Almost let down my closest friend at the worst possible moment… My friend Tauseef flew from Pakistan to San Francisco on June 1st, 2025. > one of my closest friends from Harvard Business School > an AI consultant who's been building in the space for years > one of the sharpest people I know A few weeks earlier, I called him and said, "Come. Let's build together." He packed up his life in Pakistan and got on a plane. On his first day of work, before he'd even opened his laptop… The venture I had brought him into fell apart. I was the one who had brought him to America. And I had just lost the ground under both of our feet. It got worse. Walking away from that venture meant walking away from my O-1 visa. Which meant I had 60 days to leave the country. Everything I had built toward in the US would be gone. I walked Tauseef outside and told him everything. I looked him in the eye and told him I was sorry and that he'd need to figure out what came next on his own. He looked straight back at me and said, "Robin… I came here to work with YOU. We'll figure it out. And you'll remember this moment." So I pulled out my phone and took a photo from that bench in Alamo Square Park where we were sitting. The next morning, Tauseef and I grabbed coffee before I flew back to Boston. I boarded a 6-hour flight that same night with 60 days on the clock and no idea what I was going to build. But the ENTIRE flight, one idea kept pulling me back in. Again. And again. And again. - I had built and sold a brand on Amazon - I had spent a year going deep on AI agents - I had watched agencies fail Amazon founders for years, including my own brand This was the most obvious thing I had ever seen. I landed, sat down at my kitchen counter, and opened my laptop. I already had a domain name from the AI newsletter I had been running for two years. The newsletter was called Lumian. I had been building that name for two years before I even knew what company it would become. 60 days to leave the country. One idea. A domain name I'd been sitting on for two years. That was the starting line. Something BIG is being announced tomorrow.

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that’s all that matters. thanks for this, yc. fyi: this was 25 days ago, before the decision deadline.