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So, if someone is trying to get from zero to a million dollars, these are the tools that I'm using to make a million bucks.
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[Music] So, today what I want to talk about is I want to show five or six different apps that I'm using, Sam, that I think you should be using.
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And we can we can just go through it that are underrated hidden gems that you probably never heard of that will make you more productive and make you more money.
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And the reason why this is fun is because a lot of people in the audience are like me, which is they're like I'm a really good Googler.
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That's like that's like my that's the extent of how good I am on computers.
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I'm pretty good at ChatGPT, but you are like three steps above me in terms of being technical.
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And then there's like people that are like 10 steps above that.
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But you're kind of a good balance of someone who's like on the outer edge being an early adopter, but also you can relate this to kind of like a Neanderthal like me. I appreciate that.
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Yeah, I'm going to try to clearly explain as much as possible.
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And I tried I tried to pick examples of apps that literally anyone could use that is going to make like a a big difference in their lives.
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By the way, I know people are going to listen to this.
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Some people are going to be like cuz there's a lot of AI haters out there, Sam. Why? Why?
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Cuz they they see stuff like this, which I will show you, you know, AI generated Taylor Swift.
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And they're like you are ruining the world. Okay.
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But, you know, this is the this is where technology is going and this episode is for people who want to use it to their advantage.
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And so, that's what we're here for. All right, Greg. Fire me up. What do we got?
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How am I going to look like T-Swift?
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All right, you want to start with that? Friends, listen.
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What you're seeing right now is crazy.
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>> We are crossing a line in human history where the boundary between reality and fiction is vanishing.
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>> This is not Hollywood billion-dollar high-production studio. This is open source.
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This is from your computer click of a button.
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Most people will not be able to even tell the difference now. So, be safe out there. Question what you see. Verify what you believe.
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Follow who you want to see ahead of the curve. This is AI.
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Sounds just like Taylor and it looks pretty much just like Taylor.
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And I think the coolest thing about it is look at her mouth movement.
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Looks exactly like this guy on the top, my friend Serio.
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Um and you can do this not with just Taylor Swift.
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You can do this with like Mark Zuckerberg.
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You can do this Jensen Wong.
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Like anyone you want you can kind of like deepfake.
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Uh Dude, but it this it looks like she looks Taylor Swift I think is a pretty woman.
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This is a very she's got a stronger jawline than normal and this one.
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So, it doesn't look exactly like her.
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You know what's interesting?
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So, I think that you should do like a use case for each of these.
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Do you want to hear a crazy use case that I learned from one of these?
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I had someone I knew who uh they're a wealthy person and someone discovered that they were out of town and a person used one of these deepfakes to call the building to say that a handyman will be coming, please let them up into their apartment and it was a criminal and they like robbed their apartment.
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And so, these deepfakes are very nerve-wracking for these reasons.
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Yeah, and and that's there is a dark side to it, for sure.
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Um and bad stuff is going to happen.
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Uh and we need to be aware of it.
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I'm especially concerned about like yeah, like grandmas and parents getting like scammed.
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Um but Dude, I've almost been scammed.
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Like I get almost scammed weekly.
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So, it's not just the grandmas.
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What's the what's the service?
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What's the app that makes these these videos?
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So, this is using a open-source model called Waon 2. 2.
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It's by the Alibaba people.
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Um so, it is a Chinese app. Yeah. So, you know, beware.
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You know, for a lot of people using open-source technology is kind of difficult.
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So, there are apps like enhancer.
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ai that allows you just to use their SaaS platform.
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So, you can just pick it and you don't need to like look at a GitHub.
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Or there's another one called Free Pick, which does the same thing.
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So, you know, I think it's worth people playing around with Waon 2. 2.
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This is the So, basically you record a video of yourself talking and you can basically pick a character that, you know, yeah, you're right.
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It doesn't look like Taylor Swift exactly.
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It's more like a Tyler Swift. >> Yeah. Um yeah, you know.
