yo yo yo yo what's going on not much dude i'm running my youtube script i need to film immediately after this what's your strategy for kind of like filming producing content
staying regular all that stuff um well i try to ship a video every uh three days or so just because it takes a long time for me to do videos.
I'm like really trying to master editing.
I do everything myself with thumbnail, the editing, everything.
I want to get really good at it all.
So I got to spend a tremendous amount of time doing it.
And so I look for good ideas.
I try to see what's trending at the moment.
Like right now, every video I put out about Claude Code goes ballistic.
My growth has been sensational over the last couple weeks because of me making Claude Code videos.
Did you have like 4,000 followers this past week?
Yeah, I've gotten, let me look at my analytics.
I've gotten, I'm talking YouTube.
I've gotten about 500 new subscribers a day for like the last week, which is incredible.
Because my Claude Code videos are going nuts.
So I'm just trying to stay on trends, trying to just attack that trend for as long as it's relevant.
So I try to make on-trend content.
And then every video I do, I just look for one thing I can improve.
Like the last video I put out,
I posted on Twitter yesterday.
I posted on YouTube a few days ago.
I tried a new editing style
where it's more like casual,
like sitting at a table with me style.
And it's doing really well.
So yeah, it's the strategy.
And it's just paying off dividends.
I keep saying this, YouTube is the king. YouTube is king. If you can,
if you can conquer YouTube, you're the king of the internet. It's the place you have to be if
you really want to be big on social media. I mean, it's by far the biggest audience in the world.
Half of all the data that goes through the internet is on YouTube. So it's just a place you have to be.
Yeah, it's very interesting.
Are you gonna, do you kind of just have like a couple
of faces that you use for the thumbnails now
that you try to stick with?
I've noticed this like this orange base thumbnail
with a Claude code and big letters and master Claude code.
And it's like a pretty similar format you're
running with yeah it's funny so a few things if i'm gonna hire anyone it'd probably be a thumbnail
person even though that's probably like the easiest simplest task of them all i just i just
don't have good taste for art and thumbnails i just don't but at the same time i've also a b tested my last like several thumbnails and i i a b test like the
format the colors those font the words and no matter how many different variables i use and
change it always comes out 50 50. so i think what it is in like ai like the educational AI videos I do, I think what it is is just like the audience
doesn't care as much about thumbnails. They're just looking for a good subject, right? They're
just looking for a good topic. I don't know what it is. I see thumbnails and videos that do well
from creators and it's literally just like a screenshot from their video. Like it's literally
just their face in my my top
video all time it has about 85 000 views right now is literally just a screenshot of me talking in the
video so i don't know what it is i mean i'm gonna play around i've been doing the orange thing
because i want to do something different everyone kind of has the same thumbnails in the ai space i
want to do something so i have that bright. It also is the creator buddy orange.
So I wanted some consistency there.
It seems to be doing decent.
My last few videos all have taken off and are in five digits in the first few days, which is good for me.
So I'm just rolling with it.
I've noticed also it seems like putting some words in parentheses at the end of the title really helps um um that's uh the video i'm filming
today will have that so i'm testing it i'm testing different titles out i'm testing different
hooks and editing and we're getting closer you just every time you put content out you look for
the little pieces of data you can take and improve in the next one what are the comments like on these
the next one what are the comments like on these like in my videos yeah like do you see any themes
like do you get like it's all positive um questions like so at first i got a lot of negative comments
to be honest so i i'd make a different type of video than most people in the ai space if you if
you search clawed code on youtube and you watch any of the videos, they're really
targeted for people who are technical and have a lot of experience. And they just assume you know
a lot of technical things already. I'm making videos for my target audience is people who've
never coded before in their life, who haven't even used AI. They don't even know how to prompt AI.
And so it's not that I'm going for more simple.
I'm going for more of that bridge the gap type content.
And so at first, I think it was serving up my content to people who are experienced.
And so a lot of the replies are like, this is so stupid.
Why would I make a to-do list app?
Why are you making habit trackers?
Everyone can make a habit tracker. It's like, bro, if you already know how to code apps on your
own, then my videos aren't for you. And then, so I think my videos have started finding their
audience because my last video I put out, which is doing excellent master Claude code with these
eight steps or something. I forget how I title it.
I've had the by far the most replies of any video I've ever put out.
And they're all like universally positive. Like, oh, I never coded before.
So I think I'm starting to find my audience, which is good.
I mean, the comments on here are crazy.
Like people like really, really, really enjoying this um which is very cool uh i
am curious how long the editing takes you to do these because there is like a decent amount of
editing yeah my last video the one you're looking at now master what did i title it master clod code
in 14 minutes that took me like 20 hours of editing. It took me like legitimately a few days straight where I didn't do anything but edit.
Why don't you have just like, I don't know,
like editors are not that expensive.
Is it something about you just like you think if you edit
that'll make the best video?
First, I want to learn it.
So like when I give instructions to an editor
that I eventually hire, like I wanna be able to an editor that i eventually hire like i want to be
able to give them very precise instructions of what i want and so like i feel like you can't do
that unless you go hands-on and like know it yourself right like elon when he if you read
his book when he runs into challenges like he'll fly to wherever it is in the world where that
engineer is working on that challenge and he'll sit down next to that engineer
and code with them, right?
Because he understands the problem
on a very molecular level, right?
And so I want to be able to,
if I eventually hire a team of editors,
be able to speak to them in their language
That's why I want to learn the editing myself.
And two, also, it's kind of a new space, this AI space.
