5 AI Tools I’d Use to Make $1M (w/o employees, capital, or time)

Summary

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Podcast Summary: My First Million

Episode: 5 AI Tools I’d Use to Make $1M (w/o employees, capital, or time)

Date: October 21, 2025
Host(s): Sam Parr
Guest: Greg (AI/early adopter entrepreneur, technical expert)

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Overview

This episode dives into five (plus) underrated, actionable AI apps and tools that can help anyone—from non-technical entrepreneurs to seasoned founders—go from zero to making their first million dollars. Greg, an early AI adopter, brings hidden-gem software recommendations, outlining how each tool can save time, automate tasks, and create new business opportunities—regardless of technical skill, capital, or connections. The conversation is candid, practical, and peppered with ethics debates, productivity hacks, and banter about the trade-offs of the new AI-powered world.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. The Power and Peril of AI-Generated Deepfakes

Timestamps: 00:16–05:33

• Greg introduces open-source deepfake video tools, like Juan 2.2 (from Alibaba), which can convincingly replicate celebrities and public figures, highlighting both the creative marketing potential and the abuse risk.
  • Notable applications include ads, content creation, or personal branding, but with caveats about legal and ethical concerns.
  • User-friendly SaaS platforms like Enhancer AI and Freepik lower the technical barrier for adoption.
• Sam shares a real-world scam story: a deepfake call used to facilitate a robbery (03:00).
• Greg:

  “Question what you see, verify what you believe. Sounds just like Taylor. And it looks pretty much just like Taylor.” (02:11)

Use Case Highlight

• Create ads using historic or public domain figures (like JFK) without legal issues.
• Write your script in ChatGPT, create assets in Enhancer AI, and animate in standard video editors—accessible to anyone.

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2. AI-First Browsers: Perplexity and Comet

Timestamps: 07:08–16:42

• AI browsers radically streamline workflow:
  • Comet and Perplexity are “game changers” over Chrome, enabling inline research, real-time form-filling, content summarization, and automation.
  • Example: Automatically finding and entering working discount codes at checkout, live on the site (09:35).
    • Sam:

      “You just made $60 shopping.” (10:26)

    • Greg:

      “It’s basically free.” (10:35)

  • Extract precise video moments and synthesize summaries on YouTube with a single prompt—enabling deep, targeted learning and rapid content repurposing (11:16).
• Recruiting capabilities: The browser can find LinkedIn profiles, summarize backgrounds, and even draft and send custom recruiting emails via Gmail using only prompts (14:07–16:23).
  • Sam marvels:

    “This just kind of like...LinkedIn Recruiter has value, but this would have helped as well. And maybe in lieu of. And for free.” (14:53)

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3. Voice-to-Text Productivity: Whisper Flow

Timestamps: 16:42–18:47

• Whisper Flow enables seamless, hands-free productivity.
  • Talk to your computer or phone; it captures, formats, and revises your speech contextually, far surpassing what typing allows—up to “220 words per minute” (17:19).
  • Supports complex inputs, corrections, and template responses for teams.
  • Sam:

    “Literally my fingers hurt sometimes...and so I will just...have conversations with my computer.” (16:52)

  • Greg:

    “Once you do it, you can’t go back.” (17:19)

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4. Next-Gen AI Spreadsheet: Shortcut AI (TryShortcut.com)

Timestamps: 19:32–24:13

• AI-powered cloud Excel alternative built by top researchers:
  • Analyze financial data, generate DCFs, create income statements, and extract insights with simple prompts.
  • Can operate as a plugin for Excel for privacy-conscious users.
• Workflow Demo: Import balance sheets and ask high-level questions, e.g., “What stock would Warren Buffett pick based on this data?” (21:01)
  • Greg:

    “This is basically a financial analyst in a box you can use.” (23:13)

  • Sam:

    “I want to be number 37. That's great.” (22:19), reacting to how new this tool is.

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5. AI Content Automation for TikTok and Social Growth

Timestamps: 24:18–32:48

• Tools like Real Farm automate TikTok and meme content:
  • Create viral slideshows, memes, and user-generated content (UGC) with a few prompts. Real Farm targets “slideshows” trending on TikTok for rapid growth and affiliate marketing.
  • Example: “Top protein sources” or “six mistakes we made during pool planning”—all AI-generated, indistinguishable from human content (27:02).
  • Not just for TikTok; can cross-upload to other networks.
  • Sam wrestles with the ethics and vibe of “AI content slop,” but admits its addictive appeal and commercial potential.
    • Sam:

      “If it's something like, you know, the top 10 strangest disappear — like, missing person cases — like, I watch all of them.” (30:13)

Bonus: Real Farm UGC Ad Avatars

• AI-generated spokespeople for product videos—fooling average viewers, opening possibilities for “review” channels or influencer marketing with almost no effort (31:28–32:00).

