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AI for Founders with Ryan Estes — 156 episodes

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Peptides, and the Future of Human Performance

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IRL Events Are the New Moat

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The Behavioral Health Crisis Is a Data Problem

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The AI Analyst That Never Sleeps: Burak Karakan of Bruin

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Delightful Procurement: The CFO That Never Sleeps - Alex Yakubovich from Levelpath

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Your API Keys Are Killing Your Productivity: Mitchell Jones of Lava.so

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The New SEO Is Happening Without You

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Enterprise AI for $20 a Month

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The B2G Playbook Nobody Talks About (And It's Printing Money)

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Do you know where your AI agents are?

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AI booked 650 meetings, and almost got a date

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Built a $50M+ AI Support Empire by Owning the Edges

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From idea to iPhone app

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When IQ becomes a commodity

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The soft skill crisis costing healthcare billions

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Medical tourism is a $100B industry

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AI didn't take your job. It froze the hiring line. Here's what that means.

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Will VC destroy your startup?

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Searchable personal memory, now

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Speed is killing AI startups

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The uncanny valley is real

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Social media is killing your memories

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Congrats on the revenue. Sorry about your money.

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She exited in 18 months, then walked away to find stillness

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AI is quietly stealing your life’s work

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Stop building. Do this first.

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Most founders pick the wrong tools

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The Algorithm lied to you about music

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Are you building a team of AI passengers coasting toward irrelevance?

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Everyone is building AI wrong

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AI music to heal relationships

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He built a $1M SaaS alone

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I already know you hate taxes

34

Doctors aren’t the problem

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Why your ‘Great Idea’ Is quietly killing your startup

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Built a $2M SaaS for contractors from his Mom's room

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Hours are worthless. Replace them with this.

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Stop designing screens. Start designing patterns.

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“Just Use AI” Is the most dangerous advice in tech

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Reality check every founder needs in 2026

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Most AI prototypes die before launch

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Never lose flow again

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The Hidden Leadership Gap

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AI That Turns Ideas Into Real Companies

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AI Can Predict Disease Years Early

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World’s Smartest Podcast App

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Vibe Coders Rejoice

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10 Million Americans’ Healthcare Behind the Scenes

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Your Onboarding Is Broken

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Millennials Will Inherit Trillions

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AI That Predicts the Future

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How Do I Protect My Idea?

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AI Friends That Actually Call You (And They Remember Everything)

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The Offshore Kingdom: How Penbrothers Builds Teams That Scale

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The $1.5 Trillion AI Problem Nobody Talks About - Until Now

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Your company Is sitting on a data gold mine

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The $40,000 Desk: Why Offices Will Never Be the Same Again

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He Built 10 AI Companies in 12 Months - With Teams of Five

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Agentic AI, Deepfakes and the End of Passwords

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Turn Illiquid Equity Into Real Wealth

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Building A Restaurant AI Startup From Zero To 1,000 Customers In A Year

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AI Is Rewiring Pregnancy Care: Babyscripts CEO on RPM, Risk, and Real Outcomes

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AI storytelling for families

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Reddit SEO for AI Search: How to Win ChatGPT Recommendations

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Plugging AI Into Production: How MyOp Lets Non-Developers Ship UI Safely

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Early warning for neurology and mental health with voice AI

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Building a Gen Z Art Platform without the Algorithm Trap: Devika Sarin of Soal

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Founder’s guide to 10x visibility

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AI Comment Moderation, Brand Safety, and Viral Conversions: Stanify.ai’s Playbook

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Drew Falkman builds products at the speed of thought

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Building an AI Chief of Staff: Ambient by Lawrence Coburn

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Inside the $50M mission to fix clinical evidence

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Build Remote Operations that Work: Isaac Kassab (Pearl Talent)

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From Farm to Mac App Store: How Heberti Built Pinery for Authors

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Newsletters outsell social: Eunice Tan on building kawara.ai

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Somatic leadership for founders: Owen Marcus on stress, presence, and performance

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Cold email, LinkedIn, and the $2M lead gen playbook

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Future of Payments: AI Agents, Micropayments, and Embedded Finance

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Before You Shake Hands, read this. Elle George on partnership alignment

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Building virtual power plants with AI and blockchain

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Secure First, Scale Fast: ProArch CTO/CISO on AI That Won’t Break Compliance

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Future of privacy-first computer vision in security tech

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How SmartLab builds STEM Identity: hands-on ecosystems for future-ready students

