

The Startup Ideas 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
Episodes


Jack Dorsey's Buzz: The New Hermes Agent?

How I use Claude Code + MCPs to run my marketing

How I run a team of AI Agents 24/7

FDE: The $1M/Year AI Job Explained
Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE) represents a critical bridge between general AI capabilities and specific business processes, shifting the competitive advantage from owning intelligence to effectively deploying it. FDEs function as a hybrid of technical experts and consultants, auditing business workflows to identif...

The $1,000/hour Solo AI business (Full Course)
Small business owners often struggle to implement AI due to time constraints and technical barriers, creating a lucrative opportunity for consultants to provide "AI tools assessments." This model involves conducting a 45-minute discovery call to identify operational bottlenecks, followed by a report prescribing off-the...

Making $$$ with Loop Engineering
"Loop engineering" transforms business operations by leveraging AI agents to automate iterative processes, moving beyond simple task execution to continuous improvement. By establishing clear objective metrics—such as Google search rankings, ad profitability, or product performance evaluations—businesses can deploy age...

Grok 4.5 is a bigger deal than Fable
Grok 4.5 functions as a powerful, cost-efficient engine for autonomous AI agents, enabling them to act as genuine business co-founders. By integrating these models into platforms like Orgo and connecting them to essential tools—including email, phone, and browser interfaces—users can automate complex workflows that pre...

We Tested OpenAI's GPT 5.6 for a Month

AI Agents are the new SaaS

“Learn AI” Is Bad Advice. Learn These Instead
The agentic era demands a shift in skill sets to maintain professional relevance as AI automates traditional tasks. Success hinges on mastering six core competencies: managing AI agents and local models, executing deep distribution marketing, integrating robotics with AI, curating niche content through authentic storyt...

GLM 5.2 Clearly Explained (and how to set it up)
GLM 5.2 represents a significant inflection point for local AI, offering performance competitive with frontier models while remaining open-source and resource-efficient. By utilizing model chaining—or "fusion"—users can sequence tasks between high-reasoning models and execution-focused local models to optimize both qua...

Making $$$ with IOS apps

Claude Fable 5 is BANNED. What to do?

You are using Claude Fable 5 wrong

What are Agentic Loops?
Agentic loops in AI development often suffer from excessive hype, frequently resulting in wasted token budgets and poor architectural decisions. While fully autonomous systems promise efficiency, they lack the nuanced human oversight required for complex product development, as AI agents inevitably make flawed assumpti...

Become AI Native in less than 60 mins
Becoming an AI-native organization requires a fundamental shift in operations, moving beyond simple tool usage to a system defined by people, agents, and context. People transition into managers of autonomous agents, focusing on strategy and judgment while AI handles execution. Success depends on creating an "agent-rea...

Hermes Agent App Clearly Explained (and how to use it)
The Hermes Desktop app transforms AI agent interaction by replacing fragmented CLI and messaging-based workflows with a centralized, visual interface. By leveraging distinct profiles for specific models—such as using Opus for strategy, GPT-5.5 for coding, and local models for research—users significantly reduce context...

Codex Sites Clearly Explained (and how to use it)

The Next $100B Market: Selling To AI Agents
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