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Postma predicts a one-person autonomous AI marketing agency could reach $1B revenue
“You could go into this and just basically build a marketing agency that scales to probably a billion dollar in revenue without having a single human sitting there. Just probably just one guy, which is managing all the terminal commands and checking if everythi…”
Postma: Social Media Will Die in Five Years Due to AI
“I'm pretty sure. Like I think social media, how we know it is going to be dead in five years because everything is going to be fake. So either people are going to love it or no one's going to use it because it's going to be a black forest effect.”
Postma: On-the-Fly Personalized AI Content Will Replace Human Creators
“Well, but don't you think that in five years, hypothetically, Like, why do you need content creators if TikTok, TikTok already knows so well what you like, what is your interest? Like, why would you need content creators if the AI models are so fast and GPUs a…”
Postma: Blog Content Marketing Is Dead; Interactive Tools Now Win SEO
“I think if you're making blog posts now to rank to the number top of Google, like content marketing, you're done. You're fucked. But if you make tools and products and something like this, and that's how you rank on Google, I think you have future success.”
Postma predicts programmatic AI SEO directories will become saturated within two years
“And this is probably not even going to work in two years in the world. Cause all these niches are going to be found. They're going to be filled in by people just doing all these things. Cause it's all highly automated, right?”
Postma: Shutterstock Could Replace All Its Photographers With AI by 2025
“But I think someone is probably Shutterstock is going to do this really well because they have like the whole database of photos, right? They could literally, I think in two years, put all their photographers out of a job and just have an AI generate the photo…”
Postma predicts the overall AI startup gold rush will end by 2026
“Cause in two years, it's not going to be, the gold rush is going to be over. I think it's going to be too late in that sense.”
Postma predicts AI will fully automate medical scribe jobs within five years
“So this person, like it's going to be taught, like people don't like to hear it, but this person is going to be automated by AI because you have open AI whisper. It can literally transcribe what you're saying. You use another LLM to summarize it and you're don…”
Postma: Social media will integrate AI clothing try-ons within years
“And I wouldn't be surprised if any social media is going to do this soon, because Instagram already has photos of your face, right? They could already train a model on your face in that kind of sense. And you could put the clothing on it that they put in their…”
Postma: Lensa matched my startup's total lifetime revenue in one hour
“Seeing Lenza swoop in one month after we actually launched this already and just did our revenue in one hour or something.”
Postma: OpenAI confirmed Headlime was the first live product on its API
“I was one of the first to build a product like that and go live with it. I got a screenshot from OpenAI saying I'm the first developer to actually go live with a product.”
Postma predicts ComfyUI will become the next massive wave in AI tooling
“I think in the next few months, this is going to be huge. I think a lot of people are going to move to comfy UI. There's a lot of tools being built now that allow you to really easily work with it. I think this is going to be the next kind of wave in AI right …”
Postma: Fine-tuning an AI face model costs 60 cents
“So currently to deep train a model on someone's face to be able to generate photos After that, it costs 60 cents to generate this. Yeah. So not even a dollar. And then I think per photo you're at a fraction of a cent right now. So you could generate hundreds o…”
Postma: Canva will launch brand-trained AI tools within 3 months
“I'm going to a hundred percent bet you that Kanfa does this in the next three months.”
Postma: ProfilePicture.ai Sales Grew 10x After Competitor Lensa Launched
“Like for Lanza, for example, like I got. 10 times more sales after they launched a product because suddenly people like most of the people, they were suddenly searching for like AI avatar. Right. But some people, they didn't use the word AI avatar. They used A…”
Postma: Instagram and TikTok Will Introduce Text-Prompted AI Face Editors
“I think what Lanza is eventually gonna do, but I'm pretty sure Instagram or TikTok is gonna go there. It's like, you will have your own editor of your own face, where you can just type in what you want to see right now, and it just outputs the photos for you. …”
Postma: Tattoo artists will adopt AI as an inspiration and design tool
“Then on the other side, I think there's gonna be a lot of artists who are gonna use it as an inspiration source. They're gonna generate, like, there's gonna be a customer. They can just suddenly generate like a hundred options instead of just one or two, show …”
Postma's programmatic AI tattoo directory hit $10K MRR before being sold
“And this is, for example, we did it with a tattoo. And I think we hit like 10,000 MRR before I sold it because I was focusing on another startup.”
Postma: Lensa generated $40 million from AI profile pictures
“I believe Lenza did forty million dollars with that.”
Postma: a16z and Sequoia Held Funding Talks for Headlime in 2021
“Two years ago, I had talks with Andreessen Horowitz, Sequoia, stuff like that.”