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Isenberg: Top Marketing Engineers Will Make Millions of Dollars Annually
“Why in the original I said I think that there's going to be people make A million dollars doing this. And I actually think that's conservative. I think there will be versions of that, of the best marketing engineers making millions of dollars a year is because…”
Isenberg: AI Apps Owning Workflows and Network Effects Will Be Highly Valuable
“I think that you're discounting the opportunity that there is to actually create these, as you call it, flash in the pan apps to actually get data, to actually own the workflow, to actually create network effects. And I think that that those companies Provided…”
Isenberg: Top AI wrappers will survive OpenAI updates within 18 months
“There's, of course, going to be a bunch of startups that get hit by OpenAI and the foundational models in 12 to 18 months, but I think that, you know, the great AI wrappers are going to build valuable companies.”
Isenberg: Current LLMs will beat human beings on 95% of tasks
“Maybe this is obvious, but artificial intelligence is smarter than human beings. We're at a stage where human beings versus the current LLNs are gonna lose on 95% of tasks.”
Solo founders can build $50K MRR businesses using AI tools like Cursor
“I do believe that we live in a world that it's completely possible to use things like cursor to use some of these tools to develop something that you can make 50,000 dollars a month for.”
Isenberg: Y Combinator is a YouTube channel, not a startup accelerator
“My other quick rabbit hole that I'll just seed people with is that YC is a YouTube channel, not a startup accelerator.”
Greg Isenberg: The era of repurposing podcast clips is basically over
“My take on short clips is specifically with podcasts. But it extends to other areas too, is the era of repurposing clips is basically over unless you have a crazy huge guest like a Tim Ferriss. Not worth it.”
Greg Isenberg argues venture capital and community building are completely incompatible
“I'm not a huge fan of venture capital and like venture funding communities, because I think what venture is, is I want to grow this as quick as possible, but the greatest communities, you know, it's oil and water with that.”
Isenberg: Hugging Face Is Currently Seeking a $13 Billion Acquisition
“I think they're trying to get acquired right now at thirteen billion dollars.”
Isenberg: AI agents will commoditize; human judgment is the moat
“The agents are going to be a commodity at some point. Your judgment about what to Point them to is the moat”
Isenberg: AI agents are the new SaaS because software now executes work
“I think agents are the new SaaS because software is moving from help me do the work to do the work with me.”
US government letter forced Anthropic to shut down Claude Fable 5
“Then Friday at five 21 PM, the US government sent Anthropic a letter. And by Friday night, the model was gone. Disabled.”
Alibaba Qwen 3 is the best all-around open-weight AI model
“Quen three, and the new 3.6 series, the best all around choice, I think for most people, it's Alibaba's open model. Family. It's quite strong at coding. It's strong at multilingual. It's clean commercial license. They've got a twenty seven billion and a thirty…”
Isenberg: Vertical AI TAM Is 10x Larger Because It Replaces Human Headcount
“Vertical SAS captures a fraction of IT spend. You're generally selling software licenses. Humans are operating the tool and you're looking at the 10 to a hundred million dollar outcome. Usually, of course, there's exceptions to that rule. Vertical AI taps dire…”
Isenberg: Converting Legacy SaaS to Outcome Pricing Is a Billion-Dollar Opportunity
“So my, you know, my big point with all this is someone's going to build a billion dollar business doing nothing but converting Okay, converting legacy SaaS to outcome pricing.”
Isenberg: The Asymmetric AI Startup Window Will Narrow Within 24 Months
“I think that there's 12 months where competition starts catching up. Some of the best niches get claimed. Some of the tools get crowded. I think there's probably 24 months where the window narrows. The builders who get started now Are going to start owning moa…”
Isenberg: Marketers will outearn developers in tech over the next decade
“I believe that the wealthiest people will be marketers over the next 10 years, but every YouTube tutorial is telling you how to vibe code.”
Isenberg: Distribution is the new moat as code is fully commoditized
“Code used to be the moat. I think by now, maybe by the end of this, you understand that distribution is the new moat, right? It's the most important thing is distribution. You know, it's scarce, right? AI can't build it. Product is really important, but it, yo…”
Isenberg: Humans using mice and keyboards will soon become the minority
“We bought mouses and keyboards, and we had human beings actually going and clicking and doing things, right? That's, you know, going to be the minority, as weird as it is to say that.”
Greg Isenberg: Jensen Huang called OpenClaw the most important software release ever
“He said that Open Claw is probably the single most important release of software probably ever.”
Isenberg predicts autonomous AI marketing agents will cause widespread real job losses
“So I think and then the unfortunate thing is I think a lot of these jobs to be done, and this is where I disagree with a lot of people, is I think that there are, is going to be a lot of job loss. Real job loss.”
Isenberg: AI allows agencies to operate with 1/20th the human headcount
“There's an opportunity to use something like this and basically do client work, but the service is, instead of having literal humans do it, you have, I mean, you're going to have some humans manage it, but a lot less humans, maybe a 20th of the amount of human…”
Isenberg: AI search traffic converts 4x to 5x better than Google
“I think you can expect at least four to five X multiple, you know, on conversion, which is crazy, but it makes sense if you think about it because you're, When you Google something, you have, you know, a thousand blue links that you can go and click, but when …”
Isenberg: Google AI will beat Anthropic's Claude and OpenAI's ChatGPT
“And I think that it's really going to be, you know, it's Google AI versus Cloud versus ChatGBT, and I wouldn't be surprised if Google AI wins.”