And if I were to just send like raw footage of what i'm
doing to the editor most like they're not going to know what to do because it's so it's kind of
like it's really technical right and um like i don't think they'll know how to edit it the way
i want it done just because of the technical nature of it all like this isn't think they'll know how to edit it the way i want it done just because of the
technical nature of it all like this isn't a video where i try to build the biggest
cheese sandwich castle like mr beast video right or i sit in a pool for 40 hours straight it's
like i'm showing you how to build a very technical product so like i don't think i can just send raw
footage to an editor and say hey make this a video because i think they'll get confused like
i run into errors i I run into bugs.
They won't know which to include, what not to include.
So I think it also just be very hard for an editor to do this.
So I think there's probably technical editors out there who understand it.
But like I don't have the energy to find them.
And also at the same time, like I don't like running in negatives.
I like to keep a very lean business.
And right now I'm only making $1,500 a month on YouTube in ad revenue. And I don't, and any good
editor is going to cost significantly more than that. And I don't want to run on a negative margin
on YouTube. So I'm just going to do it myself. Who gives a shit? All right, man, I have to do it
yourself, I suppose. Uh, it's cool's cool yeah it's a lot of great growth there
last time i looked you at like 20k so pretty cool to see it already at the point where it's at and
yeah a lot of popular videos i encourage people to check them out for sure uh penny you got any
thoughts on things that are going on? Any YouTube growth thoughts, Twitter growth thoughts, things in general on the ecosystem? YouTube and Twitter growth thoughts. I haven't been thinking
too much about that lately. I've been working on writing my own code. I haven't been developing
videos yet, but I will be soon. I also do my own editing. I feel like before you have sort of found your style, it's really
hard to tell a editor what to do. Like if you have a backlog of a bunch of videos and Alex has,
you know, I don't know, a hundred AI videos and they can go through and learn from it, then maybe
they can catch his style and edit really well. But I feel like when you're, you know, it's different than, like he said, like a Mr.
Beast video or interview where the, where the editing might be really straightforward.
I think these technical things, you kind of, you have to write, you have to have the story.
You have to make the story.
So unless you trust that or to handle that aspect of it as well, it's pretty hard.
that aspect of it as well. It's pretty hard. Um, but I've been on the timeline lately, uh, you know,
the Elon, uh, feud with, with Trump. I got like one of my biggest days ever when that was going
down, uh, you know, one good way to grow on X is to talk about controversial things. I also got
more followers that day than I got in a while, probably because
I threw some shade towards Trump and, uh, that makes a lot of people happy. But anyway, no,
that, that, that's the basics right now, man. What have you been up to?
Grinding, grinding, man, business, business, business, a lot of work um one thing i've been figuring out is i need to get a
new uh bank for my business chase does not like that i am puerto rico based now apparently not a
fan not really sure uh why but suddenly it's happening alex do you chase or someone else for
your business i use uh bank of america of America? Do you like it?
Yeah, I have no issue. I put my money there.
They allow me to put my money there, and they allow me to take my money out.
They even bank Escobar, so they'll bank anybody.
Oh, gosh. I suppose that they do have a Puerto Rican bank
Have any of you guys heard of them?
No what the hell is that?
It's like one of these neobanks now
Where there's no physical locations
They're just focused on making making as best that online interface as possible i mean are we doing crazy things with banking i
put money in i take it out as long as it keeps doing that then i don't really need uh modern
amenities or crazy things but i need to be able to like easily send ach's wires zells um just do different stuff get
documentation if i need a different stuff like that so i don't know it's something that i'm
still yeah i mean you got like a serious business like because you got employees and stuff i'm like
just one dude and like you know people just fucking send money in all these different platforms and i
transfer it over and spend it on fucking anything i want so we got we got very
different businesses i know i do a lot of random shit going on um but yeah i know it's stuff that
i continue to pay attention to and see what's happening just across the board things stay
pretty interesting um but for yeah for me yes the main thing that i've been focused on as well
is building my uh my autopilot uh lately i think some of you guys have seen this
where people can copy trade Nancy Pelosi and stuff.
And I threw up some portfolios on there
and now there's like $4.3 million tailing my portfolios.
Do you have anything in your portfolio other than hood?
Your entire portfolio should just be Robinhood.
Luckily, it's about 36.5%
Robinhood, which definitely helped. My portfolio is 70% Robinhood.
How much are you up this year? More than you can fathom.
Oh, boy. Yeah, this portfolio is like 36% hood, 21% coin, 18% Bitcoin. It's got some tesla uh it's up 41 year-to-date so i think people are pretty
happy that have been behind it i think i originally started buying hood at like 28 bucks but then i've
i kept buying and buying and buying so i think my average cost is like 42 right now
so you got you got a little bit more than a double going there that's pretty good so it's just hitting tesla right uh yeah robin and tesla but now tesla's like a very small percent just
because robin has been growing so much and elon keeps picking fights with the president of the
united states so that's not really doing anything have you sold any of your robin hood no and i
won't be selling anytime soon until at least half a trillion. Half a trillion.
Big Vlad out there in the pinstripe suit.
Yeah, it was a good time.
Glad we got to interview him.
I mean, he's going to go down on Zuckerberg levels of CEO.
So that's pretty cool that we have a video out with him.
Did it give you a more confidence in
the business after we interviewed them absolutely 100 i mean i was already 100 confident before
now i'm like 150 confident i mean the guy's the guy just gets it he's the only guy in finance
innovating which is incredible hell yeah i'm all for it Action, what's been going on by you?
I'm out in the desert hanging out, playing pool boy right now.
Real quick question, though.
Did you get invited to the French crypto event?
They didn't invite any American influencers.
How much fucking shares this company do I need to own and get invited to the french riviera events they weren't inviting anyone from america
why i don't know the french don't like us i mean i i got invited but it's through companies that i
work with you got invited action ceo the actual No, but it's like through third parties.
Well, then what the fuck do you think I was talking about then?
