There are these things that were historically really expensive that only rich people or big companies could buy... becoming orders of magnitude cheaper so that everyone can use them.
The AI-native startup: 5 products, 7-figure revenue, 100% AI-written code
July 17, 2025
Featuring: Dan Shipper (Co-founder and CEO, Every)
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He made a year's worth of progress in two months because every time I sat down with him and told him, 'Okay, here's how you tell a story, here's how you think about a headline,' he recorded all of it, put it into a prompt, and he never made the same mistake twice.
AI is reshaping everything - adapt urgently or become obsolete
Organizations like ours, people who are playing at the edge, we're doing things that, in three years, everybody else is going to be doing.
Product ops should create leverage, not bureaucracy
We have a head of AI operations. She's just constantly building prompts and building workflows that I and everyone else on the team are just automating as much as possible.
AI adoption starts with leadership doing the work
The number one predictor is, 'Does the CEO use ChatGPT?' If the CEO is in it all the time, being like, 'This is the coolest thing,' everybody else is going to start doing it.
AI will flatten organizations and blur roles
Management skills are not broadly distributed, because it's very expensive... It's now going to be much cheaper to manage, so more people are going to have to do it.
Constraints create productivity
You can tell how much better AI is getting by how long a leash you can give it to do work.
Code generation changes everything about velocity
No one is manually coding anymore.