The Startup Ideas Podcast Inside $180B Co-Founder's AI Agent System
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Jan 26, 2026 
Furqan Rydhan, entrepreneur and former AppLovin co-founder now building Nebula, a Slack-like agent workspace that automates real work across cloud tools. He demos agents creating Google Slides, writing and running code, and turning tasks into scheduled recipes. They explore automating blogs and the idea of a business-in-a-box, plus how taste, direction, and quality loops become the real advantage as automation spreads.
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Built Nebula To Scratch His Own Itch
- Furqan built agents to handle his own overflowing Slack and workflows and became his own first customer.
- The project started as tinkering then evolved into a product because the agents proved genuinely useful.
Agent Workspace Mirrors Slack
- Nebula mirrors Slack because much work already lives in channels and threads.
- Treating agents as members lets teams automate non-engineering tasks like cloud code for everything else.
Automate Workflows With Recipes
- Turn one-off tasks into repeatable recipes with triggers and scheduling.
- Use cron-style triggers so agents reproduce workflows like adding slides daily or posting routinely.