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6. “AI Apply” — Mass Job Applications via AI

Timestamps: 32:48–34:31

• AI Apply allows mass, automated job applications, and even interview prep:
  • Autogenerates resumes, cover letters, and applies to thousands of jobs in bulk.
  • Loved by millions; already highlights the “arms race” between AI-powered applicants and filtering companies.
  • Greg:

    “...any way that you can find an unfair advantage to get in the room, I support.” (33:18)

  • Sam, half-joking:

    “This is like if Nestlé owned the hospital...We're gonna fatten you up and then give you a bunch of medicine to make you escape skinny and then we're gonna fatten [you] up again.” (34:31)

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7. Philosophical/Ethical Reflections on AI’s Double-Edged Sword

Timestamps: 34:54–39:03

• A frank, reflective exchange on the soul of business and AI’s impacts:
  • Benefits: Leveling the playing field, empowering underdogs, providing “lightbulb” moments for the hungry and unconnected.
  • Downsides: Banal, low-effort content (“AI slop”), job market flooding, risk of societal malaise and addiction.
  • Generational shift: The hosts see themselves now at a “join or resist” tech crossroads, much like older generations did with the internet (36:45–37:28).
  • Greg:

    “I'm in the light bulb business, helping people have light bulbs so they can actually...change the trajectory of life.” (35:29, 39:03)

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Notable Quotes & Moments

• On Deepfakes & Trust:
  • Greg:

    "We are crossing a line in human history where the boundary between reality and fiction is vanishing." (01:52)

• On AI Automation:
  • Greg:

    “Having an AI-first browser is an absolute game changer. I can't go back...my eyes would bleed.” (08:13)

• On Productivity Edge:
  • Greg:

    "How am I able to run five companies that are successful? Because I have a lot of tricks like this that help me save time." (12:07)

• AI in Content Creation:
  • Greg:

    “There’s an arbitrage right now to use AI to create these [TikTok] accounts...and then sell your software through them.” (27:09)

• On AI’s Social Impact:
  • Greg:

    “There’s no capital restrictions, and you don’t need to be in Silicon Valley to win.” (35:29)

  • Sam:

    “This is the first time in my life that I’m old enough where I’m potentially like, okay, are you getting on or are you getting off?” (36:54)

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Important Segments by Timestamp

• 00:16–05:33: Deepfake AI video tools—risks, use cases, accessibility
• 07:08–16:42: AI browsers (Comet, Perplexity), live demos, recruiting hacks
• 16:42–18:47: Whisper Flow—voice-to-text and productivity boosts
• 19:32–24:13: Shortcut AI for Excel/Sheets-level data analysis and insight
• 24:18–32:48: TikTok/IG content automation and meme arbitrage
• 32:48–34:31: AI Apply for bulk job applications
• 34:54–39:03: Philosophical debate—progress, ethics, and generational shifts

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Takeaways

• Anyone with internet access, regardless of capital or technical skill, can now tap into powerful AI tools to build businesses, automate tedious tasks, and pursue arbitrage opportunities.
• Ethics and quality matter: While the temptation for “AI slop” content is high, there is vast upside for those who use these tools with creativity, strategy, and self-awareness.
• Adopt early, adapt fast: The hosts agree—once you go AI-first, it’s hard to go back.

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For a deeper dive, downloadable PDF notes are available via the episode description.

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Transcript

[Greg]

This podcast is called My First Million. So if someone is trying to get from zero to a million dollars, these are the tools that I'm using to make a million bucks.

[Unknown Singer]

I feel like I can rule the world. I know I could be what I want to. I put my all in it, like, no days off on the road.

[Greg]

So today what I want to talk about is I want to show five or six different apps that I'm using, Sam, that I think you should be using, and we can. We can just go through it that are underrated hidden gems that you probably never heard of that will make you more productive and make you more.

[Sam Parr]

And the reason why this is fun is because a lot of people in the audience are like me, which is. They're like, I'm a really good Googler. That's like. That's like my. That's the extent of how good I am on computers. I'm pretty good at ChatGPT, but you are like three steps above me in terms of being technical. And then there's like people that are like 10 steps above that. But you're kind of a good balance of someone who's like, on the outer edge being an early adopter, but also you can relate this to kind of like a Neanderthal like me.

[Greg]

I appreciate that. Yeah. I'm just going to try to clearly explain as much as possible. And I tried. I tried to pick examples of apps that literally anyone could use that is going to make like a. A big difference in their lives. By the way, I know people are going to listen to this. Some people are going to be like. Because there's a lot of AI haters out there, Sam.

[Sam Parr]

Why?

[Greg]

Why? Because they. They see stuff like this, which I will show you. You know, a AI generated Taylor Swift, and they're like, you are ruining the world.

[Sam Parr]

Okay.

[Greg]

But you know, this is the. This is where technology is going. And this episode is for people who want to use it to their advantage. And so that's what we're here for.

[Sam Parr]

All right, Greg, fire me up. What do we got? How am I going to look like T. Swift?

[Greg]

All right, you want to start with that?

[Sam Parr]

Friends, listen, what you're seeing right now is crazy.

[Greg]

We are crossing a line in human history where the boundary between re reality.

[Sam Parr]

And fiction is vanishing. This is not a Hollywood billion dollar high production studio. This is open source. This is from your computer. Click of a button and most people will not be able to even tell the difference now. So be safe out there.

[Greg]

Question what you see, verify what you believe. Sounds just Like Taylor. And it looks pretty much just like Taylor. And I think the coolest thing about it is look at her mouth movement. Looks exactly like this guy on the top, my friend Syrio. And you can do this not with just Taylor Swift. You can do this with like Mark Zuckerberg. You can do this Jensen Wong, like anyone you want. You can kind of like deep fake.