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Zero to $6M ARR with AI SDRs

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Swan AI hit $1M ARR in 9 weeks with just 3 founders

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Outcome pricing vs Usage pricing vs Seats

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Building the Next-Gen Retail Investing Platform: Tradesk

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Bootstrapped Icons8 into millions of users

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Vibe coding a movie trailer in 20 minutes

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AI in Enterprise: Security, governance, and robots

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Floot helps non-coders build full-stack apps with AI

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Create a defensible niche in AI SaaS

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Agents that heal themselves. Alexander De Ridder on resilient AI

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Ghosted to hired: Katie’s vision for ethical, profitable recruiting

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Screaming baby to 300M downloads: The Dwellspring story

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Ray Jang found product-market fit on a mountain top

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Boutique catering booking app with AI in 30 minutes

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Golf fashion; betting big with Rico Leon

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Ukraine to AI voice agents: Eva Karnaukh’s founder journey

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What 50 founders taught me about innovation

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Shorts: AI taxis, fake vacations & GenAI disaster flicks

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Is your SEO ready for AI? Jenna Hannon says probably not

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Can this AI replace Amazon for smart shoppers?

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Skincare that knows you better than you do

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From blind vision to billion-dollar AI: Alberto Rizzoli’s startup journey

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A psychographic agent turned a student app into a scalable SaaS

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Unlocking human and machine consciousness with Steven Schrembeck

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Amazon jungle to startup CEO: Zack Holland’s story

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Crono vs. Clay vs. Apollo

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How Brett Beck built Bellabooty: from gym floor to global product

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AI Interviews, Global payroll, No borders

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From China to AI: Ryan Shuken on startup lessons and innovation

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How to use Hollywood storytelling to build blockbuster brands with Greg Logan

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Extended reality will unlock the next era of innovation

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Elon, ChuckGPT, and the Future of Work According to Andrew Amann

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This confidential AI will save your team from meltdowns

117

The future of workflow orchestration: AI agents and enterprise SaaS

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From pro snowboarder to AI CEO: Nicole Donnelly’s founder story

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Building an AI-native company with Benjamin Johnson of Particle41

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Nametag fights deepfakes with mobile-first identity tech

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The MMA ring for cybersecurity: inside Hackerverse's product showdowns

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Revolutionizing browsing: inside Strawberry's AI-Powered workflow with Charles Maddock

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Beyond human intelligence: AI and the spectrum of consciousness

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The AI security blueprint every founder needs in 2025 - Alex from Testsavant

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Building AI that makes you more human with Dave Sifry

126

Go-to-network is the new go-to-market with David Connors, CEO of The Swarm

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Dayo: Get paid to log off with Corey Scholibo

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Redefining spreadsheets with AI: David Kircos of Quadratic

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How Omneky is rewriting the future of advertising with Hikari Senju

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Vibe Coding in Real Time: Building a Podcast Follow-Up App

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Scaling Content Creation for E-Commerce: Liz Giorgi on Building soona and Embracing AI

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Build an audience you actually own

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Building Voice AI with Nikhil Gupta of Vapi.ai

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Building AI Tools with Guardrails (Part 2 w/ Peter Holcomb)

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This ai expert says privacy in America is already dead

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Vibe policy is real and it’s running the tariffs

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We built an AI wellness app in 10 minutes

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AI, neuralink, and the soul of Twos - a notes app

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Turn your podcast from obscure to viral: here's the blueprint

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Founders, STOP giving bad feedback; use this AI tool instead

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This DM trick just killed 'link in bio' forever

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The launch strategy that put this podcast in the Top 5% overnight

143

Why 18,000 creators are obsessed with HipClip.ai

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Why neuralink telepathy might not be the scariest ai threat

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This new AI inbox hack reignited my dead leads, and it’s freakishly easy

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Are robots really taking over our kitchens?

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What it do: We vibe coding

148

The AI Hype Machine Is Crashing: Time to Panic?

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The Dark Side of AI: When ChatGPT Takes You for a Ride

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How a failed music career made me a better entrepreneur

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Why your job is next on ai’s hit list

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Task Lists vs. Total Enlightenment: The Temptation to Skip All the Steps

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Deepseek’s ai breakthrough

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From $2M to More: What it Do - Vision for Growth

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Is OpenAI’s $200 Operator the Ultimate Life Hack?

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If You're in Your Head, You're Dead: Finding Peace with Metta Meditation