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#2305 I earned $500k when AI replaced my managers

May 14, 2026
Chandler Bolt realized that much of what his sales managers did at Selfpublishing.com can be done better by good AI. Within a month, he built a first version with spiked sales. Now he’s replacing all his managers. This is his guide to doing it well.

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#2304 “I make $4.5 million implementing AI”

April 23, 2026
I first heard about this guy on the Joe Rogan show. He built a hot business on a simple concept: Companies hire him to embed AI usage and thinking in their businesses. Now he’s creating his own agent software (a customized version of NeoClaw) that he’s installing in companies. Best of all: Jon Cheney says what he built at GenAIPI can be built by people listening to this episode. We break down how.

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#2303 Convos: Instant OpenClaw on your phone

April 20, 2026
On X, Shane Mac showed how he created an OpenClaw agent and asked it to copy an app. In this interview, he showed how his app Convos, does it. This interview is more visual than our usual ones, so you should head over to our YouTube channel for builders to see it.

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#2302 Superpowering Claude with 10,000 apps

April 7, 2026
Zapier just announced a new way for founders to integrate all their favorite apps with their favorite AI model. Wade Foster, their co-founder, came on to show what we can build with it.

Wade Foster is the co-founder and CEO of Zapier, the automation platform that conn...

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#2301 How Nat Eliason’s OpenClaw earned $177,417

March 27, 2026
When OpenClaw was released, I watched Nat Eliason create an agent, give it an X account and tell it to earn money. This is the story of how it worked and how you can build an AI agent as your co-founder or employee.

Nat Eliason is the operator behind Felix, an auto...

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#2300 Revenue jumped when he sold to AI agents

March 11, 2026
There are loads of apps that post to social media. So how did Nevo David get Postiz to take off? He started selling it to AI agents

Nevo David is the founder of Postiz, an open-source social media scheduling platform designed for automation and AI-driven workflows...

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#2299 Zapier is using AI to sell to AI

March 9, 2026
In private conversations, I’m hearing a lot of founders describe how they’re starting to sell to AI agents, like OpenClaw’s. Zapier has more traction doing that than anyone else I met. So, in my monthly podcast with Zapier’s founder, Wade Foster, I asked him to show me how they’re doing it.

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#2298 This AI generates $689K

March 2, 2026
Ben Cera used AI coding agents to build a company that generates $689K. The agent creates ads using AI-generated people, handles customer support, and even builds the product. This is the story of how he built Polsia and the future of business.

Ben Cera is the founder of Polsia, an...

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#2297 Elad Gil backed 40 unicorns. This is next

February 24, 2026
Elad Gil was an early investor in 40 unicorns, including major AI companies like Perplexity. I asked him what’s next for software companies now that AI can code better than humans, and what he’d invest in after AI.

Elad Gil is the Founder & Investor at Gil Cap...

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#2296 The $7 Million Vibe Coded App

February 3, 2026
Josh Mohrer is the model of the kind of company that can be built with AI. He’s not a developer, but he vibe coded Wave AI into a $7 million / year note taking company. This is how he did it.

Josh Mohrer is the founder of Wave AI, an AI-powered audio note-taking app that reco...

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#2295 Ryan Carson: How AI does my marketing for me

January 26, 2026
When a new user signs up, most companies add them to a standard drip campaign. Ryan Carson found a better alternative: his AI agent sends customized drip messages to every new registrant. It helps his company close more business. It’s just one way he uses AI to act as his VP of marketing. In this interview, he breaks down how he automated his marketing.

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#2294 He Claude Code: Build Me a YouTube Replacement

January 23, 2026
When YouTube kicked Pat Walls’ Starter Story channel off the platform, he spent a weekend getting Claude Code to build him a replacement. I wanted to see how it was done, so he walked me through it step-by-step. Turns out it was a mistake and he’s back on YouTube, but the site he made was so good that it’s his company’s new homebase.

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#2293 $2 million / year AI engineering firm

January 12, 2026
My friend created an AI engineering firm and every time I see him, he tells me how much his business is growing. So I asked him to tell me all about it in this interview. This is the story of how Tarun Thummala created PressW, the Austin-based AI dev shop.

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#2292 AI Automation that makes cold calls

January 8, 2026
Yevgeniy Matsay was a real estate broker who hated making cold calls. So he built an AI automation to do it for him. It worked so well that he created an agency that created cold calling automations for other brokers. Today he’s turning his automation service into Rozera, a cold calling SaaS for real estate brokers.

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#2291 He keeps launching AI businesses

December 30, 2025
Over a decade ago, Joe Apfelbaum was on the podcast, telling me how focusing on SEO helped him grow his agency. That was hard for the idea-a-minute founder. Now he’s back. And AI is enabling him to create more businesses. He broke down the 5 types of companies anyone could make

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#2290 He’s building an AI media empire

December 29, 2025
On the surface, it looks like Ricardo Vice Santos is selling AI-created books for your kids. But he’s aiming for something much bigger: a world where TV, movies, and every other media will be customized to you, using AI. He’s starting with children’s books because that’s what people will buy and what AI can do well today. This is the story of how he’s building DreamStories and how you can build a similar company.

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#2289 Building companies using Zapier’s AI automations

December 19, 2025
Zapier used to be the software that connected all your other software. But it’s AI has become so powerful that people are using it to build software companies. Founder Wade Foster joined me to talk about and show how they’re building on it.

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#2288 She had people do AI’s work

December 17, 2025
Helen Hastings wanted to create better accounting software. To figure out what to build, she had humans do the work. This is the story of how she created Quanta, the accounting software that’s taking on QuickBooks with a more modern human+software approach.

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#2287 AI made a “no code” founder into a coder

December 8, 2025
Ben Tossell used to listen to Mixergy interviews as he hunted for a big idea to launch. Then he nailed it. MakerPad, an educational company for people who wanted to build using no code. It did so well that he sold it for life-changing money. Then he started coding. Because of AI. This is his story.

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#2286 Pepper: AI + people = > $10 million

November 17, 2025
Pepper is creating content for clients like Shopify, Adobe and Instacart. We’re talking hundreds of thousands of posts & videos. And this is content that leads to sales. In this interview, founder Anirudh Singla tell us how they do it by using AI and humans.

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