$200M/Year Portfolio Owner: Here's How We're Using AI Across our Businesses

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🗓️ 8 December 2025

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Ryan Deiss shares his insights on the impact of AI on business and marketing. He discusses the uncertainty surrounding the future, the shift in consumer behavior towards AI-driven results, and the steps his companies are taking to adapt. Ryan elaborates on the strategic pivot at Digital Marketer, transitioning from traditional training to leveraging AI tools trained on proprietary IP. He also provides practical advice on how businesses can audit and implement AI to improve efficiency and drive growth. Whether you're an entrepreneur, marketer, or business owner, this episode is a must-watch to understand the transformative potential of AI in today's market.

00:00 Uncertainty in the Age of AI
00:38 Exploring Ryan Deiss' Marketing Empire
01:25 Navigating Market Conditions and Deal Strategies
05:19 Reviving Businesses: The Process
12:08 The Role of AI in Business Optimization
19:32 AI's Impact on the Information and Coaching Industry
25:59 AI Integration in Business Operations
32:35 Future of Work: AI and Human Roles
36:40 AI's Influence on Business Valuations
39:21 Implementing AI in Portfolio Companies
41:36 AI Integration in the Workplace
42:26 Challenges and Fears of AI Adoption
43:23 AI as a Competitive Advantage
43:59 AI in Marketing and Acquisitions
44:45 The Future of AI in Business
48:26 Implementing AI for Efficiency
55:55 The Rise of AI Agents
01:03:50 AI's Impact on Employment and Economy
01:08:05 Digital Marketer's AI Pivot
01:17:47 Final Thoughts and Reflections

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0:00.0	I've never been less certain about the future in my entire life.
0:09.0	Everybody decided that they didn't want to learn how to do this stuff anymore.
0:14.0	They just wanted the result because the promise of AI is it'll just do it for you.
0:19.0	As leaders, we have to make binary decisions sometimes. We have to say this is where we're going and we can't be mealy-mouthed about it. And you look really cool when you're right and you look really stupid when you're wrong. And now we have these like magical machines that will do everything for us. At least that's the promise.
0:41.4	Most people know Ryan Dice as the guy who teaches marketing, but what some people don't know is that you make all of your wealth in actually
0:48.0	doing the marketing for the businesses that you own. And last time when we sat here, you had, I think, a $200 million a year portfolio
0:56.6	that a lot of people don't know much about. And I want to go deeper into that. And specifically,
1:04.0	we're in this very interesting time as marketers and entrepreneurs where it looks like AI is going
1:09.9	to take over all of our jobs.
1:11.4	Yeah. And I am fascinated to hear how you are using that in your portfolios. So first of all,
1:18.9	can you share, if you are willing, what was the last deal that you did? Oh my gosh. So we didn't
1:25.5	do a single deal in 2024. It's been a 2024 it's been a it's been a while the last
1:31.2	the last deal that we did was a payment uh recovery business uh i can't say the name of the
1:37.7	company but it was in the payments recovery assistant type space um but that was in that was in
1:43.2	2023.
1:51.9	24, man, we kissed a lot of frogs, touched a lot of things. We just, there was not a lot of deals to be had that year. And it's been, this year we're on the verge of what I hope will be a
1:56.0	really big deal, maybe our biggest one ever. It'll almost, it'll take the portfolio size to, you know,
2:06.9	increase it by at least 50%. So that, that'll be a big one, but it's just gotten, now I kind of want
2:12.5	the big deal. We took on a lot of littles early on. And so we were doing more. And now it's like,
2:16.6	let's take on, you know, more bigger ones.
2:18.8	Was the dry spell, if you will, because of a conscious choice, because you were being choosier with deals or because of the marketplace conditions?
2:27.1	Both.
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