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My First Million

Brainstorming $10M AI Business Ideas w/ the Airtable Founder

My First Million

Hubspot

Entrepreneurship, Investing, Business

4.82.7K Ratings

🗓️ 11 July 2025

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Want to scale your side hustle with AI? Get 700 prompts here: https://clickhubspot.com/wbc Episode 725: Sam Parr ( https://x.com/theSamParr ) talks to the founder of Airtable, Howie Liu ( https://x.com/howietl ), about 7 AI business ideas he would start if he was in his 20s. — Show Notes: (0:00) IDEA: Live Shopping w/ AI avatars (5:34) IDEA: AI personalized news (10:36) IDEA: AI Personal Finance Advisor (18:27) IDEA: AI PE model of buy an existing business (24:20) IDEA: Cursor for email (36:53) IDEA: AI-native social apps (38:42) IDEA: Uncensored AI search — Links: • Sesame - https://www.sesame.com/ • Whatnot - https://www.whatnot.com/ • HeyGen - https://www.heygen.com/ • Superhuman - https://superhuman.com/ • Kubera - https://www.kubera.com/ • Addepar - https://addepar.com/ • Airtable - https://www.airtable.com/ • Chief.so - http://chief.so/ — Check Out Shaan's Stuff: • Shaan's weekly email - https://www.shaanpuri.com • Visit https://www.somewhere.com/mfm to hire worldwide talent like Shaan and get $500 off for being an MFM listener. Hire developers, assistants, marketing pros, sales teams and more for 80% less than US equivalents. • Mercury - Need a bank for your company? Go check out Mercury (mercury.com). Shaan uses it for all of his companies! Mercury is a financial technology company, not an FDIC-insured bank. Banking services provided by Choice Financial Group, Column, N.A., and Evolve Bank & Trust, Members FDIC — Check Out Sam's Stuff: • Hampton - https://www.joinhampton.com/ • Ideation Bootcamp - https://www.ideationbootcamp.co/ • Copy That - https://copythat.com • Hampton Wealth Survey - https://joinhampton.com/wealth • Sam’s List - http://samslist.co/ My First Million is a HubSpot Original Podcast // Brought to you by HubSpot Media // Production by Arie Desormeaux // Editing by Ezra Bakker Trupiano

Transcript

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0:00.0

All right, my friend, I recorded one of my favorite types of episodes. My friend Howie started a company called Air Table.

0:05.9

They're worth around $10 billion, so he has seen it all. He knows what's going on in the world of AI.

0:11.4

And he has an amazing perspective. And for this episode, I asked him a very simple question, which is, if he were 21 again today, or he didn't have Air Table, what companies or business ideas would he want to work on?

0:23.5

And he came with seven, seven different ideas that he would work on today.

0:28.5

And so if you are looking for a different business idea or you're an AI nerd, which a lot of us are right now, you're going to love this episode.

0:45.1

Tell me about live shopping with AI avatars.

0:48.7

I personally think this is a really interesting area. I mean, you think about live shopping,

0:53.9

which is a huge thing in Asia. I mean, there's like probably tens of billions,

0:55.2

if not a hundred billion dollar plus GMV in commerce dollars that are getting transacted through live shopping. This is basically

1:00.8

where you have an influencer go and peddle a product. Is this like on Instagram? I mean,

1:06.2

I pay attention a little bit to Asia, but where, like, is there a website I can go to to see

1:09.2

this right now? There's actually a big chunk of T chunk of Timo that is powered by this, uh, and definitely Tick-T-Tac has a

1:15.9

huge amount of these, um, these kind of like influencers that basically go and, and, uh, you know,

1:21.9

there's actually a shop tab that you can even click on. You see these products, and it's a person basically describing the

1:27.8

benefits of a product. So think about like influencer marketing, like taken to the extreme,

1:32.2

where you just watch, you know, people peddling products and you click it, you, you, you buy.

1:37.9

And there's actually one company that's doing really well in the U.S. called What Not.

1:42.9

And it actually started...

1:43.6

Oh, yeah, I like What Not.

1:45.5

Yeah, exactly.

1:46.9

And what's cool about it is like there's so much personality, you know, to the content.

1:51.0

Like in a way, it's almost like watching Twitch.

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