[Sam Parr]

Dude, this looks like she looks. Taylor Switch I think is a pretty woman. This is a very. She's got a stronger jawline than normal in this one. So it doesn't look exactly like her. You know, it's interesting. So I think that you should do like a use case for each of these. Do you want to hear a crazy use case? I learned for one of these I had someone I knew who. They're a wealthy person and someone discovered that they were out of town and a person used one of these deep fakes to call the building to say that a handyman will be coming, please let them up into their apartment. And it was a criminal and they like robbed their apartment. And so these deep fakes are very nerve wracking for these reasons.

[Greg]

Yeah. And there is a dark side to it for sure. And bad stuff is going to happen and we need to be aware of it. I'm especially concerned about like, yeah, like grandmas and parents getting like scammed.

[Sam Parr]

But dude, I've almost been scammed. Like I get almost scammed weekly. So it's not just grandma's. What's the, what's the service? What's the app that makes these videos?

[Greg]

So this is using a open source model called Juan 2.2. It's by the Alibaba people. So it is a Chinese app.

[Sam Parr]

Yeah.

[Greg]

So, you know, beware. You know, for a lot of people using open source technology is kind of difficult. So there are apps like Enhancer AI that allows you just to use their SaaS platform. So you can just pick it and you don't need to like look at a GitHub or there's another one called Freepik which does the same thing. So, you know, I think it's worth people playing around with Juan 2.2. This is the anime. So basically you record a video of yourself talking and you can basically pick a character that you know. Yeah, you're right. It doesn't look like Taylor Swift exactly. It's more like a Tyler Swift.

[Sam Parr]

Yeah.

[Greg]

You know, so if you wanted Tyler Swift or you know, Matt Zuckerberg, you know, it's fun to play around with it and use it as content for Your, you know, your brand or just per. Or just having fun, like, you know, your personal brand as well.

[Sam Parr]

That's cool. When do you think this is going to be good enough for me to use, like, in ads or things like that?

[Greg]

I mean, it's, it's, it's 100% good enough to use in ads. Now, I wouldn't use, you know, Tyler Swift in an ad because you might not get approved by Meta, but, you know, people are using jf, you know, JFK and Play doh and, you know, things that are in the public domain that you could use, you know, create ads for. And it's working.

[Sam Parr]

So I can go to Enhancer AI, which I'm here, and I can film like, I could film like a funny script of what I think JFK would say to promote MFM or something like that. And I can actually use that in an ad because JFK is considered public domain.

[Greg]

Exactly. I mean, I'm not a lawyer, but from my understanding, yes. There's this guy by the name of PJ Ace. I just had him on my podcast. He's amazing. He's like the number one AI video ad guy, and he's literally getting hundreds of millions of views on his AI videos. And he's. I've seen him, like, he'll work with, like, you know, the largest companies on the planet. And so he's using. Look at this. Like, he's using Sam Altman here.

[Sam Parr]

So. Wow. Is there a way that. What would be the best way? This, like, I'm looking at this PJ Ace guy and I'm like, this sounds awesome. I want to use this immediately. What would be the best way for me to do that?

[Greg]

So first you need to write a script. And if I were to, you know, what I would do is I would use ChatGPT use Cloud to come up with a script idea. And we won't have time to go through a tutorial that today, but then I would create reference frames. So I would use one of the image models, like Enhancer or like freepik, which maybe we can go into later, to create images of what the storyboard of the 22nd or 32nd AD might look like.

[Sam Parr]

Oh, my gosh.

[Greg]

And then I would animate those frames to create a cohesive story. That's basically the process. You use ChatGPT Cloud, you use Enhancer and Free Pick, and then you use, you know, you might want to, if you're pro, you might want to use like a Premiere, you know, Final Cut Pro or something like that to get yeah.

[Sam Parr]

Okay, this is awesome. What's the next one?

[Greg]

Have you played with Perplexity browser at all?

[Sam Parr]

No, I actually use Perplexity the other day because I watched one of your videos on how to use Sora and I saw that you say that Perplexity is good for researching. And I forget what exactly what you said in the video, but I use it to research, I think, how to make a viral video or something like that. And then I like put that into cloud and then I got the script from cloud and then I put it in Sora. Is that right? Yeah.

[Greg]

So it's a hassle to move browsers. Like, everyone has everything set up on their current browser. Maybe they're using Google Chrome. But having an AI first browser is an absolute game changer. There's Perplexity, Comet, there's dia, there's Opera, there's a few others. But for today's example, we're going to use Comet because that's which one I think is the best. And I just want to go through a few workflows. So by the end of this demo, I think that everyone is going to be like, yeah, I need an AI browser.

[Sam Parr]

So do you use. Let me, let me clarify. Do you use Perplexity Comment instead of Chrome?

[Greg]

Yes.

[Sam Parr]

Okay, so this is not a cool thing. This is I roi. This works. Okay.

[Greg]

Oh, and I can't go back. Like, you know, going back would, like my eyes would bleed. You know, it is too slow to go back. Once you get used to an AI browser, you will not go back. Just like now you use ChatGPT over Google probably 95% of the time.

[Sam Parr]

Yeah.