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So, if you wanted Tyler Swift a Swift or uh you know, Matt Zuckerberg.
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Uh you know, it's fun to play around with it and use it as content for your you know, your brand or just or just having fun.
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Like you know, your personal brand as well. That's cool.
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When do you think this is going to be good enough for me to use like in ads or things like that?
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I mean, it's it's it's 100% good enough to use in ads now.
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I wouldn't use, you know, Tyler Swift in an ad cuz you might not get approved by Meta.
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But, you know, people are using JF you know, JFK and Plato and you know, things that are in the public domain that you could use you know, create ads for and it's working.
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So, I can go to enhancer.
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ai, which I'm here, and I can film like I could film like a funny script of what I think JFK would say to promote MFM or something like that.
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And I can actually use that in an ad because JFK is considered public domain. Exactly.
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I mean, I'm not a lawyer, but from my understanding, yes.
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I There's this guy by the name of PJ Aes.
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Um I just had him on my podcast. He's amazing.
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He's like the number one AI video ad guy and he's literally getting hundreds of millions of views on his AI videos and he's I've seen him like he'll work with like you know, the largest companies on the planet.
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And so, he's using Look at this.
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Like he's using Sam Altman here. So, wow.
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Is there a way that um What would be the best way this like I'm looking at this PJ Aes guy and I'm like this sounds awesome.
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I want to use this immediately.
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What would be the best way for me to do that?
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So, first you need to write a script.
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And if I were to if you know, what I would do is I would uh use ChatGPT, use Claude to come up with a a script idea.
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And we won't have time to go through a tutorial that today, but then I would create reference frames.
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So, I would use uh one of the image models like enhancer or like Free Pick, which we maybe we can go into later, to create images of what the storyboard of the 20-second or 30-second ad might look like.
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And then I would animate those frames to create a cohesive story.
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Um that's basically the process.
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You use ChatGPT uh Claude uh use enhancer and Free Pick.
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Um and then you use um you know, you might want to if if you're pro, you might want to use like a you know, Final Cut Pro or something like that to get Yeah. Okay, this is awesome. What's the next one?
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Have you played with Perplexity Browser at all?
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No, I actually use Perplexity the other day because I watched one of your videos on how to use Sora and I saw that you say that Perplexity is good for researching and I forget what you exactly what you said in the video, but I used it to research I think how to make a viral video or something like that.
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And then I like put that into Claude and then I got the script from Claude and then I put it in Sora. Is that right? Yeah.
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So, it's a hassle to move browsers.
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Like everyone has everything set up on their current browser.
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Maybe they're using Google Chrome.
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Um but having an AI-first browser is an absolute game-changer.
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There's Perplexity Comet, there's Diar, there's Opera, there's a few others.
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But for today's example, we're going to use Comet cuz that's which one I think is the best.
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And I just want to go through a few workflows to So, by the end of this demo, I think that everyone is going to be like, yeah, I need an AI browser.
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>> So, do you use Let me let me clarify.
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Do you use Perplexity Comet at in instead of Chrome? Yes. Okay.
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So, this is not a cool thing. This is I ROI. This works. Okay. Oh, and I can't go back.
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Like you know, going back would like my eyes would bleed, you know, I it is too slow to go back.
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Once you get used to an AI browser, you will not go back.
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Just like now you use ChatGPT over Google probably 95% of the time. >> Yeah.
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So, um I saw this ad for this company called OneBone.
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Um which is a clothing brand for big and tall people. Uh I'm actually not big. Um I'm pretty tall. I'm like 6'3. Uh so, I'm I'm 165 lb.
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So, I'm actually not that big, but I clicked on it anyways.
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I thought that it looked pretty cool.
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Um and so, you know, let's just say I'm Okay, I'm 6'3.
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Um I'm going to add this to cart.
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I always get to this I don't know if is this just me, Sam, but I always get to this point where it's the discount code and I'm like, okay, there must be a discount code I could use here.
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And you know that there was a scan uh it was like a scam basically with Honey, right?
