Immad Akhund

8 statements across 1 episodes · 4 bullish · 2 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Mar 28, 2025 by Immad Akhund · said 2 times in 2 episodes since 2025 · across every show →

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Mar 28, 2025 positive
Insight
Akhund: Startups are easier to underwrite than consultancies
“Definitely startups are actually easier, right? Like, people have a pretty big digital presence they have better websites, they have a LinkedIn, they have X, et cetera and, you know, their descriptions, their VCs, like, if a, you know, if a Sequoia funded comp…”
Immad Akhund Mar 28, 2025 ▶ 7:36 Immad Akhund (Mercury) on Fintech, AI and What's Next
Mar 28, 2025 positive
Disclosure
A $1M venture debt round saved Akhund's previous startup
“You know, my last company yeah, I raised a million dollar venture debt, and, like, it saved the company, and actually, like, got us to profitability.”
Immad Akhund Mar 28, 2025 ▶ 10:18 Immad Akhund (Mercury) on Fintech, AI and What's Next
Mar 28, 2025 negative
Opinion
Akhund: Slapping chatbot interfaces onto software is bad product design
“I'm not a fan of just, like, shove a chatbot in front of it as an interface. Like, I think it's easier to, like, have structured data and be able to do things.”
Immad Akhund Mar 28, 2025 ▶ 16:01 Immad Akhund (Mercury) on Fintech, AI and What's Next
Mar 28, 2025
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Akhund has angel invested in approximately 300 startups
“I've done about 300 altogether.”
Immad Akhund Mar 28, 2025 ▶ 12:48 Immad Akhund (Mercury) on Fintech, AI and What's Next
Mar 28, 2025 positive
Insight
Akhund: Angel investments must pass the 5 PM founder text test
“Like my rough criteria is if this person texts me at like five PM, am I going to be excited to like do a call with them? Or am I going to be annoyed that I have to talk to them? So like, I definitely want to do that 30 minutes to like have like a bar of saying…”
Immad Akhund Mar 28, 2025 ▶ 13:14 Immad Akhund (Mercury) on Fintech, AI and What's Next
Mar 28, 2025 neutral
Insight
Akhund: Late-Stage Mega-Rounds Still Require Pitching a 100x Vision
“It's like a surprisingly similar process to an earlier round, right? I did this in about four weeks and you know, at least as a founder you really still like pitching the big vision, like how can this be, you know, another hundred X, right?”
Immad Akhund Mar 28, 2025 ▶ 1:28 Immad Akhund (Mercury) on Fintech, AI and What's Next
Mar 28, 2025 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Akhund: About 60% of Mercury customers come from organic word of mouth
“More than 50%, about 60% of our customers come through organic word of mouth distribution, and that's not just in the startup space, that's in all of these spaces.”
Immad Akhund Mar 28, 2025 ▶ 5:12 Immad Akhund (Mercury) on Fintech, AI and What's Next
Mar 28, 2025 bearish
Insight
Akhund: AI coding tools struggle on large, interconnected codebases
“Engineering productivity. I haven't seen as much of a boost as I would like to see. I think it's really good for making an app from scratch. When you have a huge code base with, that's all interlinked, it's just not as good. And we also built in like a weird p…”
Immad Akhund Mar 28, 2025 ▶ 15:30 Immad Akhund (Mercury) on Fintech, AI and What's Next
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