Jay Owen

CEO @ Business Builders
Founder @ Agency Builders
Leader @ Eleven22
AI Enthusiast | Christ Follower | Father of 5
Helping Businesses and Ministries Grow

[Jay Owen @owendesign]

@JoeSampsonFL @Apple I don’t think this is real

[Jay Owen @owendesign]

Charging my phone anywhere by my bedroom has been a big life improvement. Highly recommended.

[Paul Graham @paulg]

The only thing worse than having the CEO knee-deep in building stuff with AI is not having the CEO knee-deep in building stuff with AI.

[Jay Owen @owendesign]

Yikes 😬

[jacky @jjacky]

if you still have the facebook app

please check if you have this setting turned on

absolutely crazy

[Jay Owen @owendesign]

One prompt I give AI with every new model…

“Create a Mario kart clone.” That’s the whole prompt.

It’s never been great, but this one from Opus 4.8 is pretty darn close for one prompt:
https://t.co/MLsXf4gLF9

[Jay Owen @owendesign]

@AdamPage85 @RevAndrewHale I used to think like this about "screening rooms" too. I was wrong.

[Jay Owen @owendesign]

@amasad Bringing our team from @businessbldrsfl

[Jay Owen @owendesign]

@andyhennie That’s awesome - call things what they do! :)

[Jay Owen @owendesign]

@JasonPynn Our teens love Royal Caribbean. Doing a week on the Icon this summer.

[Jay Owen @owendesign]

Google is prob the best overall AI but prob the worst in packaging it and promoting it clearly…

[Nathan Clark @nathanclark_]

it’s in gemini, just create it in ai studio. oh, that’s for your personal google one account. for workspace you need gemini business. no, not gemini advanced, that’s ai pro now. unless you need ai ultra. oh agents? you do that in spark actually. no, not gemini api managed agents, that’s different. for coding use jules. unless you mean the agentic ide, that’s antigravity. no, that’s the old antigravity, download the new one. actually gemini cli is being deprecated, use antigravity cli. no the flash model is smarter than the pro model. unless you need pro. if it’s video, use flow. no, flow uses veo. no, nano banana is images. actually that’s in gemini now. unless you’re in search, then it’s ai mode. no, research is notebooklm. anyway it’s all very simple.

[Jay Owen @owendesign]

@briansooy @EntreLeadership Ha, not this time. It was a live podcast recording from stage, so I just had to answer a few questions.

[Jay Owen @owendesign]

Here’s a crazy story…

5 years ago, my plan was to go into professional speaking. Back then, my dream stage was the @entreleadership #entresummit stage.

6 months after I wrote that dream down and started heading that direction, I took a job at The Church of Eleven22, because I felt like that’s what God was calling me to do.

So I laid the Entre stage dream down.

It’s been incredible to be part of what God is doing through the church, but it required a sacrifice, for lack of a better term.

Then a few months back, out of the blue (to me), @jfelkins, executive director of EntreLeadership, reached out via a LinkedIn message that I almost missed and asked if I’d come share on the Entre stage about AI.

I was in awe of the goodness of God, and honored that the Entre team, and ultimately Dave Ramsey, would trust me with that stage.

Tomorrow I’ll do my best to be a good steward of the opportunity, to provide value, and to serve well. I owe a lot to what I’ve learned through this community, and I’m excited to get to share tomorrow.

Moral of the story: when God calls you to lay a thing down, do it. I’m not promising he’ll always bring it back to you, but I’ve seen it happen more than once in my own life.

Grateful and excited.

[Jay Owen @owendesign]

AI can be overwhelming. It can’t be ignored.

Today I joined the @entreleadership #entresummit stage to talk through what every business leader needs to know and do about it.

Five things worth writing down:

→ Context beats the prompt
→ Ask the AI what else it needs from you
→ The future is highly autonomous AND deeply human
→ Don’t ask AI questions. Give it tasks.
→ The tool matters less than taking action with the tool you pick

The future belongs to the continuously curious.

Honored to share the stage with @jamespoulter and @jfelkins

[Jay Owen @owendesign]

Don't pick a road.

Run both. Highly autonomous AND deeply human. On purpose.

Be a Builder, not a bystander.

Full essay: https://t.co/fq59eiD29d
4-min video: https://t.co/X6BKSikozl

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[Jay Owen @owendesign]

Most leaders are picking the wrong lane with AI.

They're either all-in on automation, or scared of it and digging in.

Both are losing positions.

The frame that's working for me:

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[Jay Owen @owendesign]

Two behaviors I look for in AI-ready teammates:

1) Continually curious - willing to retry tools that didn't work 3 months ago, because they probably work now.

2) "What if" people, not "yeah but" people.

You don't have to be that person. You need that person.

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