How I built a $3B AI Startup + 7 AI Business Ideas

My First Million

Hubspot

Entrepreneurship, Investing, Business

4.8 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 28 May 2025

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

Episode 711: Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) talks to Guillermo Rauch ( https://x.com/rauchg ) about building Vercel plus 7 business ideas to start in AI. — Show Notes: (0:00) Dropout to job offer from Facebook (3:38) Genius vs accident (21:04) Building Vercel (25:26) AI startup ideas (31:38) IDEA: V0 for Video Games (33:09) IDEA: Doom CAPTCHA (40:04) IDEA: AI Typeform (46:54) IDEA: AI Camera (54:06) IDEA: Auto Complete (58:51) IDEA: Granular V0 — Links: • Guillermo Rauch - https://rauchg.com/ • Vercel - https://vercel.com/ — 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

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0:00.0	been an engineer for like, you know, a couple decades now and they no longer write code.
0:04.4	I only prompt.
0:05.7	I feel like I can rule the world.
0:07.7	I know I could be what I want to.
0:10.4	I put my all in it like no days off.
0:13.0	On a road, let's travel, never looking back.
0:15.2	All right.
0:15.5	So you founded this company, but your story's crazy.
0:18.9	So your high school dropout, grew up in Argentina,
0:24.9	have been building things and hacking on things since, you know, a very young age,
0:29.2	sold a company kind of early on. I don't know if it was big sale or small sale. And then you
0:33.0	built this product that has just taken off. Every front end developer I know loves it.
0:38.6	It's valued, I don't know, $3 billion or so, you know, whatever, give or take.
0:42.3	And you've just done this incredible thing.
0:44.6	And now you have this AI tool that's also like super on trend.
0:49.2	And it's something that is doing really, really well.
0:51.4	It's a really cool agent that builds sites for you.
0:54.9	That's my version of the summary of your story.
0:58.7	It's a great summary.
0:59.5	Maybe the only thing I'll add is that the crazy way that I've been able to go from
1:05.3	like a teenager in Argentina to today has been a lot of open source.
1:10.2	So I've been involved in creating a lot of technologies that have become foundational in the tech ecosystem.
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