What did you say yes to? What did you say I was invited to? What were you invited to,
Action CEO? I clearly and explicitly was talking about the French event. What were you talking
about? It's the French event, but it's not because of influence. It's because of companies I work
with. They want me to go out there and represent them oh arbitral different one were you let me let me ask this
question again i'll try to make it a little bit clearer this time were you invited to the french
event the robin hood token event no i was not invited okay well that's what i was talking about
Well, that's what I was talking about.
i don't know what the hell you were talking about but that's what i was talking about
I don't know what the hell you were talking about,
but that's what I was talking about.
Good conversation, Action CEO.
Alex, Penny, Action, Ani, what's good?
Wolf, I just came up to say your whole thing,
your whole life is about to change with Genius Act and everything else, man.
Like everything's going to be done in stables.
So even if you're in Chase Bank, I mean, with JPMD, Kinesis, what they got cooking, and Bank of America, everyone's going to be on stables very, very, very soon.
So you're not going to have to worry about ACH and this and the Zells and all the other stuff.
And even being Puerto Rico-based, I think you're going to have a much, much easier time
I think you're going to be good.
You see this new law in the big, beautiful bill around gambling?
I mean, this will single-handedly end gambling in America, which I think is actually a very positive thing. I think it's rotting society from the inside out. You can only write off 90% of your losses on your taxes. who's call it half a million on gambling, but you win like $470,000, right?
So gambling, you actually lost money at $30,000.
You can only write off 90% of your losses.
So you actually have to pay taxes, right?
So you win $470,000, you lose $500,000.
You're paying taxes anyway because you can only write off 90 of those wins and like gambling
already is basically statistically impossible to win in now it's like beyond statistically
impossible to win in and so like only the most degenerate of degenerate gamblers are still going
to be gambling now pretty crazy anyway i just know a lot of gambling addicts like people who just like
every fucking group chat oh ravens plus eight this saddened sunday i'm like you're fucking
addicted to gambling dude shut the fuck up and now i now i'm happy because i know all them will
be guaranteed to be losing money every year professional gambling is definitely dead because
of it oh 100 it 100%. It's crazy.
Interesting. I didn't see this.
I didn't really see anyone talking about it either.
Yeah, it's just nuts because gambling has been shoved down our throats so much the last few years,
ever since it's been legalized.
And it's clearly just such a bad thing for society.
You turn on ESPN, which I watched a ton when I was like six years old and every other commercial is fucking draft kings and it's like these kids are gonna
get addicted to gambling but now it's you know now it's it's illogical to gamble with the the
new rules majority of them already are addicted to gambling believe it or not like every figgin
like every one of my young cousins nephews like every one of them are talking about some sort of.
So if you like won 100 grand and then lost 100 grand, you would still have to pay taxes on $10,000.
If you say that again, say the numbers again.
So if you won 100 grand and then you lost 100 grand
yes you would still have to pay taxes on 10 grand yes good luck i mean isn't that the american way
just kind of like accumulate as much debt as possible to write it off in that rich debt
break even and still pay taxes oh it's it's worse you can make money and still have to pay
like more taxes than you actually made.
If you start talking about big numbers, like $5 million, let's say that that's how much you lost.
And then just taking consideration a portion of that, it goes such a stinking long way.
You're talking about not being able to claim $500,000 just right there there and then so if your winnings are less
than that you're screwed like there's no way to be a professional in this business anymore no way
unless you're an ai agent like billy bets that dude's fucking the margins are crazy though right
like it's like five percent four percent like and like and that's like killing it at the
end of the day so you got to be talking like big big numbers but i think it's gonna i think the
whole betting industry is going to be turned on its head now with polymarket hey yo well finally
shout out to you because i saw the other day how much fucking money kalshi raised and i'm like oh
my god i remember a year and a half ago being on this fucking space and there be and you guys like
i think you were the first one to
have these dudes on the space like one of the first spaces he ever did because he said it on
the space i think they raised 125 175 million bucks so that was crazy man the the the odds
market is going to be nuts and you obviously see it with x and like with grok and and polymarket
now partnering and i think it's only going to get crazier but on chain
yeah alex do you see a difference between the prediction markets and kind of more traditional gambling or is all the same to you no it's all the same crypto gambling markets market markets
whatever it's all gambling it's all being shoved down our throat it's all bad for society it's all
gonna raise a bunch of dopamine addicted degenerates it's all bad for society. It's all going to raise a bunch of dopamine addicted degenerates.
X is starting to look better.
I got my monetization back.
A lot of people are getting unpaused.
A lot of people are getting paused now so um yeah i'm i'm having fun with my content and i don't know
something seems to be awakened on the timeline recently because everybody has new energy so yeah
that's uh that's what's going on what's the content that you're putting out on me because i feel like
i've been putting out a lot of these ai videos like i created just some like parody shit once i saw that stormtrooper video how
crazy that was like with vo3 and i'm like this is actually starting to work because like that's the
one missing piece before i get monetized i'm still chasing the five million over 90 days but
these ai videos have been cooking man like anything in specific that you're seeing? For me, videos have been performing really,
really bad. I don't know why, but I am seeing a lot of the mid-journey AI videos going super viral
because people are like super hyped about it. So, you know, take advantage of it. If it's working
for you, definitely keep doing it. For me, personal lifestyle style content is doing really, really well.
And certain things about like if I post about like monetization, how to like get around the algorithm or whatever else, those are doing well too because content creators are looking to get their views again.
So yeah, that's what's working for me.
Videos have been really, really trash for me lately.
I don't know why why but it's not
like i'm putting too much effort into videos anyway what's up x gallery hey how's it going guys
everything cool it's a nice uh thursday morning over here in californ. I have been working on my own project because,
I mean, first of all, I have Alex to thank. Alex, you've taught me a lot about coding and
everything. So I really appreciate everything that you've done, man. Your videos are honestly,
I think I've seen like every single one, honestly. I might have missed like maybe one,
I don't know. But I've been working on coding my own project.
