My First Million

5 AI Tools to Make Your First Million

The Greg Isenberg Cheat Code

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Meet Greg

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One of our favorite guests to jam with.

  • He’s full of startup ideas
  • He runs 5 cash-flowing businesses
  • He's in the business of helping others have lightbulbs
  • He spends 10 hours playing with new tools every single week

You don't want to skip this guy's tech stack. Below, he shares 5 underrated AI tools anyone can use to get to their first million. 

Tool #1

Wan 2.2

Create deep fake videos of any character (not for evil, ofc)

Wan 2.2 is an open source model by Alibaba that creates deep fake videos using any character — Taylor Swift, Sam Altman, etc. 

You can use it to make video ads with anyone, but ideally those in the public domain, like JFK, Plato... so you won't get sued. 

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How to Use 

  • Record yourself speaking
  • Pick a character to mirror yourself
  • Have fun

Alternatives

If you're not familiar with GitHub, try these tools instead. You can generate reference frames (storyboard) from them and animate those frames to create video ads.

Tool #2

Comet Browser

AI Browser with embedded assistant, tasks, and workflows

Perplexity Comet: Testing the NEW AI Web Browser

TLDR

Comet is the AI-first browser made by Perplexity.

Greg uses it to do a few nifty things: 

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Find promo codes for shopping

At the shopping cart and wish you had a discount code to shave the edge off of that $300 jacket? Try this. 

Greg's Prompt:

I want to use a discount code. I don’t know any. Can you find one and only find one that works. and add it to this form.

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Locate exact moments in YouTube videos

You know the clip you want, just need to quickly find it without watching an hour-long video. 

Greg's Prompt:

Find and play the exact moment Steve Jobs talks about Apple’s intersection of liberal arts and technology.

 

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Learn from any YouTube video instantly

Breeze through a dozen of high-value YouTube videos by getting Comet to give you the key takeaways. 

Greg's Prompt:

This is a cool talk. I’m a founder. what are the most interesting takeaways for me? write it in an essay.

 

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LinkedIn power search

Find the right talent faster, without lurking on 100+ people's LinkedIn profiles. 

Greg's Prompt:

Find and go to the LinkedIn profile of someone who worked on Apple Al and now at Meta

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Write recruiting emails

Once you find a candidate, you can ask Comet to write them an email in your name.

Greg's Prompt:

Can you craft an email that is going to get this guy to work for me (I’m the CEO of [Company Name])

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Having an AI-first browser is an absolute game-changer… I can't go back. My eyes would bleed. It’s too slow.

Greg Isenberg

Founder

The Startup Ideas Podcast

Tool #3

Shortcut AI

Never be afraid of Excel sheets again

The end of Microsoft Excel's 40-Year Dominance? (Shortcut AI is INSANE)

Shortcut AI is developed by a research lab as an AI-first version of Excel. You can use natural language to tell it what to do.  

“This is basically a financial analyst in a box.”

- Greg Isenberg

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How to Use

Ask Comet to find you a sheet of company financial data you can use for Shortcut AI

Then ask Shortcut AI to:

  • Build you an income statement
  • Explain financial concepts 
  • “Which stock would warren buffet pick based on this data?”
  • Create a new doc base on this sheet that shows operating cash flow

Tool #4

Reel Farm

Content automation platform for organic short-form videos

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Reel Farm is a platform that automate TikTok video generation using AI to drive traffic to your website. 

Create Slideshows

UGC ad from AI avatars

Tool #5

AI Apply

Apply to thousands of jobs automatically with AI

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AI Apply is a job search tool that helps you automate applications via AI. It also has AI interview prep, resume builder and other functions. 

“People are suffering right now and it's really hard to find a job. So any way that you can find an unfair advantage to get in the room, I support," Greg said. 

Think it sucks for HR managers? The company's looking to develop a product to help HR filter out AI applications next. 

It's the business of arbitrage.

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I grew up with no connections and not a ton of money and stuff like that. So I have a soft spot for people who are starting out going zero to one.

Greg Isenberg

Founder

The Startup Ideas Podcast

The Bottom Line

Greg didn't sugarcoat it. This guide is for people who want to use AI to their advantage. You might hate some of these ideas. But this is where technology is going. These tools level the playing field. The question is: are you going to use them, or keep doing things the hard way?

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