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Codie surveys the best businesses to start or buy in 2026 with real numbers: e-commerce, landscaping, laundromat, digital agency, car wash,…

Ras Mic defines an agentic loop (single human fire, agent generates/reviews/feeds back) and argues that human-in-the-loop remains the…

An LA-based seller flips vintage and modern clothing on the Poshmark marketplace, doing thousands of dollars a month in volume. The First…

Brendan Burdette and Ryan Conner describe BRIC, a startup offering personal guarantee insurance for SBA business buyers. The product aims…

Theo joins to define an AI-native org as people managing agents, agents reading and writing to the company, and the company growing smarter…

Self-taught developer Kyle Fowler runs two mobile apps that together do $120K/month, turning a hobby into one success and then repeating…

A corporate banker, inspired by a boudoir photo session after her divorce, quits to build a boudoir photography business now earning…

Cody Berman co-hosts a roundtable on six trending side hustles: a mom-built $90k/month business, a 'boring' service hustle matching a…

Mike Stuart, a former tile guy from Iowa, grew a concrete coatings business to over $60,000 in his first month, starting with garage floor…

Alex Finn walks through Hermes Desktop, an Apple-style agent interface with sessions, model-mapped profiles (Opus for strategy, ChatGPT for…

A New Yorker frustrated by her bags on the subway designs and sells tote-style bags for women on the go, making over $100,000 from the…

Greg solo walkthrough of Codex Sites, the OpenAI tool for self-updating apps that an agent keeps operating. Compared with Replit and…

Sam and Shaan walk through the 'idiot index' (cost of inputs divided by cost of final product) as Elon's go/no-go calc, plus a $300M…

Second interview with Jon Cheney, focused on how he finds customers after building AI products. He turned a local news pitch into hundreds…

Solo episode showing how to build and sell an AI service business for garage door repair companies without coding. Chris builds an instant…

Greg Shapiro and Zach Cooper-Vastola explain how Hickory grew into an HVAC compounder with about $80m to $125m in revenue, hundreds of…

Will Butterton runs Viking Vendors LLC, owning five ATMs that generate about $1,500/month with roughly an hour/week of work, alongside his…

Solo episode mapping the shift from human-first to agent-first internet: AI agents discover, evaluate, pay and recommend, and need new…

Seven scattered ideas pitched in a rapid-fire brainstorm: Pet Chat (AI companion for pet owners), Super Brain (learning/curiosity app),…

A St. Petersburg, Florida woman becomes the go-to pet party planner, organizing dog birthday bashes and cat-a-versary parties to hit her…

Guest Phil started an AI automation agency with no coding background and landed a $50,000 consulting contract by starting with people in…

Joe Wechsler started by buying a struggling home care agency with under $300k of SDE, then acquired a metal fabrication company and a…

A Minnesota woman turns a design hobby into a canine (and family) clothing line that has grossed $250,000. The episode follows how her…

Benjamin Chen, a 20-year-old NYU student, has built 45+ apps and scaled his latest to $30K/month with a repeatable system. Chapters cover…