I'm not a coder at all, but with AI, I've been very busy with that.
So the current project I'm working on, actually, I wanted to talk to you guys about it.
It's basically that a lot of people have been telling me about how anytime that they get onto a space or anything like that,
or they miss one, they miss a space, They're not able to really catch up so easily.
I don't think that people treat spaces the same way that they treat podcasts, really.
Like podcasts are something that maybe you can jump into the car and listen to them,
you know, on the way to somewhere or whatever.
But people aren't the same way with spaces.
Spaces are more focused on the live, but people, I think, miss out on information
whenever, you know, spaces are done or anything like that. So I was like, all right, you know what, why don't I just build something
for this? So I'm building like an AI analysis tool, which basically analyzes X spaces. And the
prototype currently is functioning pretty well. So I've done a few of them already for some people.
I'll do it for you too, Wolf, after this space, and I'll give you a full analysis and everything. It just gives the highlights and all that,
a few notable quotes and everything.
And also, I have a chatbot incorporated into the web app
that I'll be implementing as well,
so people can ask questions whenever they're able to
and whenever they want to.
An example that I gave the other day is,
if Elon was in a space and people are like,
they can ask the chatbot about the space and just find out like, did Elon talk about Doge? Did he talk about Tesla? Did he talk about anything like that? And they can find out about little things like that. like two to three hours but you just want like the highlights or whatever so this will probably hopefully solve that problem so that's the project that I'm
basically working on almost done and that's ongoing and again Alex very very
grateful to you man and if anybody else wants to build their own own
applications and learn like anything honestly like you need to follow Alex
and you need to follow his video and watch his videos and understand anything
And he answers any question that you have.
So that's what I'm working on right now.
I would say just a little bit more,
I wanted to throw it in too.
Like Alex has been doing live streams on YouTube, which is absolutely insane.
He sat there and just, since you said about building the program,
I think you were building it with him, right?
He was building the YouTube version of the program.
And I mentioned to him in the chat, I was like,
what about one for X spaces?
And he's like, it's impossible.
You can't do it. And I was like, I'm going to do it.
And I started building it right there. And then as I was building it, I was like,
damn, this is hard. He's right. It's kind of hard. But thankfully, you know, been able to get
through a lot of the hurdles. It was a lot of work getting through the hurdles, honestly.
But I still, Alex, you were still very supportive. And I
had messaged him a couple times about this issue or that issue. And he was always helpful. So
appreciate that. But the live streams are awesome, guys. You guys got to show up to the live streams.
They're amazing, honestly. Like they, they're so much fun, first of all. And Alex, I love the model
that you're that you're doing. I don't know anybody anywhere who goes from literally blank canvas straight to the startup within a matter of a few hours.
I don't know anybody who does that.
This is the age that we live in now, guys.
We have the capability and the technology to be able to do this.
It's like just if you can think it, it will happen.
As long as you put in the
actual effort behind it sure there might be like a few dollars you got to toss here or there but
honestly like if you're able to put in the effort and everything and you're able to to really uh
have this single-minded focus you can accomplish it and i honestly did not think I could accomplish however much I've accomplished so far. So, yeah, it's, uh, it really is amazing where we are.
This is what I've been preaching about AI is like,
you really can just do anything you want.
You can build anything you want as long as you have really the only skill you
If you can build the skill of thinking on your own,
thinking independently and having the motivation to find answers. You can do anything you want. So I do live streams every Thursday on YouTube.
I'm going to do it an hour earlier today since it's July 4th weekend. I feel like people are
going to be taking off early. So I'm going to do noon PST. So that's 3 p.m. Eastern for those
around. Go on the YouTube, subscribe, turn on notifications. 3 p.m. Eastern for those around. Go on the YouTube, subscribe, turn on notifications.
3 p.m. Eastern, noon Pacific.
We're going to do a live stream.
I'm just going to build apps live.
I got a good idea for an app I want to build live.
It's actually one of the ideas I wanted to keep secret.
I have my top tier ideas I keep secret,
and then the second rung of ideas that I do in public.
I'm going to do a top tier idea on today's live
stream just because I want to build it out. I just want to get it done and build it out. So
stop by. Stop by. It's fun. It's a lot of fun. YouTube live stream, 3 p.m. Eastern, noon Pacific.
Alex, did you ever build the bookmark thing that you mentioned in that space?
That's going to be a part of Creator Buddy. So right now what I'm working on, Creator Buddy,
is it doesn't do me any good announcing what I'm about a part of Creator Buddy. So right now what I'm working on Creator Buddy is,
it doesn't do me any good announcing what I'm about to release on Creator Buddy,
So I'm not going to announce it now ahead of time.
But I'm releasing something pretty big for people who are not on Creator Buddy yet.
So this is going to be a feature for people not on Creator Buddy yet. That's going to come out this weekend.
And then after that, I have a couple other things I'm cooking. I'm going to, I think what I'm going to come out this weekend um and then after that i have a couple
other things i'm cooking i'm gonna i think what i'm gonna there's two big features i want to come
out next with creator buddy uh one is an ai agent where you get an email every week that makes
recommendations for you like you don't even have to think and you just get the recommendations
and two is i want to build a social hub where anyone who's using creator buddy
can opt in to the social hub and you'll you'll be able to see everyone who opted in and see their
latest tweets and be able to reply to them so it's a way for people who are on creator buddy to
support other people on creator buddy so that's going to come soon and then after that will be
the bookmarking tool where you can like it it'll just be bookmarks on X, but like way better.
Like being able to have like a, like a, you know, like X is the town square, like a creator
So they can share like different insights and best practices and stuff and kind of what
they, what they see, like what, what creators they're following, which voices are working
I mean, I'm, I'm obviously avid creator, but a user.
