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Latest / AI for Founders with Ryan Estes

He Built 10 AI Companies in 12 Months - With Teams of Five

There’s a problem simmering under the surface of the AI boom that nobody wants to say out loud:

The tech is evolving faster than founders can keep up — and the tools we rely on keep regressing back to kindergarten.

One month Perplexity is brilliant, the next it’s recommending Arby's.

One day GPT is your super-genius co-pilot, the next you’re bottle-feeding it simple math.

And just when you think you finally know which LLM to trust, Gemini 3 launches and resets the entire scoreboard.

Today’s guest has lived inside that chaos — and built a business on top of the turbulence.

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