[Greg]

So I saw this ad for this company called One Bone, which is a clothing brand for big and tall people. I'm actually not big. I'm pretty tall. I'm like 6 foot 3. So I'm 165 pounds. I'm actually not that big, but I clicked on it anyways. I thought that it looked pretty cool. And so, you know, let's just say I'm okay. I'm six foot three. I'm going to add this to Cart. I always get to this. I don't know if this is just me, Sam, but I always get to this point where it's the discount code. And I'm like, okay, there must be a discount code I could use here. And you know that there was a scan. It was like a scam basically with honey right where it was they acknowledge or someone did like a Coffeezilla type video where they said honey is like Getting a referral affiliate fee on each. On, on your data and on your products. Right, yeah, yeah, I saw that.

[Sam Parr]

That was about six months ago.

[Greg]

Yeah, exactly. It went viral. So here's an example of how I would use Comet. So I would say I want to use a discount code.

[Sam Parr]

Oh my gosh.

[Greg]

I don't know any. Can you find one and only find one that works and add it to this form.

[Sam Parr]

Oh my gosh. This is awesome.

[Greg]

So what's cool about Comet is it sees what's on your screen and you can see on the right hand side, it's, it's looking and it's searching through, you know, in this case, 10 different sources and it'll hopefully work. And if it doesn't, you can keep just prompting it to get it to work. Right. So look, thrift 10, save $66 on my two jackets.

[Sam Parr]

And Greg, have you ever heard of girl math? Is that what it's called? Ari, have you heard of girl math? I think this is an example of girl math. You've just made $60 shopping.

[Greg]

It's, it's basically free.

[Sam Parr]

It's basically. You just got paid 66 bucks.

[Greg]

I bought a jacket for 350 pound men and I'm 165 pounds. But it's. But it's free.

[Sam Parr]

That's awesome. This is girl math. I love this. That's cool. Hey everyone, really quick. I can already tell that this is an episode that you guys are gonna be taking a lot of notes on. And that's kind of a pain in the butt to do while you're either watching or listening to this. And so we actually made it really easy. We made the entire episode into a downloadable PDF and this way you could just sit back and enjoy the podcast right now and get the notes later. So the link is in the description below. Click it if you want those notes. Now back to the episode.

[Greg]

So the next thing that I've been using Comet for has been finding exact moments in YouTube videos. So I'll say something like, so open up assistant on the right hand side. Find and play the exact moment Steve Job talks about Apple's intersection of liberal arts and technology. And then Comet's agents go and figure out where that is. And I can, yeah, it basically downloads the transcript and it searches it and look how fast it is.

[Sam Parr]

Because I use, I do that all the time. Like if I'm doing copywriting, I'm like, oh, I, I remembered a good hook. I once watched this video of Steve Jobs and he made this like kind of small offhanded comment, but I don't remember. Like it was at a graduation talk, but I don't remember which one. And this would save so much time by being able to like just ask it to find.

[Greg]

Saves a lot of time. And also you're in kind of, you're in flow state. So if you wanted to do this on Chrome or another browser, you'd have to open up another tab, you'd have to like Google it, you'd have to find it, you have to watch like it pulls you out of your zone. How am I able to run five companies that are successful is because I have a lot of tricks like this that help me save time. So at the set it says here the quote begins at the seven second mark. You can actually tell it's a, I think it'll, if I say play this video, it should actually play the video. Yeah. See, it opened up a new tab and you can't hear this, but it's literally playing it.

[Sam Parr]

That's crazy.

[Greg]

And then you can go back to assistant and you can say, this is a cool talk. I'm a founder. What are the most interesting takeaways for me? Write it in an essay. And I found, I find that YouTube is just such a wealth of information, like literally everything. There's so much there. All of our world, you know, world leaders are on it, the biggest founders on the planet. Podcasts. Learning from, from YouTube is so amazing. And I just find myself just going to videos like this and seeing like, look how, look how amazing this is.

[Sam Parr]

Man, I should have, I wish I would have known about this. I actually just installed Chrome plugin that gets the transcript from YouTube and it does it a little bit better than the normal YouTube transcript button. And I did it so I could copy and paste it just to put it into chat GPT to ask it these questions.

[Greg]

Yeah, it's, it's, this is going to make your life a lot easier. You're going to be, you're going to be way smarter from this. Not that you need to be smarter. You're, you're smart guys, Sam. But you know, we'll take any edge we can get.

[Sam Parr]

I, I, I'm a few brain cells away from just being a talking monkey, my friend. I could use anything I can get. Okay, so Perplexity comment. That's awesome. I like that.

[Greg]

I'll do one last one with perplexity comment and then we can move on so you can ask it. You know, one of, one of the hardest things I have to do as a founder is trying to hire good talent. Right. So you can say, find, find, and go to the LinkedIn profile of someone who worked on Apple AI and now at Meta. So, wow. It'll actually go and do that for free.

[Sam Parr]

Is this free?

[Greg]

It's free. It just. It just came out like a few days ago for free for everyone. Wow. And I have no relationship to Perplexity, by the way. I'm just like, I'm ha. I'm. I'm a happy. You know, it makes my life better. Right. So I'm happy to talk about it.

[Sam Parr]

I Pay, I think, $200 a month for LinkedIn Recruiter.

[Greg]

Oh, yeah.

