Imad Akhund
13 statements across 1 episodes · 4 bullish · 0 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Aug 6, 2025 by Imad Akhund · across every show →
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Aug 6, 2025
Aug 6, 2025 bullish
Aug 6, 2025
Akhund: True PMF means organic demand pulls product without hard selling
“The way I describe product market fit now, which to be fair, I think works in like consumer, prosumer and SMB and maybe doesn't work in enterprise sales. But you know, it's like you wake up in the morning and you have more users and you don't know where they c…”
Aug 6, 2025
Akhund: Startup iteration cannot succeed without societal-level macro tailwinds
“If you start in an idea with like, You know, if there isn't like a societal level trend that's pushing your kind of space forward, which, you know, I think was true in FinTech in 2017, or it's true in AI now, like it's very hard to iterate around it.”
Aug 6, 2025
Akhund: Business banking MVPs fail if missing core operational features
“If in my opinion, at least, and I think this actually bared out that if any of these things were missing, people would not adopt it. And I didn't think there was any point in launching with one of these things missing because the only thing we'd learned is we …”
Aug 6, 2025 neutral
Aug 6, 2025 neutral
Akhund: Mercury's initial TAM analysis was post-hoc justification for personal intuition
“Even if you take Mercury, like I was just so annoyed using the business banks that I used as entrepreneur. And like a lot of the things I did afterwards were like, you know, time analysis and this kind of post ad hoc justification to like get myself comfortabl…”
Aug 6, 2025
Aug 6, 2025 positive
Aug 6, 2025
Akhund: Mercury scrapped initial sponsor bank partner, delaying launch six months
“We actually built the whole thing and we had one sponsor bank lined up, but they kept like They were supposed to build some extra features for us, like give us wires and things like that. And every month they'd be like, yeah, it's coming. It's coming. And it's…”
Aug 6, 2025 positive
Aug 6, 2025
Akhund: Early customer feedback is unreliable because users cannot imagine better banking
“I think it's very hard when you abstractly talk to someone and you're like, would you use this thing? It's very hard to like reliably believe their feedback. At least that's what I've found. And maybe there's like ideas where it's like, you know, some people a…”
Aug 6, 2025 positive
Akhund: Mercury rejects goal-driven candidates who show ego or unhelpfulness
“So, you know, for example, for Mercury, we look for humble people that are helpful, that are curious, that are customer centric and product minded. I think all of those traits actually work pretty well together, but it's almost completely in contrast to some o…”