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23:02Yeah. And then he would be worth this much money. Is that what it's doing? Did you tell it to do that? I told it to do that. For example, Ted Turner, his father owned a billboard company. His father died when Ted was only 22 or 24 years old. And he, Ted, inherited the business. But in order to inherit it, he actually had to raise money, debt, in order to buy back a bunch of the assets because long story, his dad was mentally ill and sold a bunch of parts of the company and bad deals. He had a range of money, Ted did, to buy back the business. So that's why it says he had a million-dollar company, and it was just adjusted to$10 million.

23:36And then as Ted's story grows, he goes from billboard company to buying radio stations to buying TV stations to ultimately buying the Braves and then starting CNN in his 40s. And so this kind of paints the picture of his major transactions. Very cool. Okay, love it. Already I learned something, which is like the thing he's known for, let's call CNN. And, you know, it didn't start till he was 40. I'm not even 40 yet. You know, it's like your best work could be ahead of you. Just one big takeaway right away. It's crazy, right? And just like Wikipedia, because I love Wikipedia. I read Wikipedia like crazy.

24:12I love how they break it into a bio and they just give you like the stuff you need to know. So for example, Ed Turner, his father committed suicide. So Ted, at the age of 24, inherited the billboard business, which was saddled by debt with his father's recent purchase of all these other companies. And then notice I convert it to 2025 money. Then what I did was I had to add a section where it could apply it to me. So I actually uploaded to Claude a ton of information about me and my business. And I actually deleted it because I didn't want to show it on here. But where it says Founder's Playbook, it's a section where it can apply that portion of his life to my life.

24:44So I can learn from certain tips. Because when you read a biography, sometimes you skip over the interesting learning because if it's a biography, it's often just facts. Not what he did was really rare and you got to pay attention to this particular point. And so I did that with each section of his life. And then what I tried to do, like, look, Founders Playbook, what you can learn. So when he created CNN, though it could be in a category, create a new one. Survive the ridicule. So Ted was made fun of a whole bunch when he launched CNN. It was not easy for him. Here's what people mocked him for.

25:18The Chicken Noodle Network, CNN. Yeah, they made fun of him all the time. I feel like Trump could use that now as a great diss. It's a pretty good one. and then what I tried to do and this was actually quite challenging was at the end I tried to get a whole bunch of photos that were relevant to the era so I could like make like this like visual timeline yeah digital timeline where I could like look at them and this was actually a lot more challenging to figure out how to do but it's been really effective I've done this now with like three or four different people who I love learning and reading about and it's made it so much easier because I used to do this in chat GPT but I had to like prompt it in a certain way and it was always really challenging.

26:00So that's project number one. And this is now like publishable. You can have this on. You could create your own like little Samipedia online, right? Where you're studying great business, you know, the business biographies basically. It's pretty awesome, man. Because I think when people read, I don't know about you, when I read a book, I always read the Wikipedia of the person or the summary of the book, which definitely gives it away. like the story, but it makes it so much easier to know what to look forward to. And if I know like that he's been divorced a bunch of times, I start reading about his first marriage and I'm like, I know this is going to end and I could see the cracks already.

26:36I could see why. Yeah, yeah, totally. It's very helpful to have the like blueprint of what the overall scaffolding of the story is. So then when you're reading, you're putting things in buckets, basically, you know what else is to come versus you go in blind and then you're sort of at the, then it's sort of just like, did they hook me right away? Or you might bounce before you get to any of the good stuff, right? And what I love doing about David, David Senra has a podcast called Founders, and he's really good where he's like, check this out, check this part of the biography. It talks about hiring.

27:05And here's what he says. And then David will say, you know, I've read all these biographies. I've noticed that's a trend amongst a lot of the people as they say things like that. And that's challenging to those insights are actually hard. And so I put those insights into this project. That's great. Okay, I really like that. You know, you could actually even make this even more powerful. So right now you're doing the step where you're saying, I want to do Ted Turner and I got to go find the biographies. I got to go get the EPUB and then I got to go download it and then do this. Like you can actually just have an agent do that.

