Custom GPTs

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Lechner: Urgent daily firefighting prevents leaders from adopting strategic AI tools
“I think what a lot of people struggle, struggle with is this, like, tension between, like, the urgent and the important, and a lot of these urgent problems that come up at work we're just used to responding. And important work, like, you know, how can I, you k…”
Ariel Lechner Oct 14, 2025 ▶ 2:35 Most People Know the Hard Call They Need to Make - and Don't
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Lechner: Custom AI coach bots are inevitable and already happening
“There's definitely a fear there around like, yeah, if I just, you know, someone just creates like a custom GPT of like, you know, a couple of conversations with the coach, or they pull in like books and, you know, teachers and whatever things that have inspire…”
Ariel Lechner Oct 14, 2025 ▶ 5:33 Most People Know the Hard Call They Need to Make - and Don't
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Weisbrot: Acquaintance closed over $500k using a custom sales GPT
“Well, the guy I was telling you about, he made a sales master GPT that he uses for himself. And I'm pretty sure he loaded some documents into it. I don't know what, but he said it helped him close over half a million and in contracts and in like a few weeks ju…”
Sean Weisbrot Oct 14, 2025 ▶ 8:50 Most People Know the Hard Call They Need to Make - and Don't
Smith: Custom GPTs require specialized proprietary data to monetize
“In order for a custom GPT to, I think, be able to monetize, you do need some sort of, ah, specialized data that other people don't have. Because if that same thing can be done through ChatGPT or Claude, right, you don't have a business.”
Steph Smith May 19, 2025 ▶ 24:16 5 AI Startup Ideas So Good You’ll Quit Your Job in 24hrs
Cole: Base ChatGPT and Claude make custom GPTs unnecessary
“The ChatGPT and Claude are so powerful that you do not need much more than this for a long time.”
Nicolas Cole Jan 20, 2025 ▶ 27:47 I Discovered The Perfect AI Writing System (Life-Changing)
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Weil: Enterprise organizations often create thousands of internal custom GPTs
“With OpenAI, we have these custom GPTs that you can make, and organizations make thousands of them often, and it's a way for the power users to make something that makes AI easier and, like, immediately valuable for the people that might not know how to use it…”
Kevin Weil Nov 6, 2024 ▶ 26:43 A conversation with OpenAI's CPO Kevin Weil, Anthropic's CPO Mike Krieger, and Sarah Guo
Louis-Lucas: ChatGPT plugins and Custom GPTs have been a failure
“They did that with plugins and then they did that with custom GPTs and I have no numbers to support what I'm going to say, but it seems to me that it's, it is a failure and that no, no, no one is, you have slight you have small use cases when you will use a cu…”
Tibo Louis-Lucas Aug 7, 2024 ▶ 24:59 Creator tools you can build that will print money
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Claire Vo: OpenAI's GPT store lacks monetization solutions for creators
“I think the other thing is there is no solution right now for monetization, you know, knock on wood, open AI, we'll figure it out.”
Claire Vo Apr 7, 2024 ▶ 1:00:08 Bending the universe in your favor | Claire Vo (LaunchDarkly, Color, Optimizely, ChatPRD)
AI wrappers survive because platforms like OpenAI must design for average users
“Shopify has to make millions and millions and millions of users happy. So they're designing towards the middle. They're designing towards the average. But if you're building a custom GPT or you're building a quote unquote chat GPT wrapper, you can afford to ma…”
Dru Riley Nov 30, 2023 ▶ 23:18 How To Make MILLIONS As A Faceless YouTuber | Dru Riley
OpenAI's Custom GPTs currently fail at execution and content creation
“Custom GPTs right now are not great at execution or content creation at all.”
Dru Riley Nov 30, 2023 ▶ 25:07 How To Make MILLIONS As A Faceless YouTuber | Dru Riley
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Nat Eliason: The next big utility is AI-embedded note-taking tools
“I really think the next big utility is going to be a note taking tool that offers custom GPT or whatever embeds as a service. For your knowledge graph.”
Nat Eliason Sep 18, 2023 ▶ 13:50 Living Up the Promise of A True Second Brain with Nat Eliason

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