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Nov 2024
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$100B Founder Breaks Down The Biggest AI...

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Episode 653: Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) talks to Furqan Rydhan ( https://x.com/FurqanR ) about the biggest opportunities in AI right now. 

Show Notes: 

(0:00) Intro

(4:42) Define the Job-to-be-done

(8:20) How to build an AI Agent workflow

(11:16) AI Tools break down

(27:05) How Polymarket won

(31:48) Why VR is a sleeping giant?

(44:43) Be a lifelong player in tech

(58:52) The unbeatable combination

(1:02:27) Adam Foroughi’s A+ execution

(1:18:35) Betting on -1 to 0


Links:

• Furqan’s site - https://furqan.sh/ 

• Founders, Inc - https://f.inc/ 

• Applovin - https://www.applovin.com/ 

• Claude - https://claude.ai/ 

• OpenAI - https://platform.openai.com/ 

• Langchain - https://www.langchain.com/ 

• AutoGen - https://autogenai.com/ 

• Crew - https://www.crewai.com/ 

• CloudSDK - https://cloud.google.com/sdk/ 

• Perplexity - https://www.perplexity.ai/ 

• “Attention is all you need” - https://typeset.io/papers/attention-is-all-you-need-1hodz0wcqb 

• Anthropic - https://www.anthropic.com/ 

• Third Web - https://thirdweb.com/ 

• Luna’s AI Brain - https://terminal.virtuals.io/ 

• Oasis - https://oasis.decart.ai/welcome 

• Polymarket - https://polymarket.com/ 

• Gorilla Tag - https://www.gorillatagvr.com/ 

• Yeeps - https://tinyurl.com/59z2yrdu 


Check Out Shaan's Stuff:

Need to hire? You should use the same service Shaan uses to hire developers, designers, & Virtual Assistants → it’s called Shepherd (tell ‘em Shaan sent you): https://bit.ly/SupportShepherd


Check Out Sam's Stuff:

• Hampton - https://www.joinhampton.com/

• Ideation Bootcamp - https://www.ideationbootcamp.co/

• Copy That - https://copythat.com

• Hampton Wealth Survey - https://joinhampton.com/wealth

• Sam’s List - http://samslist.co/


My First Million is a HubSpot Original Podcast // Brought to you by The HubSpot Podcast Network // Production by Arie Desormeaux // Editing by Ezra Bakker Trupiano

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