For today´s episode, Mike is joined by Mike Todasco a visiting fellow at San Diego State University and former director of Innovation at PayPal. Mike holds over 100 patents and has a passion for leveraging AI to get things done fast. If you are a solopreneur who wants to scale quickly without building a team, this episode is very much for you.
KEY TAKEAWAYS
- AI genuinely can super charge your business.
- Experiment to get the most out of AI. When it comes to mastering tech growth experimentation is key.
- According to McKenzie, businesses can use AI to eliminate 60 to 70% of their tasks.
- Use an AI bracelet to record what you do each day.
- Eliminate the tasks that are no longer necessary and aim to automate the rest.
- Use tools like make.com to start automating app-based tasks. It may take time to get each task automation to work, so you need to be persistent.
- You can outline a task to Zapier, and it will create a workflow of automation for you to tweak.
- Find a space or activity that lets you switch off fully and really think e.g. running or driving. That´s when the ideas flow.
- Pick an AI tool and go with it, learn it throughly. Once you´ve done that you will be able to master other AI tools far faster.
- Automate tasks that are expensive to outsource. Mike shares some surprising use cases.
- Empower the people who work for you with AI tools.
- Explore Notebook LLM for content creation. It relies solely on the sources you give it.
- Use reinforcement learning to get the most out of AI. The more feedback you give it the better.
- ChatGPT can now remember your previous chats, which means it can now learn about you, your preferences, what you are working, the language you like to use and more.
- Use AI in your day-to-day life e.g. to create your training routines
BEST MOMENTS
00.57 "The majority of solopreneurs use AI without a system, no workflow, no structure, no AI leverage."
5.23 "Embrace your inner child, you need to experiment, you need to try stuff, you need to fail. That´s how you work with these AI tools."
13.08 "If you are not occasionally adding steps back into your processes that means you are not removing enough."
26.24 “The thing that kills ideation is having a phone. You just think oh god I´m so bored, I need to go on TikTok.”
38.26 “Just pick one AI tool and go with it. All of them are so darn good.”
52.16 “According to MIT Sloan, AI systems perform much better when they are treated as collaboration partners.”
1.02.16 “Find the tasks which are low hanging fruits, quick wins, which should not be done by hand.”
ABOUT THE GUEST
https://www.linkedin.com/in/todasco
https://www.bee.computer – AI bracelet
ABOUT THE HOST
Meet Mike, a seasoned tech entrepreneur and visionary with over two and a half decades of invaluable experience in founding and scaling successful tech start-ups. Mike brings a wealth of firsthand knowledge, and a deep understanding of the challenges faced by entrepreneurs and tech professionals.
As a host, Mike is dedicated to sharing actionable insights, strategies, and stories gathered from conversations with industry leaders, innovators, and experts. With a remarkable ability to distil practical wisdom from guests, Mike cur
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