So yeah, shout out to you on there. I had a question for Excalibur. So Excalibur, I'm just
curious because I know there's a lot of apps out there. There's a lot of services out there that,
that, that are doing kind of like what you're building. And I'm just kind of curious, like
maybe what's like maybe different or unique. Cause I know it's really, really hard to like,
to, you know what I mean? Like to, A, to build something out here like in the AI space as easy as
we say it is but if you're not like the most tech savvy right like if you're not an Alex and you
don't have like a tech background it's a little bit more difficult but I see apps like Lurky and
and a few others that have big backing from like Animoca and like a bunch of others so I'm kind of
curious because I run a content repurposing business right I think there's absolute spaces
and like there's gold in these Twitter spaces. And it's like, well, the second
a spaces ends, that doesn't mean that like, like there's so much value to extract, but I do it more
on like the audio visual side with audiograms and threads. And, and that's kind of like how I make
my living essentially. And I'm trying to automate that whole process. So I'm just kind of curious,
like, is there anything that you're going to do other than like, you know, the basic summary,
like this and that, like, and, like and and if not like i would encourage you
like maybe start thinking that way because believe it or not like there is a like a lot of this stuff
um and maybe real-time transcription is kind of what i'm kind of like messing around with now too
but yeah just kind of curious like where you're at yeah man so i've actually explored quite a bit of
the other competition there's things like spaces down there's Zealous, and there's a few other ones as well. Number one, I had an issue with the quality of a lot of those programs and those web apps. I feel like they're using lesser quality LLMs in order to do their analyses. That's just my take on it. I could be wrong, but that's just what I viewed. That's number one.
Number two, and I think is the much bigger reason
is they have a lot of usage limits.
That's understandable because of APIs.
I'm trying to set it up as best as I can
to put as high limit as possible for anybody
I don't like the idea of limits in general,
but I also understand the practicality behind it as well.
So I'm trying to find a balance there so that any user that is able to use this is able to kind of
use it as much as they want, you know, to whatever extent that they want. So that's kind of like my
approach in it and everything. So I'm finding the balance in the practical sense there,
because a lot of their limits are very, very, very hindering a lot of the competition and what it is that they're building.
And that just makes it, it's like a big turnoff, in my opinion, like as a user.
So that's like another thing.
Another thing is the cost.
They have, it's abnormally high costs.
And so I'm like, you know, maybe there's a way to make this slightly cheaper than whatever it is,
or maybe at the average level, whatever it might be.
that there is something that can be done there I think what they did wrong is they scaled a bit too
fast instead of focusing on the fundamentals of what it is that you're trying to build oh well
you need a quick analysis of a space okay give me an AI analysis with a very good LLM all right
number two is maybe like a chat bot or something so I can kind of discuss with it
and ask other questions about the space and have it be accurate, as accurate as possible,
and to be able to do that. And I think that I'm of the belief that before scaling too fast,
before adding too many features, master the fundamentals and the basics. What it is,
features, master the fundamentals and the basics. What it is, solve the initial problem, the most
important problem first. I still don't think that any program out there has done that to the best
extent yet. I think that they have done a decent job. It's okay. But for the cost and the limits,
I really don't think it's worth it. I also think that not enough people know about it.
That's another big thing is that like,
I talked to somebody the other day
about some of the different programs that I've utilized.
I was like, do you know a program
that does this with space and all that?
And they're like, I don't know a single program
that does that, you know what I mean?
You're the first person I've talked to
who actually mentioned that this is something
that maybe you've encountered and all that.
But anybody I've ever talked to,
they don't even know this stuff exists,
which seems to suggest something. Those programs, they focus a lot more on branding,
you know, like their own sort of niche and all that. Sorry, not niche, but they're scaling.
They have too much of a focus on branding, but not on the fundamentals, you know what I mean?
So me, I'm going to be focusing on just solving this problem and then marketing it myself, and then we'll just see like how it grows and all that. And there's a few other projects I'm working on as well. So I'm trying to build, you know, based on this niche and just trying to, I think that Alex had made a point once about micro SaaS and how it's expanding and it's very significant nowadays. I think that the absolute best way to approach Microsoft is really to solve a very fundamental and basic problem at the most basic level. Just solve the problem. What the heck is it?
Make it efficient and make it productive in whatever way you can.
Then you can move forward and then scale.
I don't think it's important to scale early on. I don't think it's important to scale early on.
I don't think it's important to brand like crazy early on.
Just solve the damn problem is all I think.
And then charge people to do that.
And so that you can at least keep going and continuously solve the problem.
And then just do it that way.
So that's kind of my advice.
You're going to pass out.
All right. This brings me to the topic I i get into these diligence in here it is july 4th tomorrow if you are not celebrating what are you doing diligent what
do we got going on for july 4th i'm taking my kid to fireworks any specific fireworks? I've got a pretty cool
firework plan myself here.
Should I tell them exactly
where I'm going with my family?
No, just like the general...
You have to get the address.
I'm sorry. I just woke up.
last night covering the stupid, big, beautiful bill.
And so I probably a little grumpy.
Is it beautiful or is it just big?
So Diligent, how do you feel about the last week of term comments when I do believe that I was in many a space with you
where your position was that we do have to cut down on the debt.
We can't extend the debt ceiling.
We're putting this country in a crisis.
But Trump's on true social basically threatening the Republicans,
like, hey, remember, you still got to get elected.
So it kind of was interesting.
I'm just curious to hear your thoughts.
Let's talk some let's talk
from july 4th after that so i leave the fault at senate republicans and i've you know i've never
been a fan of republicans i've been an independent my entire life i switched from independent to
republican to vote for donald trump and nothing has changed uh don Trump, I think he just wants to get the objective done.