27:35You could tell an agent, hey, every week, every Monday, I want you to deliver this to me. So think through who you think I might like, find the right biographies, go get the PDFs for them, put them into this tool, deliver this, and then I want you to send me an email or turn it into a podcast, read it out into a podcast that I'm subscribing to my own personal podcast. I did not know how to do that, but that's a great idea. And then the really cool part, I didn't want to show this here, but my chat GPT, which I use as my business coach, has all this context on my strengths and weaknesses and the shit I complain about.

28:11And the section where it says Founders Playbook, It's like crazy tailored towards what I'm experiencing on a day-to-day basis. And that was really magical. One thing I like about biographies or about reading in general is I have this theory that everybody today is anxious and upset about things that our ancestors would just laugh at. None of us grown up in a war-torn state or the Great Depression or anything like that. It's like you haven't faced real adversity, so you magnify small problems and make them bigger. And so my little quote on this is, we don't need therapy, we need history. And if you actually were a student of history, you would need less therapy.

28:58And so I think it's cool what you're doing, because in a way, it's actually founder therapy for you. There's this crazy story where Ted is in his 40s, and at this point, he's worth hundreds of millions of dollars because of a bunch of stuff that he's done. And he starts CNN, and he invests almost all of his money into it, and no one would watch it. And so he does just ridiculous stuff. For example, late night, they allow one of their newscasters to be a dog and they interview the dog. And another time, it's actually Ted being interviewed, but he puts a bag over his head. So you don't know who he is.

29:27And he plays this secret character. And what's interesting is guys like you or me or some people who have some amount of success, you think, I can't stoop that low or I can't do this stuff. And then I read this stuff. I'm like, look what this guy did who's supposed to be already this successful, prominent person. And like there was another time where he had to get stitches on his forehead because when he first bought the Braves, no one would go. And he did this seventh inning stretch game where it was who could push the ball to first base the fastest with their nose. And he was like, screw it, I'll do it.

29:58He's like a drunk uncle. And I just think if he's willing to literally get on his hands and knees, like there's nothing beneath me. Yeah, that's great. And by the way, you could even feed something like that back into your system. So you could say, the things that I remembered and I took away was this for this reason. Remember this about me. I like these types of anecdotes for these types of reasons. So surface those in the future, right? Like create a readme file of the things that Sam really resonates with and always check against that the next time you do another biography, right? So the system gets smarter every time.

30:30I have to figure out how to set it up so it can email me. But I did all this on Claude, I guess, co-work and it took 45 minutes. It was pretty awesome. All right, let me show you something. Okay, so I have two big themes that I think are the themes of the year for AI. One of them is mass personalization. So everything personal for you. So what do I mean by this? You know, in the last 10, 15 years, I would say that if you just teleported from 15 years ago to today. So you're like 2010, maybe even a little earlier, maybe 20 years ago. 20 years ago to today. So you're in 2006, snap my fingers, you're now in 2026.

31:14What are the things that stand out to you? And I think one thing that would definitely stand out is, wow, not only is everybody on their phone, which is already like tiny computer, but like, what are they looking at on their phone? And I would say one of the biggest inventions was the newsfeed. And if you think 20 years ago, you know, we had all content was kind of like needed to have mass appeal. So you'd have the newspaper that gets printed and gets delivered to everybody. So it's kind of got to be a little something for everybody. And now with the TikTok algorithm and the Instagram algorithm and the Facebook algorithm and all that, it's not a little something for everybody.

31:52It's a hell of a lot just for you. Yeah. Like I still remember coming home from school and like we would all watch TRL. Do you remember TRL? Totally. Yeah. And if you look at some of the numbers of famous TV shows, it's like the last episode of Friends had 55 million viewers. Like more people will view that than will view anything now, right? Some people foolishly, like they're kind of nostalgic for this. And so they're like, I'm going to create something that has that. Or I want to get back to that. It's like, no, no, no. We just didn't have better options. People have voted with their eyes. They don't want that.

