19/05/2026
Here's our exclusive conversation with Mukund Jha, Co-Founder & CEO of Emergent — yes, the same Mukund who co-founded and scaled Dunzo, one of India's most recognised hyperlocal delivery startups, before returning with his twin brother Madhav Jha to build something entirely new.
That something new is Emergent — and its latest product, Wingman, might be the most ambitious thing he's built yet.
Wingman doesn't ask you to download anything or sit through onboarding. It lives inside WhatsApp, Telegram, and iMessage, and quietly handles your meetings, inbox, follow-ups, and reminders while you focus on work that actually matters.
In our conversation, Mukund talks about how Wingman decides what to do on its own versus when to ask you first, how it builds memory across sessions without feeling intrusive, and why he believes the most successful AI agent will be the one that founders and businesses actually use — not the most capable one.
He also addresses something most AI founders avoid: what these tools actually mean for human coders. His answer is worth reading.
Emergent is backed by Khosla Ventures, SoftBank, Lightspeed, Y Combinator, Prosus Ventures, Together, and Google's AI Futures Fund — and this is one of the more honest founder conversations we've had in a while.