And the swamp is going to do what the swamp does, which is spend.
And I think that he thinks the economic stimulus is going to spur the entire economy to make up for it.
So I think that pretty much sums it up in a short bit of words but yeah
i'm not happy with the amount of spending i'm also not particularly happy on what they spend money on
but the the way that the senate ruled their ruled their amendment didn't meet the criteria for the
parliamentarian in the senate and therefore they had to strike down a couple of things
and instead of instead of taking the time
to reword the language to get it by and do it appropriately, they pushed it through. And, you
know, that's their fault. So it is what it is. It could have been better. Am I willing to take a hit
to get 60% of what I want as opposed to 0% of what I want, the
Diligent, do you think by the end of Trump's term, our debt will be lower?
And I think the reason why is because Trump is going all in on AI and that there's only
going to be one winner in that race.
Do you think that'll cause our
Yeah, three years. Three and a half.
We'll split the difference. Alright.
That's going to blow your mind.
They're going to start producing nuclear
They're going to start producing a lot more natural gas.
Doesn't this bill hurt energy stuff?
Doesn't this bill hurt energy stuff? I'm doesn't this bill hurt energy stuff i'm seeing a
lot of tweets that like this bill makes there was like there was like green new deal provisions in
there that people aren't happy are still in there no actually they they were supposed to pull all
the green energy shit out like for like mainly for wind turbines and some solar right and instead
let me just say i know you guys love your solar but it's slow
right it's also high maintenance it's an expensive form of energy to produce compared to coal or
natural gas or even oil really and so that's that's one deal one thing and then another thing is
is that um it enhances other energy sectors.
So no, it's not going to hurt. Not if they, not if they just open up and just go.
Listen, China is not worried about the environment.
They are building coal at a far greater rate than any other country combined.
They're building more. I think they might be building more than all other countries combined right now.
And they have been for like 10 years, right?
If you go look at, look it up, look at China coal production.
It is skyrocketing because it's an easy, fast form of energy production.
And they also know the game i've come to
penny would be proud of me i've come to believe that uh that energy production and artificial
intelligence production are probably the two greatest things that have to be done um as fast as possible it's a race but you're down playing solar though that's like
a huge part of it it's a huge part of it bro it's a it's a slow but it's slow no it's not slow have
you seen the china solar growth over the past 10 like since i graduated high school uh china was
producing one third the electricity that the united states was when i graduated high school, uh, China was producing one third, the electricity that the United States
was when I graduated high school within the next year, probably within the next six months,
they're going to be producing three times as much electricity rather than one third.
And a huge part of it is because of solar. You need to look at the China solar growth, bro.
All other types of energy growth in
China pale in comparison to
their solar growth. Except for
coal. No, all other types, bro.
to look it up, but we can agree to disagree,
Alright, let's talk a little July 4th for a second here.
Alex, Penny, what's happened for July 4th?
July 4th, I am headed to the beach.
I will be at my brother's house.
And with the family, with the cousins, I'll be bringing my kids
and seeing my brothers' sisters, kids watching the
fireworks, barbecuing. It's like, uh, there's a lot of Islanders in the family. So we go kind of
wild on these, uh, these parties, there'll be tons of food. Um, uh, yeah, I mean, I love 4th of July.
It's one of my favorite holidays. Just what do you mean by Islanders? What do I mean by Pacific
Islanders? Just like my mean by Pacific Islanders?
Just like my brother married into a Pacific Islander family.
Lots of inbreeding on islands.
Well, my brother is not an Islander.
So there's no inbreeding happening in that relationship.
No, probably just the lineage.
I'm not saying that you guys are inbred.
I'm working all weekend because we're in the middle of a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.
Right now, this is the biggest economic opportunity of our entire lives with AI.
This is the biggest content opportunity of our lives with AI content.
Holidays are human constructs that don't mean anything.
I will work from the moment I wake up to the moment I go to sleep all weekend
long, just as I've been doing the last few years,
and I will get ahead and then I will take holidays and rest and eat hot dogs. Um, when I'm worth a trillion dollars.
What's been going on in this space?
You guys like shilling stuff in the spaces crew space, uh, spaces crew space.
Now, is that what happened?
content and good vibes pretty much how are you doing how's uh you know uh puerto rico or wherever
it is that you're at it's good man my place is continuing to come together um i finally got my
you know office pretty set up i think more set up than the other time that we talked about it on spaces i posted a picture somewhere onto my personal page main thing i need to do left is paint this
place and then put stuff up on the wall so it's not just a white wall behind me from my calls
but yeah it's coming together gorgeous views today i mean it's actually just beautiful here
today turquoise water outside i got palm trees outside my window i can see somebody out on a boat in the water it's it appears to be a pirate robbing tourists
uh that's me but don't tell anyone it's 80 86 and sunny out here so yeah it's pretty cool
i'm just continuing to to get my place going and the only annoying things I was talking about
was Chase is now getting bugged
by the fact that I live in Puerto Rico.
They are kicking me off one of my accounts.
What, you're getting debanked?
And honestly, it was pretty rude.
They didn't even give me any real reasoning.
I had to call up my personal case manager, and she wouldn't even tell me the reasoning. She was
just like, I think it's because of this. To be honest, actually, completely ridiculous what these
companies could do. And then I was like, well, don't you guys have to give me some type of
explanation? Well, actually, when you sign up, you sign away all of your rights to anything,
Well, actually, when you sign up, you sign away all of your rights to anything and we can just kick you off with no reasoning at any time.
So, yeah, that's that's our bank.
I know I know of a bank that works is a smaller bank, but it works with people who get debanked for whatever reasons.
