Tanka CEO Kisson Lin pitches AI co-founders as startup game-changers
Kisson Lin, CEO of Tanka, laid out a bold vision at TechCrunch Sessions: AI. She says founders are drowning in constant context-switching—investors, product, teams. Her fix? AI co-founders that never sleep, never forget, and never ask for equity.
These AI partners handle routine tasks, from building pitch decks to tracking team output. Lin draws on her experience at Meta and TikTok to back the idea that AI-native startups let solo founders scale like big teams. 
"Today’s founders face an impossible burden: endless context-switching among investor updates, product development, and team management."
"AI co-founders handle routine tasks with perfect memory and infinite availability."
"Unlike human co-founders, these AI partners don’t require equity, don’t have bad days, and can work around the clock."
Tanka’s vision aims to end solo founder burnout by offloading grunt work to AI. Watch Lin explain more here:
