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AI for Founders with Ryan Estes — 194 episodes

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America Spends $5 Trillion On Health. This Is Where It Leaks.

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"We're AI-First!" No You're Not. Here's the Test.

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Agent Memory Is the Next Great Moat

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What it do!? The Jujitsu Secret That Scales Companies Without Force

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The $18 Billion Backdoor: How One Aussie Founder Plans to Eat LinkedIn Alive

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Stop Getting Paid for Hours. Start Getting Paid for Outcomes.

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35x More Profitable Than Marketing | JP Grace from Endear

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"Intensity Is a Bulldozer" The Leadership Trait Everyone Praises and Nobody Survives

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What It Do: 6 Parameters That Separate Cinematic AI From Total Slop

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Ship A Full App In 5 Minutes, Not 5 Weekends

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"We Don't Use AI" Will Be the Flex of 2026

12

The Physicist Building a Compiler for the Real World | Hugo Nordell, Encube

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Why Posting on LinkedIn Is Dead (And What Top Founders Do Instead)

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AI Just Closed 40% of Your Tickets Without You

15

$1.6 Billion of Equity On-Chain. Here Is Why.

16

Tiny Brands Are Outranking Billion-Dollar Companies. Here Is the Hack.

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The Founder Is the Bottleneck. Here's How to Clone Your Judgment.

18

Your Face, Voice, and Data Are Fakeable. Here's What Isn't.

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Data agents you can trust in production. | Pradnesh Patil from Altimate AI

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Your Vibe Code Just Handed Hackers Your Database - Punit Bhatia, Founder of Fit4Privacy

21

The AI EA Flex

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Jazz Fusion in the Agentic Era

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One Problem, Forever

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Quit Code to Grow Lettuce

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"Your Code Is Worthless" A Top VC Just Told Us Why | The Trillion-Dollar Founder Personality Type Nobody Talks About

26

Healthcare's AI Operating System | AI Won't Replace Your Doctor. Here's What It Will Do Instead.

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Is AI Slop Killing SEO? | From Zero to Indexed in Two Weeks: The Real SEO Timeline

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Your Next Co-Founder Should Be AI

29

Stop Doing Your Own HR

30

Synthetic Relationships, FTW

31

The Real IP Is How You Think

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The Asset Class Quietly Making Millionaires

33

The Searchable Life: When Memories Get a Database

34

The Truth About Lying to Your Doctor

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Fix the Thing 70% of Americans Are Ignoring

36

Legal AI: Why Lawyers Are Finally Free to Think

37

Neuro Spiritual Sovereignty - 10 Years and Zero Shortcuts

38

Podcast DJ: The Cliff Notes for Your Podcast Queue

39

Peptides, and the Future of Human Performance

40

IRL Events Are the New Moat

41

The Behavioral Health Crisis Is a Data Problem

42

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

45

The New SEO Is Happening Without You

46

Enterprise AI for $20 a Month

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

48

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.

56

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

60

Social media is killing your memories

61

Congrats on the revenue. Sorry about your money.

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

63

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

66

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

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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

84

World’s Smartest Podcast App

85

Vibe Coders Rejoice

86

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

90

How Do I Protect My Idea?

91

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

100

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

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AI storytelling for families

102

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

107

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

108

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)

112

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

114

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

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

116

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

117

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

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Building virtual power plants with AI and blockchain

119

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

121

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

128

AI in Enterprise: Security, governance, and robots

129

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

133

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

137

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

138

What 50 founders taught me about innovation

139

Shorts: AI taxis, fake vacations & GenAI disaster flicks

140

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

141

Can this AI replace Amazon for smart shoppers?

142

Skincare that knows you better than you do

143

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

144

A psychographic agent turned a student app into a scalable SaaS

145

Unlocking human and machine consciousness with Steven Schrembeck

146

Amazon jungle to startup CEO: Zack Holland’s story

147

Crono vs. Clay vs. Apollo

148

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

149

AI Interviews, Global payroll, No borders

150

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

151

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

152

Extended reality will unlock the next era of innovation

153

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

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This confidential AI will save your team from meltdowns

155

The future of workflow orchestration: AI agents and enterprise SaaS

156

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

157

Building an AI-native company with Benjamin Johnson of Particle41

158

Nametag fights deepfakes with mobile-first identity tech

159

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

160

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

161

Beyond human intelligence: AI and the spectrum of consciousness

162

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

164

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

166

Redefining spreadsheets with AI: David Kircos of Quadratic

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How Omneky is rewriting the future of advertising with Hikari Senju

168

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

169

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

170

Build an audience you actually own

171

Building Voice AI with Nikhil Gupta of Vapi.ai

172

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

173

This ai expert says privacy in America is already dead

174

Vibe policy is real and it’s running the tariffs

175

We built an AI wellness app in 10 minutes

176

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

177

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

178

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

179

This DM trick just killed 'link in bio' forever

180

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

181

Why 18,000 creators are obsessed with HipClip.ai

182

Why neuralink telepathy might not be the scariest ai threat

183

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

184

Are robots really taking over our kitchens?

185

What it do: We vibe coding

186

The AI Hype Machine Is Crashing: Time to Panic?

187

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

188

How a failed music career made me a better entrepreneur

189

Why your job is next on ai’s hit list

190

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

191

Deepseek’s ai breakthrough

192

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

193

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

194

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