The Startup Ideas Podcast
de Greg Isenberg
Último episodio
I'm Obsessed With Grok Bot. Here's Why
I'm Obsessed With Grok Bot. Here's Why
Sobre este podcast
Get your creative juices flowing with The Startup Ideas Podcast. Published twice a week, we bring you free startup ideas to inspire your next venture. Hosted by Greg Isenberg, CEO of Late Checkout and former advisor to Reddit and TikTok. Subscribe so you don't miss out.
For more startup ideas, we created a database of 30+ startup ideas you can take at https://gregisenberg.com/30startupideas
Episodios
Los 50 episodios más recientes de 396
- I'm Obsessed With Grok Bot. Here's Why · 49 minI sit down with Ras Mic to see how he runs his work and his life through Grok Bot. He calls himself a Grok Bot maxi, and he uses it as a personal agent and as an orchestrator…
- Claude Fable 5.2: How I’d Make Money With It · 20 minIn this solo episode, I share 12 prompts for Fable 5.2 across four areas: making money, productivity, video and content, and hardware. I run several of them live, including an…
- AI Agents are too good at marketing now · 52 minI sit down with Cody Schneider, to break down how to become a top 0.1% marketer with GrokBot, Claude Code, and the tools around them. Cody shows the environment an agent needs to…
- 8 AI-Proof Businesses I'd build in 2027 · 22 minIn this solo episode, I lay out how I think about building an AI-proof business now that anyone can press a few buttons and spin up a company in seconds. Layoffs keep coming…
- The $1M+ Solo Grok Bot Business (Full Course) · 50 minI sit down with Nick, co-founder of Orgo, to break down how to build a custom Grok Bot for a business and sell it for $25,000 up front with a $3,000-a-month retainer. Nick demos…
- SaaS is dead? · 11 minIn this solo episode, I explain why I say SaaS is dead and what I see taking its place. For 15 years, SaaS meant paying engineers to build a tool and charging per seat, and now…
- Stop building AI wrappers. Start building agent harnesses. · 49 minI sit down with Jon Noronha, co-founder and chief product officer of Gamma, to break down agent harnesses and the startup openings around them. Jon explains how Gamma rebuilt its…
- How to sell AI to Main Street (Full Playbook) · 44 minGet Your Complete Financial OS at https://startup-ideas-pod.link/brex_SIP I sit down with James Dickerson, the Boring Marketer, who owns Diesel Dudes, a mobile diesel repair…
- The 9 Stages of AI Agent Adoption, Explained · 31 minIn this solo episode, I break down the war on AI agents, from Amazon blocking Meta's Muse to Delta treating outside booking agents as unauthorized automated activity to Yelp…
- Making $$$ with Meta Muse AI · 25 minGet Your Complete Financial OS at https://startup-ideas-pod.link/brex_SIP In this solo episode, I break down how to make money with Meta Muse by mining Facebook groups…
- Gemini 4 Argon: AI Marketing, 3D Printing and SaaS · 31 minGemini 4 Argon is LIVE, Google's most advanced AI model, try it for yourself: https://startup-ideas-pod.link/gemini4-argon In this solo episode, I share what I learned after a…
- 8 GitHub Repos To Go Viral and Make Money · 24 minIn this solo episode, I walk through eight GitHub repos and AI skills that I test at night and on weekends. The list covers launch videos, social research, local voice and…
- How Will People Make Money in the AI Age? · 25 minIn this solo episode, I walk through the 13 businesses I think are left to build in the agentic era. I believe that in a world of agents and abundance, owning the right assets…
- Become a $1M/yr FDE (Full Course) · 54 minGoogle's most advanced audio models are LIVE, try them for yourself: Gemini 3.8 Live: https://startup-ideas-pod.link/gemini-3.8-live Gemini 3.5 Transcribe…
- OpenAI DevDay: Dots, Agents & $100B Opportunities · 19 minI watched almost 60 minutes of Sam Altman on stage at OpenAI Dev Day 2026. Out of 20-plus launches, I pick the three or four that I think can make people billions of dollars in…