32:23They want to look at something that's hyper relevant to them. My wife and me, we have very, very different tastes. I want to see the highlight from today's NBA games. And she couldn't care less about that. She wants to see oddly satisfying people doing crochet on Instagram because it helps her de-stress after a day of kids or whatever, right? Like we have totally different content tastes and the algorithms now give us that. So this idea of mass personalization, something that would never have been possible, it became possible. Why? Because first, everybody started creating, right? So instead of a journalist, you'd had bloggers.

32:58Instead of bloggers, you had tweets. And then instead of just tweets that are just text, You have some guys who just do just images. Some people who do just videos. Some people who do just text. So everybody became a creator. Supply went up, you know, 10 million X. And then on the other side, the algorithm was able to editorially curate for you based on your signals automatically. So there was no human editor who had to choose what goes on the front page for you. Okay, that's what news feeds did. So I think that's what's going to happen now for software. So I think it's all personal software. So you just showed a piece of personal software, something that you really want to exist that I didn't really need to exist.

33:36Today, all software gets built just like the newspaper industry. You know, centrally, some people, some really talented people make it and they got to make something that's going to appeal a little bit to everybody. But now, what you just did, you showed that you could make highly personalized software, not just Sam who likes business biographies, but Sam who likes business biographies and is going through these challenges in life right now. and so tell him what he needs right now. That's what that piece of software does. Okay, so I think that's what's happening overall here. And I think one category of personal software is not just in apps, but in anything.

34:14So what you did is called vibe coding. So this trend or the thing I'm going to show is basically vibe coding for anything else. So I think that vibe coding, which is you just kind of describe roughly what you want and then the thing kind of makes it. And then you're like, yeah, but actually, Lee, I think I actually wanted this. Sorry, right? Like you're just at the table, you're just ordering and the chef keeps making for you over and over and over again. You didn't know exactly what you wanted, but eventually you sort of feel the vibes and you get yourself there. So that's happening for everything.

34:42So I want to show you this. This is now happening for not just code, but for other skills. All right, so I saw this on Twitter and this guy basically was like, hey, if you ever wanted to be able to make music, but you don't know how to use Ableton and Fruit Loops or whatever, like all these tools, You don't know what a MIDI is. You don't know, you know, you're not like super musically talented. Watch this. Just kind of describe what you want. And so I thought we would, let's make one together here. This is totally from scratch. So maybe this will be a bus. Maybe it'll be cool. So basically you just describe what type, this is not a song.

35:15This is like a beat in this case. And so it's like, how would I do this? So for example, I coach this high school basketball team and we have like warmups before the game. We want it to be a hype situation. So I was like, oh, what if we created? So I was thinking like right now I could type in hype, basketball, intro, music for a high school team, high energy, build up, make the crowd go wild. I don't know what's going to happen. I'm not even talking in music terms. I didn't say a key. I didn't say beats per minute. I didn't say what instruments to use. I went straight to the end, as our buddy Elon says.

35:56And I just said, this is what I want. make the crowd go wild with this. And so now you can see that this thing is thinking. And so you'll see it's saying, all right, I'm coming up with like some drums. I'm going to create a track for this. And you can see it's created like stadium, brass, 808 bass, drum kit. So if you look here on the side, it's like, here's the drum buildup. Here's the 808 bass. So let me just play this.

36:23All right.

36:26I guess it's giving me like the basics. All right. So now let's say, and for each one of these, it's like, hey, I made a hook. You want to keep that or you want to just like change it? Just do a different one. So let me say, so let me say add a big drop at the beginning. I want it to be, I don't even know how to describe this. So let me just say like lower in tone, more masculine. in. Let's just see what it thinks about that. And so now I'm going to send this. Have you seen that famous clip of Justin Bieber where he's humming to an orchestra and they're trying to follow along? Like the retard version of that.

37:05Go and look this up on YouTube. But it's like Justin Bieber who, I guess, I don't know if he knows how to play an instrument or not, but he's humming to an orchestra I guess. Or it's like a 12 or 15 piece set. And he's like humming what he wants and they eventually get it. This is sort of like that. Keyword sorta is doing some heavy lifting in that sentence. And it is cool that you're able to do this. So I told it this thing. Now it's like, all right, let me think. Let me try to do this. While this does that, I'm going to show you the one I made last night. So let me just. So I made one for the podcast.

