Episodes
Six years of tape. Every episode is checked claim by claim and playable.
72 episodes in 2026
🎙STARTUP IDEAS
22m GPT-6 Astra: How I’d Make Money With It
Host Greg Isenberg and technologist Ross Mike break down high-leverage commercial and engineering applications for OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra, covering software optimization, business automation p…
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38m I'm Obsessed With Local AI. Here's Why
Host Greg Isenberg presents a comprehensive masterclass demonstrating how non-technical founders and operators can leverage open-weight, on-device AI models to build defensible businesses an…
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24m 5 GitHub Repos: Kill AI Slop, Go Viral, Make Money
Greg Isenberg highlights five cutting-edge open-source GitHub repositories that give entrepreneurs and creators an unfair advantage in the agentic AI era. He demonstrates how these tools aut…
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35m Marketing Engineer: The $1M Job with AI Agents
Greg Isenberg details the rise of the marketing engineer, demonstrating how operators can leverage centralized repositories, autonomous AI workflows, and human judgment to replace entire mar…
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28m WebMCP: Let AI Agents pay you money
Host Greg Isenberg and guest Vinny explore WebMCP, an emerging open standard backed by Google and Microsoft that enables websites to interact directly and natively with autonomous AI agents.…
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44m Making $$$ with Grok Bot
Greg Isenberg and guest Billy Howell break down how non-technical operators can use GrokBot's AI agent teams to build, automate, and monetize profitable online businesses such as local newsl…
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32m How I Use Skills + AI Agents to Run My Life
Greg Isenberg hosts Remy from 'AI with Remy' to break down how businesses can transition from isolated AI prompts to collaborative, multiplayer agent workflows. They explore managing AI skil…
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48m Claude Code New Features, Explained
Greg Isenberg presents a comprehensive masterclass on configuring Anthropic's Claude Code into autonomous, 24/7 digital employees through structured repository scaffolding, disciplined plan …
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48m My top secrets to running an AI Agent Workforce
Host Greg Isenberg interviews AI executive Ali K. Miller on how founders can architect, deploy, and govern high-performing autonomous AI agent workforces. The discussion covers mindset shift…
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34m Cloudflare will make 1000+ AI millionaires
Greg Isenberg breaks down how Cloudflare's new AI crawl control and micro-monetization infrastructure are shifting the web from an attention-based economy to an agent-driven resource economy…
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43m Marketing Agents Masterclass (GROW your startup)
Host Greg Isenberg and growth engineer Cody Schneider break down how founders can build and deploy autonomous AI marketing agents to fully automate startup customer acquisition. The mastercl…
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26m Why Graph Engineering will 10x your Claude/Codex
In this episode of The Startup Ideas Podcast, Greg Isenberg demystifies graph engineering, demonstrating how to transform brittle, single-pass AI prompts into reliable, multi-agent workflows…
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38m Jack Dorsey's Buzz: Clearly Explained (and how to use it)
Greg Isenberg and guest Vinny break down Jack Dorsey's agentic workspace Buzz, analyzing how its decentralized Nostr foundation, first-class AI teammates, and open context architecture are r…
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37m Marketing Agents Are Too Good Now
Host Greg Isenberg and guest Cody Schneider provide a comprehensive technical blueprint for building, configuring, and managing autonomous marketing agents to solve startup distribution bott…
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44m Most Valuable Skill of 2026: Managing AI Agents
Host Greg Isenberg and veteran operator Ryan Carson explore how knowledge workers can transition into elite engineering managers of autonomous AI agent fleets. The conversation provides an a…
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51m FDE: The $1M/Year AI Job Explained
In this comprehensive masterclass, host Greg Isenberg and Varick Agents founder Voss explore the high-earning role of the AI Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE), explaining how bridging technica…
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1h 1m The $1,000/hour Solo AI business (Full Course)
In this masterclass, Greg Isenberg and Corey Gannon outline a complete blueprint for launching a high-margin solo AI agency that prescribes off-the-shelf automation tools to small businesses…
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39m Making $$$ with Loop Engineering
Host Greg Isenberg and developer Ellie explore the principles and practical implementations of loop engineering, demonstrating how autonomous AI agents can run long-term SEO, marketing, and …
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55m Grok 4.5 is a bigger deal than Fable 5
Host Greg Isenberg and AI specialist Nick demonstrate how pairing Grok 4.5 with the open-source Hermes harness turns an AI agent into an autonomous co-founder capable of executing complex bu…
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49m GPT 5.6 SOL IS HERE! How to use it.
