He runs a free startup house and takes no equity. Here is why.

Nikky Kho runs AI Startup House, a founder residence in Manhattan and Austin that is free and takes no equity. Before that he built a global events business, and he has a ladder for where people actually are with AI: Level 1 is a chat window, Level 3 is agents running unattended, and he thinks 99% of self-described AI users never leave the first rung. We got into the four levels, why delegation is a time problem rather than a skills problem, the five reasons founders exit a business (the most common one is not money), and what he asks people to do before he lets them in: sell to 40 strangers something that does not exist yet. I also told him what I am seeing from the other side. My call volume from seven-figure owners whose businesses started falling out the bottom has gone up sharply in the last six to twelve months. Start here: https://bledsoe.life/start CHAPTERS 0:00 Cold open 0:44 Why I went looking for an incubator 1:42 A free startup house that takes no equity 5:01 The first time he saw ChatGPT 12:57 When do you actually need to hire an engineer 14:49 Delegation is a time problem, not a skills problem 15:58 The four levels of AI use 18:10 Why bought education goes obsolete in a month 21:05 The five Ds of exiting a business 25:36 Money is trust 31:38 Building an AI legal tool for people who cannot afford one 37:23 What it costs, and who gets in free 43:51 The 13-year-old running an AI agency 46:52 There is no better way to learn than to teach 48:18 How to apply: three tasks 50:26 Sell it before you build it 53:14 Seven-figure businesses falling out the bottom Nikky Kho is the founder of AI Startup House and CEO of Real AI Dynamics. https://aistartuphouse.com https://nikkykho.com #AI #founders #startups #aiagents