[Sam Parr]

And this just kind of like LinkedIn Recruiter has value, but this just would have helped as well. And maybe in lieu of. And for free.

[Greg]

Well, watch this. So we got this answer. The LinkedIn profile of Mark Lee matches your criteria. He worked on Apple AI as a research engineer and is now an AI research scientist at Meta. So let's say, Sam, that you wanted to hire him for Hampton.

[Sam Parr]

It would only cost a hundred million dollars.

[Greg]

It would only cost between a hundred million and five hundred million dollars. But what you can do is say, can you craft an email?

[Sam Parr]

Oh, my gosh.

[Greg]

That is going to get this guy to work for me. I'm the CEO of Hampton. What's the URL? Joinhampton.com joinhampton.com.

[Sam Parr]

Yeah, it's just going to say, like, good luck, buddy. Get in line, pal.

[Greg]

I hope this message finds you well. My name is. You know your name. I'm the CEO of Join Hampton. We're assembling, and this is. It's not bad. And you can kind of like craft it to make it your own. Right. But what's really cool about this is.

[Sam Parr]

Okay, cool.

[Greg]

This looks great. My name is Sam Parr. Can you send this in email for me on my Gmail?

[Sam Parr]

Oh, my gosh.

[Greg]

So what it'll do is it'll basically create an agent that will send this email for you. So you can actually connect your Gmail. Yeah, I'm not going to do it right now because, you know, I'm not Sam Parr and I'm not trying to spend $100 million hiring this guy, but you can actually connect your Gmail and start sending emails.

[Sam Parr]

Man, this is just so nutty. And this is a lot of people watching. This will mock me here, make fun of me, but for the real nerds, like, I use Whisper. Is it called Whisper Flow?

[Greg]

Yeah, it's Whisper Flow.

[Sam Parr]

So I'm actually just. I actually talk to my computer a lot. And I've got. I have it set up to where, like the little globe button on the bottom left hand of my screen, I just hold that button and I have a conversation with it and it types it for me because I hate typing. Like, literally my fingers hurt sometimes because, like. And so I will just. I just have conversations with my computer. And if I could do that now, in Perplexity's comment, that would make life way better.

[Greg]

Yeah. So speaking to computers, like how you're doing with Whisper Flow, which is another underrated AI tool, once you do it, you can't go back. Yeah. Here you can see like a keyboard. You can only get to 45 words per minute flow. You get to 220 words per minute. It's too slow to go back to a keyboard after.

[Sam Parr]

So for those listening, you have to check out Whisper Flow.

[Greg]

And it's.

[Sam Parr]

Or I think it's called whisper. It's actually shockingly hard to find if you Google it because they spell whisper with in a startupy way. I think it's like W, I, S, P, E, R. And so the way it works is I have it set up, I have a hotkey where I just click this one button, I talk to it. But sometimes I'll make a mistake and I'll say, oh, whoops, I mean this. So can you pick me up a burger? I mean, I actually want a taco. Like, if I'm texting my wife, like, it will not say the first thing and instead will say the second thing. Or I'll say, so my opinion on that is broken down into three points. Point one is this. Point two is this. Point three is this. It formats it where put. Where it says my opinion is this colon number one, this paragraph number two, this 100%.

[Greg]

Also, I think that people could use Whisper Flow for teams. I think that's an underrated kind of hack. Using the snippet library that they have, you can create these snippets like here, calendar, hours, support, intro, faq so that you can just say calendar or say hours and it'll just throw it in there.

[Sam Parr]

Oh my gosh.

[Greg]

I love Whisper Flow. To me, it's the same level up in productivity that you're going to see if you're moving from chrome to an AI browser. What are you more interested in talking about? AI, Excel or content automation on TikTok? Getting followers on TikTok.

[Sam Parr]

I don't like TikTok, but I do want to know how to get followers. But I want to know more so the Excel thing, because I have been trying to find a replacement for like, I wanted to talk to Google Sheets, I actually use Google Sheets, I don't use Excel, but I think I saw that one company got funded like 12 months ago. But I went and demoed it and it was only fine. And so I haven't found a good solution for this.

[Greg]

So yeah, if you're anything like me, you hate Excel, like the idea. I don't even know what a macro is, honestly.

[Sam Parr]

Yeah, I don't know what that word means, but I hear people say it all the time.

[Greg]

Like to me an Excel sheet is, is, is almost like terminal. Like when I'm in the terminal I'm like overwhelmed. So I try to avoid going in Excel as much as possible. But there's this thing called Try Shortcut AI. It's from this research lab of like ballers, like some of the best researchers on the planet created it and their first product is to create an AI first version of Excel. And it's similar to actually Comet in the sense that you know, on the left it sees your screen, which is like a cloud version of Excel. And on the right hand side you have prompts and you can just use natural language to tell it what to do and it, it works. For example, literally one minute before this call, this call, I actually used Comet to find. I was like, hey, find me a sheet of financial data that I can upload to Try Try Shortcut. I uploaded the Try Shortcut. As you can see, it's this list of company how much market cap they have, how much revenue they have, how much gross profit they had. I said analyze my data for key insights. It gives me all the key insights. Now if I wanted to say, hey, build me a DCF analysis or build me an income statement or explain me this or explain me that. You can do it and it's, it works.

