About
Stepan Parunashvili founded an early-stage startup in China before joining Wit.ai as an engineer working on natural language processing APIs; Wit.ai was later acquired by Facebook. He subsequently spent time at Airbnb and now runs Instant with a co-founder.
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Novelty with the benefits of routine — Consider very fit people: If you look into their diets, you’ll notice a lot of routine. They generally eat the same foods every day, and they avoid restaurants. (If they go to a restaurant, they usually want one day’s notice to plan
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The value of patience is underestimated, even when you take this sentence into account.
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Who's your go-to barber in SF?
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Founder at InstantYC S22
Intro paths
Stepan went through Y Combinator (Summer 2022) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.
Their group partner at YC was Jared Friedman, General Partner at Y Combinator — the partner who ran Instant's batch and knows the company first-hand. YC profile ↗
In turn, Stepan can intro founders to Instant's investors below.
Instant's investors · 2
Co-founders at Instant
