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Interview 02 of 2111:52 AM · Moscone West

Almas Kebekbayev

Founder, topfm.io

AI-native facility management (cleaning, electrical, HVAC).

The full conversation

4:33 · every question and answer, tightened. Tap a line to jump to it.

The short version

2:38 · Almas's answers, condensed.

Clips

5 short clips, captioned, in vertical and widescreen. Free to download and repost.

A $100B market. Zero AI players.

“The market problem. It's a hundred billion dollar market problem. And there is no single AI player in this market. And the average year for service providers, 125 years old companies there. So we believe this is a great …”

0:28
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Smart people avoid boring industries

“Would you say that that would give you a lot of a bigger advantage because a lot of the smart people, they don't want to, they don't want to understand the boring industry. Exactly. This is the great example where AI cou…”

0:37
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The hard part: finding technicians

“Service professionals, actually finding the right service professionals. And in this market, it's, it's supply constraint business. There's always a problem to find the right technician in Hong Kong, Paris, New York, Alm…”

0:33
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Profitable. No fundraising needed.

“Are you fundraising? Well, we're actually looking for more leads, yes. We're actually pretty profitable. We don't need any fundraising. We're happy. We're a free cash flow business. We're making millions, and we'd rather…”

0:25
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Founder advice: just start

“Just start. That's the best advice. Just start, and start working. That's it. There's no other advice, and there's no magical pill. Just working hard. Just start, and just start as early as possible. That's it.”

0:20
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