Your startup will die.
When you don’t own the infrastructure.
Everyone wants to skip fixing/building infrastructure, hoping it miraculously gets sorted.
Rent-seeking is not a business model; it’s a short-term money grab.
One thing that people do not understand about Nigeria is that most cities are physically very small. Almost everything in Uyo is 30 minutes from everything else. Apart from Lagos and Abuja, any business must not be built on the assumption that it is expensive for people to just go there by themselves.
Keeping my prediction on the pod, that everything changes when you have unlimited/unmetered tokens…
… and that the $10k desktop running local models will be commonplace next year.
Many companies will budget for $10-20k desktops to have sovereign, unmetered tokens
Advice for everyone:
Set up an AI agent to run 24/7. It doesn’t even matter that much what it’s actually doing.
Just setting it up and running it is where the real learning happens.
And in your free time, scroll the AI tab on X.
Short-form brainrot on Reels and TikTok won’t add a single thing of value to your life.
Going forward, AI will be used in literally every field, and your competitive edge will be defined by how up-to-date you stay with the latest info.
Nobody wants to hear this, but the biggest moat in business right now is attention.
40 cents of every venture dollar raised goes to Google and Facebook for ads.
As a founder, spending time building an audience organically will give you a higher long term ROI than almost anything else.
16 things that will be normal in 3 years and sound insane today
1. Somebody's entire job is making sure your agents don't do dumb things.
2. Kids grow up assuming any adult who types is old, the way we assume anyone who prints emails is old.
3. You get an itemized bill for what your agents bought last month and it reads like an expense report from a small company.
4. Someone you've never met sells you a business that runs itself, and you never learn what the code does.
5. Your doctor's first opinion comes from a model, and the human's job is deciding whether to trust it.
6. Job posts will say "must be able to manage agents" the same way they used to say "proficient in Excel."
7. The best-paid person at a company will be whoever's best at explaining the business to machines.
8. Your company has more agents than employees, and HR manages both.
9. Companies start hiding how few employees they have, because a lean team reads as fragile to enterprise buyers.
10. Your calendar fills with meetings you didn't schedule, because your agent and their agent worked it out.
11. The CV dies and gets replaced by a body of work an agent can verify in 4 seconds.
12. You interview an agent before you hire it. Give it a fake task, watch how it handles the weird cases, then decide.
13. Losing your job means losing your agents too, and it's kinda scary losing your best agents.
14. "Made by a person" becomes a label on products, and there's a certification body for it.
15. You'll have a folder of agents the way you have a folder of apps
16. Getting a human on the phone becomes a paid tier, and people gladly pay it.
To historians in the future, the question "Is that Photoshop?" will seem seem like a preliminary version of "Is that AI?" that people asked for a brief period.
Multiplayer AI
@aaron_epstein
The best work tools became more powerful when they became multiplayer. But AI is still mostly trapped in private chats, with agents working in sessions that teammates can’t join or influence.
The next generation of AI tools will let teams work with agents together in real time: watching, redirecting, and handing off work across engineering, sales, support, legal, finance, and more. AI’s multiplayer moment is coming.
GojiberryAI just crossed $300k MRR.
Building GojiberryAI taught us something surprising.
Most AI startups never make it past $1k MRR.
A few scale to millions.
The difference usually isn't better features.
It's two simple things almost everyone underestimates.
If you're building an AI startup, this might save you months of trial and error.
To celebrate, we put together a free course breaking down exactly how we went from $0 to $4M ARR in under a year.
Comment GOJI and repost this post, and I'll DM you the course.