- $5T opportunity: AI Roll Ups · 30 minIn this solo episode, I break down the $5 trillion wave of small businesses set to change hands as their owners retire, and why AI agents make this wave a real opening for solo…
- Muse AI Connectors: The Next App Store Moment? · 26 minIn this solo episode, I break down the huge business opportunity because Meta has opened Muse, its personal AI agent, to developers. You can now submit a connector, which lets…
- The Right Way To Write With AI · 1 h 9 minGet Your Complete Financial OS at https://startup-ideas-pod.link/brex_SIP In this episode I speak with Nicholas Cole about the real value of everything you write on the…
- Jev is HERE. How to use it · 28 minIn this episode, I talk with Ryan Vogel about Jev, a new type of AI built for classification. Ryan shows how Jev takes an input plus an output schema and returns a probability…
- Instinct AI: The AI Assistant for normal people · 28 minI sit down with Remy to go through Instinct, the new invite-only personal agent that runs inside iMessage. Remy shares his raw chat history on screen: a haircut booking in…
- Building a Software Factory that actually works (Full Course) · 31 minGet Your Complete Financial OS at https://startup-ideas-pod.link/brex_SIP I welcome Ras Mic back to the pod to explain the phrase "software factory." Mic shares his screen and…
- You're using GPT-6 Astra WRONG · 23 minI talk with Ras Mic about GPT-6 Astra. We skip the game demos and the 3D toys, and we focus on use cases to earn money or improve products. I share 9 Astra prompts that I posted…
- Local AI Clearly Explained · 39 minI run this episode solo. I explain local AI in plain terms: the model runs on hardware I control, and a cloud model runs somewhere else. I map the four pieces of the local AI…
- These 5 Github Repos are a goldmine · 25 minOn this solo episode, I review five free, open source GitHub repos that help you build products, make money, or save time: Peter Yang's No AI Slop Skill, the CRM by TryComp AI…
- Making $$$ as a Marketing Engineer · 35 minIn this solo episode I explain a role that I call the marketing engineer. I believe this person becomes one of the most valuable hires in tech in the next 18 to 24 months. I…
- WebMCP clearly explained (and how to make $$) · 29 minVinny is back on the pod, and he explains WebMCP. WebMCP puts MCP tools inside the browser UI, so any agent that you bring can read a page and act on it. Vinny demos an espresso…
- Screensharing top takes in AI/startups · 41 minOn this week’s SIP Live we dive deep on the X timeline to give each post a sip or a skip, and we answer questions from the chat. This episode covers AI-native operations, a baby…
- Grok Bot: make a 1 person company with agents · 44 minI sit down with Billy Howell for an inside look at a real business that runs on Grok Bot agent teams. Billy tests hundreds of tools for The Rundown, and he uses Grok Bot to run…
- You need to be skillsmaxxing (10x your Claude/Codex) · 32 minGet Your Complete Financial OS at https://startup-ideas-pod.link/brex_SIP I talk with Remy, known online as AI with Remy, about agent skills and how to share them across a whole…
- How to use Claude Code better than 99% of People · 48 minGet Claude Code: https://startup-ideas-pod.link/claude-greg In this solo episode I lay out the exact system I use to turn Claude Code into what I call an AI employee. My premise…
- How to Build an AI-Native Company in 2026 · 48 minI sit down with Allie K. Miller to talk about the shift from managing AI agents to enabling them. Allie runs a workforce of 34 AI agents led by an AI chief of staff named Simon…
- Making $$$ selling to AI Agents · 34 minIn this solo episode I break down Cloudflare's AI agent announcement in plain English and explain why I see it as the new business model for the internet. I walk through AI crawl…
