This week we sat down with Emir Karabeg, the co-founder of Sim Studio (YC X25), an open-source AI agent builder used by the Department of Defense. We debriefed his YC Demo Day and discussed his insane lore, including:
💥 Building a crypto mining operation at 14 that accidentally triggered an MI6 raid
🧠Why what he learned at YC was life changing
🚗 How he gave away 10 Teslas with David Dobrik (and one extra by accident)
📞 Leaving in the middle of a UC Berkeley final to take a call from Olaf Carlson-Wee (Coinbase employee #1)
00:00 Intro
01:54 Crypto mining at 14 years old
12:34 Dropping out of Berkeley (for a semester)
22:10 YC Demo Day
30:12 Building Sim Studio
40:54 Founder philosophies
51:29 Reaching AGI
