Two 21-year-olds built an AI that runs online stores

They started selling online at 15. Their company, Siml, now runs over 1,000 stores.

Nurtilek Raimzhanov and Zuhayr Abdullazhanov met in high school and have been best friends ever since. They were fifteen when the pandemic hit, and they decided to sell something online. In their case, hand sanitizer.

It worked well enough to become an education. They wrote the listings, ran the ads, and answered the messages. Because Zuhayr got tired of opening the same twelve competitor pages every morning, he started writing scrapers to do it for him. They broke constantly, and that detail is the seed of everything they have built since.

They Got Into the Best Schools. Then They Left.

Both left Kyrgyzstan to study engineering at top universities in the United States, and kept building together across a two hour time difference. Their last project before Siml was Tail AI, a personal finance app for...

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