37:35So I was like, I tried to create a podcast intro song as my first thing. So check this out. So I went back and forth a bunch. But let me just play this. Okay. All right. I'm intrigued.

37:51All right, so that was like a little intro loop you could do. And then you could put vocals on top of something like that, right? You can go and add vocals with a different tool. Or they'll add vocals eventually to this. And it gives it, is it called a MIDI? So you can like, it's like you can change the... Yeah, so all of this is super exportable. So if you're, let's say you're a DJ, let's say you actually do have skill. You can export any of these individual pieces or the whole thing and alter it however you see fit. So like the important thing here is basically skill and taste. To do something, you always needed both.

38:26You need skill and you need taste. The skill is like the actual like knowledge of how to use the tools, musical knowledge, like technical knowledge, things like that. Taste is what do I think is cool? What do I think is interesting? What do I like? And now with AI, those got decoupled. You don't need the skill. You just need the taste. If you have both, obviously you're going to make better things, but like you could still be in the game. if you just do this. So let's just see what it did real quick. This is what I told it to be, make it more masculine.

38:57That's pretty funny. So like, imagine, the lights go out. Now this is on volume 100 and our team is running out of the tunnel. Lights are flashing and that's our little, that's our little like intro sound when we come out. Dude, are we gonna... So there's little things like this that I'm like, wow, I literally, this was just, you know, like, I was like segregated. I couldn't go participate in this field at all. I was on the outside. And now I can make things. And because it's so easy to make, I can make it for use cases that otherwise wouldn't have made sense. Like I wouldn't hire somebody to make this for me.

39:30But if it takes me two seconds, sure. Let me just do it. All right, let's take a quick break because I got to tell you a story. Let me tell you about the first time I tried to run payroll for my team. I was using a traditional bank and you know the type. It's got a janky interface. It's built like a 2002 tax form and it was open only during business hours. and I hit send and it froze. They flagged the transaction. They locked my account. They put me on hold for 45 minutes and then they told me I got to visit my local branch. And that was the day I started looking for a new banking solution. After asking a few founders what they were using, I found out about Mercury.

39:59And so now my payroll is two clicks. I can wire money. I can pay invoices. I can reimburse the team all from one clean dashboard. That's why I use it for all of my companies. And so do 200 ,000 other startup founders. And so if you're looking to level up your banking, head to mercury.com and apply in minutes. Mercury is a financial technology company, not a bank. Banking services are provided through Choice Financial Group, Column N8, and Evolve Bank & Trust members FDIC. Are guys like Rick Rubin, who can't play music, but are these creative geniuses, are they like, I'm so happy this stuff doesn't exist when I was trying to convince everyone I was a guru?

40:31Because now, otherwise I'd actually have to go and make music. No, I think he's actually pretty big into this. And he's like, yeah, I told you all taste is what matters. This has been his thing from the beginning. There's actually a very popular, I don't know, Have you listened to any AI music? Yeah. Well, I listened to where there's a cool John Lennon song that wasn't finished when he died, and they had him sing it. That's cool. Yeah, there's a YouTube channel, like Impossible Rap Songs or something, and it's basically like collabs with, it'll be like Tupac and then like a rapper today, right?

41:05Like Tupac's dead, but there's a rapper today, and they'll collab on a song. It's basically like music that couldn't exist, but we make it exist. There's like first AI musicians that have gotten record deals just recently happened. I think one of the top country songs in the world right now is an AI song called, I think it's called like Walk the Line or something like that. So AI music is a thing. I've been using Suno a lot. I won't bore you with my Suno track. I'll send it to you after this. But like I make a lot of music at Suno now and it's incredible fun. If you've ever had any level of a music itch, you got to get on Suno.

41:39Forget this little like beat maker thing I showed you in Muse Art. like Suno's the real deal where you can actually make good songs. Like I no longer, if I'm working out, like we no longer listen to mainstream music. It's all music we've made for ourselves, me and my trainer. You're kidding me. No, no, ever like, I mean, that's like an hour long playlist every day. And then we can each just add to it. So like I'll just add a track. No, play the top one. Play the most listened, your most listened Suno song. I mean, I used Suno like the week it came out. And like you can't tell it, like for example, you can't tell it to say, sing Frank Sinatra like this, but you can describe a Frank Sinatra song or a Frank Sinatra voice and it will create something very similar, right?