- These AI Marketing Agents Get You Customers · 44 minI bring Cody Schneider back on the show to build two marketing agents end to end, live. The first one monitors LinkedIn posts from creators in your category, scrapes everyone who…
- Graph Engineering Clearly Explained · 26 minI go solo on this one to break down graph engineering, the term I keep seeing go viral on X. I define it in plain English: prompt engineering is how you ask AI a better question…
- Jack Dorsey's Buzz: The New Hermes Agent? · 39 minI sit down with Vinny for a live tour of Buzz, an open source, agent-native chat app from Block built on an open protocol. Vinny makes the case that openness is the real story…
- How I use Claude Code + MCPs to run my marketing · 38 minCody Schneider is back on the podcast, and I ask him to lay out what a real marketing agent looks like once you get past the hype. He draws a hard line: an agent owns unified…
- Most Valuable Skill of 2026: Managing AI Agents · 45 minI welcome Ryan Carson back to the show to turn anyone into a world-class agent operator. Ryan spent 25 years founding companies, scaled Treehouse to around 110 employees and a…
- FDE: The $1M/Year AI Job Explained · 52 minI sit down with Vas from Varick Agents to map out exactly how to break into AI forward deployed engineering — and how to grow into a sharper FDE — in thirty days. We start from a…
- The $1,000/hour Solo AI business (Full Course) · 1 h 1 minIn this episode I sit down with Corey Ganim to unpack what he calls the simplest way to earn money with AI in 2026: a $999 AI Tools Assessment for small business owners. Corey…
- Making $$$ with Loop Engineering · 40 minI sit down with Elie Steinbock to unpack loop engineering and how to run a business on loops. We start with the roots of the idea in the lean startup and Toyota's manufacturing…
- Grok 4.5 is a bigger deal than Fable · 56 minIn this episode I bring Nick Vasilescu, co-founder of Orgo, back on the show to unpack the buzz around Grok 4.5. Nick makes the case for treating Grok 4.5 as a genuine AI…
- We Tested OpenAI's GPT 5.6 for a Month · 49 minIn this episode I sit down with Dan Shipper to see how he runs his work and personal life on OpenAI's Codex Desktop with the 5.6 model. He walks through his card-based email…
- AI Agents are the new SaaS · 26 minIn this solo episode I lay out why I believe building agents is the new SaaS: software is shifting from helping you do the work to doing the work with you. I walk through a full…
- “Learn AI” Is Bad Advice. Learn These Instead · 30 minIn this solo episode, I lay out the six skills I believe stay valuable as AI grows more capable. I chose these six because each one is open to anyone, each one starts this…
- GLM 5.2 Clearly Explained (and how to set it up) · 23 minIn this episode I sit down with Amir to get tactical about running local AI models as part of a daily workflow. We center on GLM 5.2 from ZAI, how it stacks up against frontier…
- Making $$$ with IOS apps · 48 minIn this episode I sit down with George Lampropoulos, a 19-year-old founder who turns AI-built mobile apps into real revenue. George walks through his framework for reaching $10K…
- Claude Fable 5 is BANNED. What to do? · 25 minIn this solo episode, I walk through the implications of the ban of Claude Fable 5 — the most powerful model on the planet and the one I planned to build with — after the US…
- You are using Claude Fable 5 wrong · 33 minGet my Fable 5 prompt pack: https://startup-ideas-pod.link/fable5-prompt-pack In this episode I break down how to get the most out of Fable 5, the most powerful model I've ever…
- What are Agentic Loops? · 23 minS/o Coderabbit for sponsoring today’s vid: https://startup-ideas-pod.link/code-rabbit On this episode I sit down with Professor Ras Mic to break down agentic loops. We define…
- Become AI Native in less than 60 mins · 57 minBecome an AI Native Organization: https://startup-ideas-pod.link/ai-native-org In this episode I sit down with Theo to unpack what becoming AI native truly means. We define an…
