2009-2014:
- $500 for an ebook
- Course era hit
- Wild West
2015-2019:
- ClickFunnels shows up (now a multi $1,000,000,000 brand)
- Behemoth funnels
- Huge automation sequences
2020-2022:
- COVID hits
- Digital product sales exploded (2,000,000,000+ buyers)
- Dropshipping took off
2023-2024:
- Skool was in its heyday (Hormozi bought it)
- Online communities in general took off
2024-2025:
- Grifters move onto AI (adoption 2x’d from 33% to 71%).
- People said digital products are dead
- They’re wrong
2026-beyond:
- Digital products can be apps now (75% of new apps are built with no-code tools)
- Things with inherent obvious value that sell themselves.
Digital products have always been the greatest customer acquisition tool ever created.
They cost you nothing to spin up, you can test endlessly, and every customer you get is a credit card on file you can sell to again.
The model will never die.
Today, we’re rolling out an updated Deep Think mode available in the Gemini app for Google AI Ultra subscribers. Here’s what you need to know:
— Gemini 3 Deep Think mode pushes the boundaries of intelligence even further, delivering meaningful improvement in reasoning capabilities
— It works by using advanced parallel thinking to explore multiple hypotheses simultaneously
— This builds on the Gemini 2.5 Deep Think variants that recently achieved a gold-medal standard at this year's International Mathematical Olympiad and at the International Collegiate Programming Contest World Finals
Ultra subscribers can try Deep Think today by selecting “Deep Think” in the prompt bar and Gemini 3 Pro in the model selector.
Age 1: Diagnosed with a fatal disease. Said I'd die by age 2.
Age 2: Got pneumonia but survived. Proved them wrong.
Age 4: Got pneumonia again. Still survived.
Age 7: Major spine surgery. Pain so bad I begged to die.
Age 8: Parents separate. It becomes a five-year divorce battle.
Age 10: So poor we can’t afford food. The church takes care of us.
Age 12: Start programming video games after school.
Age 13: Mother remarries. Discovers his brother is a cartel boss in Mexico.
Age 14: Summer with the cartel in Chihuahua, Mexico.
Age 15: More pneumonia. Nearly died this time.
Age 16: Graduated from high school. Full scholarship to college.
Age 17: Stepfather is beating my mother. I threaten to hire a hitman to kill him. He runs.
Age 18: Launched first company. Virtual reality for learning languages. Crashed and burned.
Age 20: Graduate college magna cum laude.
Age 21: Real estate developer. Become a millionaire for the first time.
Age 24: Body crushed in car crash. 37 broken bones. 12 months of narcotics.
Age 25: I lose millions in the real estate crash. My house. Everything.
Age 26: I move to Mazatlan, Mexico. Writing every day on the beach. Nearly everything goes viral.
Age 27: My writing crosses 100 million readers.
Age 28: Launched Smart Blogger. Made \$500,000 in nine months.
Age 30: Smart Blogger becomes the biggest writing blog in the world.
Age 33: Tony Robbins reads one of my posts to a stadium full of people.
Age 35: A doctor and I fall in love. Thinking about getting married.
Age 36: She is brutally assaulted. Brain damage. Schizophrenia. I lose her.
Age 37: Therapy. I start to heal from all the trauma in my life.
Age 38: Speaking to crowds of up to 7000 people.
Page 40: Reach milestone of $15 million earned online.
Today: You learn about me for the first time.
Hi. My name is Jon.
I've lived a crazy life.
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If I could give my younger self one piece of advice, it would be this:
Your excuses are lies you've told yourself so often you believe they're truths.
For years, I told myself no girl would ever want me, so why even try to date?
Excuses justified loneliness, excuses protected me from the pain of rejection.
But the reality?
I was just scared—scared of being vulnerable, scared of feeling unwanted, scared of my own worthiness.
I decided to challenge my own limiting beliefs. I started asking six women a day to join me for a coffee date.
Within 30 days, I'd gone on dozens of dates, had ten women texting 'good morning' daily, and ended up dating a beautiful Southwest flight attendant who fell head over heels in love with me.
Stop lying to yourself. Face the truth, drop the excuses, and finally change your life.
Doctors said I would die before I graduated high school.
Nobody thought I would go to college. Nobody thought I would ever have a girlfriend. Nobody thought I would even survive.
And I realized I had a choice:
I could believe they were right, and I would die…
… or I could decide for myself what my life could be and maybe, just maybe I could prove everyone wrong.
Now I'm 42 years old. I graduated college at the top of my class. I've made millions of dollars from my wheelchair, I get more girls than Leonardo DiCaprio.
(Okay, maybe not quite that many.)
The point?
I don't care how low you are right now. I don't care how many people have given up on you.
You can prove everybody wrong. You are the only one who decides your future.