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Where it was they acknowledge or someone did like a Coffee Zilla type video where they said uh Honey is like getting a referral affiliate fee on each on on your data and on your products, right? >> Yeah, yeah. I saw that.
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That was about 6 months ago? Yeah, exactly. Went viral.
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So, here's an example of how I would use Comet.
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So, I'd say, I want to use a discount code. Oh my gosh. I don't know any.
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Can you find one and only find one that works and add it to this form.
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Oh my gosh, this is awesome.
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So what's cool about uh Comet is it sees what's on your screen and you can see on the right-hand side it's it's looking and it's searching through, you know, here in this case 10 different sources.
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And it'll hopefully work.
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And if it doesn't, you can keep just prompting it to get it to work, right?
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So look, Thrift 10 is back. >> $1.
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Save $66 on my two jackets.
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Um and >> Greg, have you ever heard of girl math?
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Is that what it's called, Barry?
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Have you heard of girl math?
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I think this is an example of girl math.
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You've just made $60 shopping.
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It's it's basically free.
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>> It's basically You just got paid 66 bucks.
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I bought a jacket for 350 lb men and I'm 165 lb, but it's but it's free. That's awesome. This is girl math. I love this. That's cool.
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Hey everyone, really quick.
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I can already tell that this is an episode that you guys are going to be taking a lot of notes on and that's kind of a pain in the butt to do while you're either watching or listening to this and so we actually made it really easy.
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Click it if you want those notes. Now back to the episode.
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So the next thing that I've been using Comet for has been finding exact moments in YouTube videos.
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So I'll say something like So open up Assistant on the right-hand side.
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Find and play the exact moment Steve Jobs talked about Apple's intersection of liberal arts and technology.
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And then Comet's agents go and figure out where that is.
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And I can Yeah, it basically downloads the transcript and it searches it and look how fast it is, right?
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>> I use I do that all the time.
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Like if I'm doing copywriting, I'm like, "Oh, I I remember a good hook.
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I once watched this video of Steve Jobs."
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He made this like kind of small off-handed comment, but I don't remember like it was at a graduation talk, but I don't remember which one and this would save so much time by being able to like just ask it to find it.
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It saves a lot of time and also you're in kind of you're in flow state.
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So if you wanted to do this on Chrome or or another browser, you'd have to open up another tab, you'd have to like Google it, you'd have to find it, you'd have to watch.
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Like it it pulls you out of Wow. you know, your zone.
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How am I able to run five companies that are successful?
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It's because I have a lot of tricks like this that help me save time.
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So at the It says here the quote begins at the 7-second mark.
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You can actually tell it's a I think it'll if I say play this video, it should actually play the video.
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Yeah, see it opened up a new tab.
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And you can't hear this, but it's literally playing it. >> That's crazy.
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And then you can go back to Assistant and you can say um this is a cool talk. I'm a founder.
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What are the most interesting takeaways for me? Write it in an essay.
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And I find I find that YouTube is just such a wealth of information.
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Like literally everything There's so much there.
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All of our world leaders, you know, world leaders are on it.
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The biggest founders on the planet, podcasts.
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Learning from from YouTube is so amazing and I just find myself just going to videos like this and seeing like look how look how amazing this is.
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>> Man, I should have I wish I would have known about this.
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I actually just installed a Chrome plugin that gets the transcript from YouTube and it does it a little bit better than the normal YouTube transcript button and I did it so I could copy and paste it just to put it into chat GPT to ask it these questions.
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Yeah, it's it's This is going to make your life a lot easier.
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You're going to be you're going to be way smarter from this.
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Not that you need to be smarter.
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You're you're smart guy, Sam, but you know, we'll take any edge we can get.
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>> I I I'm a few brain cells away from just being a talking monkey, my friend.
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I could use anything I can get. Okay.
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So Perplexity Comet, that's awesome. I like that.
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>> I'll do one last one with Perplexity Comet and then we can move on.
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So you can ask it you know, one of one of the hardest things I have to do as a founder is trying to hire good talent, right?
