Almaz Adilbaev

Co-founder, chANGELS · 1 appearance on the record.

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Almaz Adilbaev is the co-founder of chANGELS, an angel syndicate backing Central Eurasian and underrepresented founders. He also co-founded DataCall AI, a healthcare automation startup, and serves as a partner at Vector 3 Venture Studio.

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Adilbaev: Oversized Founder Salaries Kill Motivation and Lead Startups to Fail

“Assign them like very high salary, like just would imagine like very big amounts just compared to the finding the raised and just, yeah, let's spend this money. And feels like the, like most of them lost motivation. And yeah, I know that one, the setups failed…”

Almaz Adilbaev Feb 18, 2025 ▶ 3:13 Why Your Third or Fourth Startup Is the One That Actually Works

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Adilbaev: Founders Truly Learn Startup Execution on Their Third or Fourth Venture

“In our experience, so when you're doing your third business or fourth business, yeah, I think that starting from these numbers, you're doing pretty much Like understanding of how to run a successful startup because yeah, that's a completely different story.”

Almaz Adilbaev Feb 18, 2025 ▶ 9:52 Why Your Third or Fourth Startup Is the One That Actually Works

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Adilbaev: Experienced Investors Can Grasp Pitch Decks in 10 Seconds

“I think that like every experienced VC or investor can really grasp it, like from two or three slides, just like skimming them through. And you're spending maybe 10 seconds.”

Almaz Adilbaev Feb 18, 2025 ▶ 12:50 Why Your Third or Fourth Startup Is the One That Actually Works

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Adilbaev: Big tech credentials are the best ticket to intro calls

“I think everybody looks at, everybody likes like big names, like I don't know, Google or Meta or Like some software engineers that like top AI startups or I don't know, some big schools or whatever. Yeah. Everybody likes this. So this is, yeah, I would say the…”

Almaz Adilbaev Feb 18, 2025 ▶ 16:59 Why Your Third or Fourth Startup Is the One That Actually Works

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Adilbaev: Pre-seed startups reject small individual angel checks but accept syndicates

“In a pre-seed round, sometimes yeah, I mean, some really great startups may not like mine, might not take your check. Because it's too, it might be too small for them. But if you, like, collect all this money as in syndicate and put just in one bulk, you know,…”

Almaz Adilbaev Feb 18, 2025 ▶ 18:13 Why Your Third or Fourth Startup Is the One That Actually Works

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Adilbaev: VC funds require $100K minimums while angel syndicates require no commitment

“To be an LP in a venture capital firm, so you need to put at least a hundred K investment. So to be part of the angel syndicate to be an LP invested in the venture capital firms, you need a hundred K minimum. But to be an investor with an angel syndicate, so y…”

Almaz Adilbaev Feb 18, 2025 ▶ 19:43 Why Your Third or Fourth Startup Is the One That Actually Works

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Episode	Date	Speaking time
Why Your Third or Fourth Startup Is the One That Actually Works	Feb 18, 2025	15m

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