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Augusto Marietti

13 statements across 1 episodes · 3 bullish · 1 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Oct 21, 2025 by Augusto Marietti · across every show →

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Oct 21, 2025 bullish
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Augusto Marietti predicts API and AI traffic will converge within three years
“The way we know about API infrastructure, it will evolve, it won't change, but API traffic and AI traffic, they are converging. So the classic API calls, yes, but also when you move tokens is an API call. And Intelligent, let's say Intelligent will be sold thr…”
Augusto Marietti Oct 21, 2025 ▶ 31:10 How Kong Was Born: APIs, Hustle, and the Future of AI Infrastructure
Oct 21, 2025
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Marietti: I took Stanford's signup list and pitched all 400 contacts overnight
“We steal the things with all the email and the registration. And we walk home with that. And that night till five AM, I writes all the 400 emails about, Hey, you need to know about Michelle.”
Augusto Marietti Oct 21, 2025 ▶ 2:38 How Kong Was Born: APIs, Hustle, and the Future of AI Infrastructure
Oct 21, 2025 positive
Insight
Companies cannot build AI without an API-first architecture
“I think you cannot do AI if you're not API first. It's just, you don't have the mouth and the ears to a model.”
Augusto Marietti Oct 21, 2025 ▶ 30:57 How Kong Was Born: APIs, Hustle, and the Future of AI Infrastructure
Oct 21, 2025 negative
What-if
Augusto Marietti realized API marketplace economics would not work even at scale
“I could never make the economics works, even if this thing would have scaled.”
Augusto Marietti Oct 21, 2025 ▶ 18:42 How Kong Was Born: APIs, Hustle, and the Future of AI Infrastructure
Oct 21, 2025
Insight
Marketplaces require a long tail of low-power suppliers to succeed
“To a marketplace to work, you need to have a long tail of low power people. If you have concentrated in a few high power, marketplace doesn't work.”
Augusto Marietti Oct 21, 2025 ▶ 17:48 How Kong Was Born: APIs, Hustle, and the Future of AI Infrastructure
Oct 21, 2025
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Augusto Marietti raised Kong's angel round two weeks before his visa expired
“Yeah, we raised two weeks before departure.”
Augusto Marietti Oct 21, 2025 ▶ 1:58 How Kong Was Born: APIs, Hustle, and the Future of AI Infrastructure
Oct 21, 2025
Assertion Supported
Augusto Marietti wrote a top Quora post on surviving SF on $14,000
“You had the You had the Quora, like the top Quora post for living on like, 14,000 a year in San Francisco.”
Martin Casado Oct 21, 2025 ▶ 5:22 How Kong Was Born: APIs, Hustle, and the Future of AI Infrastructure
Oct 21, 2025
Disclosure
Augusto Marietti never considered quitting Kong because returning to Italy meant failure
“Never. The reason is, I could Never visualize myself going back to the airport in Italy and my dad picking him up and say, how's it going? And it's just like would fail with my tails and my legs. Like I could never, I would have died here without food. Like I …”
Augusto Marietti Oct 21, 2025 ▶ 35:48 How Kong Was Born: APIs, Hustle, and the Future of AI Infrastructure
Oct 21, 2025
Insight
Founders should pick durable 10-year trends because building takes longer than expected
“It always take longer than what we think. It is good to take a trend the last 10 years, 20 years, because you have time to grow into and do a lot of mistakes and building, and just you have to generally believe it in this trend versus folding glitters, because…”
Augusto Marietti Oct 21, 2025 ▶ 36:23 How Kong Was Born: APIs, Hustle, and the Future of AI Infrastructure
Oct 21, 2025
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Sam Altman wrote an O-1 visa recommendation letter for Augusto Marietti
“Actually, Sam Altman was one of the guys that wrote me a letter of recommendation when he was CEO of Loopt.”
Augusto Marietti Oct 21, 2025 ▶ 14:00 How Kong Was Born: APIs, Hustle, and the Future of AI Infrastructure
Oct 21, 2025
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Kong co-founders arrived in the US with $600 and 90-day visas
“We had no money. We just take 600 bucks last left to go to a United flight and we had 90 days to just make it or break it.”
Augusto Marietti Oct 21, 2025 ▶ 0:12 How Kong Was Born: APIs, Hustle, and the Future of AI Infrastructure
Oct 21, 2025
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Kong's three co-founders survived in San Francisco on $1,000 a month combined
“We did a thousand and, about a thousand and a hundred monthly promissory note that the company would give us, and we would have to live in three with a thousand dollars a month.”
Augusto Marietti Oct 21, 2025 ▶ 6:21 How Kong Was Born: APIs, Hustle, and the Future of AI Infrastructure
Oct 21, 2025 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Enterprises will abstract LLM management into a unified AI gateway layer
“The same thing I think is going to happen in LLMs. At first, you have one enterprise use one big LLMs. Now they're going to use five, 1000, small LLM, medium, large, whatever. Once you get to, you don't do tokens re-limiting, token authentication in each LLM u…”
Augusto Marietti Oct 21, 2025 ▶ 33:47 How Kong Was Born: APIs, Hustle, and the Future of AI Infrastructure
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