Greg Isenberg and Dan Shipper demonstrate how to leverage OpenAI Codex and GPT-5.6 as a unified personal operating system, automating knowledge work and live-building an agent-native SaaS ap…
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26m AI Agents are the new SaaS
Greg Isenberg presents a comprehensive masterclass on launching AI agent startups, detailing how entrepreneurs can transition from selling software tools to selling completed labor. The vide…
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29m "Learn AI” Is Bad Advice. Learn This Instead
Greg Isenberg presents a strategic blueprint of six indispensable, compounding skills designed to thrive in an AI-driven economy, emphasizing practical agent orchestration, audience distribu…
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22m GLM 5.2: What you need to know
Host Greg Isenberg and guest Amir explore the breakthrough capabilities, setup process, and economic advantages of the open-weight model GLM 5.2. They demonstrate how developers can integrat…
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48m AI Apps Are Making $10K/Month. Here's Exactly How.
Entrepreneur George breaks down his step-by-step framework for building, launching, and scaling AI-powered consumer mobile apps to over $10,000 per month without traditional coding experienc…
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24m Claude Fable 5 is BANNED. What to do?
Following the sudden ban of Claude Fable 5, Greg Isenberg presents a comprehensive guide to building resilient, sovereign AI systems using local open-weight models. He explores the strategic…
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33m Claude Fable 5 is BACK
Greg Isenberg breaks down tactical frameworks, advanced prompt systems, and high-margin business models enabled by Claude Fable 5, showing entrepreneurs how to leverage agentic AI for automa…
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22m WTF Is an "AI Agent Loop"? Genius or Hype?
Host Greg Isenberg and guest Ross Mike critically evaluate the hype surrounding AI agentic loops, contrasting the costly pitfalls of unconstrained autonomous loops with practical, determinis…
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56m Become AI Native in less than 60 mins
In this masterclass, host Greg Isenberg and AI strategist Theo Taba reveal the organizational frameworks and technical architectures required to build an AI-native company. Through live demo…
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43m Hermes Agent Desktop: Full Setup + Real Use Cases
Host Greg Isenberg and AI practitioner Alex Finn break down Hermes Desktop, demonstrating how its dedicated interface, session management, dynamic model routing, and visual automations empow…
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24m OpenAI Codex: Build Apps That Work For You 24/7
Host Greg Isenberg presents a hands-on masterclass on building self-maintaining web applications with OpenAI Codex Sites, guiding viewers through creating an autonomous Startup Ideas Kanban …
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1h 8m 9 biggest startup ideas right now (AI, B2C, mobile etc)
Hosts Greg Isenberg and Jonathan Courtney explore high-conviction startup opportunities spanning autonomous AI agents, physical third spaces, elder tech, and personalized health. Drawing on …
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47m The $1M+ Solo AI Agent Business (Full Course)
Greg Isenberg and Nick from Orgo present a comprehensive masterclass on building a $5,000-per-month solo AI agent agency. The episode covers client offer structuring, niche selection, contex…
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30m Screensharing How to Start an AI Agent Business Today
Host Greg Isenberg demonstrates how entrepreneurs can build practical, cash-flowing AI agent businesses generating $1,000 to $3,000 daily by leveraging GenSpark Claw to automate data sourcin…
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51m My AI Design Workflow That Doesn't Ship Slop
Host Greg Isenberg sits down with master designer Meng To to break down high-end AI design workflows centered around Google's design.md framework. They explore how combining modular Markdown…
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47m AI Agents run my business and life (Andrew Wilkinson)
Investor and entrepreneur Andrew Wilkinson joins Greg Isenberg to reveal his personal workflows for managing business empires, family office operations, and health using autonomous AI agents…
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1h 5m Making $$ with AI Agents
Airtable CEO Howie Liu joins Greg Isenberg to analyze the multi-trillion-dollar white-collar market opportunity of AI agents and demonstrate Hyperagent, a platform designed to let solopreneu…
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1h 4m Stop using Claude. Start using Codex?
