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The Startup Ideas Podcast

Inside $180B Co-Founder's AI Agent System

26 Jan 2026

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Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?

0.031 - 5.239 Greg Isenberg

Sam Altman predicted the one-person, $1 billion startup powered by AI.

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Chapter 2: What innovative agents can be built for real work?

5.579 - 12.71 Greg Isenberg

And I think we're starting to see a glimpse of it. My friend, Furcon, he used to be the co-founder of Applovin.

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Chapter 3: How does Nebula function as a Slack-like agent workspace?

12.871 - 19.761 Greg Isenberg

Applovin is like a $175 billion company. And what's cool about Furcon is he is always tinkering.

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Chapter 4: What does the demo of Nebula creating a Google Slides deck reveal?

20.247 - 41.479 Greg Isenberg

And today he's doing a little bit of a show and tell. He hasn't done this anywhere, but he's working on this agent platform called Nebula. And he wanted to show it to me and he wants to show it to you because it's a platform for you to take your ideas and build a one person business powered by agents. So think about creating a blog that creates content for you three times a day based on X trends.

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41.459 - 54.759 Greg Isenberg

I think that's a glimpse into where the future of building a one person business powered by AI looks like. So today I'm excited that Furcon came. He shared his product. He shows how it works.

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Chapter 5: What is the vision of a 'business in a box' in the AI era?

54.98 - 62.992 Greg Isenberg

And what I hope is it gets your creative juices flowing for how you can create a one person business powered by AI agents.

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Chapter 6: How can Nebula automate blog posting effectively?

64.073 - 65.155 Greg Isenberg

Let's get right into it.

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Chapter 7: What remains valuable in a world of automation?

73.775 - 99.124 Greg Isenberg

You are in for a special treat, everyone, because Furkan, he really is my go-to guy when it comes to tinkering with new technologies. I've known him now for over 10 years, and this is a guy who, when he speaks, I listen. So thank you, Furkan, for coming on the show today. Furkan, by the end of this episode, what are people going to learn?

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100.1 - 105.548 Furqan Rydhan

Like you said, I'm a tinkerer. So my nights and weekends are really just playing with new technologies.

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Chapter 8: How does an agent workforce enhance quality loops?

106.109 - 129.735 Furqan Rydhan

You know, the last few years, AI and agents can't pull away from it. So I'm going to show you like some of the power that's already there in the world and how you can leverage it and how you can use it to just accomplish more, get things done that are in your mind and you don't know how to do them. And I feel like capability-wise, we're in the age of abundance.

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129.875 - 131.741 Furqan Rydhan

So hopefully I'm going to show you a bit of abundance.

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132.784 - 136.571 Greg Isenberg

That's what I want to hear. All right, let's get into it. Sweet.

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137.172 - 157.14 Furqan Rydhan

So I'm going to show you like basically like I was saying, I've been tinkering for, you know, many years now around AI systems, LLMs, agents. The last few months, though, it kind of did become more obsession than just tinkering, you know, and mostly because I had built up all of these agents.

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157.12 - 180.968 Furqan Rydhan

to do very very useful things for me like you know like you like i do a lot of stuff there's a lot of slack there's a lot of people there's a lot of like activity going on you can't keep up with it um so you let it go you you delegate you move on but then there's just like things i do want to get my hands in and and how do i do more of that and so i built up a bunch of agents myself i had kind of like an opinion on how i wanted them to work

180.948 - 200.501 Furqan Rydhan

and what kinds of things they wanted to accomplish. Like, where should you just go full send? And where should you dial back and ask me? And then I was like, wait a minute, as I'm telling people, this is pretty useful. And the obsession was just like, maybe I'm just going to make it a product that I can use. So I'm customer one, but... I also think other people can use it, and it's very useful.

200.541 - 226.03 Furqan Rydhan

It is rough, so this is one of those. I'm showing you something that's going to see some breaking points, but I do think I can show you some of the cool ways that I'm approaching the problem. But I'm going to screen share right here. So yeah, this is Nebula. That's kind of what I've been calling it. And you'll notice first that it looks a little bit like Slack. And it's got these channels here.

226.17 - 254.458 Furqan Rydhan

And I think my goal was like a lot of work happens in Slack in this kind of messaging experience. And I wanted to just mimic that, except everybody in here is an agent. And can help me get work done. And I'm an engineer. I spend a lot of time in the technical side. I got things like Cloud Code and Cursor and Codex that I leverage to make my coding so much more powerful and so much more impactful.

254.438 - 275.35 Furqan Rydhan

And, you know, I wanted to make all the other work feel the same. And, you know, a lot of it to me lives in the cloud. It's services that we use like GitHub, Slack, Linear, Notion, Google stuff. And like a lot of work just happens there. And I think flow wise, it feels similar to how I engineer things when I'm developing things.

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