Yeah. My problem is that I need a bank that can like allow me to do i need to be able to zelle
do like pretty significant like wires achs yeah i think that you can do that i think you can
all right text me i'd be interested to uh to see some details but yeah outside of that i mean
just staying uh just staying pretty active out here i'm planning for the end of the year
little uh team retreat for some of my
Employees to come out to Puerto Rico and do some stuff. So I'm just like working on that
And not the Philippines, right? No, literally I'm gonna fly in my team from the Philippines
Yeah We're bringing it we're bringing them out. They're gonna they're gonna see America
Didn't I tell you that there's a massive HIV epidemic
I saw you? Correct. Diligent.
We were doing a team retreat, not an orgy.
Don't have sex with any of your employees
now, Gob, because you might get an STD.
otherwise beforehand. I know you were going to
have sex with all your employees, but don't do that.
Don't have sex with all your employees. Just be't do that. Don't have sex with all your employees. I'm just going to get out for you, bro.
I'm just being realistic, all right?
Just as a reminder, don't have sex with all your employees, Gov.
Just as a reminder, don't do that.
Don't have sex with them all.
Alex has sex with all of his employees.
I know that's what you do typically during your company retreats.
Just have sex with everyone, Gov.
That's what happens with people from philippines i'm sorry that's why they have an unreasonably high ratio
of hiv infections is because that's how they live their lives it's like the ftx office out here
bring back the good days bro i i keep calling it the polycule is that what it's is that the right
name the number one life hack i can give you right now is do not have sex with your Filipino employees.
That's the number one life hack I'll give you.
Just do not have sex with your Filipino employees.
that they have sex with, right?
Number two is learn Cursor.
Number two is download Claude Code
and start building apps. Number one is
don't have sex with your Filipino employees.
Like Jordan and Pippin. very fun i'm going to there's
apparently one of my friends here in puerto rico for july 4th has uh his apartment is like kind of
like right on the lagoon that's in san juan and apparently everyone around that lagoon by the way
puerto rico goes hard as fuck for holidays. It is crazy. Like this is the only
place I've ever been where on Easter, everything was shut down, especially religious holidays.
Like Walmart was closed. The gym was closed. The supermarkets were closed. So I'm interested to
see how 4th of July is because obviously that's a holiday, but a little bit more American and
Puerto Rican. And so I am intrigued to see what they end up doing, but I'm going to go, my friend's
building is just in the middle of this,
like it's right on the edge of this lagoon.
you can go up to the roof and then everyone around the lagoon is just
shooting off fireworks all evening.
And so you kind of end up in the middle of like a ton of fireworks going
So that's what I'm interested in.
If people are going to party,
they're looking for any excuse to party.
It's not a matter of like,
do we believe in this holiday or that holiday?
That's what you're going to expect over there.
They do drink a lot here.
Every end cap in every supermarket is alcohol.
There's nothing that they sell better than alcohol down here.
I don't know what that was referring to. That was referring to you being
careful of the Filipinos.
Thanks. I don't drink alcohol, so we're good.
full of bad decisions, it sounds
like. That's what it sounds like.
Me and Alex, no alcohol guys.
It was a country. It was a country.
It was a country until we planted our flag
there. Not much has changed other than the flag.
I like the Puerto Rican flag, too.
I like the Puerto Rican flag, too.
Is it really? What does it look like?
The Puerto Rican flag looks actually
very similar to the American flag,
but instead of 50 stars, it has one star.
That's a terrible description.
Just tell them it's red, white, and blue.
Is that a terrible description?
That was so underwhelming.
Their flag is red, white, and blue.
It's very similar to the American flag.
It does not have 50 stars. It has one giant star.
It's like the Texas flag, right?
Oh, you don't even know what the Texas flag looks like.
Actually, very similar to the Texas flag, except it has more like stripes.
The Texas flag just has like one red.
This has three red stripes, two white stripes.
And then instead of the star being secluded on the side in like a rectangle, it kind of protrudes like a triangle into the rest of the flag.
It's a cool looking flag.
Action, did you know what it looked like?
I wasn't born in the U.S.
You got a point, though, Action.
What's up, honey, Adrian? What are you up to for the weekend?
I'm doing the same thing that Alex is doing, but for different reasons.
I'm working because I'm moving.
So I am busy, and I'm getting out of California.
You could only stand it with Alex for so long, huh?
It was getting on my nerves.
Just him in this county next to me.
Where are you headed, General Wise?
Well, the Scottsdale area, Phoenix, Arizona.
My son is stationed there at the the military hospital
He's it's he's a second-year resident
So he's he's moving there he and his Filipino wife are moving there from San Antonio with their baby
So I'm really excited about that
Alright, it's very cool. Yeah, I've been to Scottsdale once or twice. I had a good time. It was like 100 degrees, but I enjoyed it.
I love that area. My younger brother lived down there for 10 years. And so, you know, being that we were the only ones on the West Coast because the rest of our family is like from Michigan and Florida and whatnot.
But I would go visit him for like every three months. I loved it. I wanted to move there so badly.
I hope you have a great, I would say, meet and greet with your employees.
Have you ever met them before?
So for me, this is more of like a company offsite.
Something bigger that I haven't really done before where I'd be bringing like 15 people from my team out, renting out a couple of houses here in Puerto Rico and doing like a whole programming.
But I have flown all over the world and met, I believe, everyone on my team.
Yeah, I've flown to the Philippines and met my team there.
I have flown most of my team down to Puerto Rico at one point or in time over the past year.
So almost all of them have made their way down here and spent some time with me here,
or I've met them at a conference.
So yeah, I'm pretty sure there's one new person on my team that I just hired in India who I'm going to fly in.