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So you can say find find and go to the LinkedIn profile of someone who worked on Apple AI and now at Meta. So >> Wow.
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It'll actually go and do that for you. >> It's free.
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It just It just came out like a few days ago for free for everyone. Wow.
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>> And I have no relationship to Perplexity, by the way.
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I'm just like I'm I'm I'm a happy, you know, it makes my life better, right?
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So I'm happy to talk about it.
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>> I pay um I think $200 a month for LinkedIn Recruiter. Oh, yeah.
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And this just kind of like LinkedIn Recruiter has value, but this just would have helped as well and maybe in lieu of and for free. Well, watch this. So we got this answer.
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The LinkedIn profile of Mark Lee matches your criteria.
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He worked on Apple AI as a research engineer and is now an AI research scientist at Meta.
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So let's say, Sam, that you wanted to hire him for Hampton.
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>> only cost $100 million.
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>> It would only cost between $100 million and $500 million, but what you can do is say Can you craft an email >> gosh.
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that is going to get this guy to work for me. I'm the CEO of Hampton.
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What's the What's the URL? >> joinhampton. com joinhampton.
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com >> Yeah, it's just going to say like good luck, buddy. Get get in line, pal.
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I hope this message find you well.
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My name is, you know, your name.
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I'm the CEO of joinhampton.
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We're assembling a you know, and this is it's not bad and you can you can kind of like craft it to make it your own, right?
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But what's really cool about this is Okay, cool. This looks great. My name is Sam Parr.
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Can you send this email for me on my Gmail? Oh my gosh.
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So what it'll do is it'll basically create an agent that will send this email for you.
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So you can actually connect your Gmail. >> Wow.
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Yeah, I'm not going to do it right now cuz, you know, I'm not Sam Parr and I'm not trying to spend $100 million hiring this guy, but you can actually connect your Gmail and start sending emails.
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>> Man, this is just so nutty and this is a lot of people watching this will will mock me here and make fun of me, but for the real nerds, like I use a Whisper.
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Is it called Whisper Flow? Yeah, it's Whisper Flow.
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>> So I'm actually just I actually talk to my computer a lot and I've got I have it set up to where like the little globe button on the bottom left hand of my screen, I just hold that button and I have a conversation with it and it types it for me because I hate typing.
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Like literally my fingers hurt sometimes cuz like and so I will just I just have conversations with my computer and if I could do that now in the in Perplexity's Comet, that would make life way better.
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Yeah, so speaking to computers like how you're doing with Whisper Flow, which is another underrated AI tool, uh once you do it, you can't go back.
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Like here you can Here you can see like a keyboard you can only get to 45 words per minute.
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Flow you get to 220 words per minute.
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It's too slow to go back to a keyboard after.
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>> So if for the those listening, you have to check out Whisper Flow and it's or I think it's called Whisper.
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Is it It's actually shockingly hard to find if you Google it because they spell Whisper with in a startuppy way.
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I think it's like w i s p e r.
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Um and so the way it works is you I have it set up by my hot key where I I just click this one button and I talk to it, but sometimes I'll make a mistake and I'll say, "Oh, whoops. I mean this."
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So can you pick me up a burger?
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I mean I actually want a taco.
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Like if I'm texting my wife.
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Like it will not say the first thing and instead will say the second thing or I'll say, "So my opinion on that is broken down into three points. Point one is this. Point two is this. Point three is this."
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It formats it where put where it says, "My opinion is this colon number one, this.
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Paragraph number two, this." 100%.
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Also, I I think that people could use Whisper Flow for teams.
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I think that's an underrated kind of hack.
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Um using the snippet library that they have, you can create these snippets.
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Like here, calendar hours, support intro FAQ so that you can just say calendar or say hours and it'll just throw it in there. So >> gosh.
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Um I I love Whisper Flow.
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To me it's the same level up in productivity that you are going to see if, you know, you're moving from you know, Chrome to to an AI browser.
