Nat Eliason
Program Director of Founders School, Alpha School. On 2 shows, 2 appearances. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
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Nat Eliason is an author and entrepreneur who founded the content marketing agency Growth Machine and published books including Crypto Confidential and Husk. He is widely recognized for his courses on personal knowledge management, web3 essays, and autonomous AI experiments such as Felix via OpenClaw.
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Everything Nat Eliason said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Eliason: AI agents will be the internet's biggest consumers within years
“We are entering into a new era of internet commerce and internet like interactions where within a few years, the biggest transactors, the biggest consumers on the internet are going to be AI agents.”
Eliason: Alpha School offers $1M revenue or full tuition refund
“And when I kind of heard about what alpha school was thinking of doing with high school and this new, like high school for founders, where you make a million dollars or you get all your tuition back.”
Nat Eliason: You can delete 99% of your digital notes without consequence
“But what you will probably find is that you can delete 95 to 99% of everything you have in Evernote or Notion or whatever and never feel that pain for the rest of your life.”
Eliason: AI agent Felix generated nearly $200K within two months
“And so at this scale where Felix has built, you know, a business that's done almost 200 grand in two months, like now it's starting to make sense to split out some of his capabilities to other agents, but we take a very, very minimal approach to it.”
Nat Eliason: The software used to store book highlights does not matter
“The medium that I organize those highlights in doesn't seem to matter because I had them in text files at one point, I had them in Evernote, I had them in Notion, I had them in Rome, I had them in back in Notion, right?”
Nat Eliason: Most personal knowledge management features are false-productivity distractions
“Well, yes, I think it's really the searching, the indexing and the collecting that are very helpful, but pretty much all of the other features are often like get in the way or become distractions or give you this sense of productivity, right?”
Nat Eliason: Organizing digital notes does not improve writing or happiness
“And I think the false promise that many of us Believe or have bought into or whatever is that if you organize information, you will write better articles. You will make more money. You will be happier. You will get all of these benefits from it, right? And tha…”
Nat Eliason: 99.9% of the best books were written without writing software
“You know, I make this analogy all the time that 99.9% of the best books ever written were written on a typewriter or by hand. Like, if you think that you need a good writing app to write your book, you're just wrong. Like, it, it's just not true.”
Eliason Refuses to Write Code or Create Products for His AI Agent
“My philosophy has been like, I'm not going to write any of the code for you. I'm not going to create these products for you. I'm not going to like at the expense of. The business to some extent, like I am going to be as out of the loop as possible because that…”
Eliason: OpenClaw writes poor code due to assistant-style optimization
“OpenClaw is not a good programmer. Like OpenClaw just doesn't do a good job of coding because OpenClaw is highly optimized for being helpful and for being a good assistant and getting things done. But you want like good code written. You don't want the quick a…”
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: I would pay $1,000 for AI-embedded personal note tools
“Theoretically, any note-taking app should be able to offer that as a service, or maybe you pay, you know, I, I'd pay like a thousand dollars or more for this, right? Very happily.”
Eliason: Felix's Info Product Did Over $1,000 in Day-One Sales
“And I think it did like over a thousand dollars in sales that first day, which was pretty cool.”
Eliason: Felix Expanded His PDF Guide from 29 to 66 Pages via Feedback
“And so I think the first version was 29 pages or something. And now it's up to 66 because whenever somebody complains about something or you know, wants something else added to it, he just goes in and adds it and then republishes it and emails the new version …”
Eliason: Claw sourcing charges $2,000 for setup and $500 monthly
“Two grand. And then 500 a month for maintenance.”
Eliason: Claw sourcing has made roughly $12,000 in revenue
“So I think Claw sourcing has made about 12 grand at this point.”
Eliason: Sondex is an agent-first CRM pulling from email and Stripe
“We built an agent for CRM. This is Sondex, which really anybody can sign up for. We haven't pushed it too hard, but this is like a memory layer, a memory API for agents that pulls from email and Stripe to create perpetually updating client cards.”
Eliason: Support sub-agent Iris handles 80-90% of customer emails
“And so an email comes in to our support email and 80, 90% of the time Iris can just handle it and respond.”
Eliason Launches Agent Letters to Format Newsletters for AI Agents
“And that's why we made agent letters, which is what you're launching. Yeah. Yeah. This is the thing that we're launching, which is if you have a newsletter, you can sign up for this. And all you have to do is add the email address that we give you to your news…”
One line per show, most statements first. The link opens Nat's full record on that show: the calibration, argument clarity, speaking style and every statement made there.
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 MIXERGYLEDGER | Program Director of Founders School, Alpha School | 1 | 12 | 100% 1/1 | full record on Mixergy → |
 a16zLEDGER | Program Director of Founders School, Alpha School | 1 | 8 | — | full record on the a16z Podcast → |