Emergent

24 statements across 1 episodes · 15 bullish · 2 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Mar 16, 2026 by Mukund Jha · said 32 times in 1 episodes since 2026 · across every show →

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Mar 16, 2026 neutral
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Emergent runs deployment with two engineers and memory with one
“For example, our deployment, which almost mirrors what our cell would look like is done by two people. Like our memory, like where you have like multiple startups solving for memory. It's just built by one person.”
Mukund Jha Mar 16, 2026 ▶ 25:35 AI Is Unlocking Millions Of New Builders · Y Combinator
Mar 16, 2026 positive
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Emergent lowers custom software development costs from $500,000 to $5,000
“And if you look at the price point that, you know, we are bringing down, it would have cost you like 500,000 dollars to build the software. Now you can build it for 5000 dollars completely on your own.”
Mukund Jha Mar 16, 2026 ▶ 34:35 AI Is Unlocking Millions Of New Builders · Y Combinator
Mar 16, 2026 bullish
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Madhav Jha: Emergent developers use their own agent instead of Cloud Code
“Our coding agent is so powerful that we basically internally use it as a replacement for cloud code as developers, right?”
Madhav Jha Mar 16, 2026 ▶ 13:17 AI Is Unlocking Millions Of New Builders · Y Combinator
Mar 16, 2026 neutral
Insight
Automating software engineering requires replicating full developer workflows
“Our key insight was that to automate all of software engineering, you will have to build a platform that replicates what best engineering team do, like code reviews, automated testing, debugging, deployment, security, hosting.”
Mukund Jha Mar 16, 2026 ▶ 7:16 AI Is Unlocking Millions Of New Builders · Y Combinator
Mar 16, 2026 positive
Disclosure
Emergent Scaled Early Distribution via TikTok and Instagram Influencer Networks
“We built out a large influencer network and that was our, Initial sort of, you know starting point for us. Like we use TikTok, Instagram, and part of this bunch of influencers to really, really spread the word out. And that sort of, you know, kickstarted the w…”
Mukund Jha Mar 16, 2026 ▶ 7:56 AI Is Unlocking Millions Of New Builders · Y Combinator
Mar 16, 2026 positive
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Emergent tools enable one engineer to replace a five-person development team
“We also are internally seeing like the role sort of combining. So like a PM, a designer engineer, like a single person is doing, you know, like work of all three together, right? So like we have a PM who's By coding internally things. And recently like we so w…”
Mukund Jha Mar 16, 2026 ▶ 17:44 AI Is Unlocking Millions Of New Builders · Y Combinator
Mar 16, 2026 bullish
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Mukund Jha: A company raised $4M for an app built on Emergent
“Recently somebody pinged me that, Hey, like this company has raised like four million dollars on an ad that was built on emergent.”
Mukund Jha Mar 16, 2026 ▶ 35:57 AI Is Unlocking Millions Of New Builders · Y Combinator
Mar 16, 2026 bearish
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Mukund Jha: SaaS companies must pivot to become agent-first to survive
“One is more and more of these SaaS workflows are going to get consumed by an agent, right? Like, so, like you know, unless your SaaS company pivots into like an agent first company you know, I think that's going to be hard to sort of survive.”
Mukund Jha Mar 16, 2026 ▶ 29:29 AI Is Unlocking Millions Of New Builders · Y Combinator
Mar 16, 2026 positive
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Emergent extracts 20% to 30% more performance from models using custom harness
“At least with our harness, we're able to extract 20, 30% more on top of these models.”
Mukund Jha Mar 16, 2026 ▶ 16:30 AI Is Unlocking Millions Of New Builders · Y Combinator
Mar 16, 2026 neutral
Disclosure
Emergent augments foundation models with fine-tuned verification layers instead of building models
“We don't want to, like, build a Opus 4.5 alternative right away, but we do want to augment it through our custom fine tune verification layers.”
Madhav Jha Mar 16, 2026 ▶ 32:13 AI Is Unlocking Millions Of New Builders · Y Combinator
Mar 16, 2026 positive
Insight
Mukund Jha: Giving foundation models more autonomy improves performance
“And the more autonomy you're able to give to the models, the better they perform.”
Mukund Jha Mar 16, 2026 ▶ 15:28 AI Is Unlocking Millions Of New Builders · Y Combinator
Mar 16, 2026 neutral
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Jha: 80% of Emergent users have zero programming knowledge
“Today, 80% of users who are on the platform are non-technical users with zero programming knowledge.”
