$10M Business ideas w/ The Most Interesting Guy In Tech
Episode
62 min
Read time
2 min
Topics
Health & Wellness, Relationships, Startups
AI-Generated Summary
Key Takeaways
- ✓AI Landscaping Quotes: Satellite imagery and AI can generate instant backyard design quotes for landscapers, charging $2-3 per quote. DeepLawn does this for lawn care using square footage calculations, eliminating the need for in-person measurements that delay sales conversions and waste contractor time.
- ✓50-Year Mortgages: Extending mortgages from 30 to 50 years increases total interest paid to nearly double the home price while building minimal equity. Japan tried this in the 1980s, causing property bubbles where single Tokyo properties exceeded all California real estate value before crashing permanently.
- ✓Surrogacy Marketplace: Current surrogacy costs $150-200K with agencies only showing their own carriers, like realtors showing only their listings. A dating-app style platform matching intended parents with 10,000+ annual surrogates on preferences like diet, abortion stance, and relationship involvement could dominate this fragmented market.
- ✓Peptide Business Strategy: Peptides remain legally gray for non-research use, but founders with direct Trump and Kennedy connections pitch regulatory approval as their competitive advantage. The winning approach mirrors Coinbase doing things correctly while competitors cut corners, capturing market share when regulations clarify.
- ✓EMS Fitness Studios: Electronic muscle stimulation delivers full workouts in 15 minutes using electrode-embedded suits with water contact. One user gained significant muscle over five years primarily doing EMS on plane rides with a $35 Amazon device, suggesting studio franchise potential despite initial skepticism.
What It Covers
Shield Seyffert shares five $10M business ideas including AI-powered landscaping quotes, peptide marketplaces, surrogacy matching platforms, and EMS fitness studios, while discussing San Francisco tech trends and unconventional business strategies.
Key Questions Answered
- •AI Landscaping Quotes: Satellite imagery and AI can generate instant backyard design quotes for landscapers, charging $2-3 per quote. DeepLawn does this for lawn care using square footage calculations, eliminating the need for in-person measurements that delay sales conversions and waste contractor time.
- •50-Year Mortgages: Extending mortgages from 30 to 50 years increases total interest paid to nearly double the home price while building minimal equity. Japan tried this in the 1980s, causing property bubbles where single Tokyo properties exceeded all California real estate value before crashing permanently.
- •Surrogacy Marketplace: Current surrogacy costs $150-200K with agencies only showing their own carriers, like realtors showing only their listings. A dating-app style platform matching intended parents with 10,000+ annual surrogates on preferences like diet, abortion stance, and relationship involvement could dominate this fragmented market.
- •Peptide Business Strategy: Peptides remain legally gray for non-research use, but founders with direct Trump and Kennedy connections pitch regulatory approval as their competitive advantage. The winning approach mirrors Coinbase doing things correctly while competitors cut corners, capturing market share when regulations clarify.
- •EMS Fitness Studios: Electronic muscle stimulation delivers full workouts in 15 minutes using electrode-embedded suits with water contact. One user gained significant muscle over five years primarily doing EMS on plane rides with a $35 Amazon device, suggesting studio franchise potential despite initial skepticism.
Notable Moment
A peptide startup founder pitched regulatory risk by showing photos with Trump and Kennedy, claiming assured approval pathways. The presentation demonstrated how political connections now appear as legitimate business strategy slides in venture capital pitches, fundamentally changing startup playbooks.
Episode Transcript
We call you the most interesting man in tech and I stand by it. One of the reasons you're great is because you made money in all these random ways that I wouldn't have even ever thought to. You've got a $450,000,000 fund down. You also started Thistle. A food delivery business that's like doing over a $100,000,000 a year. You're in SF running around like rich people, weirdos. What's hot? What are the kids into? Everyone is not peptized and everyone's got their dealer. I can't say who was doing this, but on the pitch, I was like, so, like, how do you plan to be legit with this whole thing? And he basically pulls up a picture of the it's like the cofounder with, like, Trump and Kennedy. He's like, yeah. We're pretty sure we're gonna be able to get some things through. Say it with me. Crony capitalism. One of my best friends is completely Jack, and he does not really work out. He does EMS. It's gonna go viral because it's gonna be hated and loved at the same time, which is what you need. Dude, I'd rather take drugs. This is the only podcast where you're gonna get AI. A Triple H reference from wrestling. I mean, the the range is incredible. We're gonna get canceled for this episode. I feel like I can rule the world. I know I could be what I want to. So one of the reasons you're great is because you made money in all these random ways that I wouldn't have even ever thought to. You, like, created a domain auction thing and made millions of dollars that way. I think you did, like, a fee fighters thing as well. Yeah. Yeah. With credit card fee fighters. Credit card processing. Yeah. Credit card processing. You've got a $450,000,000 fund down. You're probably you know, if anything is in fintech, I go to you as basically, like, hey. Gut check. Is this smart, or is this dumb? Because it's easy to fool me. It's hard to fool you. He also started Thistle. Yep. Yeah. He just started a he helped start a a a food delivery business that's, like, doing over a $100,000,000 a year. So all these different spaces. Guy got married in the metaverse at a Taco Bell, whatever the hell that means. We call you the most interesting man in tech, and I stand by. And I have yet to meet a more interesting man in tech. Welcome, Shield, back for round three or four. So happy to be back. Also, I gotta tell you, since the last time I was on, so many things have happened as a result of me being on. Like what? Okay. So I was hiring a chief of staff, and a bunch of people applied, but one person applied. And the person who got the job, my current chief of staff, is a huge fan of MFM. And she was debating …
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