In this masterclass, Greg Isenberg and Riley Brown explore OpenAI's Codex, demonstrating how its multi-agent graphical workspace, autonomous browser capabilities, custom skills, and programm…
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37m Hermes Agent: The New OpenClaw?
In this technical masterclass, Greg Isenberg and guest Imran provide a comprehensive guide to Hermes Agent, detailing its persistent memory, step-by-step setup, cost-cutting automation techn…
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59m Claude Design: Full Walkthrough. I'm blown away.
In this unfiltered live walkthrough, Greg Isenberg rigorously tests Anthropic's Claude Design across mobile UI prototyping, pitch deck generation, and video creation. While demonstrating rem…
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35m My Claude Code workflow to A/B startups in seconds
Host Greg Isenberg and guest Amir demonstrate an end-to-end framework combining Claude Code, Idea Browser, Paper, and Humblytics to design, deploy, and autonomously A/B test high-converting …
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35m How AI agents & Claude skills work (Clearly Explained)
AI practitioner Ross Mike joins Greg Isenberg to break down how AI agents and Claude skills work, offering actionable strategies for context optimization, experiential skill development, and…
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31m How I use iMessage and AI to run my life
In this episode, host Greg Isenberg and Lindy founder Flo demonstrate Lindy Assistant, an opinionated, iMessage-native AI executive assistant designed to automate scheduling, research, meeti…
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31m 23 AI Trends keeping me up at night
Host Greg Isenberg breaks down the transformative business models, macroeconomic shifts, and emerging cybersecurity threats shaping the AI landscape, presenting strategic playbooks for found…
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27m Stop Vibe Coding. Start Getting Customers.
In this actionable masterclass, Greg Isenberg argues that distribution has replaced coding as the ultimate competitive moat and outlines seven tactical frameworks to acquire software custome…
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46m Paperclip: Hire AI Agents Like Employees (Live Demo)
Greg Isenberg interviews Dota, creator of the open-source orchestrator Paperclip, to explore how founders can construct, manage, and scale zero-human companies using hierarchical AI agent te…
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27m Firecrawl AI clearly explained (and how to make $$)
Greg Isenberg explains how Firecrawl serves as the essential web data infrastructure for autonomous AI agents and provides an actionable blueprint for founders to build high-margin vertical …
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1h 4m I fixed OpenClaw so it actually works (full setup)
Moritz Kremb joins Greg Isenberg on the Startup Ideas podcast to deliver a comprehensive, 10-step masterclass on configuring OpenClaw into a reliable, autonomous digital employee. The guide …
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58m Building AI Agents that actually work (Full Course)
In this masterclass, Greg Isenberg and Remy Gaskill demystify autonomous AI agents, demonstrating how to build an AI-driven operating system using local markdown files, Model Context Protoco…
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24m Karpathy's "autoresearch" broke the internet
Greg Isenberg breaks down Andre Karpathy's viral open-source tool AutoResearch, explaining its autonomous experimentation mechanics, ten actionable startup and business use cases, and how to…
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43m I gave OpenClaw one job: go viral (it worked?)
Host Greg Isenberg interviews creator Oliver Henry on how he configured an OpenClaw AI agent named Larry to autonomously create viral TikTok content, optimize product onboarding funnels, and…
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40m Using AI Tools (Manus, FreePik etc) to Create Viral IG Reels
Host Greg Isenberg interviews viral creator Kova to reveal her end-to-end AI video creation pipeline, covering autonomous style reverse engineering with Manus AI, generative visual editing i…
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25m SaaS is minting millionaires again (here's how)
In this comprehensive 30-step masterclass, entrepreneur Greg Isenberg outlines a modern blueprint for launching cash-flowing, AI-powered SaaS businesses by targeting specific sub-niches, dep…
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54m Claude Code & MCPs built my $145K marketing machine
In this masterclass, Greg Isenberg and Cody Schneider demonstrate how to build and orchestrate autonomous AI growth marketing engines using Claude Code, Model Context Protocols (MCPs), and A…
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37m What is Perplexity Computer?
