Javohir Akramov

WHOAMI. A tough question to answer. The boring answer: a junior at Georgetown studying economics and government.

If I had to describe what I really spend most of my days doing, it would be something like this: I wake up, I open X, I open LinkedIn, I open YouTube, and I don't really stop monitoring the situation until I go to sleep. I'm terminally online and I've made peace with that. Whenever a new AI tool drops or a startup launches something, I'm usually already inside the product clicking around before most people have even seen the announcement. I just like knowing what's going on. I like being early to things, testing them, forming opinions about them, and then watching everyone else arrive at those opinions two weeks later. It's a weird hobby but it's mine.

On the building side, I co-founded an EdTech startup called Unicraft, I've worked at an AI startup, interned at a VC fund and a venture studio, and right now I'm putting together a variety of AI projects with my friend Claude Code while heading growth at Aisha AI. I also write essays about startups and venture capital on Substack and Twitter as @VCinTown, mostly just thinking out loud about things I'm observing and processing in real time.

The thing I think about most when it comes to the future is honestly just how to stay relevant. AI can already do a scary amount of what junior people at companies get paid to do — write memos, build models, research markets, put decks together. So the question that keeps me up is what's left on the human side of that line, and how do I get really good at those things specifically. That's why I spend a lot of time in Claude Code right now, vibe coding, shipping projects, getting comfortable with the tools rather than just reading about them. I'd rather be the person who builds with AI than the person AI replaces.

Something else I've been thinking about a lot is mentorship, and specifically how hard it is to find the real version of it. Everyone is happy to give you advice. Very few people are willing to actually invest in you, pay attention over time, and tell you when you're being an idiot. I'm actively looking for those people and I think that search might take years, which is fine.

When I'm not doing any of that, I trade futures and options on CME and Kalshi, which is something I genuinely enjoy and spend real time on. I go long distances with no particular destination — just came back from a Phoenix–SF road trip with my childhood friend and it was probably the most clarifying experience I've had in a while. I watch a lot of films, the kind that stay with you for a few days after and make you want to rewatch them immediately. I listen to music across a pretty wide range and I care a lot about the things I choose to watch, wear, listen to, and surround myself with, probably more than most people would consider normal.

I drink an embarrassing amount of Coke Zero. I don't drink alcohol and I don't smoke. I play tennis when I can. I'm still figuring most things out and I don't have a startup idea that I'm ready to go all in on yet, because I think the worst version of a founder is someone who starts a company just to say they started a company. I'd rather wait for the problem I can't stop thinking about. Until then I'm just trying to learn as much as I can, as fast as I can, and be honest about what I don't know.