Mukund Jha Mar 16, 2026 ▶ 5:01 AI Is Unlocking Millions Of New Builders · Y Combinator
Mar 16, 2026 bullish
Disclosure
Emergent agents learn across user sessions using long-term trajectory memory
“We were able to figure out, okay, all the trajectories that we are generating, we can kind of aggregate over time and like sort of build in a long-term memory for the agent, which is very unique in the sense that your agent learns not just from your own sessio…”
Madhav Jha Mar 16, 2026 ▶ 11:45 AI Is Unlocking Millions Of New Builders · Y Combinator
Mar 16, 2026 positive
Disclosure
Mukund Jha: Every Emergent employee must do weekly customer support
“Like one of the things that we do really religiously is everybody talks to a customer once a week, twice a week. Like everyone in the entire company. Everyone in the company. Right. They talk to a customer, everybody does customer support.”
Mukund Jha Mar 16, 2026 ▶ 27:50 AI Is Unlocking Millions Of New Builders · Y Combinator
Mar 16, 2026
Insight
Adding deep developer power after building simple UX is structurally difficult
“And I think fundamentally it's like, unless you start from, you know, a starting point, which sort of solves all of these problems along the line, the whole software development life cycle, it's actually really hard to come from the other side and solve these …”
Mukund Jha Mar 16, 2026 ▶ 14:34 AI Is Unlocking Millions Of New Builders · Y Combinator
Mar 16, 2026 negative
Disclosure
Mukund Jha: Emergent dropped enterprise sales after 2-3 months due to slow cycles
“And we spent like two, three months trying to you know, make our agents work within the enterprise. We found that it was too slow.”
Mukund Jha Mar 16, 2026 ▶ 4:27 AI Is Unlocking Millions Of New Builders · Y Combinator
Mar 16, 2026 positive
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Madhav Jha: Emergent QA engineer built an internal Asana clone
“The only other thing I wanted to show was this is an actual Asana Clone that our team built, like one of our QA engineers built internally.”
Madhav Jha Mar 16, 2026 ▶ 21:37 AI Is Unlocking Millions Of New Builders · Y Combinator
Mar 16, 2026 bullish
Insight
Mukund Jha: Solving verification enables full automation of software engineering
“If you can solve for verification, which is essentially, you know, you can solve the testing part you can actually automate all the software engineering. That was sort of our key insight that like, you know, verification is the loop, which sort of keeps agent …”
Mukund Jha Mar 16, 2026 ▶ 2:27 AI Is Unlocking Millions Of New Builders · Y Combinator
Mar 16, 2026 positive
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Mukund Jha: Emergent invented multi-agent paradigms before academic papers were published
“There was a time when we sort of invented the multi-agent system. We invented memory. We invented like, how do we do agent to agent communication? How do you scale up test time compute? A lot of those things which like were sort of coming out, like we would di…”
Mukund Jha Mar 16, 2026 ▶ 3:44 AI Is Unlocking Millions Of New Builders · Y Combinator
Mar 16, 2026
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Madhav Jha: Users build mobile apps for personal use, web apps for business
“What we have noticed is that a lot of personal apps people use, people build mobile apps, but a lot of business apps, they would go and build a web app, right? So that's generally the trend we are seeing.”
Madhav Jha Mar 16, 2026 ▶ 21:27 AI Is Unlocking Millions Of New Builders · Y Combinator
Mar 16, 2026 bullish
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Mukund Jha: Roughly 20% of apps built on Emergent are agentic
“A lot of people are building on emergent today, like roughly 20% of them are actually agentic apps.”
Mukund Jha Mar 16, 2026 ▶ 30:04 AI Is Unlocking Millions Of New Builders · Y Combinator
Mar 16, 2026
Insight
Mukund Jha: Coding is only 20% of shipping software to production
“Our view is that I think the coding aspect is only 20% of the job, right? I think like taking an app to production is like really, really hard.”
Mukund Jha Mar 16, 2026 ▶ 16:05 AI Is Unlocking Millions Of New Builders · Y Combinator
Mar 16, 2026 positive
Assertion Partly supported
Mukund Jha: Emergent became #1 globally on SWE-bench within two months
“And we built you know, soda coding agents, which became world number one on SweetBench you know, in two months of time.”
Mukund Jha Mar 16, 2026 ▶ 3:26 AI Is Unlocking Millions Of New Builders · Y Combinator
Mar 16, 2026 positive
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Madhav Jha: Emergent saves $3,000–$4,000 monthly replacing Asana internally
“And we are also saving like, you know, like 3004 thousand dollars a month in subscription.”
Madhav Jha Mar 16, 2026 ▶ 22:32 AI Is Unlocking Millions Of New Builders · Y Combinator
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