[Sam Parr]

Can you ask it a question right now? Ask it which stock would Warren Buffett pick based off of this data? The reason I'm asking is I actually bought a book called like Warren Buffett on Accounting or something like that, or Warren Buffett on Balance Sheets when I was trying to learn accounting. And because I was trying to figure out what does he see, you know, what, what sticks out to him. But this, and the book was really hard to read. These are complicated concepts. This might just do it for me.

[Greg]

Yeah, yeah. And it has all, it has this data that is on screen, but it's also looking, you know, it's sending agents all across the Internet to figure out what is, what is happening. And so the beauty of this context plus that context, you end up getting really good outcomes. And then you can also say, so Warren Buffett's pick is Apple. So we're getting some data here. But you can also, now that it's giving this data, you can actually say like create a new document based on this that shows like the operating cash flow. Yeah. Wow, this is a big deal. I just saw that they have this now which is an Excel plugin. So even if you don't want to use their cloud based solution, you can just basically, look, it only has 36 ratings. This is how early you are to this.

[Sam Parr]

I want to be number 37. That's great.

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[Sam Parr]

Are you. Usually what I've done is I have uploaded my financials like either my P and L, my businesses PNL or sometimes even like my personal income statement or my personal net worth and I will ask ChatGPT questions off of, based off that data. Would you feel comfortable doing that here on Comet? Not comfortable because it's not any revealing information, it's just numbers. It's not like a Social Security number or anything like that. But would you feel like it would give you good advice?

[Greg]

Yeah, I mean I would feel comfortable. I think I would feel more comfortable though just doing it locally on, on Excel. So you're not uploading your data to the cloud because who knows what could happen? So I, I, you know, if it's really sensitive data, I do recommend just using Excel. Like why not? You don't need to have it on the cloud, right? Everyone, most people use Excel. But look, look what you can do here. Like you can, you know, it's not even just querying because on ChatGPT you can query the data and be like, what would you do here? What would you do there? But you can't say, you know, you know, if you know, build LBO models or GCF analysis or perform a statement like, this is, this is stuff. This is basically a financial Analyst in a box that you can, that you can use. And it's pretty.

[Sam Parr]

Wow, this is magical. And this is free.

[Greg]

You get, like, a certain amount of credits for free. It's not that many credits. I think it's like, this is great. Yeah, that's cool.

[Sam Parr]

That that might be number two and comment might be number one, but it'd be close so far.

[Greg]

Yeah, I knew you'd like that one. You're probably gonna hate this one, but I'm telling it to you anyways, okay. And the reason I'm telling it to you is just because there's an arbitrage moment where I'm sure you've probably seen these slideshows on TikTok where maybe I.

[Sam Parr]

Actually don't use TikTok, but I, I, maybe you can convince me. But I think that, like, this AI content is just garbage, you know? Like, I'm a purist. I want, like, Mr. Beast.

[Greg]

I bet you people, I bet you have, like, favorited shared, liked AI content, but you just haven't realized.

[Sam Parr]

Dude, I did the other day. There was one where a guy used, made a fake potato launcher and he shot it at a grandma. And it was the funniest thing I've ever seen.

[Greg]

Yeah. Or like, did you see, like, Stephen Hawking?

[Sam Parr]

Yes. On Avert Ramp. Yeah. Yeah, it's great. So, yeah, I guess I'm, I'm kind of being convinced in real time here. I think you guys like this podcast for two reasons. One is if you are building a business, it's lonely, and listening to Sean and I, we're sort of like your friends. And the second reason is, you know, that we are builders. We love building companies. It's kind of our life's vocation. So if you have a business that does at least $3 million in revenue, I think I know exactly what you're experiencing. You've built a great business, it's working, and you finally have a second to look up. You're young. You probably run an Internet company in your town. There's potential that you're a freak, that you have no one else to talk to, growing your company. In fact, when you even go out in public, you probably don't even like telling people what you do for a living because you don't feel like explaining it. If you fall in this category, that means you're making the biggest decisions of your life, 10, $20 million decisions, all by yourself, alone. And without that push. In my opinion, the risk is not blowing up. It's drifting into good enough territory, into becoming Mediocre. And the worst thing that can happen to you is 10 years from now, you look back and you realize, I missed this amazing opportunity. I didn't grow. I plateaued in life and in business. My company, Hampton, we changed that. If you're running a company that does at least 3 million in revenue, you can [e-mail]. we vet you, we curate you, and we give you eight handpicked founders who have similar businesses, similar sizes as you, who will challenge you, who will hold you accountable, and who will give you perspectives that you cannot get anywhere else. And this all happens in real life. So check it out. Joinhampton.comnetwork yeah, and I think a lot.

[Greg]

Of these types, what I'm showing here, these TikToks, are like six mistakes we made during pool planning and how to avoid them. You would never think that that's actually AI that created it.

[Sam Parr]

No, that looks real.

[Greg]

That looks real.

[Sam Parr]

Okay, so how do I. How do I fake the world?

[Greg]

Here's what I'll say. I'll say that, you know, a lot of people are vibe coding software right now, but the hardest problem is how do you get customers to that software? Well, one way is to own a bunch of accounts, like on TikTok, that you can send traffic to. So I believe that there's an arbitrage right now to use AI to create these accounts, basically like meme accounts, and then, you know, sell your software through them. So there's a. There's a piece of software called Real Farm. This thing must do like 10k a month mrr or less. It's like not many people know about it, but it's a way to automate TikToks to drive traffic to your website.

