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#707November 26, 20241:30:38

$100B Founder Breaks Down The Biggest AI Business Opportunities …

AI AgentsHardware and RoboticsVR and Spatial ComputingStartup Strategy

About This Episode

Shaan Puri interviews Furqan Rydhan, a co-founder of AppLovin and founder of Founders, Inc., about the current state of AI agents and the democratization of hardware. They discuss how low-cost tools like Raspberry Pi and LLMs allow small teams to build complex robots and autonomous software systems that were previously only possible for massive corporations.

Episode Description

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

  • 0:00Intro
  • 4:42Define the Job-to-be-done
  • 8:20How to build an AI Agent workflow
  • 11:16AI Tools break down
  • 27:05How Polymarket won
  • 31:48Why VR is a sleeping giant?
  • 44:43Be a lifelong player in tech
  • 58:52The unbeatable combination
  • 1:02:27Adam Foroughi’s A+ execution
  • 1:18:35Betting on -1 to 0

Key Takeaways

1

Deploy AI agents for 'clear directive' digital tasks like lead research or calendar management to effectively double your company's output without increasing headcount.

2

Project selection is often more important than execution; entrepreneurs should look for industries where the 'field' is open and incumbents are ignoring new technological inflections.

3

Prototyping physical hardware and robotics has dropped in cost from millions to under $100k due to the combination of 3D printing, cheap sensors, and cloud-based AI reasoning.

Business Ideas Mentioned

Autonomous AI Influence and Business Bots

AI & Automation

Generative AI Sports Highlight Reels

Content & Media

Low-Cost Industrial Machine Retro-fitting

AI & Automation

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