May 28, 2025

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

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

• Visithttps://www.somewhere.com/mfmto 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 Millionis a HubSpot Original Podcast // Brought to you by HubSpot Media // Production by Arie Desormeaux // Editing by Ezra Bakker Trupiano