{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Full Stack Founders","title":"He runs a free startup house and takes no equity. Here is why.","html":"<iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless src=\"https://share.transistor.fm/e/ea64aa17\"></iframe>","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":3526,"description":"Nikky Kho runs AI Startup House, a founder residence in Manhattan and Austin\nthat is free and takes no equity. Before that he built a global events\nbusiness, and he has a ladder for where people actually are with AI: Level 1\nis a chat window, Level 3 is agents running unattended, and he thinks 99% of\nself-described AI users never leave the first rung.\n\nWe got into the four levels, why delegation is a time problem rather than a\nskills problem, the five reasons founders exit a business (the most common one\nis not money), and what he asks people to do before he lets them in: sell to 40\nstrangers something that does not exist yet.\n\nI also told him what I am seeing from the other side. My call volume from\nseven-figure owners whose businesses started falling out the bottom has gone up\nsharply in the last six to twelve months.\n\nStart here: https://bledsoe.life/start\n\nCHAPTERS\n0:00 Cold open\n0:44 Why I went looking for an incubator\n1:42 A free startup house that takes no equity\n5:01 The first time he saw ChatGPT\n12:57 When do you actually need to hire an engineer\n14:49 Delegation is a time problem, not a skills problem\n15:58 The four levels of AI use\n18:10 Why bought education goes obsolete in a month\n21:05 The five Ds of exiting a business\n25:36 Money is trust\n31:38 Building an AI legal tool for people who cannot afford one\n37:23 What it costs, and who gets in free\n43:51 The 13-year-old running an AI agency\n46:52 There is no better way to learn than to teach\n48:18 How to apply: three tasks\n50:26 Sell it before you build it\n53:14 Seven-figure businesses falling out the bottom\n\nNikky Kho is the founder of AI Startup House and CEO of Real AI Dynamics.\nhttps://aistartuphouse.com\nhttps://nikkykho.com\n\n#AI #founders #startups #aiagents","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/5aqXoS5-H0QSPcQ9HDsSk4mPvVdSZItF-SUKFyHuElU/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS83MzJk/Mzg5M2VlNjFiZTgy/YjFkYTI2ODI4OGUx/YTFiZi5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}