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Like What are you more interested in talking about?
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AI Excel or content automation on TikTok getting followers on TikTok?
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>> I I don't like TikTok, but I do want to know how to get followers, but I want to know more so the Excel thing because I've been trying to find a replacement for Like I wanted to talk to Google Sheets.
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I actually use Google Sheets.
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I don't use Excel, but I think I saw that one company got funded like 12 months ago, but I went and demoed it and it was only fine and so I haven't found a good solution for this.
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So yeah, if you're anything like me, you hate Excel.
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Like the idea I don't even know what a macro is, honestly.
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Yeah, I I I I don't know what that word means, but I hear people say it all the time.
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Like to me an Excel sheet is is is almost like terminal.
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Like when I'm in the terminal, I'm like overwhelmed.
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So I I try to avoid going in Excel as much as possible, but there's this thing called tryshortcut. ai.
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It's from this research lab of like ballers.
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Like some of the best researchers on the planet created it.
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And their first product is to create an AI first version of Excel.
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And it's similar to actually Comet in the sense that you know, on the left it sees your screen which is like a cloud version of Excel and on the right hand side you have prompts.
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And you can just use natural language to tell it what to do. And it it works.
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For example, literally 1 minute before this call this call, I actually used Comet to find I was like, "Hey, find me a sheet of financial data that I can upload to try tryshortcut."
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I uploaded it to tryshortcut.
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As you can see, it's this list of company, how much market cap they have, how much revenue they have, how much gross profit they had.
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I said, "Analyze my data for key insights."
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It gives me all the key insights.
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Now, if I wanted to say, "Hey, build me a DCF analysis or build me an income statement or explain me this or explain me that." You can do it. >> Wow. And it's it works.
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Can you ask it a question right now?
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Ask it which stock would Warren Buffett pick based off of this data?
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The reason I'm asking is cuz I actually bought a book called like Warren Buffett on accounting or something like that or Warren Buffett on balance sheets when I was trying to learn accounting.
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And cuz I was trying to figure out what does he see?
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You know, what what sticks out to him?
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But this and the book was really hard to read.
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These are these are complicated concepts.
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This might just do it for me. Yeah.
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Yeah, and it has all it has this data that is on screen, but it's also looking you know, it's sending agents all across the internet to figure out what is what is happening and and so the beauty of this context plus that context you end up getting really good outcomes.
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And then you can also say uh so uh Warren Buffett's pick is Apple.
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So we're getting some some data here.
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But you can also now that it's giving this data, you can actually say like create a new document based on this that shows like the operating cash flow. Yeah. Wow. This is a big deal.
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I just saw that they uh have this now which is an Excel plugin.
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So even if you don't want to use their cloud-based solution, you can just basically uh down Look, it only has 36 ratings.
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This is how early you are to this. I want to be number 37. That's great.
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Um are you um usually what I've done is I have uploaded my financials like either my P&L, my business's P&L or sometimes even like my personal income statement or my personal net worth and I will ask ChatGPT questions off of based off that data.
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Would you feel comfortable doing that here on Comet?
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Not comfortable because it's not any revealing information. It's just numbers.
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It's not like a social security number or anything like that.
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But would you feel like it would give you good advice?
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Yeah, I mean I would feel comfortable.
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I think you I would feel more comfortable though just doing it locally on on Excel so you're not uploading your data to the cloud cuz who knows what could happen.
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Um so I I you know, if it's really sensitive data, I do recommend just using Excel. Like why not?
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You don't need to have it on the cloud, right?
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Everyone most people use Excel.
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But look look what you can do here.
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Like you can you know, it's not even just querying cuz on ChatGPT you can query the data and be like, "What would you do here?
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What would you do there?"
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But you can say uh you know, you know, if you know, build LBO models or DCF analysis or proforma statements.
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Like this is this is stuff this is basically a financial analyst in a box that you can uh that you can use and it's pretty cheap. >> Wow.
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This is magical and this is free?
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You get like a certain amount of credits for free.
