early on and starting an event
business with friends


08:17 Not having imposter syndrome when he was young and
competing without adults


11:53 Learn how to code


15:40 Growing up in an entrepreneurial family and in india


23:25 Just go ahead and do stuff and how to start a startup


25:01 How Maveen approches founding companies.


30:00 Going to the UK and wanting to leave india. University of
Cardiff


38:46 Dropping out of college.


43:55 Fear of dropping out of college and writing applications in
universtity and finding a job without a degree.


47:21 Having the courage to drop out, without any job offers


53:55 How he found his Co-Founder


55:07 Worst thing a startup can do is to change to a big
cooperation and how wrong hires kill the company


56:50 You notice great hires immeditately


57:30 Large companies try to reintroduce startup culture


1:00:51 How to find Co-Founders


1:04:45 Launch and V1 of 913.ai and Antler (VC)


1:08:14 Deciding to go all in, because of Antler


1:13:23 Pivoting to success and paid pilot


1:17:41 Don't build things for free and when to ask for money.
Startups are cheaper than consultants.


1:18:47 How early would you ask for money?


1:23:35 AI agent model and further pivots


1:47:00 Biggest learning for Maveen in his startup journey.