42:25All right. I'm going to give you some choices. Do you want to listen to something that kind of makes you feel like you're on drugs and maybe you're in that one show? What's that show called? Like Euphoria. All right. Do you want the Euphoria song? do you want the indie singer songwriter song or do you want like a fun kind of rap song which one do you want? I have to go with Euphoria this is the Euphoria track it's called Deshaun James close your eyes, you're in the club here we go

43:09This is awesome. All right. Now, my sister is moving to Spain. So you could just make songs for friends about whatever is going on, like birthday party or whatever the situation is. So I sent up this song called America's Finished.

43:30This is awesome. All right. Let me show you something. Can I show you something? All right. So, Sean, let me ask you a question. What is the reason why you don't shop online more? I don't know what's going to look good on me. Okay. Well, I'm half solving for that. So I love buying stuff online. The problem is that you boys got big old thighs and finding clothes that fit is quite challenging. Now, I don't know. Did you know this? that when you, a lot of people don't know this, but I actually don't know like how common this is. But did you know like when you go and buy clothes that there's this thing called the size guide and you could see the measurement of the garment or of the clothing?

44:11Yeah, well, yeah, every site has this. But the problem is they're like, oh, is your clavicle four inches? I'm like, I don't know. How do I know these measurements? This is not helpful to me. So here's what I did. I found like, I went to a bunch of websites and I found the most common measurements that they ask you. This is incredible. I created this photo where I actually just measured all parts of my body that are common. So like thigh, knee, calf, and then like my sleeve length, whatever. And for a long time, if I was going to buy clothing from like a high-end store, I would actually send this to them occasionally.

44:51I would say, just send me the right stuff. You sent them this? Yes. To a high-end store? Yes. And it was incredibly effective. What did they say? They're like, I suggest that you buy this size. We've given this to security. You will not be allowed to use this. They're like, you are now on a list. I'm telling you, it's weird, but it's been very effective. Very strange, but it's been effective. Now, here's what I did. I used Claude Code. First of all, no way you measured all these things yourself. You had a friend or Sarah who measured these for you. You can't physically measure all these things with one hand like this.

45:26No, I had to have my wife just sit there and do it. And it was a pain in the butt. And so for a long time, I would keep this in my Google Drive and I would use it as reference when I would go and buy certain clothing. But the problem is that it was just cumbersome. It was a pain in the butt. And so what I did was I made an app using Claude Code where I would enter in all of those measurements. Then I would have to add two more things. The first thing is I would add a link to the product. So for example, let's say I want to get a dress shirt. Let's say I got to go somewhere and I got to wear a tie and I want to wear a guy.

45:59I got to get a dress shirt right now. I'm not sure if I'm a large or an extra large because I'm right in between sizes, but it has a size chart. And so what I did was I built an app where you take a photo of their size chart. Then you get the link of the product. So they know it's for this style of shirt, which should fit a very particular way. You entered in here. So here's when I posted the link. then I just took a screenshot of the shirt size or of the size chart and it tells me based off of you know these measurements you should get a 16.5 inch shirt and here's my reasoning and in order to like train it I actually there are a bunch of books on how clothing should fit and I actually uploaded that to this to like to have like a reasonable good to be like reasonably good at picking which sizes to buy and so I've been using this and it's been really effective And in fact, I buy a lot of stuff off eBay because I think it's fun.

46:51I like finding vintage clothes. And a lot of eBay sellers will put the measurements in there. And the problem with vintage clothing is large, extra large. It doesn't matter. It's irrelevant for old stuff. And so you have to go buy the measurements. Or if you buy European stuff, large, extra large, it doesn't really work. Because if you buy Japanese stuff, which I do, they're different sizes. So I actually wear a 3X in Japanese stuff. And so you have to follow the size guy. And so I made this. And it's been incredibly effective. I've been using this for a little while, a couple weeks, and I've ordered like three items based off of the size it told me.

