Akhund: I passed on Scale AI because the founders were too young
Immad Akhund · 20VC Exclusive: Mercury Founder Launches First $26M Fund with Immad Akhund · 20VC with Harry Stebbings · May 12, 2025 · at 17:47
Immad Akhund is the CEO of Mercury and an active angel investor with over 350 investments. Here he discusses his biggest angel investment miss.
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“I saw scale AI and I was like, okay, you know, like good idea, but these people are so young. I think they were like 19 and 20 at the time or something. I was like, yeah, this is like, I was like, I think I could run this company better if I was doing it and I don't see how they're going to figure it out.”
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