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Disclosure
Lavingia: Works zero hours a week at a laptop for Gumroad
“How many hours a week at Gummer do I work in front of a laptop? Zero, basically. I don't, like, I don't type. I generally just respond to messages on, on Slack and Notion, and this is what most CEOs do.”
Sahil Lavingia Jan 13, 2023 ▶ 41:37 Sahil Lavingia Gets Radically Honest
Insight
Miller: Organizations should deploy proactive multiplayer AI agents with roaming freedom
“The leaning into the weirdness of what it looks like to have not just an AI workforce, but to have a multiplayer AI workforce that other humans can chime in on and have it be proactive, right? That is absolutely the second thing. And giving it that flexibility…”
Ali K. Miller Aug 12, 2026 ▶ 45:58 My top secrets to running an AI Agent Workforce
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Isenberg: Seat-based SaaS pricing will become less common
“Seat-based, which is Slack, Figma, Grammarly. I think this is gonna be less and less common.”
Greg Isenberg Aug 7, 2025 ▶ 19:19 Making $$$ with Sam Altman's Solopreneurship Thesis with GPT5
Insight
Courtney: Seven-Figure Business Value Does Not Come From Answering Slack
“Whereas real work that makes real money and makes seven figure differences, that doesn't come from just responding to shit on Slack from my perspective.”
Jonathan Courtney Sep 16, 2024 ▶ 6:01 How to build a million dollar sales funnel using Facebook Ads
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Rief: Email usage will remain the same in 20 years
“I think the same, right? I mean, I probably heard seven years ago at this point, maybe five years ago, Slack was going to take over email. I think if anything, Slack is just incremental. And if anything, it actually clears your inbox for email, right? Because …”
Austin Rief Dec 15, 2022 ▶ 3:36 Why Every Creator Should Have a Newsletter with Austin Rief
Opinion
Greg Isenberg: The core opportunity is creating AI-first versions of legacy software
“And this can help you not only, you know, create a slack killer or, you know but it can also, you know, I think the opportunity right now is to create AI first versions of a lot of these software pieces.”
Greg Isenberg Jun 13, 2025 ▶ 18:42 How I Use AI & Reddit to Find $1M+ Startup Ideas (FULL Blueprint)
Insight
Creative teams lack enterprise software, relying on complex Notion and Slack combos
“We have CRM, we have ERP, but creative teams, like there's so many briefs and so much content being created now by these teams. And there's really no good way to track it. Everyone's using like these ultra complex, like notion, slack combos, and there's not li…”
Oren (Oren Meets World) Sep 18, 2024 ▶ 22:43 Learn how to win on the internet in 28 min [tiktok shop, trends, building cult brands]
Disclosure
Courtney: AJ&Smart Ditched Slack, Asana, and Notion for Basecamp
“We actually just moved from using Slack, Asana, and Notion back to using Basecamp after a four year break, and it is honestly refreshing.”
Jonathan Courtney Sep 16, 2024 ▶ 2:21 How to build a million dollar sales funnel using Facebook Ads
Insight
Isenberg: Social alternatives to Slack or Teams are tar pit ideas
“So this is one of those ideas where I think, you know, they call it a tar pit idea. It's an idea that seems good on paper, but, like, once you actually go and go into it. It's actually a bad idea, because there's so much investment that you need to put into so…”
Greg Isenberg Jul 31, 2024 ▶ 12:02 Startup ideas brainstorm (steal this $130k/month idea)
Disclosure
Isenberg: Automating Monthly Customer Feedback Analysis With Grok 4 and Slack
“Customer feedback analysis agent, I'm going to a hundred percent be using this. And I'm thinking to myself, like, how can I do this as an automation, right? So every single month, you know, it pulls our feedback, it asks rock for, and then it posts to our Slac…”
Greg Isenberg Jul 15, 2025 ▶ 39:18 Does Grok 4 Deserve a Spot In Your AI Stack? (Here's The Truth)
Insight
Greg Isenberg: Search Discord and Slack for tool complaints to find startups
“Look for, does anyone have a tool for complaints? You can even set up an automation for that on N eight N, but basically looking, just doing the hard work of going into groups and just looking and scrolling and seeing if people if people are asking for tools a…”
Greg Isenberg Jun 13, 2025 ▶ 13:04 How I Use AI & Reddit to Find $1M+ Startup Ideas (FULL Blueprint)
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