#848 The $10K Projects You Never Do (AI Just Changed That)
Tropical MBA: Entrepreneurship & Founder Lifestyle
Dan Andrews; Ian Schoen
4.9 • 527 Ratings
🗓️ 6 March 2026
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Dan talks with Taylor Pearson about a new wave of “agentic AI” tools like Claude Code — and how founders are using them to tackle projects that used to take days or weeks. From analyzing financials to running workflows and speeding up big internal projects, these tools can act more like a business collaborator than a chatbot. They also walk through how to take the first step if you want to start experimenting.
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CHAPTERS
(00:00:00) AI “Superpowers” for Founders
(00:00:43) A New Wave of AI Tools
(00:00:57) Sponsor: Bento
(00:02:32) The First Time Taylor Tried Claude Code
(00:04:21) The $10K Projects Sitting on Your To-Do List
(00:05:13) Real Ways Founders Are Using AI Agents
(00:05:32) AI as the Operating System for Your Business
(00:13:07) The Breakthrough: AI That Reads and Writes Your Files
(00:20:44) The New AI Arbitrage
(00:25:16) What AI Is Weirdly Good (and Bad) At
(00:27:36) Why It’s an Exciting Time to Be a Founder Again
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Past guests on TMBA include Cal Newport, David Heinemeier Hannson, Seth Godin, Ricardo Semler, Noah Kagan, Rob Walling, Jay Clouse, Einar Vollset, Sam Dogan, Gino Wickam, James Clear, Jodie Cook, Mark Webster, Steph Smith, Taylor Pearson, Justin Tan, Matt Gartland, Ayman Al-Abdullah, Lucy Bella.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | It felt like I had superpowers. |
| 0:02.1 | That list of projects that are all worth like 10 grand over the next year that you're not going to do, you could do 10 of them in the time you could have done one of them. |
| 0:09.6 | Claude Code is a new OS for running your business. |
| 0:11.7 | That went from 60 hours to like two or three hours, just asking it a bunch of questions. |
| 0:16.9 | Oh, oh, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, |
| 0:22.6 | Hey, |
| 0:23.6 | Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, |
| 0:26.6 | Oh, oh, oh, and specifically using a podcast. with today's guest Taylor Pearson. Like many of you, he has jumped enthusiastically into the world of |
| 0:39.3 | agentic AI and specifically using Claude Code and Claude Co-work. We're going to talk about |
| 0:44.4 | how these tools differ specifically from LLMs, which many of us use on a day-to-day basis, |
| 0:50.2 | how we can employ these in our business to supercharge projects, to make AI, to generate new |
| 0:55.8 | business ideas, and much more. At the top here, I wanted to shout out our sponsor, Bento. |
| 1:01.4 | So many TMBA listeners are using Bento because it's a solid no BS email and automation platform |
| 1:08.2 | built for how founders are actually running businesses in the AI era. |
| 1:12.7 | If you're already sending real volume of email and want something simpler and more effective, |
| 1:17.8 | check them out at bentonow.com slash TMBA. |
| 1:22.0 | Now, Taylor, before we get into how this works technically, let's start with something practical. |
| 1:26.7 | So you've been using |
| 1:27.7 | Claude Code pretty heavily over the past few months. What actually happened the first time you set it up? |
| 1:33.2 | It felt like I had superpowers. Something happened with the models with the Claude Code product. |
| 1:39.3 | Mid December, kind of right before the Christmas break, they started just like blowing up my Twitter. |
| 1:44.0 | I just all these people, everything's called code, and not just technical people anymore. |
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