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$18B AI CEO: How to Build a Million-Dollar Business in the Age of AI

Andrey Khusid built Miro into an $18 billion company by doing the opposite of what most startup advice tells you.

Marina MogilkohostAndrey Khusidguest
Dec 11, 202535mWatch on YouTube ↗

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December 11, 2025
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35m
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Silicon Valley Girl
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Protect user privacy on your website and earn their trust with Cookiebot by Usercentrics: https://usercentrics.sjv.io/svg15 Andrey Khusid built Miro into an $18 billion company by doing the opposite of what most startup advice tells you. In this conversation, he reveals why long-term planning kills startups, why AI won't save a bad product, and what actually matters when you're trying to scale. 00:00 Intro 00:54 From whiteboard to $18B 03:36 100M users in 18 months 05:50 What Miro does differently 07:35 How to gain users fast 09:04 Why you need to fail 10:08 Experimentation beats vision 12:20 Trust is the new currency 14:18 Name vs. brand vs. lovemark 15:39 Three-year vision reset 16:41 Stop planning 12 months ahead 20:45 Why building is fun now 22:00 AI canvas demo 24:49 Most important founder quality 27:40 Where the opportunities are 30:57 Vertical AI will explode 32:36 Books that will change your mindset 33:57 Favorite AI apps 34:29 What founders should ask daily Links: 📩 Follow my Newsletter: https://siliconvalleygirl.beehiiv.com/ 🔗 My Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconvalleygirl/ 📌 My Companies & Products: https://Marinamogilko.co 📹 Video brainstorming, research, and project planning - all in one place - https://partner.spotterstudio.com/ideas-with-marina 💻 Resources that helps my team and me grow the business:

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  • Marina Mogilko

    host
  • Andrey Khusid

    guest

EPISODE SUMMARY

In this episode of Silicon Valley Girl, featuring Marina Mogilko and Andrey Khusid, $18B AI CEO: How to Build a Million-Dollar Business in the Age of AI explores Miro’s CEO on building fast, trusted products in AI era Miro’s CEO Andrey Khusid recounts how a simple browser whiteboard evolved into a platform used by 100M people, scaling via delightful UX, virality, SEO, and later enterprise sales—especially accelerated by the pandemic.

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