[Sam Parr]

Just TikTok. Not Instagram, just TikTok.

[Greg]

I mean, you probably could, you know, upload it to Instagram, but from what I've seen, it does TikTok the best. What is how it works is you can source images from, let's say, Pinterest. So Pinterest has tons of images. Let's say you want to do, you know, top a slideshow that says top eight protein sources ranked by bioavailability and cost. So you add a prompt and generate a slideshow. You can see the slideshow over here.

[Sam Parr]

That's crazy.

[Greg]

These images, and it's super clean. And the cool thing is that TikTok is promoting slideshows right now. And then you can just schedule and publish it. So within like 30 seconds, you have a piece of content in your niche that you can just Schedule.

[Sam Parr]

Wow, man. I. I have a friend that created an app. He's a man that helps men do Kegel exercises, which basically makes it so you don't premature ejaculate during sex. And I was like, man, this is deol, but this is real hard to promote. Like, I don't. You know, I wouldn't want to brag. I don't feel comfortable bragging about using this app. And when you go to Real Farm, I see Real Farm.

[Greg]

Real.

[Sam Parr]

What is their URL real.real.farm. like, I see the companies who use it, and I'm like, I see a 16Z and I see substack, and I'm like, really? You. You guys use this?

[Greg]

Yeah. I don't know. I don't know if they use it. But I do know that if you want to fight for customers right now and you want audiences, slideshows and TikTok slideshows is a great way to do it. And then, you know, why pay an agency thousands of dollars a month when you can just use a product like this?

[Sam Parr]

You want to know something funny? Do you know who Steven Bartlett is?

[Greg]

I do.

[Sam Parr]

Stephen used to work for Sean. He was, like, Sean's intern or something like that. And then he left to start his first business. And apparently Sean tells a story, but it's public, which is like, he had a whole bunch of, like, Twitter or Instagram handles. It was, like, things teens say about Georgia or art history, where they just, like, told stories about art history. And he would get all of them popular, and then you would spend money with him. You would buy an ad, and he would have his meme accounts tweet out or Instagram out your product, and then, like, within 10 minutes, it would go viral or something, or it would be highly ranked in the App Store. This is kind of, like, in the same vein. And, you know, I'm teasing and making fun of it, but I'm on Real Farm. Some of the. Like, he's got this one where he uses, like, old art to make, like, these slideshows. I am such a. Like, I watch those all the time. Like, if it's something like, you know, the top 10, like, strangest disappear, like, missing person cases, like, I watch all of them.

[Greg]

Totally. So that's what. That's what I'm saying. Like, we've. We've watched this. Like, there's. There's. There's some way to do AI slop that just, like, is cringe and looks bad, but some of these, like, slideshows. And he also has, like, A UGC ad avatar feature on Real Farm that I think is pretty interesting.

[Sam Parr]

What's that called?

[Greg]

Real.

[Sam Parr]

Real. The same website?

[Greg]

It's the same website but they basically have a way that you, you select a template, let's say of this, of this person, this, the sleepy looking guy over here in the hoodie. And you're like, okay, I want to create an ad and then you come up with the hook. You know, you can use like chat, GPT or cloud to come up with the hook or you can, you know, actually be creative yourself and you can say like my top three Matcha brands. You choose the background music and then it creates using AI. That's crazy. That looks real.

[Sam Parr]

That looks real.

[Greg]

That looks real. This looks real.

[Sam Parr]

So this guy is fake.

[Greg]

He's a fake guy. You set, you, you create the product video. You can use AI to create the product video or if you, you know, want, you can create it yourself like with an iPhone.

[Sam Parr]

It does look like green paint. Not Matcha. But that's, but you know, I guess because I'm staring at it, Sherwin Williams.

[Greg]

Is new macho brand.

[Sam Parr]

That's what it looks like.

[Greg]

Yeah. And like, you know, it's not perfect, but I also think that like we're looking at it like surgically, but the average person just swiping in their brain rotted frame of mind is probably not like, it looks like paint.

[Sam Parr]

Yeah, they're just a fat pig in a cage just saying buy. I want to buy stuff.

[Greg]

You know, I want to buy stuff. And what's, what's an account like this worth? If you're just like reviewing Matcha brands and you have thousands of followers, like, yeah, like that's probably worth a lot of money, dude.

[Sam Parr]

This stuff, whenever I see it. So the capitalistic side is like, this is awesome. And then I find myself slowly like becoming a socialist and I'm thinking, oh my God. Or just we're just a bunch of palantirs in our house just watching us and we're just buying dumb stuff from AI ads. Okay, that's interesting though. Regardless if I make fun of it, I think it's kind of cool. What's the, what's another cool one?

[Greg]

Okay, this one is also. You're going to hate this, I think also, but sign me up. This is not just for you, it's for, it's for people looking for jobs. So there's this thing called AI apply. And if you go to the website you could, let's say you're looking for a job, you can literally apply to thousands of jobs automatically via AI.

[Sam Parr]

That's crazy, man. This is absolutely crazy.