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It's not that many credits. I think it's like four. >> Yeah. That's cool.
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That um that might be number two and Comet might be number one, but it'd be close so far. Yeah.
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I knew you'd like that one.
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You're probably going to hate this one, but I'm telling it to you anyway. >> Okay.
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And the reason I'm telling it to you is just cuz there's an arbitrage moment where I'm sure you've probably seen these slideshows on TikTok where >> No, I actually don't use TikTok, but I I maybe you can convince me, but I think that like this AI content is just garbage.
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You know, like I'm a purist. I want like Mr. Beast.
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I bet you people I bet you have like favorited, shared, liked AI content, but you just haven't realized it. >> other day.
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There was one where um a guy used made a fake potato launcher and he shot it at a grandma and it was the funniest thing I've ever seen. Yeah.
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Or like did you see like Stephen Hawking >> Yeah, so the verb rap. Yeah. Yeah, it's great.
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So yeah, I guess I'm I'm kind of being convinced in real time here.
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Yeah, and I think a lot of these types what I'm showing here, these TikToks are like six mistakes we made during pool planning and how to avoid them.
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You would never think that that's actually AI that created it. >> No. No, that looks real. That looks real. >> Okay.
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So how do I um how do I fake the world? Here's what I'll say.
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I'll say that you know, a lot of people are vibe coding software right now.
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Um but the hardest problem is how do you get customers to that software?
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Well, one way is to own a bunch of accounts like on TikTok that you can send traffic to.
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So I believe that there's an arbitrage right now to use AI to uh create these accounts.
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Basically like meme accounts.
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Um and then you know, sell your software through them.
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So there's a there's a a piece of software uh called Real Farm.
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This thing must do like 10K a month MRR or less.
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It's like not many people know about it.
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But it's a way to automate TikToks to drive traffic to your website. >> Just TikTok? Not Instagram? Just TikTok.
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Uh I mean you probably could you you know, upload it to Instagram, but from what I've seen it does TikTok the best.
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What it how it works is you can uh source images from let's say Pinterest.
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So Pinterest has tons of images.
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Let's say you want to do you know, top a slideshow that says top eight protein sources ranked by bioavailability and cost.
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So you add a prompt and generate a slideshow.
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You can see the slideshow over here. That's crazy.
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These images and it's super clean and the cool thing is that TikTok is promoting slideshows right now.
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Um and then you can just schedule and publish it.
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So within like 30 seconds you have a piece of content in your niche that you can just schedule. Wow.
26:43
Man, I I have a friend that created an app.
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He's a man that helps men do Kegel exercises which basically makes it so you don't premature ejaculate during sex.
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And I was like, "Man, this is neat and all, but this is real hard to promote.
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Like I don't you know, I wouldn't want to brag.
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I I don't feel comfortable bragging about using this app."
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And when you go to Real Farm, I see Real Farm Real What is their URL? real. farm? >> real. farm.
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Like I see the companies who use it and I'm like I see A16Z and I see Substack and I'm like "Really? You? You guys use this?"
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Yeah, I don't know I don't know if they use it, but I do know that if you want to fight for customers right now and you want audiences, slideshows and TikTok slideshows is a great way to do it.
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And then you know, why pay an agency thousands of dollars a month when you can just use a product like this?
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>> You want to know something funny?
27:34
Do you know who Steven Bartlett is? I do.
27:37
Steven used to work for Sean.
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He was like Sean's intern or something like that.
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And then he left to start his first business and apparently Sean tells the story, but it's public which is like he had a whole bunch of like Twitter or Instagram handles.
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It was like things teens say about Georgia or art history where they just like told stories about art history and he would get all of them popular and then you would spend money with him.
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You would buy an ad and he would have his meme accounts tweet out or Instagram out your product and then like within 10 minutes it would go viral or something or it would be highly ranked in the App Store.
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This is kind of like in the same vein.
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And you know, I'm teasing and making fun of it, but I'm on real. farm.
