Amogh Chaturvedi is running on little sleep but plenty of conviction at 6 a.m. He's groggy, apologetic for rescheduling, and still reeling from a recent scare involving a family member and an electric scooter. Within minutes, though, the 20-year-old Stanford dropout snaps into focus, walking me through how he and his co-founders sold one startup at 19, landed in Y Combinator, and raised $5 million for their next company, Human Behavior.
Khalid Ashmawy remembers the first time he wired money home while studying in Europe. He had just received his monthly stipend as a master's student in Stuttgart and wanted to send part of it back to his family in Cairo. It was usually a slow and expensive process, he recalled. A $400 wire transfer, for instance, could cost $40 in fees and take three business days to arrive.
Pig.dev, a startup from Y Combinator's Winter 2025 batch, initially aimed to develop agentic tech for Windows desktops but pivoted to Muscle Mem, a cache system for AI.
I'm very worried about them because what we're coming to understand is they are teaching you to lie. Software is the most empowering thing in the world. Why do you have to lie?
'Our technology allows drones to determine their position using just a camera and Google Maps, providing a crucial alternative to GPS amid increasing GPS jamming in conflict zones.'