But everyone else, I'm pretty sure that I've met.
what did you think of manila and did you eat the street food um i thought manila was cool but uh
What did you think of Manila and did you eat the street food?
honestly i'm used to humidity living in puerto rico and the humidity there was insane uh like
just insane in manila um also pretty fun for me um so i'm a you know like six foot two six foot three
uh tall white guy and in manila everybody is just like staring like i could
just see all over all the crowds um it was definitely fun um i had like some people come
up and ask like take pictures and stuff so i enjoyed uh manila from that perspective everyone's
very respectful um they say sir three times per sentence you know and it's like the the i just say the the anomaly amongst the masses like i've
like it's like being blind when you're there but you're not right you have you have darker
but if you're blind and you're tall there you are like you're kind of like the i just say
the anomaly of all anomalies. That's funny.
Yeah, I had a great time, though.
I took my team out when I was there to the Mall of Asia, which is, I believe, the largest mall in Asia.
And I just spent a lot of time there just like doing stuff.
There's all types of like arcades and games and food and things like that that you can do.
So I definitely enjoyed it.
there i don't know if i would live in the philippines definitely i can see why you know
it's super cheap which was cool like i remember that feeling of like you know walking into stores
and like a bottle of water is like 10 cents and you're like holy shit like you know i can buy like
six things in here for a dollar so that was pretty interesting but yeah still an interesting country
what's up diligent i just want to say for the record i don't have anything against philippines
or filipino people uh-huh did not sound like that earlier but all right bro it's not my fault it's
statistical fact they have one of the highest concentrations of hiv uh rate of spread right now
in the world i thought that was amongst the primarily men.
I don't know where I read that, but I thought.
All of Wolf's employees in the Philippines are men.
That's not, it's actually not true.
I only have one, one guy.
Oh, now Diligent's interested.
Definitely not. I'm not going to go to
the highest concentration
They've got to be careful because
I know it's Puerto Rico, but
prison population in the world,
so they could go to jail, potentially.
Doesn't matter. You're just giving out
bad stats, right? Like, high HIV
means be careful. Yeah, but this is more to do
Now you're racially profiling them.
I'm just talking about the likelihood of STD spread. There's a big difference. Right, party, bro. Now you're racially profiling them. I'm just talking about the likelihood
There's a big difference.
Right, right, right. So, yeah, guys, they have to be careful not to get sick
because of all the healthcare issues
that we have. That's a better one.
It's the food. Don't let them eat
The food was interesting.
Some of it good, some of it not so good, in my opinion.
I kind of went back and forth.
I had a good amount of stuff.
Do you eat the local food?
I got asked if I ate street food.
I don't think I ate any street food.
I did have some local food, especially the first night that I got there,
just because I was at this hotel-ish place,
and there wasn't really anywhere to go except for the hotel's restaurant.
It was supposed to have really good food in the Philippines.
Yeah, and it was like $8 and I got a ton of food.
Like panza and lupia and tukaku.
if I were with you I would forbid you
to eat it as did my daughter
she forbade him to eat it
but their food is excellent
real quick what's happening here
Nikita Beer is coming in for head of product
let's wrap up with a little product and spaces discussion so i saw you get
your opinions i want to hear from diligent and wolf our spaces spaces are still a thing are you
our space is still a thing are they growing they shrinking what where what's the state of spaces
give us a state of the union spaces they're growing despite lack of development on the x side of things
gob you're in the same you're in agreement it's growing the spaces community yeah
hard to tell it feels a little stagnant no and no it's picked up uh significantly since the
news cycle has picked up significantly wow yeah same
for me like um you know when i first started doing spaces about like a month ago i was getting about
30 40 people or whatever but now it's like more than 100 like very easily um spaces
i was struggling to pull in more i was struggling to pull in 10k listeners in a space about two months ago for like because it was the spaces just were really bad.
Visibility on my end was bad.
I don't know if something was going on.
And then we were having like intermittently like even yesterday or the day before like the entire X system was going down.
And it affects the other areas of the platform for a
while afterwards i don't know if you guys noticed that but for me anyways so anytime that we have
an outage um it's always affected my spaces um but even with that you know with the iran
iran israel like war that really picked up and then it stayed picked up since then.
Cause there's been news every day,
you can go look at my highlights and see that about two months ago,
they were a lot lower and then they've gotten,
which I'd probably going to be
here for the next few months,
I haven't seen any coinciding development
that side? Funny enough, by the way,
we started talking about this and Nate McGrady,
who was an audience, dipped.
I don't know if maybe he has any insights.
But is there any connections that you have right now within the team on different areas?
Do you think we're going to get connected to head of the product at all?
I've put out feelers, you know, like I DMed'd that guy, but it was like the day that he got hired.
I can just imagine he had open DMs, what those probably look like.
So I might try again, and then I might use an intermediary to push.
I just know that I've asked a few employees if they thought spaces were dead. The answer was no.
I don't know. I just, I don't know anybody
in spaces development anymore because everybody's quit.
That's been the name of the game.
about helping me to embodying in spaces.
And like, that's all I'll say.
But they came back like scared to touch it.
How are spaces growing with zero updates and zero discoverability?
The content's getting better.
spaces that's been turned
Idaho shooter as it happened.
And, you know, it had 50,000 people in it in three and a half hours or four hours.
And I used Grok with a congresswoman that came in there and her mind was blown in a good way.
She was like in 40s or 50s.
I also held a space with Congressman Eric Burleson,
who I think is the same age as me.
He might even be younger.
And he, like, it was, like, normal to him.
Like, he was like, ask Grok this's like ask rock this blah blah blah and then
um it ended up being like some kind of like weird uh ufo disclosure at the end and the whole thing
went viral like really really viral um so i think that and i'm uploading my spaces to spotify
so i'm kind of branching out their content.
You're putting your space on Spotify, you said?
Yeah, I'm downloading the entire space and uploading it to Spotify.
People listen to Spaces on Spotify?
You got to wrap a little bit.
Alex, any other final comments on this one?
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