47:26Wow. Incredible. It is incredible what you've made. So you're actually using this to buy stuff? Yeah. Would you think a guy wearing overalls and a Midwest trash trucker hat would be trying to find the right fitting shirt so there's no collar gap when I wear a tie? You probably wouldn't, but that's called being eclectic, my friend. you're like what are those food like turduckens or like you know foods where it's like looks like one thing on the outside but it's wrapped and on the inside is a whole different animal that you just didn't even know was there that's what you are my friend you're a turducken it's pretty awesome I think if you are a clothing nerd you guys will understand what I'm talking about or if you're like in between different sizes it is kind of a pain in the butt to like figure out are you going to publish these or you're just like I'm just going to use these myself I don't need to make this available dude the anthropic like the API stuff, it's really expensive.

48:13I used like$40 this weekend just on me using it. It was really expensive, but I'll use it on eBay. If you go to eBay and you want to buy something old or vintage, it tells you the measurements and just one night of doing it, it's like$3. No, I'm not going to publish it, but maybe, I don't know, maybe I could charge for it. I guess that'd be a cool project is try to build an interface that you could charge for. Wow. Okay, this is cool. All right, my turn. I have a more serious business use case one, but this will kind of blow your mind for like actual being in business. Okay, so what's the high level?

48:48I have a company and it's growing really fast. And it's scaled into from zero to tens of millions in revenue in like two years. Normally to do that, you have to hire a lot of people, right? Because like it's like a services business. Like you have a lot of clients and those clients need to be happy. Otherwise, they're going to leave at the end of their contract. And so how do you actually manage all this? And so our team built this tool internally that does the following. It basically reads into all your stuff. So it's like, cool, I got connection to HubSpot. I have connection to your Fathom video recordings from all your sales calls.

49:27I have access into Slack. I have access into your accounting software so I know when bills get paid. I know I can read anything on the inside. That's the first thing it does. Now check this out. Okay, so this is like, let's say this is, so this is our dashboard. So any of our team, any of our sales team or customer success team can go in to like look at a customer. Okay, so here's a customer, right? And so you just see like, okay, what's the overall, it auto-generates all of these things. Nobody had to manually enter anything. So it says, here's the status they're at, here's when they started, here's who's working on it, here's the link to their project plan, all that stuff.

50:05It automatically goes and grabs all that. Was this like a CRM that you built? Or is this like a... This is the tool. We built it. So now, if I click the renewal, which is like important, right? It's like, it'll say, here's the current ACV. Here's the target ACV. Here's our... Based on all the conversations we've had, like it goes and it reads the last status update, the last client call we had. It analyzes the sentiment. And it says, based on the sentiment, the client's really happy. We have high confidence that they're likely to renew. And then here's what we think the, here's the adjusted NRR that we think it'll have.

50:38It'll be a 7 % expansion based off of what we see right now. All right, so that's the first thing you see, which is sick. Then there's like an agent in here that we created. So you could just talk to the contract. You could just talk to the deal, to the customer record. And you could be like, hey, tell me about what are the top three expansion opportunities that we should be pitching them? Like what other services do we have that they might be interested in based on what you know about them. And it'll look at public info. It'll look at the call transcripts. It'll look at whatever to try to figure that out.

51:11It'll look at our internal database of services we offer and cross-check all of them. And it's like, we think it could offer X, Y, Z. And then it's like, cool, can you make a to-do list or make a to-do action, a task for me? It'll update automatically in like our task manager of who's going to follow up about these expansion opportunities and when. And then it goes and it creates the task. and now that's a task that's sitting there. And anybody else in the company, if they want to go look at this customer, they can see this conversation and they can actually benefit from it. So if they go and look at the customer record, they'll see that somebody's already brainstormed expansion opportunities and there's a tip to do already created from this.

51:50Somebody's already on that. Has your employees found that to be productive or is it buggy? It works good enough that it adds a lot of value? Yeah, this is like our command center for the business. There's one guy built this whole thing in like, you know, three months. There's so much information and so much stuff happening. It's so fast. I'm very thankful I'm not 22 right now. I'm very thankful I'm in the position where I'm in now to be able to use this stuff. But it would be easier. If you were 22, it'd be easier than ever to be successful. The competition's way harder. But the opportunity is like, it's kind of like musical chairs.