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Some of the like he's got this one where he uses like old art to make like these slideshows.
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I am such a like I watch those all the time.
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Like if it's something like, you know, the top 10 like strangest disappear like missing person cases.
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Like I watch all of them. Totally.
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So you That's what That's what I'm saying.
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Like we've we've watched this.
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Like there's there's there's some way to do AI slop that just like is cringe and looks bad, but some of these like slideshows and uh he also has like UGC ad avatar feature on Real Farm that I think is pretty interesting. >> What's that called?
28:55
Real Oh, Real the same website?
28:56
It's the same website, but they basically have a way that you you select a template.
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Um let's say of this of this person this this sleepy looking guy over here in the hoodie.
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And you're like, "Okay, I want to create an ad."
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Um and then you come up with the hook.
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You know, you can use like ChatGPT or Claude to come up with the hook or you can you know, actually be creative yourself.
29:18
Um and you can say like my top three matcha brands.
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Um you choose the background music and then it creates using AI. That looks real. >> That looks real. Um that looks real. This looks real. Um >> is fake? He's a fake guy.
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You set you you create the uh product video.
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You can use AI to create the product video or if you, you know, want, you can create it yourself like with an iPhone.
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>> It does look like green paint, not matcha, but that's but you know, I guess cuz I'm staring at it.
29:49
Sherwin-Williams is new matcha brand.
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That's what it looks like.
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Yeah, and like I said, you know, it's not perfect.
29:57
Um, but I also think that like we're looking at it like surgically, but the average person just swiping and their brain rotted frame of mind is probably not like it looks like paint.
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>> I want to buy stuff, you know. >> I want to buy stuff. Yeah.
30:12
And what's what's an account like this worth if you're just like reviewing matcha brands and you have thousands of followers?
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Like yeah, like that's probably worth a lot of money.
30:24
Dude, this stuff whenever I see it, so the capitalistic side is like this is awesome.
30:28
And then I find myself slowly like becoming a socialist and I'm thinking, oh my god.
30:32
We're just we're just a bunch of palanteers in our house just watching us and we're just buying dumb stuff from AI ads.
30:41
Okay, that's interesting though.
30:43
Regardless if I I make fun of it, I think it's kind of cool.
30:45
What's the what's another cool one?
30:48
Okay, this one is also you you're you're going to hate this I think also, but Sign me up.
30:54
This is not just for you.
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It's for uh it's for people looking for jobs.
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So um there's this thing called AI apply. Hm.
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And if you go to the website, you could let's say you're looking for a job, you can literally apply to thousands of jobs automatically via AI. That's crazy, man.
31:17
This is absolutely crazy.
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It also has this cool thing, there's like an interview buddy, so it helps you like get real-time interview help and answer interview questions.
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Um it helps you build in resume, it helps you build a cover letter, and obviously the core feature is the auto apply thing.
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Now why I like this is it's like I might feel in our little tech bubble that like the economy is good and everything like that.
31:41
People are suffering right now and it's really hard to find a job.
31:45
Any way that you can find an unfair advantage to get in the room I support.
31:51
It does suck for the HR managers and the you know, the people at the companies getting all these AI applications. I will say that though. That is insane, man.
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I hate this, but um I get I get the need.
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It says that it's loved by 1 million users.
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So a million people use this?
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Million people have used this.
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I I actually tweeted like what are some underrated apps and the CMO replied with this and some guy was like yeah, but if you're uh you know, the company getting these, this sucks.
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And he responded saying like the next version of the product is helping companies filter out AI applications.
32:32
This is like if Nestle like owned the hospital. You know what I mean? Yeah, exactly.
32:39
Looks like we're going to fatten you up and then give you a bunch of medicine to make you a skinny and then we're going to fat you up again.
32:45
Yeah, it's amazing and it's probably going to be a great business.
32:46
Um but I think that like there's an again, I'm always looking for like the arbitrage opportunity.
