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My First Million

5 AI Tools I’d Use to Make $1M (w/o employees, capital, or time)

40 min episode · 2 min read

Episode

40 min

Read time

2 min

Topics

Career Growth, Artificial Intelligence

AI-Generated Summary

Key Takeaways

  • AI Browser Automation: Perplexity Comet browser finds discount codes automatically, searches YouTube transcripts for specific moments, drafts recruitment emails, and connects to Gmail to send them—replacing multiple manual workflows in one interface for free.
  • Spreadsheet Intelligence: TryShortcut.ai transforms Excel into an AI analyst that builds DCF models, income statements, and financial projections through natural language prompts. Available as both cloud platform and Excel plugin with 36 early user ratings currently.
  • Voice-to-Text Speed: Whisperflow enables 220 words per minute versus 45 with keyboard typing. It interprets corrections like "I mean this instead" and formats structured content automatically, including numbered lists and paragraphs through voice commands alone.
  • Automated Content Arbitrage: Real.farm generates TikTok slideshows by sourcing Pinterest images and creating UGC-style ads with AI avatars. The platform schedules posts automatically, exploiting TikTok's current algorithm preference for slideshow content to build audience-owned traffic channels.

What It Covers

Greg demonstrates five AI tools for building a million-dollar business without employees or capital, including deepfake video creation, AI-powered browsers, Excel automation, TikTok content generation, and automated job applications with specific workflows.

Key Questions Answered

  • AI Browser Automation: Perplexity Comet browser finds discount codes automatically, searches YouTube transcripts for specific moments, drafts recruitment emails, and connects to Gmail to send them—replacing multiple manual workflows in one interface for free.
  • Spreadsheet Intelligence: TryShortcut.ai transforms Excel into an AI analyst that builds DCF models, income statements, and financial projections through natural language prompts. Available as both cloud platform and Excel plugin with 36 early user ratings currently.
  • Voice-to-Text Speed: Whisperflow enables 220 words per minute versus 45 with keyboard typing. It interprets corrections like "I mean this instead" and formats structured content automatically, including numbered lists and paragraphs through voice commands alone.
  • Automated Content Arbitrage: Real.farm generates TikTok slideshows by sourcing Pinterest images and creating UGC-style ads with AI avatars. The platform schedules posts automatically, exploiting TikTok's current algorithm preference for slideshow content to build audience-owned traffic channels.

Notable Moment

A wealthy individual's apartment was robbed after criminals used deepfake voice technology to call building security, impersonating the owner to authorize fake handyman access while they were traveling out of town.

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Episode Transcript

This podcast is called My First Million. So if someone is trying to get from zero to a million dollars, these are the tools that I'm using to make a million bucks. So today, what I wanna talk about is I wanna show five or six different apps that I'm using, Sam, that I think you should be using, and we can we can just go through it that are underrated hidden gems that you probably never heard of that will make you more productive and make you more money. And the reason why this is fun is because a lot of people in the audience are like me, which is they're like I'm a really good Googler. That's like that's like my that's the extent of how good I am on computers. I'm pretty good at chat GPT, but you are, like, three steps above me in terms of, being technical. And then there's, like, people that are, like, 10 steps above that. But you're kind of a good balance of someone who's, like, on the outer edge of being an early adopter, but also you can relate this to kind of like a Neanderthal like me. I appreciate that. Yeah. I'm just gonna try to clearly explain as much as possible. And I tried I tried to pick examples of apps that literally anyone could use that is gonna make, like, a a big difference in their lives. By the way, I know people are gonna listen to this. Some people are gonna be like because there's a lot of AI haters out there, Sam. Why? Why? Because they they see stuff like this, which I will show you, you know, a AI generated Taylor Swift, and they're like, you are ruining the world. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Okay. But, you know, this is the this is where technology is going, and this episode is for people who want to use it to their advantage. And so that's what we're here for. Alright, Greg. Fire me up. What do we got? How am I gonna look like t swift? Alright. You wanna start with that? Friends, listen. What you're seeing right now is crazy. We are crossing a line in human history where the the boundary between reality and fiction is vanishing and This is not Hollywood billion dollar high production studio. This is open source. This is from your computer, a click of a button, and most people will not be able to even tell the difference now. So be safe out there, question what you see, verify what you believe, and follow you wanna stay ahead of the curve. Sounds just like Taylor, and it looks pretty much just like Taylor. And I think the coolest thing about it is look at her mouth movement. Looks exactly like this guy on the top, my friend, Cyril. And you can do this not with just Taylor Swift. You can do this with, like, Mark Zuckerberg. You can do this …

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Tools

  • Perplexity CometRecommended

    by Perplexity

    AI Browser Automation: Perplexity Comet browser finds discount codes automatically, searches YouTube transcripts for specific moments, drafts recruitment emails, and connects to Gmail to send them—replacing multiple manual workflows in one interface for free.
  • TryShortcut.aiRecommended
    Spreadsheet Intelligence: TryShortcut.ai transforms Excel into an AI analyst that builds DCF models, income statements, and financial projections through natural language prompts. Available as both cloud platform and Excel plugin with 36 early user ratings currently.
  • WhisperflowRecommended
    Voice-to-Text Speed: Whisperflow enables 220 words per minute versus 45 with keyboard typing. It interprets corrections like 'I mean this instead' and formats structured content automatically, including numbered lists and paragraphs through voice commands alone.
  • Real.farmRecommended
    Automated Content Arbitrage: Real.farm generates TikTok slideshows by sourcing Pinterest images and creating UGC-style ads with AI avatars. The platform schedules posts automatically, exploiting TikTok's current algorithm preference for slideshow content to build audience-owned traffic channels.

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