Arlan (@arlanr) / X

Arlan

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Arlan

@arlanr

19, ceo @nozomioai (yc s25) | kicked out from high school, stanford research at 16

Joined April 2025

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Arlan
@arlanr
Jun 10
oh hey that's us
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@venturetwins
Jun 10
New market map: AI assistants in iMessage 📱 The next major interface for consumer AI? Text messages. People don’t want to open an app every time they need help - they want a contact they can text like a friend. My roundup of the assistants + infra providers below 👇
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Arlan
@arlanr
Aug 3, 2025
san francisco is the best place on earth. I just casually had sushi with @alexandr_wang and talked about movies we’ve watched recently. literally a month ago, I was watching every single podcast with him and wondering how cool it would be to see him in person in SF.
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Arlan
@arlanr
Jul 18, 2025
got this today such a simple yet powerful phrase.
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Arlan
@arlanr
Oct 1, 2025
announcing @nozomioai's $6.2m fundraise, led by @CRV, @BoxGroup, and @localglobevc. back to work now.
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Arlan
@arlanr
Jun 27, 2025
My post was deleted, so here’s the story of how I ended up in SF and YC S25 as a solo founder from Kazakhstan who dropped out of high school (thread):
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Arlan
@arlanr
Oct 11, 2025
YEEES O1 VISA STAMP APPROVED I AM COMING BACK TO THE BEST COUNTRY IN THE WORLD 🇺🇸 🇺🇸
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Arlan
@arlanr
Sep 3, 2025
wow wow wow I love san francisco
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Arlan
@arlanr
Nov 6, 2025
I am back in san francisco. this time with an o1 visa :)
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Arlan
@arlanr
Sep 4, 2025
I got my O1 visa. america, thank you so much for giving this opportunity to young founders to pursue their dreams. just 5 months ago, I was sitting at my desk writing boring geometry formulas. and now, I can continue bringing the american dream to life.
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Arlan
@arlanr
Oct 3, 2025
I’ll keep the team under 20 people until IPO. here’s the average pool of applicants so far: - yc founder - google, unity, amazon, disney, vercel, databricks, jane street, microsoft - mit phd, stanford, berkeley, and all ivies I don’t really care about your background as long as
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Arlan
@arlanr
Aug 2, 2025
docker is a yc company lol
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Arlan
@arlanr
Oct 23, 2025
I just turned Claude Code into the best research agent in the world.
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Arlan
@arlanr
Aug 4, 2025
introducing nia. ship reliable code 10x faster
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Arlan
@arlanr
Aug 16, 2025
this might be the first time the whole family will get into @ycombinator. my dad is applying for the next batch, and my brother is applying too. my brother raised $500k in a day.
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