AI for Founders Podcast

Tokenomics Will Wreck Your Margins: The AI Model Routing Workflow That Cuts Spend 50%

Tarun Raisoni built a data center company to roughly $400 million in trailing sales without taking a dollar of outside capital, sold it to a Fortune 500 for $217 million, then walked away from the…

Tokens Go to Zero, Energy Goes to Zero: What Do You Build When Intelligence Is Free?

Every animal on earth runs on four drives. Humans have a fifth. The question is whether AI feeds it or buries it under a pile of chat windows.

$7,500 AI Team Replacing an Entire Growth Department

Your Website Is About to Become a Line Item

Your AI Agents Are Burning You Out: The Sustainable AI Workflows Founders Actually Need

Fourteen terminal instances. Fifty-two tabs across three browsers. Six customers, a dozen half-finished workflows, and a Friday morning where your brain simply refuses to boot. That's not leverage.…

AI Agents Just Unlocked $7 Trillion in Invoices Nobody Could Finance

Trust is the most expensive thing in business, and nobody bills you for it until it is gone. Four nine-figure receivables frauds hit the industry in a single year, and every one of them traces back…

How This AI Hospitality Agent Is Transforming Guest Communication Across 60 Hotels

It is midnight in a mountain town. You have been driving for nine hours, your kids are asleep in the back, and the hotel lobby is empty except for a bell on the counter and a sign that says "ring for…

The $50 Million Exit Trap Nobody Warns Founders About

The happiest day of your founder life might be the emptiest. The wire hits, the champagne pops, and 90 days later the divorce papers get filed, the workouts stop, and you are staring at an earn-out…

He Predicted the Lithium Boom in 2016. Everyone Called Him Crazy.

When China cut off rare earth exports, the American car industry came within two weeks of shutting down. Two weeks.

Soccer League With ZERO Human Players

Somewhere on a server right now, a striker who does not exist is deciding whether to cut left or right. Nobody scripted the choice. Not even the man who built him.

Stop Making AI Human: The Contrarian Take Every Founder Needs

Your website is lying to you. Right now, while you read this, visitors are hitting a broken form, bailing on a checkout button they can barely see, and bouncing off a page designed for someone else…

$250K and 3 Months to Build What Used to Cost $2 Million and 18 Months

A 6-person team just built in 3 months what took 18 months and $2 million the last time around. That's not a productivity story. That's a story about the ground shifting under an entire…

What It Do: The 90% Rule - Why Finishing Is the Least Fun Part of Building Anything

Jason Katz popped his LCL three weeks ago scrambling out of a leg entanglement, and honestly, that injury is the whole episode in miniature. You get excited, you move fast, you stand up into a hold…

He Buys Companies, Keeps Every Employee, Then Deploys Nobel-Nominated AI

800,000 Lives, 210 Engineers, One Bet: Inside Collective Health's AI Push

The same artificial intelligence saved one insurer a billion dollars and cost another two billion. Same tool. Opposite outcomes. The only variable was who the machine was actually working for.

What It Do: First-Time Founders Build Product. He Built a Distribution Robot.

Two founders sit down on a Friday with the World Cup playing in the background, and within ten minutes one of them casually reveals he has built a version of himself that works while he sleeps.