[Greg]

It also has this cool thing. There's like an interview buddy. So it helps you get real time interview help and answer interview questions, it helps you build in resume, it helps you build a cover letter. And obviously the core feature is the auto apply thing. Now why I like this is it's, I get my feel in our little tech bubble that like the economy is good and everything like that people are suffering right now and it's really hard to find a job. Any way that you can find an unfair advantage to get in the room. I support. It does suck for the HR managers and the, you know, the people at the companies getting all these AI applications. I will say that though.

[Sam Parr]

That is insane, man. I hate this. But I get, I get the need. It says that it's loved by 1 million users. So a million people use this?

[Greg]

Million people have used this. I, I actually tweeted like, what are some underrated apps? And the CMO replied with this. And some guy was like, yeah, but if you're, you know, the company getting these, this sucks. And he responded saying like, the next version of the product is helping companies filter out AI applications.

[Sam Parr]

This is like if Nestle like owned the hospital. Do you know what I mean? Yeah, exactly. Like we're gonna fatten you up and then give you a bunch of medicine to make you escape skinny and then we're gonna fatten up again.

[Greg]

Yeah, it's amazing and it's probably gonna be a great business, but I think that like there's an again. I'm always looking for like the arbitrage opportunity has seeing.

[Sam Parr]

Yeah. And I get the money making perspective and I think that if you haven't made your first dollar and you're looking to do something, then this is the future. And, and I, you know, like my business that made me money was a newsletter that had advertising in it. So I am, I am, I am no one to talk about any of this, but sometimes I see this stuff, I do get pretty bummed out. And I think this will always happen. I think the people who are older will always look at the younger people and being like, back in my day, like we cared about our jobs or we were more craftsmen. So I'm going to preface all that with, with that. But does any of this make you feel bad?

[Greg]

Yeah. So, well, this podcast is called My First Million. So if someone is trying to get from zero to a million dollars, like these are the tools that anyone could use. And there's no capital restrictions, and you don't need to be in Silicon Valley to win. So I think that, you know, if I'm trying to make a million bucks, like, this is, this is, these are the tools that I'm trying I'm using to make a million bucks. I grew up with no connections and, you know, not a ton of money and stuff like that. So, like, I have a soft spot for people who are starting out, going 0 to 1 and, you know, so that's who I'm focusing on, man. Like, I'm focusing like I'm dead. That's what I've like, dedicated my career to, to doing really, is helping people, you know, being in the light bulb business and helping people have light bulbs so they can actually, like, change the trajectory of life. Now I say that with, like, I don't want to go on, on X and Instagram and see AI slop all day long. You know what I mean? Like, I love X and I love Instagram and we have kids now, right? We don't want our, our, our families to be addicted to these products. So I do, I, I do feel that, I do feel a sense of, like, responsibility as well.

[Sam Parr]

But I do think it's interesting, you know, I think that, I think that the, the generation before the Internet came around, they probably said the exact same thing.

[Greg]

They said the same thing.

[Sam Parr]

I think that the generation before the Industrial revolution, they would say the exact same thing. So things tend to work themselves out. And it's just, this is the first time in my life that I'm old enough where I'm potentially like, okay, are you getting on or are you getting off? Whereas if you're a young person, you're just born on. So there was no are you getting on or getting off for the Internet? I was born to the Internet. That's just how I grew up. Whereas now I'm old enough to, where it's not, I'm not default into it and I have to like, learn about it. And, and this is, this is the first time I've experienced that.

[Greg]

Yeah, I mean, we are getting older, you know, so, and, and we've seen some of these shifts. But I agree, like, what's the difference between brain rotting on TikTok and like, watching TV for eight hours a day?

[Sam Parr]

These tools are, are really cool. I do spe. How many, how many hours a week are you just nerding out and finding all these interesting things?

[Greg]

I mean, that's one of the reasons why I love the design agency is like, the design agency is Working with all. All the top AI apps to build up this stuff. So sometimes I just sit in meetings and I'm like, you know, teach me everything about, you know, character AI. Teach me everything about Jasper AI. Teach me everything about these tools.

[Sam Parr]

How many of them are you proficient in?

[Greg]

I. I spend probably 10 hours a week playing with new tools every single week. And I would say I'm proficient in. I'm proficient, like, I'm, you know, native in 10 tools, let's say, man.

[Sam Parr]

Well, thank you for. For filling me in. I do feel. It's funny. For years, I was like, the young guy, I was like, you know, the guy who my parents would ask, how do. How do they turn their Internet on or plug their TV in? Because they think that I'm like a computer geek. And. But I was never actually that. And now I feel like I'm even further away from, like, the AI epicenter. But I'm so happy that I have friends like you who can, like, pull me towards it a little bit and show me what's cool and. And not make me feel stupid by not knowing what it is. And that's kind of the value that you provided to our audience this episode. So I appreciate you doing that.

[Greg]

It's literally my pleasure. It's an honor to do. To do so. And like, like I said, like, I'm in the light bulb business, so, you know, if you had one or two or three light bulbs, even if some of the stuff you. You saw today was like, that's a little bit cringe, I wouldn't do that. There might be a way that you can do or use some of these tools in a way that works for you, and I think that's the important part, and that's, like, the important takeaway. So, Sam, thanks for having me on and letting me share my nerdy stuff, and I'll see you next time.

[Sam Parr]

All right, that's it. That's the pod.

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