Excited to share that I’ve co-authored From Startup to Standout with Shark Tank’s Kevin Harrington - @HarringtonKevin.
In my chapter, I dive into the ups and downs of my journey, the lessons learned, and the mindset shifts that made the difference.
Honored to give back in a way that, I hope, helps others on their own path.
this man is being vilified but remember that without him we probably wouldn’t have any consumer AI
recap:
1>Google had internal AI for yrs but refused to release it because they’re our overlords who treated us like the idiots that we are. they were happy to throw scraps at us once in a while and then cancel those projects on a whim. they didn’t give two shits until OpenAI literally showed up and forced their hand.
2> meanwhile we couldn’t even get basic spellcheck right. spellcheck doesn't work in Chrome EVEN NOW. Grammarly built an entire business extorting fees just to make that one basic feature usable.
3> look at how Ilya is selling closed source AI to hedge funds. that was the best-case scenario for AI. it was destined for quants and algo trading because that’s where the serious money is (eg even Deepseek came out of a hedge fund)
4> then Sam casually dropped Chatgpt in 2022 and everything changed overnight. suddenly there was AI you could simply log into, ask questions and chat with. it was fucking magical.
5> OpenAI was so far ahead that nobody really came close until Anthropic in 2025/26 and even Dario came from openai (so more points for Sam tbh)
granted there’s a whole lot of profit/non-profit drama going on but the fact remains: we have consumer AI because Sam Altman decided to release it and then built an entire business around it.
NVIDIA is worth multiple trillions because of that. otherwise that leather jacket hero larp uncle would still be selling gpus to crypto miners and gamers like he always did.
Elon gave us a true EV company. Sam gave us AI. both are feuding and that’s their business but don’t lose perspective of the facts.
we have AI because of Sam.
omni flash + gpt image 2 ads are PRINTING like crazy right now.
i found a stupidly simple way to reverse engineer viral ads and pump out winners in minutes.
i just made a step-by-step guide that breaks down the entire workflow.
rt + reply 'workflow' and I’ll send it over
(must be following so i can dm)