Isenberg: Brands should run multiple personal accounts instead of one corporate account
“Gone are the days where you create one brand account, right? You go and create one, like you create one brand. Let's go back to here in a second. Sort of the old way of doing accounts, brand accounts, social media on brands was you create one brand account. An…”
Isenberg: Follower counts do not matter and smaller accounts get easier impressions
“The followers don't really matter anymore. Realistically, you know, it's actually easier to get impressions if you have less followers.”
Isenberg: Inexperienced founders entering HVAC and plumbing will lose to Wall Street
“What's going to happen is you're going to have a bunch of people who are just going to, who have no business, you know, building in that space, go into an extremely competitive space with, by the way, a bunch of sharks. There's like a bunch of like, Oh yeah. W…”
Isenberg: Alex Hormozi Made Around $100 Million From Webinar Funnel
“In the last few days, Alex Hermozzi has made about a hundred million dollars using this webinar approach.”
Isenberg: First solo unicorn is probably coming between 2026 and 2028
“AI provides the leverage, so if you have the right product, the right marketing, the right timing, the right person the first solo unicorn is probably coming in 2026 to 20 28.”
Isenberg: Hire ChatGPT Pro for $200 before paying an employee $10K
“Instead of hiring your first employee, you should probably just hire ChatGPT Pro. Like, the mistake that a lot of people make is they pay five, 10, 15 K a month for their first employee when they should just be paying 200 dollars a month for ChatGPT Pro.”
Isenberg: Marketing will soon resemble high-frequency stock trading via AI
“Marketing will resemble high frequency stock trading in the near future. Agents working 24, seven monitoring, surfacing opportunities, personalized micro interactions. You'll be like a portfolio manager or day trader, adjusting risk, deploying money based on r…”
Isenberg: GPT-4o image generation will birth 1,000 multi-million dollar businesses
“Chat GPT for our image gen. Is as big as the ChatGPT launch, probably will birth a thousand plus one to a hundred million dollar a year of vertical software businesses.”
Isenberg: Every calendar, inbox, and CRM will be rebuilt within three years
“Every calendar inbox and CRM will be rebuilt from scratch in the next three years. Not AI enhanced, fully rethought.”
Isenberg: Most customer support will be automated within 36 months
“Most customer support will be automated within 36 months. Not just tier one tickets, complex, multi-step resolution that previously required senior support staff.”
Isenberg: Next $100M Apps Will Be Mobile-First with Built-In AI
“The next wave of a hundred million dollar a year apps will start mobile first with AI baked in from day one.”
Isenberg: Founders Have 6-12 Months to Win Vertical AI Niches
“The window to establish yourself as the go-to solution in a specific vertical is maybe six to 12 months before it closes for a decade, or who knows.”
Isenberg: Manus AI Is the Closest Thing to AGI Seen Yet
“Overall my take on this is, Min, honestly, is that it's, yeah, it is the closest thing I've seen to AGI yet, and it seems like it's close. It's not there yet.”
Isenberg: Autonomous AI browser agents are a historic business arbitrage opportunity
“I think this is one of the greatest arbitrage moments in business that we've ever seen.”
Isenberg: The tech industry is wrong to dismiss GPT wrappers as businesses
“That GPT rappers aren't real businesses.”
Isenberg: Top 1% of artists will earn 100x more next decade
“The top one percent of artists are going to make a hundred times more
In the next 10 years than they will in the previous, because there's going to be such demand for curated experiences.”
Late Checkout rejected a $100M blank check venture funding offer
“This came to me a couple of years ago, we got offered A hundred million dollar blank check to build, to basically scale out late checkout and build, build out a bunch of new products faster, acquire faster, just take our model and just add steroids to it. And …”
Isenberg: ChatGPT wrapper success depends entirely on marketing and brand, not product
“The beauty is you don't need, it doesn't need to be special from like a product perspective. It's just a mark. It's completely marketing. And what matters in chat GPT rappers is really just like the brand. Is this something that people are going to tell their …”
Isenberg: Islands drove campus growth by gifting 'sold out' designer merch
“And what we did is we created a Shopify store and on islands is website, and it would be a hundred dollars, a 150 dollars for a sweatshirt, 80 dollars for a hat, 70 dollars for a t-shirt. And it all said sold out. So we use that to give to people on college ca…”
Isenberg: DoNotPay generates $5M in monthly revenue after raising $10M
“So they've raised ten million dollars and doing at least five million dollars a month in revenue.”
Isenberg: Top writers like Sahil Bloom make $5M a year
“Like, you used to get paid 50,000 dollars to write, and now the greatest writers, Sahil Blooms and the Nick Hubers, are getting paid five million dollars a year to write.”
Isenberg: Paper-rich founders face brutal recapitalizations within six to nine months
“There's a bunch of founders that right now that are worth a lot on paper that are going to have crazy headwinds, like within the next six to nine months. Because they're going to have to recap their companies and that the founders are, they're going to realize…”
Isenberg: Tech hiring freezes drive a boom for product agencies
“It is a good time. It's surprisingly good time to be an agency owner right now because a lot of companies are cutting staff or freezing hiring, but they still need new products and new, new businesses to go out there. So they look at companies like our late ch…”
Isenberg: Incumbents like Amazon hold an unfair AI advantage over startups
“Some of the bigger retailers and e-commerce players like the Amazons of the world have so much more data that they actually have an unfair advantage
If they want to go down this route, because you could get into a situation where, you know, your Carly bot oper…”