AI will kill 80% of developers in 2 years. SpatialChat founder on the startup revolution
No Bullsh!t, June 11, 2025, 107 min, 2,686 views. The guest is Almas Abulkhairov, founder of a video communication service for online events, which he and his partners grew to seven-figure revenue and sold at the end of 2024.
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| Length | 107 min |
| Views on YouTube | 2,686 |
| Language of the episode | Russian |
| Where to watch and listen | YouTube, Spotify, Telegram |
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In short
Almas describes three main failures of his career: a dating startup that did not work, splitting himself between development and sales alone, and turning down an eight-figure offer to buy the company in 2021 out of what he calls helicopter money intoxication. The conversation then moves to the main theme of the episode: how AI over the last couple of years has collapsed the cost and the speed of development, and what that means for the future of entrepreneurship, where a working micro-product can be assembled in two weeks for a few hundred euro, tested and either thrown away at almost no loss or turned into a profitable solo business.
Key ideas
- The best product does not win, the best sales and marketing do: a thesis the guest took from a billionaire investor and made into a philosophy.
- AI changes the economics of development itself: what used to take 2 months of full-time work and tens or hundreds of thousands can now be done in a week for a few hundred euro.
- Attachment to invested money and time is the entrepreneur's main enemy: the less you have put in, a month instead of a year and a half, the easier it is to drop a dead hypothesis.
- A micro product should solve one problem that takes 30 percent of the user's time rather than 3 percent: then one feature becomes genuinely valuable.
- Two founders each leading their own project on shared infrastructure, instead of hiring a large team, gives a multiple gain in efficiency at minimal cost.
- The first wave of layoffs will not be about replacing people with AI but about replacing those who refuse to learn to work with it by those who have.
The full transcript
The episode is recorded in Russian, and the full transcript of the conversation is on the Russian page of this episode. English and Spanish subtitles for the strongest episodes are rolling out on YouTube in waves.
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