Host Greg Isenberg conducts a live review of Perplexity Computer to evaluate how founders can leverage its autonomous multi-agent workflows for sales outreach, competitive intelligence, inve…
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58m How I Use Obsidian + Claude Code to Run My Life
Host Greg Isenberg and guest Vin demonstrate how integrating Obsidian's networked Markdown vault with Anthropic's Claude Code command-line interface transforms a standard note-taking system …
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52m Making $$$ with OpenClaw
Host Greg Isenberg and AI practitioner Nick demonstrate how to build, deploy, and monetize autonomous AI agents using OpenClaw and cloud virtual machines. They share actionable strategies fo…
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55m Claude Code built me a $273/Day online directory
Host Greg Isenberg and guest Frey Chu break down how to build profitable online directories using Claude Code and Crawl4AI to automate data curation and capture programmatic search traffic. …
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54m Stop Shipping AI Slop. Design with Weavy AI, Claude etc.
Host Greg Isenberg and designer Soraya demonstrate an advanced AI-powered design workflow using Google AI Studio, Claude, Weavy AI, and Figma to transform generic functional software into be…
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44m Claude Code Built My $450K Marketing Campaign
Greg Isenberg and serial entrepreneur Jonathan Courtney explore how AI software builders can escape the trap of endless product development by mastering distribution, sharing the 'Promoter B…
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58m AI marketing Masterclass: From beginner to expert in 60 minutes
In this masterclass, Greg Isenberg and James Dickerson demonstrate how to build an end-to-end AI marketing engine directly inside Claude Code using Model Context Protocols, custom skills, an…
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48m Claude Opus 4.6 vs GPT-5.3 Codex
Greg Isenberg and guest Morgan Linton stage a live head-to-head coding challenge between Claude Opus 4.6 and GPT-5.3 Codex to rebuild the decentralized prediction platform Polymarket from sc…
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25m The Claude Code Skill My Smartest Friends Use
Greg Isenberg interviews Matt Van Horn, creator of the 'Last 30 Days' Claude Code skill, demonstrating how scraping real-time data from X and Reddit supercharges market research, prompt gene…
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56m Screensharing Kevin Rose's AI Workflow/New App
Tech entrepreneur Kevin Rose joins Greg Isenberg to showcase the architecture of his AI-powered news aggregator Nylon and discuss how solo builders can leverage modern AI workflows, cloud or…
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30m How I Use Clawdbot to Run My Business and Life 24/7
In this in-depth masterclass, host Greg Isenberg and digital tinkerer Kitze explore how to build and deploy advanced Clawdbot multi-agent systems, covering local hosting, persona-based workf…
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35m Clawdbot/OpenClaw Clearly Explained (and how to use it)
Greg Isenberg and Alex Finn explore how solopreneurs can deploy Claudebot (Moltbot) as an autonomous 24/7 AI employee, detailing hands-on workflows, onboarding frameworks, local hardware set…
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30m Inside $180B Co-Founder's AI Agent System
AppLovin co-founder Furkan joins Greg Isenberg to unveil Nebula, an autonomous AI agent platform that executes complex, scheduled cloud workflows. The discussion showcases live agent demonst…
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42m I got a private lesson on Claude Cowork & Claude Code
In this in-depth masterclass, Greg Isenberg sits down with Boris, the creator of Claude Code and co-creator of Claude Cowork, to demonstrate how Anthropic's autonomous AI agents automate des…
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31m Claude Code Clearly Explained (and how to use it)
Greg Isenberg and Ross Mike present an accessible masterclass on Claude Code, teaching builders how to use interactive planning tools, structured test-driven workflows, and human-centered de…
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42m I Spent $289 So AI Could Build My Business
In this masterclass, entrepreneur Samuel Thompson joins host Greg Isenberg to demonstrate an end-to-end framework for conceptualizing, packaging, and launching profitable AI-powered digital …
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55m Side Hustle King: 6 $60K/Mo Businesses Nobody's Doing
Host Greg Isenberg and serial entrepreneur Chris Kerner explore a diverse collection of high-margin, low-friction business ideas spanning AI software, automated mobile services, niche vendin…
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28m "Ralph Wiggum" AI Agent will 10x Claude Code/Amp
In this episode, host Greg Isenberg and educator Ryan Carson break down the Ralph AI coding loop, an autonomous framework that enables entrepreneurs and developers to build complete software…
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25m Watch me use AI to make millions in ecommerce
Software entrepreneur Greg Isenberg demonstrates Alibaba's AI agent platform Axio, showcasing how autonomous tools streamline e-commerce market research, product design, and factory sourcing…
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