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Has seeing Yeah, and I get the money-making perspective and I think that if you haven't made your first dollar and you're looking to do something then this is the future and and I you know, like my business that made me money was a newsletter that had advertising in it.
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So I'm I am I am no one to talk about any of this, but sometimes I see this stuff.
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I do get pretty bummed out where I think and and I think this will always happen.
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I think the people who are older will always look at the younger people and being like back in my day like we cared about our jobs or we were more craftsmen.
33:20
So I'm going to preface all that with with that, but does any of this make you feel bad?
33:28
Yeah, so well, this podcast is called My First Million.
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So if someone is trying to get from zero to a million dollars like these are the tools that anyone could use and there's no capital restrictions and you don't need to be in Silicon Valley to win.
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So I think that you know, if I'm trying to make a million bucks like this is this is these are the tools that I'm trying I'm using to make a million bucks.
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I grew up with no connections and you know, not a ton of money and stuff like that.
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So like I have a soft spot for people who are starting out going zero to one and you know, so I that's who I'm focusing on, man.
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Like I'm focusing like I'm that's what I've like dedicated my career to to doing really is helping people, you know, being in the light bulb business and helping people have light bulbs so they can actually like change the trajectory of life.
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Now, I say that with like I don't want to go on on X and Instagram and see AI slop all day long. You know what I mean?
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Like I love X and I love Instagram.
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And we have kids now, right?
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We don't want our our our families to be addicted to these products.
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So I do I I do feel that.
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I do feel a sense of like responsibility as well.
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But I do think it's interesting.
34:46
You know, I think that um I think that the the generation before the internet came around, they probably said the exact same thing.
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They said the same thing.
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>> I think that the generation before the industrial revolution, they would say the exact same thing.
34:57
So things tend to work themselves out and it's just this is the first time in my life that I'm old enough where I'm potentially like, okay, are you getting on or are you getting off?
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Whereas if you're a young person, you're just born on.
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So there was no are you getting on or getting off for the internet.
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I was born to the internet.
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That's just how I grew up.
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Whereas now I'm old enough to where it's not I'm not default into it and I have to like learn about it.
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And this is this is the first time I've experienced that.
35:27
Yeah, I mean we are getting older, you know.
35:30
So and and we've seen some of these shifts, but I agree like what's the difference between brain rotting on TikTok and like watching TV for 8 hours a day.
35:40
Um these tools are are really cool.
35:40
I do How many how many hours a week are you just nerding out and finding all these interesting things?
35:48
I mean, that's one of the reasons why I love the design agency is like the design agency is working with all all the top AI apps to build out this stuff.
35:57
So sometimes I just sit in meetings and I'm like you know, teach me everything about you know, character AI, teach me everything about Jasper AI, teach me everything about these tools.
36:06
How many of them are you proficient in?
36:10
I I spend probably 10 hours a week playing with new tools every single week and I would say I'm proficient and I'm proficient like I'm you know, native in 10 tools, let's say.
36:27
Man, well, thank you for um for um filling me in. I do feel it's funny.
36:33
Uh for years I was like the young guy.
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I was like, you know, the guy who my parents would ask how do the how do they turn their internet on or plug their TV in because I think that I'm like a a computer geek.
36:42
And but I was never actually that and now I feel um like I'm even further away from like the AI epicenter, but I'm so happy that I have friends like you who can like pull me towards it a little bit and show me what's cool and and and not make me feel stupid by not knowing what it is.
36:58
And that's the other value that you provided to our audience this episode.
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So I appreciate you doing that.
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It's literally my pleasure.
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It's an honor to do to do so and like like I said, like I'm in the light bulb business.
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So you know, if you had one or two or three light bulbs um even if some of this stuff you you saw today was like, uh that's a little bit cringe. I wouldn't do that.
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Um there might be a way that you can do or use some of these tools in a way that works for you.
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And I think that's the important part and that's like the important takeaway.
37:26
So Sam, thanks for having me on and and letting me share my nerdy stuff.
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Um and I'll see you next time. All right, that's it. That's the pod. [Music]