52:21If you're playing musical chairs and suddenly five new players get added to the game, they double the number of players in the game, yeah, it gets way harder. But if you 50X the number of chairs and you add 50 people, it doesn't matter. There's still so many chairs to go sit in. That's AI. AI is like every single product in every single category, plus a whole slew of new categories just came up for grabs because AI changes what can be done. And so the opportunity set is so much bigger that, yeah, there's more competition, but it doesn't matter because you would rather have, you know, you'd rather have this huge multiplier on the number of possible ways to win and how easy it is to build than less people.

53:05And every company just needs one of these AI guys. You need many of them. As many as you can have, yeah. I talked to a guy yesterday who has a company that's a billion-dollar company. And I was like, what are you doing with AI? Because I know he's smart. And I'm like, he's going to be doing something. And he goes, yeah, I'm constantly messing with Cloud Code and figuring out what I can do. he basically just appointed a AI general manager. So he's like, yeah, I actually just like hired a, like not a human. He's like, I just created AI that can be like a manager for these projects. And I'm trying to see how good I can make that.

53:46He told me that just in improving customer support with AI and like building, like making the developers more productive and getting rid of his like junior programmers who were not very good, not good at using AI, Just with those three changes, he's like, we doubled our profit margin. They're already a billion dollar company. So imagine doubling your profit margin off of something like that. It's so insane. By the way, here's my last perspective that I think is helpful because I feel like this somehow, you were excited and then you ended stressed out. So here's my last perspective that I think is helpful.

54:20I think if you put on yourself that you need to become a top 1%, 5 % or even 10 % kind of AI builder user, that's the wrong frame. All you need to do is say, all right, I'm already top 10 % in business, in content, right? You've already done all that in your life. And now if you just get to like 50 percentile in AI, which is not that hard to do, it multiplies against all your other skills. So the wrong game to play is, let me go try to beat all the AI geniuses who are spending all day doing this stuff and are more technically oriented than me. That's the wrong game to play. The right game to play is I already know a lot of stuff.

55:02Imagine if I just got, you know, for other people who have my skill stack or my domain knowledge about this industry I'm in that I've been in for 10 years or 20 years, how do I just use just a little bit of AI, right? How do I just get like just good enough, just dangerous enough where it multiplies against what I've already got? Because if you just compare yourself to the people who are technically brilliant or just on this 24-7 or they're 22 years old and their brain still is like super plastic and they can just learn anything super fast, like, I think you will feel behind. But it's not really accurate.

55:34It's not really the way to think about things. All right. What do you think? Did you have fun? That was fun. I think we should do this more often. I think we should use this as the forcing function to play with different AI tools and see what we come up with. I'm down. It was great. It's just crazy how there's levels. So, you know, buying the right size overalls to like, you know, adding 10 points to your billion-dollar margin. To each their own. Let us know in the comments on Spotify, YouTube. We read all the comments. Let us know if you want us to do more of these style of episodes or if you have a tweak that you think would make these more fun or more interesting for you.

56:11We tried to not bring on like an AI expert because sometimes actually the blind leading the blind can help because we don't know too much, right? We can both be kind of dummies figuring this out together. And I suspect that that's actually a more fun and better way to learn about this stuff than somebody who knows everything comes on and just spouts a bunch of jargon at you that you don't really understand and you just feel stupid. But maybe we're wrong. Maybe we'll mix in some experts as we go. All right, that's it. That's the pod. I feel like I can rule the world. I know I could be what I want to.

56:44I put my all in it like no days off. On the road, let's travel, never looking back. All right, my friends, I have a new podcast for you guys to check out. It's called Content is Profit, and it's hosted by Luis and Fonzie Cameo. After years of building content teams and frameworks for companies like Red Bull and Orange Theory Fitness, Luis and Fonzie are on a mission to bridge the gap between content and revenue. In each episode, you're going to hear from top entrepreneurs and creators, and you're going to hear them share their secrets and strategies to turn their content into profit. So you can check out Content is Profit wherever you get your podcasts.